Assistant Financial Controller at Lendable

Job description

Do you have experience setting up internal projects and accounting systems? Can you create models and graphs that communicate important takeaways? Have you worked in internal finance as a business manager or comptroller, preferably for a financial services company?

Lendable is looking for an individual who can assist the Finance Director and Head of Capital Markets on firmwide / global actions. Their main responsibility will be to maintain all accounting and reporting obligations of Lendable, create internal financial analysis, manage AR/AP, approve internal spending expense and invoice management. They will also be the main contact for all due diligences and audits of Lendable as well as responsible for maintaining and updating capital markets-related documentation and assisting with prospective investor communications.

Responsibilities:

• Manage all accounts receivable and accounts payable for Lendable, working in connection with our external accountants and bookkeepers in Nairobi and NY to make sure everything is accurately reflected in our general ledgers. Eventually, you will take over full control of our general ledgers and our external accountants will provide only support and prepare our tax returns.
• Administer and manage our expense and invoice management system, Concur and produce reports using that system.
• Handle any accounting and finance-related queries that arise from internal stakeholders and senior management and generally support the Finance Director in providing detailed reports to senior management and the board of directors of Lendable.
• Keep control and manage all accounting schedules and receipts and a filing system for purposes of our year-end audit process.
• Author and support the creation of monthly accounting report templates that provide insight into the management and the performance of the business and assist the Finance Director is periodic reporting to all interested parties.
• Work with internal deal operations teams to make sure their reporting feeds into our general ledges where appropriate.
• File monthly taxes in Kenya.
• Support the Head of Capital Markets with the creation of new PowerPoint slides and periodic investor-driven marketing documents.
• Be able to run simple pricing and relative value models and build a database of comparable financing deals and trades drawing from available research sources.

Competencies & Applied Values:

• Project Management
  • Can manage internal projects to set up new internal accounting systems and procedures
  • Prioritizing crucial time-critical tasks to make sure deadlines are met
• Artifact Creation
  • Can create simple yet powerful excel models that outsiders can easily understand
  • Can create simple and intuitive slides that tell stories
• Being Demanding
  • Natural urgency to seek to improve our accounting and finance function
  • Always asking how we could provide better reporting data to internal stakeholders, management and the board of director
    • Strives to never make mistakes and immediately takes responsibility when they do
• Rigorous Communication
  • Exceptional at communicating directly
• Exceptional EQ
  • Can create models and graphs that communicate important takeaways
• Integrity
  • Always does right by the business and seeks to make sure our procedures and processes are following generally accepted accounting principles and practices.
  • Doesn’t hesitate to flag potentially challenging situations
• Judgement
  • Exceptional ability to prioritize
  • Exceptional knack for when to escalate
  • Team Player
  • Doesn’t point fingers
  • Knows how to get needed resources without rubbing others the wrong way

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant accounting and bookkeeping experience (including GAAP), including up-to-date knowledge of QuickBooks and Excel modeling
• 2+ years in an internal finance, business manager, or comptroller role, preferably for a financial services company, like a commercial or investment bank, alternative lender, or asset manager.
• Fluent in Powerpoint