Accountant Colombia

The Finance area is responsible for ensuring the integrity, accuracy, and reliability of the company’s financial information and accounting operations across the organization. As we build a financial institution from the ground up, this role plays a critical part in maintaining strong financial governance, supporting regulatory compliance, enabling strategic decision-making, and ensuring scalable and sustainable financial operations.

This role will support the end-to-end accounting cycle and monthly close process under US GAAP and Colombian accounting standards (IFRS/NIIF), ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial information, compliance with tax and statutory requirements, and timely reporting to the global headquarters. 

Challenges that await you:

• Assist with the monthly and annual financial close, including managing the closing calendar, recording accruals and amortizations, and performing analytical reviews of the income statement and balance sheet.
• Support complex and high-risk balance sheet reconciliations, including bank and intercompany reconciliations across group entities, ensuring the timely resolution of outstanding items.
• Prepare and support the presentation of financial statements and the monthly reporting package for the group, including variance analysis against budget and prior periods.
• Participate in tax compliance activities, including withholding tax, VAT, ICA, statutory information reporting (Exogenous Information), and corporate income tax filings in collaboration with the Tax team, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of all submissions.
• Prepare technical accounting memos and analyses on topics such as revenue recognition, provisions, and differences between US GAAP and IFRS/Colombian GAAP, while contributing to the documentation and continuous improvement of accounting policies.
• Identify and support the implementation of process improvements, automation initiatives, and accounting controls within the ERP, driving improvements in data quality, shortening the financial close cycle, and enhancing process documentation.
• Collaborate with internal and external auditors by preparing supporting documentation, responding to information requests, and assisting with the implementation of audit recommendations.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including Finance, Tax, and the Global Accounting team, to ensure accurate financial reporting and compliance with internal policies and regulatory requirements.

What makes you a great fit:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting with an active Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license (required).
• 3–5 years of progressive accounting experience.
• Experience in the financial services industry (regulated financial institutions, fintechs, or banking) and/or a Big Four accounting firm is strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, IFRS, and Colombian tax regulations, with the ability to research, document, and support technical accounting positions.
• Proven experience supporting end-to-end financial close processes and serving as the primary point of contact for internal and external audits.
• Experience working with ERP systems (NetSuite preferred) and advanced Excel. Familiarity with automation and business intelligence tools such as Power Query, Power BI, or similar is a plus.
• Intermediate English/Spanish proficiency is required to collaborate with the global team.
• A postgraduate specialization in IFRS, Tax, Finance, or a related field is considered a plus.

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