Senior Group Accountant

<div class="content-intro"><p class="p1"><strong>Build the payment infrastructure powering global commerce.</strong></p> <p class="p1"><strong>Boku connects billions of consumers to the payment methods they prefer, one market at a time. Our platform connects the world’s leading digital businesses to the local payment methods their customers already use. Spotify, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix and Tencent already run on Boku’s payment infrastructure. We operate across 60+ countries, support 200+ local payment methods and reach 7.5 billion consumer accounts.</strong></p> <p class="p1"><strong>With headquarters in London and San Francisco and colleagues working across markets around the world, Boku is global by default. From London to Mumbai, São Paulo to Singapore, our teams collaborate across time zones, markets and cultures to build products for customers around the world.</strong></p> <p class="p1"><strong>Join us to solve complex, real-time payment challenges at global scale. We share knowledge freely, take ownership of complexity and look for people who question how things are done and find better ways to build.</strong></p></div><p><strong>Role Title: </strong>Senior Group Accountant</p> <p><strong>Location: </strong>London, Hybrid</p> <p><strong>Role Purpose</strong></p> <p>Boku is the world's leading provider of local payment solutions, connecting global merchants to consumers through mobile-first payment methods across more than 90 countries. Group Finance is on a finance transformation journey - accelerating the month end close, strengthening balance sheet control, and automating core accounting processes across a multi-entity, multi-currency group.</p> <p>Reporting to the General Ledger Manager, you will take ownership of key components of the group close and balance sheet, act as a safe pair of hands-on technical accounting matters and contribute directly to process improvement and automation initiatives. This is a genuine step-up opportunity: You will operate with real autonomy, work with senior finance leadership, and help shape how a listed fintech runs its financial control function.</p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own key elements of the group month end close, including preparation and review of prepayment, accrual and payroll journals, intercompany, FX and balance sheet revaluations and general ledger postings across multiple entities and currencies, delivering to a disciplined close timetable.</li> <li>Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations in line with group policy and materiality thresholds, ensuring balances are fully substantiated, ageing items are resolved and issues are escalated with clear analysis.</li> <li>Perform intercompany reviews of postings, reconciliations and settlements, support the clearance of historical balances and contribute to the implementation of an intercompany automation module.</li> <li>Support FX accounting across the group, helping document and strengthen the end-to-end FX process, ownership and controls.</li> <li>Drive process improvement and automation initiatives within the general ledger team, making full use of Dynamics 365 and emerging AI-enabled tools to reduce manual effort and improve accuracy.</li> <li>Provide timely and clear response and support for the half year review and year-end audit, own assigned deliverables E2E and contribute to the remediation of any audit findings</li> <li>Collaborate closely with broader finance teams including Financial Control, New Products, Statutory Reporting and Finance Transformation teams, fostering knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement.</li> <li>Deputise for the General Ledger M