Controllership Senior Analyst

About Us

Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. For more information, visit our institutional page https://international.nubank.com.br/careers/

About the team

Controllership team breaks the status quo by facing challenges from the perspective of technological innovation as a tool to automate and make our processes run more efficiently. Our goal is to build a strong and diverse team that looks to create something worthwhile. And has at its core values to pursue smart efficiency, this comes hand in hand with our drive to remain as a strategic partner for all cross-chapter’s teams within Nu Colombia. In Global Product Accounting we are part of the first line of defense to deliver accurate and timely financial information meeting the company’s regulatory responsibilities with unwavering integrity.

About the role

We are looking for a Controllership Analyst who will run the operational processes related to the accounting closing and the regulatory reporting for the team, maintaining internal control improvements and process automations to ensure practices are in place to achieve the highest standards in the preparation of it. Also, the Controllership Analyst will perform activities that include recording journals in the accounting ERP system, analyzing financial information from Nu Colombia's products, and coordinating the demands within internal and external auditors for the Global Product Accounting team.

We are looking for a Controllership Analyst who has:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
• 4+ years professional experience working in financial institutions.
• Strong technical accounting knowledge including CUIF and IFRS.
• Proven experience preparing accounting journals, conciliations, running accounting closings and monthly accounting reports, as well as automatizing processes.
• Demonstrated experience with preparation and review of Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia accounting regulatory reports.
• Support internal and external audits to ensure compliance of accounting and financial statements reporting.
• Solid analytical background and data-driven mindset. Must be comfortable manipulating big and small datasets to make decisions (SQL knowledge is desirable).
• Ability to tackle complex problems involving a number of topics/variables, such as business, regulatory, operations and product features.
• Strong interpersonal and project management skills and able to communicate well with different stakeholders
• Advanced English level. Must be comfortable with oral and written communication.
• Advanced use of Excel and Google suite.
• SAP experience preferred.

As a Controllership Analyst, you'll be expected to:

• Analyze and understand how financial products work in the Colombian market, as well as their respective regulations.
• Generate, review and deliver regulatory reports to the different regulators.
• Review and create journal entries for accounting closing purposes, also performing and enhancing reconciliations and automations.
• Build reports regarding Nu Colombia’s product portfolio financials for internal forums and support on building the local Financial Statements and preparing the reporting package for Nu Holdings.
• Attend internal and external audits.
• Work alongside Engineers and Product Managers, collaborating with specification, design, and implementation of data architecture for building solutions, improving and automatizing processes and controls for Controllership.
• Produce and maintain proper documentation of product accounting and regulatory reporting definitions.

Core Benefits:

• Equity at Nubank
• Health insurance
• Vacations of 15 workdays
• NuLanguage - Language learning program
• Parental leaves

The position is based in Bogotá, Colombia. 

Nubank continues to hire for all open roles, all interviewing and onboarding is done virtually. Everyone new to the team and our current staff will be working from home for 7-8 weeks and 1 at the office (Bogotá).