Financial Controller- Americas

Sokin•New York, NY

10d•$120,000 - $160,000

About The Position

Sokin is seeking a qualified accountant to join its growing finance team in New York as Financial Controller for the Americas. The role manages finance operations across the Americas, supports month-end and year-end close, prepares management accounts and statutory financial statements, maintains financial controls, and helps ensure compliance across multiple jurisdictions. It includes supervising local finance personnel and working closely with bookkeeping and shared services accountants. The Financial Controller supports regulatory reporting, including US state-by-state Money Transmitter License reporting and related capital and permissible investment requirements. The role also supports tax accounting, reporting, and compliance across the Americas, including tax provisions, tax reconciliations, indirect tax information, and intercompany accounting and transfer pricing documentation. Additional work includes audit support, budgeting and forecasting, improving controls, and streamlining or automating finance processes as the business grows. Sokin is a B2B financial services provider focused on global payments, foreign exchange, treasury management, and finance reconciliations. It operates across North America, EMEA, and APAC and is expanding its global business.

Requirements

Qualified accountant (CPA, ACA, or ACCA) with at least 3 years of post-qualification experience.
Background in business services, audit, or corporate accounting.
Strong understanding of financial accounting principles, statutory reporting, and control frameworks.
Experience preparing or assisting with consolidated accounts and management reporting.
Exposure to ERP systems and strong systems orientation.
Advanced Excel skills, including data manipulation and analysis.
Excellent attention to detail, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across global functions and supervise local finance personnel.
Proactive, organised, and able to work independently in a fast-paced, international environment.
Right to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Experience with NetSuite.
Experience supporting corporate tax compliance, indirect tax filings, tax provisioning, and intercompany accounting, particularly across the US and other Americas jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

Oversee and support regional finance operations, including supervision of local finance personnel and coordination of accounting, reporting, and control activities across the Americas.
Partner with the bookkeeping team and shared services accountants to review journal entries and ensure transactions are recorded accurately and on time.
Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts, including accruals, prepayments, intercompany balances, and fixed assets, and strengthen the reconciliation framework.
Support month-end and year-end close, ensuring accounts are reconciled and supporting schedules are complete.
Prepare monthly management accounts and assist with statutory financial statements under UK GAAP and, where applicable, US GAAP.
Support regulatory financial reporting, including US state-by-state Money Transmitter License reporting, regulatory capital and permissible investment requirements, returns, reconciliations, and supporting schedules.
Support the global Tax function with tax accounting, reporting, and compliance across the Americas.
Prepare tax provisions, tax account reconciliations, supporting schedules, and information required for corporate and indirect tax filings, including sales and use tax, GST/HST, and VAT.
Support intercompany accounting and transfer pricing implementation, including recording and reconciling intercompany charges and maintaining supporting documentation.
Prepare audit schedules and supporting documentation and respond to auditor queries.
Maintain and improve financial controls, including designing controls that can scale with business growth.
Support budgeting and forecasting with accurate historical information and help build planning models and processes.
Identify opportunities to streamline and automate finance processes and help implement improvements.
Collaborate with finance, risk, operations, and shared services to maintain accurate and consistent management, statutory, and regulatory reporting.