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Senior Accountant

ColombiaPosted 2 days ago
hybrid

Job Description

The Finance area is responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of the company’s financial information and accounting operations across the organization. As we build a financial institution from the ground up, this role plays a critical part in maintaining strong financial governance, supporting regulatory compliance, enabling strategic decision-making, and ensuring scalable and sustainable financial operations.

Challenges that await you:

  • Co-building and scaling the accounting and financial reporting structure from the ground up in a fast-growing fintech environment.
  • Managing and overseeing day-to-day accounting operations, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting standards, internal policies, and regulatory requirements.
  • Leading month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing processes, including reconciliations, journal entries, accruals, and financial statement preparation.
  • Preparing, analyzing, and maintaining accurate financial reports, supporting management decision-making and business planning activities.
  • Ensuring proper accounting treatment and documentation for financial transactions, operational activities, and new business initiatives.
  • Collaborating closely with Finance, Operations, Compliance, Risk, Treasury, Product, and external stakeholders to ensure financial accuracy and operational alignment.
  • Supporting the implementation and continuous improvement of accounting processes, controls, policies, and reporting frameworks to strengthen governance and scalability.
  • Identifying accounting, reporting, and operational inefficiencies while driving automation and process improvement initiatives.
  • Managing accounting records, reconciliations, supporting schedules, and financial documentation with high standards of organization, traceability, and audit readiness.
  • Operating effectively in highly dynamic environments with evolving processes, systems, and regulatory expectations while helping formalize scalable accounting structures.
  • Supporting audits, tax processes, regulatory reporting, financial reviews, and external reporting requirements through reliable and well-structured financial information.
  • Balancing strong financial control standards with operational efficiency and business scalability in a high-growth environment.

What makes you a great fit:

  • Over 5 years of hands-on experience in Accounting, Financial Reporting, Audit, or Controllership roles within financial institutions, fintechs, startups, consulting firms, or highly regulated industries.
  • Strong knowledge of accounting principles, financial reporting standards, reconciliations, closing processes, and financial statement preparation.
  • Experience managing complex accounting operations, financial analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, and reporting activities.
  • Strong analytical mindset with excellent attention to detail and the ability to identify accounting risks, discrepancies, and process improvement opportunities.
  • Advanced Excel skills and experience working with ERP systems, accounting platforms, financial systems, SQL, or similar technologies are highly valued.
  • Experience supporting audits, regulatory reviews, tax processes, and external reporting requirements.
  • Proven ability to thrive in environments where processes are built from scratch, not inherited, and where structure evolves alongside rapid growth.
  • Highly proactive and hands-on, with the autonomy to lead accounting initiatives and deliver results effectively in fast-paced environments with limited supervision.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate cross-functionally across multiple teams.
  • Creative, resilient, and deeply motivated to help build and scale a regulated financial institution from the ground up.
  • Energized by financial and operational challenges and motivated by high-impact, execution-focused environments.
  • CPA certification or equivalent accounting qualification is highly valued.
  • Conversational English is a must-have requirement.

Our ways of working:

  • Innovative Spirit: A commitment to creativity and groundbreaking solutions.
  • Honest Feedback: valuing open, transparent communication.
  • Supportive Team: a strong, collaborative community.
  • Celebrating Achievements: recognizing our wins together.
  • High-Tech Environment: a team full of smart and revolutionary people who date to challenge the status quo of incumbent finances.
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