Financial Controller- Americas

The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Financial Controller to join our growing finance team in New York. This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified accountant with 3+ years of post-qualification experience (CPA / 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 Americas entities and operations, supporting the month-end close process, preparing accurate financial statements, maintaining robust controls, and ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions. The role includes supervision of local finance personnel and close collaboration with our shared services accountants.

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 an established presence in North America, 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

• 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 financial transactions are recorded accurately and on time as transaction volumes grow.

• Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts, including accruals, prepayments, intercompany balances, and fixed assets, and strengthen the reconciliation framework as the business scales.

• Support the month-end and year-end close, ensuring accounts are properly reconciled and supporting schedules are complete, and help shorten the close as reporting demands increase.

• 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, and preparation of related returns, reconciliations, and supporting schedules as the business expands.

• Support the global Tax function with tax accounting, reporting, and compliance across the Americas, including:

• Preparation of tax provisions, tax account reconciliations, supporting schedules, and information required for corporate and indirect tax filings (including sales & use tax, GST/HST, and VAT).

• Intercompany accounting and transfer pricing implementation, including recording and reconciling intercompany charges and maintaining supporting documentation.

• 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.

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

• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate finance processes, and help implement them 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 management, statutory, and regulatory reporting stays accurate and consistent as the business is built out.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (CPA / ACA / ACCA) with at least 3 years of post-qualification experience (PQE).

• 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 (NetSuite preferred) and strong systems orientation.

• Experience supporting corporate tax compliance, indirect tax filings, tax provisioning, and intercompany accounting is advantageous, particularly across US and other Americas jurisdictions.

• 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 supervise local finance personnel.

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

• Right to work in the United States.

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 US and Canada team of 50+.

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 know.