Head of Accounting – Tax

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🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧾 Accounting Manager

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albo

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

Fintech • Banking

albo is a FinTech company based in Mexico that offers comprehensive financial solutions, including personal and business debit accounts, credit services, and access to cryptocurrencies. Their services are designed for both individuals and businesses, providing ease of managing finances through their mobile app without costs or commissions. Additionally, albo provides credit options for personal and business needs, integration with cryptocurrency trading, and various features to maintain financial control and security. As a regulated institution by the Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission, albo focuses on delivering secure and efficient financial services to over 2 million users.

📋 Description

• 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