Finance Director

Soldo is here to change the way businesses spend, for the better. So every employee, department, and team is more productive and successful at work. Soldo connects company cards with a powerful management platform so finance teams can distribute money instantly, while staying in control of who spends, how much, where, and on what. With Soldo, budgeting, payments, reporting, and reconciliation are simple and efficient.

We're both a financial services and a software company and one of Europe's fastest growing fintech companies. Operating in the UK, Italy, and Ireland, we're over 350 employees (from 26 nationalities) strong.

We're a place where anyone can thrive. We're all about doing the right things for the right reasons, high standards, ambition, drive, and focus.

What's in it for you

- Private healthcare coverage for you and your family
- Genuine career development opportunities (we love to see you succeed) - including your own annual €500 career development budget
- Access to training and development - including a mentoring programme, workshops, and the opportunity to progress onto our leadership programme
- Flexible working options including working from home or our Dublin office
- Statutory Leave entitlements plus extra days off on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, and your Birthday
- Your own personal company Soldo card
- Employee Assistance Programme
- TaxSaver Commuter Scheme

The Role

This is a fantastic opportunity for a finance leader with experience in the regulated world of payments and treasury and payment operations activity, seeking an impactful career move.

Ideally, you have a balanced set of skills in both leadership and payment operations. As a leader, you will enjoy leading and developing a team, challenging it to always progress and improve. You will demonstrate strong leadership, with excellent written and communication skills, and the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders both internally and externally.

You will have a Regulatory DNA, be process-oriented, digitally minded, with strong knowledge of internal controls, and the ability and experience to assess and design effective operational and financial controls.

You will be a team-player, business-minded, partnering with colleagues across the business as well as with the Group CFO and Group Finance team to enable and support business growth.

You will be a problem solver, results-driven, capable of managing large and complex cross-functional projects, driving progress through collaboration, expertise, impact analysis, and task prioritization.

We're looking for someone who has:

- Solid experience as a senior finance professional at a payment/e-money institution, bank, fintech, financial regulatory agency, or professional service firm serving financial institution clients.
- Very good understanding of card and banking payments, e-money or wallet products/services, and banking functions.
- Direct experience executing and managing activity for the financial regulatory requirements and reporting to the CBI as an Electronic Money Institution, including customer funds safeguarding.
- Extensive experience with a card issuer, ideally Mastercard; experience with Visa is also acceptable. In-depth experience managing Card transaction reconciliations and card scheme rules and regulations.
- Ability to professionally and effectively interact with regulators. Direct experience executing and managing activity for the financial regulatory requirements and reporting to the CBI as an Electronic Money Institution, including customer funds safeguarding.
- Ability to communicate in a timely manner with the Board/senior management on financial performance and to provide high-quality, impartial information to enable decision-making in a regulated environment.
- Ability to manage daily operations of user funds safeguarding accounts and operations, as well as overall treasury management.
- Experience or familiarity with managed Financial Service operations for global payments including Faster Payments, BACS, CHAPS, SEPA, SEPA Instant, and SWIFT.
- Ability to drive change effectively in an agile environment.
- Current or previous Central Bank of Ireland controlled function role holder.
- Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance or an equivalent professional qualification such as ACCA.
- Extensive experience in people management and development.

It would be desirable to have:

- Experience in Foreign Exchange markets, including spot trading and forward trading.

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