The Assistant Controller will lead the global finance organization's accounting operations, ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance with accounting standards.
Controllership Specialist - Global Product Accounting
📜 Description
- Drive continuous improvement and automation across controllership processes.
- Map existing processes and identify opportunities to automate them with available tools.
- Partner with data and product teams to design financial processes and information storage for accounting routines and regulatory reporting.
- Maintain core product accounting by investigating unexpected behavior, bugs, and complex databases.
- Improve accounting close processes through automation and stronger controls.
- Contribute to preparing financial statements for Nubank products.
🛠️ Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
- Advanced English - Ability to participate in meetings, read and write documents, and give presentations to diverse teams.
- Prior experience in banking products, including credit cards, lending, checking accounts, or financial instruments.
- Demonstrates analytical skills and strategic planning capabilities, facilitating the understanding and standardization of global business processes.
- Possess adaptable and assertive communication skills to effectively interact with various stakeholders, including Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Data teams.
- Knowledge of local accounting regulations in Brazil (BR), Mexico (MX), or Colombia (COL).
- Desirable knowledge in programming languages such as SQL, Scala, and Python, along with a keen interest in expanding data skills.
✨ Benefits
- Chance of earning equity at Nubank
- Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
- Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
- NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
- Life Insurance
- Medical Plan
- NuLanguage – Language Course Program
- Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
- Extended Parental Leave
- Daycare Allowance
Full job description
About Nu
Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.
Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.
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About the Role
Nubank is looking for a strategic and results-driven Controller Analyst to join our Finance team. As a Controller Analyst at Nubank, you will bridge the gap between traditional financial operations and cutting-edge technology. This is a full-time opportunity where you will support and execute the accounting closing flows and help optimize processes through automation and data analysis. You will partner with platform teams to implement projects that increase the efficiency and scalability of our controlling operations. The role offers autonomy to influence and enhance our financial processes, combining your financial expertise with support for technical solutions.
Responsibilities
You will be responsible for promoting and developing continuous improvement actions with the controllership team with the aim of improving and standardizing processes and generating efficiency through automation.
Analyze and map existing processes in order to identify business processes that can be automated using the tools available in Nu.
Work together with data and product teams to design financial processes, indicating the most efficient way to store information for application in accounting routines (closings, Financial Statements, regulatory reports, etc.)
Will contribute to the maintenance of Nubank's core products, analyzing unexpected behaviors, bugs and dealing with complex databases;
Will improve the accounting closing process, looking for opportunities of automations and controls..
Contribute to the preparation of financial statements for Nubank products.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
Advanced English - Ability to participate in meetings, read and write documents, and give presentations to diverse teams.
Prior experience in banking products, including credit cards, lending, checking accounts, or financial instruments.
Demonstrates analytical skills and strategic planning capabilities, facilitating the understanding and standardization of global business processes.
Possess adaptable and assertive communication skills to effectively interact with various stakeholders, including Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Data teams.
Knowledge of local accounting regulations in Brazil (BR), Mexico (MX), or Colombia (COL).
Desirable knowledge in programming languages such as SQL, Scala, and Python, along with a keen interest in expanding data skills.
Location & Work Model
Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration.
Location: São Paulo
Benefits
Chance of earning equity at Nubank
Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)
Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)
NuCare – Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program
Life Insurance
Medical Plan
Dental Plan
NuLanguage – Language Course Program
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
Extended Parental Leave
Daycare Allowance
Parental Consultancy
Work-from-home Allowance
Gym Partnerships
30 days of paid vacation
Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable
Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.
To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here
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