UK Entity Controller
LemFi provides international payment products for immigrants, including multi-currency wallets, global money transfers, payment requests, and eSIM connectivity.
About LemFi
LemFi is a financial technology company offering international payment products designed to help immigrants thrive financially. Its services include multi-currency wallets, international money transfers to more than 30 countries, money requests and payment links, and eSIM connectivity. Transfers can be sent to bank accounts, mobile money, and other destinations, typically arriving within minutes.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will manage the close and statutory accounts for UK entities, lead a small accounting team, build scalable credit accounting, oversee safeguarding, and strengthen financial controls. You will also support forecasts, capital adequacy, regulatory reporting, and finance-process automation.
Requirements
- ACA, ACCA, or CIMA qualification
- 10+ years of post-qualification experience
- Entity or financial-controller experience
- Lending or consumer-credit accounting experience, including IFRS 9 ECL modelling and loan-book accounting
- Experience at an FCA-regulated firm
- FRS 102 and IFRS knowledge
- Experience with multi-currency transactions, payment processor data, and NetSuite or comparable ERP
- Experience leading a small accounting team
Responsibilities
- Own monthly, quarterly, and year-end close for UK entities
- Prepare and file FRS 102 statutory accounts and manage UK audit activities
- Build and own consumer-credit accounting
- Sign off safeguarding calculations and reconcile safeguarded funds and customer balances
- Account for multi-currency transactions, FX revaluation, processor balances, and intercompany positions
- Support forecasts, capital adequacy, and FCA reporting
- Document controls, develop the accounting team, and automate close tasks
