Head of Accounting – Tax
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Head of Accounting & Tax overseeing consolidated reporting, IFRS accounting and Mexican tax compliance for albo’s fintech products. Leading close, audits, controls and accounting automation.
Responsibilities:
- Own the accuracy, timeliness and integrity of the group’s accounting, financial statements and tax compliance
- Report to the CFO and lead the accounting team
- Work closely with FP&A, Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Operations and Technology
- Deliver the monthly close by D+10
- Review accruals, journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
- Prepare entity and consolidated financial statements and reporting packages
- Reconcile accounting actuals with FP&A’s financial model and explain differences
- Own intercompany reconciliations, eliminations, foreign currency translation and group consolidation
- Assess accounting and consolidation treatment of financing trusts and special purpose vehicles
- Maintain documented IFRS group policies and bridges to Mexican statutory and regulatory accounting requirements
- Prepare technical memos for material judgments and complex transactions
- Oversee lending accounting, including accrued interest, effective interest rates, fees, expected credit losses, write-offs and recoveries
- Reconcile loan servicing data, cash collections and portfolio balances to the general ledger
- Ensure accurate recognition and reconciliation of payment, interchange, subscription and other service revenues, settlement balances, customer funds and related costs
- Own accounting analysis and supporting schedules for debt, financing costs, investments, goodwill and intangible asset impairment, deferred taxes and share-based payments
- Review new products, partnerships, acquisitions and funding arrangements before implementation
- Own the Mexican tax calendar, filings, payments, accounting-to-tax reconciliations and supporting records
- Oversee income tax, VAT, withholding taxes and tax balances, including refunds and credits
- Coordinate transfer pricing studies and documentation
- Coordinate UK and cross-border tax matters with specialist advisers
- Own financial and accounting components of applicable CNBV and Banco de México reporting
- Lead the group’s annual audit process across Mexico and the UK
- Maintain audit readiness and coordinate UK statutory filing
- Implement controls over cutoff, reconciliations, journal approvals, intercompany transactions, equity, stock options and supporting documentation
- Develop the accounting team and manage external accounting and tax providers
- Improve ERP workflows, chart of accounts and system integrations
- Automate repeatable reconciliations and reporting while preserving data lineage, access controls and review evidence
Requirements:
- A degree in Accounting
- At least eight years of relevant accounting, financial reporting and tax experience
- At least three years leading teams and owning the close and external audits
- Experience in a regulated Mexican financial institution
- Practical knowledge of regulatory accounting and reporting
- Strong IFRS knowledge
- Experience preparing consolidated financial statements for a group with multiple entities
- Practical Mexican tax experience
- Ability to manage transfer pricing and cross-border matters with specialist advisers
- Experience reconciling high volumes of transactions across operational systems, banks, subledgers and the general ledger
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills
- Hands-on ERP experience
- Fluent Spanish and advanced professional English
- Ability to discuss technical accounting and audit matters and prepare written explanations for international stakeholders
- Track record of delivering accurate closes and audit milestones under tight deadlines
- Direct experience with an IFPE, SoFiPo payments or consumer and SME lending, including IFRS 9 and loan portfolio reconciliations would be valuable
- Experience with UK group audits and statutory accounts, financing trusts, warehouse facilities or other structured lending arrangements would be valuable
- Experience with Oracle NetSuite, Simetrik, SQL or business intelligence platforms would be valuable
- Experience with SOFIPOs or banking accounting and regulatory reporting, acquisitions, goodwill impairment or employee stock option plans would be valuable
Benefits:
- Remote work arrangement
- Full-time employment
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