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Adyen is a global financial technology platform providing payments, data, and financial products for enterprise customers including Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft.
You will lead the Record to Report (R2R) team within FinOps, driving the operational shift from function-based accounting to process-owned streams across Lead-to-Cash and Procure-to-Pay. This is a high-scope, hands-on leadership role requiring a builder mentality. You will coach a diverse team of GL and Tax specialists while actively engaging in system architecture, data pipelines, and core process design to support Adyen's 10X growth strategy.
Key responsibilities include:
**People & Leadership:**
- Mentor, coach, and scale a multi-disciplinary team of GL and Tax specialists
- Set clear vision, manage resource planning, and foster a high-performance, ownership-driven culture
- Collaborate across Group Finance (Financial Controlling, Lead to Cash, Procure to Pay, Payroll, Tax) and non-finance stakeholders (Procurement, Legal, Infrastructure, HR)
- Work closely with global leads and operational teams
**Process & Operations:**
- Drive stream-level automation initiatives across the R2R pipeline to streamline month-end closing and eliminate manual tasks
- Manage GL activities related to operational and capital expenditures (OPEX, CAPEX, Intercompany, leases) and revenue/accounts-receivable accounting
- Take an active role in systems and product design, leading foundational work on data quality for "touchless tax returns"
- Support internal and external auditors with GL and Tax Accounting data
- Prepare variance analysis during month-end closing
**Requirements:**
- Minimum 6 years of work experience in financial accounting, tax compliance, and reporting within a multinational organization, including leadership experience
- In-depth expertise across financial accounting and reporting areas with systems thinking approach
- Strong people leadership skills to build and lead high-performance international teams; ability to coach, develop, and make decisive decisions
- Exceptional communication skills; ability to translate complex topics into clear concepts and influence stakeholders
- Detail-oriented with ability to maintain big-picture perspective; understand finance as a unified data pipeline
- High self-motivation, ambitious, hands-on, entrepreneurial mindset; strong team player able to deliver within tight deadlines in fast-paced international environment
