About

 
Swan is the leading European fintech specialized in embedded banking. A laureate of the French government’s selective year list of tech champions, “French Tech Next 120,” we are quickly expanding across Europe.

Over 100 European companies have already seamlessly integrated banking services such as accounts, cards, and payments into their products through our Banking-as-a-Service platform. This approach, known as “embedded finance”, empowers businesses to elevate their offerings and create new revenue streams — often times tripling their revenue!

Our founders’ vision from the beginning was Simplicity: that anyone with a fintech idea at 2 am can visit our website, start building, and buy themselves a coffee with a self-issued card the very next day. That vision has taken us far.

Following a 38M€ Series B round last September, we have been doubling our headcount and already have over 230 Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona, Amsterdam, and Milan! If you’re excited about joining a European fintech adventure, Swan is the way!

To learn more about us: About Swan ; Our story.

Job description

Mission:

Swan is looking for an Accountant to join our best-in-class Finance team (6 people), and strengthen our internal Accounting department. This role focuses on managing accounting operations, in close relationship with our Apprentice and our Accounting Manager.

Key responsabilities:

1. Accounting Information Preparation (General Accounting): Perform daily accounting activities such as transactions booking, payments, reconciliations and controls.
2. Monthly Closings: Perform closings and reconciliations in collaboration with our Accounting Manager and our outsourced accountants (Spain, Germany, Netherlands). Ensure tasks are completed efficiently and on time.
3. Supplier Invoice Management: Oversee supplier invoices, ensuring timely payments, accurate analytic allocation, and reconciliated supplier accounts.
4. Client Receivables Management: Monitor our receivables and setup actionable recovery plans in link with our accounting apprentice to optimize our DSO.
5. Accounting Policies and Controls: Setup high level checks to assess our accounting performance. Work with the Finance team to ensure that accounting policies, procedures, and controls are documented and up to date
   

Additional responsibilities:

• Strategic Accounting Projects: Contribute to strategic accounting projects, such as: implementing an ERP software, improving our strategic processes like Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash.
• Finance Function Scalability: Assist in building a scalable and efficient Accounting Function. Drive continuous improvement of the Company’s accounting operations, including the development and execution of policies, procedures, and accounting system changes.
• Collaboration with Finance Team & Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with the Finance team to provide analysis and key insights into monthly results. Nurture relationships with our external accountants and other partners.

Preferred experience

✨ You’re a great match if:

• You have 3-5 Years of experience, ideally having worked in an accounting firm (start-up experience is a plus, but not necessary).
• You're rigorous and organized: your approach is meticulous, with a keen attention to detail in all aspects of your work.
• You’re autonomous and proactive: you know how to manage your priorities and are able to adapt to changing conditions.
• You embrace challenges: you're enthusiastic about tackling complex tasks and thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
• You’re tech-savvy: you're already proficient or willing to become proficient with modern accounting tools. You like technology and automation.
• You have advanced Excel and Google Suite skills: you're adept at using these tools to manipulate data and create detailed reports.
• You're fluent in English: You possess at least a B2 level in English, enabling effective communication in our international environment.

Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief.

When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area.

About Swan

✨ Perks of being a Swanee:

• Hybrid remote policy: We offer the possibility of working from home for 2 days per week.
• The best health insurance: Alan 🦭
• Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib.
• We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days. 🥪
• Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax.
• This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.

✨ Our values:

Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

Simplicity: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

Long Term: We always play the long game, whether it's to support our partners in their growth journey, or make tangible commitments to climate action.

Excellence: We are a team of experts who consistently go all out to create pixel-perfect banking services and exceed our partners' expectations— whatever it takes.

Be Human: We believe in the power of kindness and the importance of acting with integrity. But embracing our humanity extends beyond interpersonal interactions, it means caring about greater issues that affect our planet.

You can find out more about our culture.

Recruitment process

• A 30-min video call with our Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions
• An interview with François, our Finance Lead
• A case study to prepare at home
• An interview with our VP Finance and Accountant to debrief the case study
• An interview with our Deputy CEO