Senior Accounting Manager / Financial Controller

The Company

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not

Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

About the role

Reporting to the Director of Finance in EMEA, the Senior Accounting Manager / Financial Controller will lead and coordinate the Group’s global record-to-report process and all related reconciliations. You will play a key role in the business and will have responsibility for providing guidance on new revenue processes.

What will your day look like? You will...

• Lead the full record-to-report global process, including invoice creation and collections from partners/customers
• Lead the initiative to reduce days sales outstanding and ensure accounts receivable agings are complete and accurate
• Lead and review reconciliations across Cover Genius’ multiple receipt methods globally
• Lead global invoicing troubleshooting when partner issues arise by partnering with contract management, customer support and tax teams, ensuring credits are appropriately reflected on partner/customer invoices as/if needed
• Primary support for external audits/reviews within regions and work with Global Controller to prepare for audits
• Partner with Global Tax Director to ensure pass-through taxes, such as VAT, GST, US Sales Tax, are reflected correctly on partner invoices
• Partner with the Global Treasury and FP&A Teams in providing support for cash inflows from partners/customers
• Ensure accuracy & adequacy of business' revenue reporting processes by drafting, revising and evaluating relevant internal policies and procedures
• Serve as subject matter expert in all matters related to accounting for invoice to cash from partners/customers
• Support in planning and project work, key projects
• Recommending and driving improvement to processes, systems, and control frameworks.

To help us level up, you'll ideally have:

• Big 4 or mid-tier trained, with further commercial experience
• Familiarity with revenue accounting across multiple jurisdictions, preferably working with highly complex revenue models
• At least 10 years' experience in finance, with a focus on accounts receivable oversight
• NetSuite experience with invoicing and cash collections
• A proven people leader who can also operate independently with experience in delivering projects end-to-end
• Strong stakeholder business partnering capability
• Must be proactive and be able to work well independently and partner with reporting, FP&A, Tax and Treasury Teams
• Insurance/Financial Services experience a bonus but not a requirement
• Open to travel

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?

• Flexible Work Environment - we are outcome focussed and understand that for our people to perform at their best flexibility is critical.

• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.