Senior Finance Manager
Payoneer
About Payoneer
Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.
By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.
Senior Finance Manager
Role summary - Payoneer is looking for a Senior Finance Manager to join our extremely fast-growing global Fintech business in China. The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a fast-paced, multi-tasking and high energy environment.
Location: Guangzhou
On-site
Full-time
What you’ll do
- Serve as a strategic accounting business partner for Payoneer’s China management, and establish effective communication and collaboration with global corporate teams to align local financial strategies with global goals.
- Lead a professional team to oversee the overall accounting, payroll, and tax functions of the entity; proactively drive process optimization to enhance operational efficiency, and ensure smooth execution of core financial workflows.
- Act as the key point-of-contact for the finance team’s post-merger integration, including aligning local financial processes and standards with group-level requirements; coordinate with internal stakeholders within the China entity and across other regional teams to ensure seamless integration.
- Lead period-end closing activities, including the timely preparation of closing documents and reporting packages; conduct in-depth analysis of balance fluctuations in connection with business operations, and complete intercompany reconciliations accurately.
- Ensure timely submission of statutory forms and periodic reports in strict compliance with local accounting and tax regulations; liaise with regulatory authorities (e.g., Tax Bureau, AMR) when necessary to address matters related to statutory financial reporting and taxation.
- Collaborate with internal and outsourced payroll teams to oversee and review the payroll process, ensuring accuracy and timeliness; optimize vendor payment cycles, and guarantee the timely and accurate operation of accounts receivable (AR) and accounts payable (AP) processes.
- Lead the audit of local annual financial statements, and support the audit of parent company (US) annual financial statements; work closely with external auditors and internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with audit requirements and timely completion of audit work.
- Ensure strict adherence to group-defined internal controls at all times, and drive necessary adjustments to strengthen control mechanisms; proactively identify opportunities to improve financial operational efficiency, and execute corresponding optimization plans; maintain complete and appropriate documentation for internal controls over financial reporting activities.
- Adopt a proactive approach to understand business dynamics by collaborating with cross-functional teams; leverage this understanding to optimize corporate and operational accounting (covering accounting, AR/AP, payroll, audit, etc.), recommend and implement relevant policies, and enhance effective stakeholder management.
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting field and an active qualified professional accountant (China CPA, ACCA, Intermediate Accounting Professional Title or equivalent)
- Minimum of 10 years as finance and /or accounting manager in the payment or fintech industry
- Deep proficiency in China Accounting Standards and corporate tax regulations
- Strong communication skills in written and spoken English
- Knowledge of US GAAP would be a significant advantage
- Experience in a multinational fast growing tech organization is an advantage
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