Your Responsibilities
As a Finance Expert, you will play a central role in coordinating and steering end-to-end finance processes across banking product accounting, tax, procurement, and financial controlling. You will own the design, development, and continuous improvement of core financial processes, guide team members across functions, and serve as a subject matter expert in banking accounting, tax compliance, and financial coordination.
You will act as the process owner and coordinator, ensuring that financial operations around new product launches, month-end closings, audits, and reporting are executed smoothly and aligned with both regulatory and internal requirements. Your responsibilities include:
Lead and Coordinate Financial Product Accounting
- Design and maintain robust accounting rule sets (HGB & IFRS) for banking products within the core banking systems (preferably Mambu & NetSuite).
- Coordinate end-to-end product accounting setup, from requirements definition to system configuration and testing.
- Act as the central contact point for finance (full scope and beyond) topics during product development.
- Ensure all accounting, tax, and documentation requirements are met before product go-live.
- Guide and support team members on complex accounting and tax topics (e.g., VAT, withholding tax).
- Be a sparring partner to the Director Finance and CFO
- Define and improve tax-relevant processes (e.g., VAT logic, WHT flows, procurement compliance).
- Ensure invoicing and procurement processes are efficient, accurate, and audit-ready.
- Coordinate with teams to ensure data readiness, quality, and consistency across tools and systems.
- Act as process owner for invoice-related activities, aligning across accounting, controlling, and business units.
- Pro-active approach and hands-on mentality
- Oversee and guide processes related to budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting.
- Coordinate month-end and year-end closing activities across teams and systems.
- Support internal and external audits (financial, tax, regulatory), ensuring all required documentation and data are prepared on time.
- Drive consistency and improvement in management reporting processes and tooling.
- Pro-actively identify process gaps and inefficiencies and proactively lead improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate across departments (Finance, Risk, Reg Rep, Product, Operations, Legal, Tech) to align on cross-functional processes.
- Develop documentation, templates, and standards to ensure consistency and knowledge sharing within the finance team.
- Ensure regulatory compliance and audit-readiness of all finance-related processes and outputs.