Head of Financial Control
Join us in the start of an exciting journey!
Malta | hybrid working environment
Weavr is the easiest way for businesses, and the safest way for banks, to embed relevant financial services into software at the point of need. Founded by serial entrepreneurs who are leaders in the fields of payments and fintech, we’re a team of 100+ can-do builders who are at the frontier of the embedded-finance industry.
The team is characterised by smart, kind and high-performing experts who offer and ask for respect, openness and trust. Weavr is still small enough to feel tight-knit but operates and communicates at the level of a more mature organisation.
This role & opportunity
As the Head of Financial Control in Malta at Weavr, you will play a pivotal senior role with a direct reporting line to the Group Chief Financial Officer. Your primary responsibility will be overseeing the smooth and efficient operation of financial activities, including the oversight of regulated activities in the European Economic Area watching as the direct contact for the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA). This crucial aspect of your role directly contributes to Weavr's ability to meet its overarching strategic direction and vision.
Operating from our Malta office, you will work closely with the Board of Directors of Weavr (Europe) Ltd to ensure compliance with MFSA, fulfilling audit requirements, directly impacting Weavr's success and its ability to maintain its position as a leader in the industry.
Additionally, you will collaborate with the Head of Financial Control for Weavr Limited in the UK. Your leadership will extend to a small team, fostering cross-functional collaboration to meet both departmental and broader business finance demands.
This role embodies a blend of strategic direction, team leadership, and financial oversight that is essential to our continued growth and achievement of our vision.
Responsibilities
The Head of Financial Control will lead all internal finance and accounting operations and will have the following responsibilities:
Financial Management & Strategy:
Oversee company finances, ensuring efficient financial management.
Assist in strategic planning, budgeting, and achieving financial objectives.
Monitor performance, advise on policies, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
Collaborate on financial proposals and align priorities with executives.
Reporting & Compliance:
Prepare accurate financial reports and ensure compliance with regulations.
Enhance financial controls, safeguard internal systems, and address risks.
Promote operational efficiency through system development.
External Relationships:
Build and maintain relationships with advisors, auditors, bankers, and consultants.
Team Management:
Lead and collaborate with internal stakeholders to achieve goals.
Recruit, train, and manage employees, fostering a positive culture.
About You
The section below describes our "ideal candidate." However, our hiring process places a strong emphasis on aptitude and passion. If you haven't used every specific tool or haven't met all the skill and experience criteria listed, please don't let that discourage you from applying. We highly value potential and dedication over a rigid checklist of qualifications. The one essential requirement is an Accountant with prior regulatory approval (PQ’d through the MFSA) with experience in payments, card schemes, or financial services.
Leadership and Team Management: Successful team leader with adaptive leadership style.
Financial Expertise: Strong financial and analytical skills.
Adaptability and Pressure Handling: Ability to navigate ambiguity and operate under pressure.
Finance Function Management: Experienced in leading a finance function for high performance.
Training and Coaching: Proficient in training and coaching team members within the finance department.
What’s in it for you
Competitive Remuneration package including salary, performance bonus and stock options
A hybrid flexible working environment
Private health insurance
Hardware
Commitment to equal opportunity, diversity & inclusion
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability. We are a diverse and inclusive team, and we actively seek to recruit people with different backgrounds and experiences.
More about Weavr
Since our inception in late 2020, our innovative approach has garnered substantial support, including a US$40 million Series A led by Tiger Global in 2022, and multiple industry awards. Join us on our mission to make embedding financial services easy and secure for businesses and banks alike. Together, we’ll create a future where finance is seamlessly woven into the digital fabric of everyday life.
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- Naxxar, Malta
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Remote Status
- Hybrid
Colleagues
Naxxar, Malta
Perks & Benefits
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Attractive remuneration package
The financial package includes pension contribution, opportunity for employee equity options (depending on the role), and by conducting annual salary reviews.
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Flexible Work Arrangements
We believe that trust and flexibility go hand in hand. Employees have the freedom to balance work and life and therefore, choose the working hours that best suit their personal life. We do not focus on hours worked but on results.
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Private Health Care
We care for our employees' wellbeing and want them to all have easy access to health professionals whenever needed. All employees in the UK and Malta benefit from a health care cover.
Workplace & culture
We are unashamedly geeky. We prefer smart to big. We don’t see borders and barriers; we see connections and bridges. We are dedicated to helping ‘makers’ or all size or stripe succeed. The community of makers that we’re empowering is big and diverse, so there's a place for all types in our team – but it’s a team. What matters are our values: create value through simplification, be accessible and collaborative, and be open to change. That’s as true of our products as it is of how we work.
We're a team that supports one another, that encourages individuality and creative ideas. Working at Weavr is more than a place to work.
About Weavr
Digital innovators of all kinds need to create, deploy and integrate frictionless payment flows in their products, applications and systems.
Today, there are ever more payment networks and systems to choose from or to support, and payment infrastructure has never been so open and API-enabled as it is today. However, the security and compliance burden has also increased, as has the complexity that comes with most power, choice and responsibility.
Weavr addresses these challenges in practical ways, simplifying how digital payments are purchased, delivered and consumed. With Weavr, building complex payment flows seems unreasonably simple. There’s no catch - Weavr is based on the results of an ambitious EU-Horizon 2020 funded research project that set to develop engineering solutions to the difficult problems of guaranteeing security and compliance while providing maximum openness and power to developers, and to simplify the creation of complex payment logic through model-driven engineering techniques.
Head of Financial Control
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