Banking Accounting Manager

About the role

The Banking Accounting Manager will own the accounting of the credit business and the core banking ledger, ensuring data integrity and regulatory compliance. This role involves managing the end-to-end accounting chain for receivables, securitizations, and funding, while reinforcing control frameworks and overseeing prudential reporting. You will work within the Finance organization to evolve accounting processes as the business scales.

Responsibilities

• Own the accounting of the credit portfolio including origination, revenue recognition, and provisioning.
• Manage the accounting of securitizations, funding instruments, and hedging activities.
• Serve as the functional owner of the core banking ledger, specifying and validating accounting schemes for new products and geographies.
• Design and automate reconciliations between the ledger, general ledger, banks, and regulatory reporting.
• Oversee the production and quality of prudential and statistical reporting, including solvency and liquidity returns.

Required skills

• Corporate Finance
• Banking Accounting
• French banking GAAP
• PCEC
• SQL
• Financial reporting
• Regulatory reporting
• Data analysis

Nice to have

• Securitization
• NetSuite
• BigQuery
• dbt
• Python
• Fintech

Qualifications

• Experience in audit of financial services in a Big 4 or specialised practice
• Experience in-house at a regulated credit institution

Certifications

• DEC
• CPA
• ACCA

Benefits

• Profit-sharing
• Employee savings plan
• Health insurance
• Disability insurance
• Sports reimbursement
• Sustainable Mobility Package
• Meal vouchers
• Mental health platform access
• Learning & Development Platform

About the Company

Alma is a buy now pay later leader in France, active in 10 European countries with over 25,000 merchants and 10 million consumers. As a member of the Next40, the company is scaling rapidly across Europe and is regulated as a société de financement and a payment institution.