Drip Capital - Chartered Accountant

Chartered Accountant

About Drip Capital:

Drip Capital is a high-growth FinTech focused on the $5T global SME cross-border trade industry. We offer multiple, innovative trade financing products targeted towards SMEs in developing markets, providing rapidly growing SMEs quick and easy access to finance. With a focus on technology, our vision is to eliminate the hassle of paperwork and bureaucracy and create a seamless borrowing experience for its customers.

Our team comprises talent from top-tier institutions including Wharton, Stanford, and IITs with years of experience at companies like Google, Amazon, Standard Chartered, Blackrock, and Yahoo. We are backed by leading Silicon Valley investors - Sequoia, Wing, Accel, and Y Combinator. We are a global company headquartered in Silicon Valley along with offices in India and Mexico.

Your Role:

- Managing the monthly closing of financials for all business lines and preparing the consolidated financials for the group entity & SPVs (the US, Mexico, and India)

- Assist the team in reconciling account balances and bank statements, maintaining the general ledger, and preparing month-end close procedures

- Accurately prepare complex accruals, journal entries, balance sheet, and P&L reconciliations as part of the monthly, quarterly, and annual close process

- Interacting with other teams such as business, operations, etc to ensure timely closure of all F&A related issues

- Ensure overall compliance of internal policies along with statutory laws and regulations.

- Own year-end audits, group reporting, and other statutory and tax audits.

- Provide necessary information for various compliances to tax consultants and ensuring timely and accurate filings.

- Assist in analysis of the complex accounting transactions and liaise with consultants, as required.

- Prepare schedules and documentation for external audit and various ad-hoc special projects.

- Trains and evaluates employees to enhance their performance and development.

Our Checklist:

- Minimum 6+ years of experience

- Qualified Chartered Accountant

- Experience of working either in F&A of a Bank/NBFC or in a Big 4 with exposure to Bank/NBFC clients is preferable

- Strong understanding of US GAAP

- Experience in any start-up would be added plus

- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

- Ability to readily adapt to and lead through a changing environment.

- Highly developed interpersonal skills and ability to work closely with different teams to achieve section objectives.

- Well versed with Quickbook software

- Very strong Excel skills, particularly in financial modeling and managing large volumes of data

- Knowledge of SQL is preferable