Controllership Specialist - Global Product Accounting

About Nu

Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services.

Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns.

Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Most Influential Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks.

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About the Role

Nubank is looking for a strategic and results-driven Controller Analyst to join our Finance team. As a Controller Analyst at Nubank, you will bridge the gap between traditional financial operations and cutting-edge technology. This is a full-time opportunity where you will support and execute the accounting closing flows and help optimize processes through automation and data analysis. You will partner with platform teams to implement projects that increase the efficiency and scalability of our controlling operations. The role offers autonomy to influence and enhance our financial processes, combining your financial expertise with support for technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for promoting and developing continuous improvement actions with the controllership team with the aim of improving and standardizing processes and generating efficiency through automation.

• Analyze and map existing processes in order to identify business processes that can be automated using the tools available in Nu.

• Work together with data and product teams to design financial processes, indicating the most efficient way to store information for application in accounting routines (closings, Financial Statements, regulatory reports, etc.)

• Will contribute to the maintenance of Nubank's core products, analyzing unexpected behaviors, bugs and dealing with complex databases;

• Will improve the accounting closing process, looking for opportunities of automations and controls..

• Contribute to the preparation of financial statements for Nubank products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.

• Advanced English - Ability to participate in meetings, read and write documents, and give presentations to diverse teams.

• Knowledge and experience in IFRS, particularly IFRS 9 (Financial Instruments).

• Prior experience in banking products, including credit cards, lending, checking accounts, or financial instruments.

• Demonstrates analytical skills and strategic planning capabilities, facilitating the understanding and standardization of global business processes.

• Possess adaptable and assertive communication skills to effectively interact with various stakeholders, including Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Data teams.

• Knowledge of local accounting regulations in Brazil (BR), Mexico (MX), or Colombia (COL).

• Desirable knowledge in programming languages such as SQL, Scala, and Python, along with a keen interest in expanding data skills.

Location & Work Model

• Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration.

• Location: São Paulo

Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank

• Food/ Meal Card (Vale-Refeição and/or Vale Alimentação)

• Public Transportation Commuting Benefit (Vale-Transporte)

• NuCare - Psychological, Financial and Legal Assistance Program

• Life Insurance

• Medical Plan

• Dental Plan

• NuLanguage - Language Course Program

• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses

• Extended Parental Leave

• Daycare Allowance

• Parental Consultancy

• Work-from-home Allowance

• Gym Partnerships

• 30 days of paid vacation

• Relocation Assistance Package, if applicable

Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence - enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.