Financial Controller EMEA

The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Financial Controller to join our growing finance team in London. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified Chartered Accountant with 2+ years of post-qualification experience (CA / ACA / ACCA) and a background in business services, audit, or corporate accounting who is looking to step into a fast-moving, dynamic, global environment for a high-growth business.

The successful candidate will play a key role in managing the EMEA entities, ensuring timely month-end close (targeting Working Day 6), preparing accurate financial statements including UK Group accounts under UK GAAP and IFRS, maintaining robust controls, and ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions. You will work hands-on with technology to drive automation and build AI-native workstreams as the business scales.

This role reports into the Finance Director.

About Us

Sokin is a next-generation B2B financial services provider, enabling businesses to make and receive global payments with greater speed, lower cost, and total transparency. Our mission is simple: we’re simplifying global business — so businesses thrive wherever they choose to grow.

We deliver services across:

• Global payments and receivables

• Foreign Exchange (FX)

• Treasury management

• Finance reconciliations

We are rapidly expanding, with established presence in North Americas, EMEA and APAC. Backed by a strong global infrastructure and industry-leading partners, we are redefining how businesses move money worldwide.

Our clients span industries from sports and entertainment to logistics and travel, and our community is growing rapidly. As we continue to expand, we’re building a team of exceptional people who share our ambition to transform the future of global payments.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive automation of finance processes across EMEA entities and the wider group, identifying and eliminating manual work so the team can scale efficiently during hypergrowth.

• Work hands-on with technology to design and implement AI-native workstreams (with a clear roadmap towards 2027 implementation), partnering with shared services and technology teams to embed automation into month-end, reconciliations, and reporting.

• Ensure all EMEA entities are fully processed and month-end close is completed by Working Day 6 each month. Partner with the bookkeeping and shared services teams to review journal entries and ensure financial transactions are recorded accurately and on time as volumes grow.

• Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts across the region, including accruals, prepayments, intercompany balances, multi-currency positions, and fixed assets, and strengthen the reconciliation framework as the business scales.

• Own multi-currency, multi-entity consolidations for EMEA entities and contribute to the preparation of UK Group accounts under UK GAAP and IFRS.

• Prepare monthly management accounts and assist with statutory financial statements.

• Contribute to regulatory capital reporting, including preparation of capital and related regulatory returns, supporting schedules, and commentary, working with finance and risk as requirements evolve.

• Assist with VAT, corporation tax, payroll, and other statutory filings across EMEA jurisdictions, ensuring timely submission and compliance.

• Work with auditors by preparing audit schedules and supporting documentation and responding to queries.

• Maintain and continuously improve financial controls, including designing controls that can scale with headcount, product, and entity growth. Make decisions at speed to support the business through its hyperscaling phase.

• Support budgeting and forecasting with accurate historical information, and help build the models and processes used as the business plans for growth.

• Identify further opportunities to streamline and automate finance processes so the function can support a larger, more complex business without a linear increase in manual work.

• Collaborate with finance, risk, operations, and the shared services team so that management, statutory, and regulatory reporting stays accurate and consistent as the business is built out.

Requirements

• Qualified Chartered Accountant (CA / ACA / ACCA) with at least 2 years of post-qualification experience (PQE).

• Demonstrable track record of automating manual finance or accounting processes (examples you can discuss in detail during the interview process).

• Genuine interest in utilising technology in a hands-on fashion, including designing and implementing AI-native finance workstreams, combined with a strong systems orientation and exposure to ERP systems (NetSuite preferred).

• Background in business services, audit, or corporate accounting.

• Strong understanding of financial accounting principles, statutory reporting under UK GAAP and IFRS, multi-currency multi-entity consolidations, and control frameworks.

• Experience preparing or assisting with consolidated accounts and management reporting in a multi-entity environment.

• Working knowledge or exposure to EMEA tax and accounting regulations (including VAT and relevant local standards) is advantageous.

• Advanced Excel skills, including data manipulation and analysis.

• Excellent attention to detail, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across global functions and make decisions at speed.

• Proactive, organised, and able to work independently in a fast-paced, international environment during a hyperscaling phase.

Sokin has grown 9x in three years, from $14M to $90M in run-rate net revenue, and we're on track to pass $120M by the end of 2026. We're doubling year over year, with just $12M in net cash burn and a growing global team.

The momentum is real and the next chapter is yours to shape.

Ready to grow with us? Apply today

Please note, candidates will need to have the right to work in the jurisdiction that they are looking to work in.

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to creating an inclusive work environment. As a growing global startup, we value agility and flexibility in our working culture. If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us kno w.