Director of Financial Control

Our Mission
Reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets.

The Team
-> Founded by Harvard grads / 3rd-time founders --- also founded Segovia (successful exit) and GiveDirectly (>300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO).
-> Top performers from top and varied organizations (e.g., Bain, Bolt, Google, McKinsey, SafeBoda, Uber, Zipline) --- we like moving fast, and we hire people that do as well.
-> Driven by mission, guided by values (see below) – in deed, not just word.
-> Team as global as the mission, >30 languages from 25 countries (i.e., if you’re interested in learning to make Chicken Moambe, we’re the place).

About Us
Taptap Send is backed by top VCs (Spark, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, etc.), rapidly growing and a great place for those looking for both impact and a fast-paced tech startup environment.  Read more about the journey in Reid Hoffman’s words or TechCrunch article

Launched in 2019, Taptap is tapping into a transformative shift in global finance: from banks to phones. While this has affected wealthier countries as well, it has been nothing short of a revolution for the emerging markets where the overwhelming majority of population had been unable to access digital finance previously.  Taptap Send allows immigrants to send money home instantly and with no fee*, saving money in the process. With a formal market size of >700B alone, we’ve got a lot more saving to do for our users. Our mission is to reduce inequity by helping immigrants move money home, and become the leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets. And that’s just the beginning...

*We charge fees for transfers on fixed exchange rate corridors (e.g., XOF, XAF).

Our Investors
Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital (Jim Breyer), Unbound (Shravin Mittal), Wamda (Fadi Ghandour), Firstminute Capital, Slow Ventures (Sam Lessin), Helios Partners (Souleymane Ba), Crossbeam Ventures (Ali Hamed), Nikesh Arora, Samih Toukan, and many other context-specific angels

The Role

We’re looking for a Director of Financial Control who can take our finance team to the next level.  You’ll own day-to-day accounting and financial reporting, including monthly financial statements, the financial aspects of regulatory reporting, AP, audits in multiple jurisdictions, income tax, etc. You’ll be leading a team, which will rapidly expand as our volume grows and we enter new markets.

This role will report to the COO.

Responsibilities

• Management accounting -- oversee monthly close and AP for a group of companies processing millions of transactions a year in different currencies

• Regulatory reporting -- oversee daily safeguarding reporting, monthly regulatory capital reports, and various financial reports required by our regulators in the UK and abroad

• Investor and lender reporting -- responsible for complying with our financial reporting obligations to investors and lenders, including monitoring compliance with our covenants

• Tax and audit -- collaborate closely with our tax advisors and auditors in various countries and ensure our returns (incl. income tax, share options, VAT, R&D, etc.) are filed on time and that we are following local requirements; identifying advisors and auditors in new markets and setting 

Requirements

• Experience as Finance Leader of a high-growth start-up, preferably in the FinTech space

• Experience handling high volumes of transactions in different currencies

• Experience overseeing international operating entities (and preferably regulated entities)

• Experience building and leading a team strongly preferred

• US GAAP experience preferred; IFRS experience required

• Detail-oriented -- you sweat the small stuff

• Highly organized and able to balance competing priorities, including across teams and with external partners

Taptap Values 

Impact first

Team next

Accept reality

Propose solutions

Win with grit

Be proactively candid, with yourself and others

Love the particular

Own it

Create positive energy

Maybe, even have fun

Taptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.

Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.