Controllership Specialist - Regulatory

Job description

# **About Nu** Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 140 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. Visit our [Institutional Page](https://www.nu.com/2026-en) ## ***About the Role*** We are looking for a professional to join the **Regulatory & Accounting Specifications (RAS)** team, which is responsible for translating new products, features, and regulatory changes into clear, auditable, and implementable accounting and regulatory definitions. This role covers the process from the initial assessment of a product or feature through implementation, testing, and delivery of specifications to partner teams. It is an opportunity to work at the intersection of Controllership, Product, Engineering, financial platforms, R2R, Tax, and regulatory teams. ## ***You’ll be Responsible for*** - Assess the accounting feasibility and regulatory requirements of new products and features. - Identify impacts on accounting accounts, financial flows, entities, events, systems, and regulatory reports. - Define and document the end-to-end accounting flow, including events, debits, credits, recognition timing, and integrations. - Prepare and maintain Accounting Specifications, Rulebooks, scenario simulations, Accounting Memos, and decision records. - Define, request, or review accounting accounts and their mappings when necessary. - Assess impacts on regulatory reports and support the definition of the required logic, data, and controls. - Participate in accounting tests and validate consistency across product transactions, the ledger, the ERP, and regulatory reports. - Identify accounting, regulatory, audit, and implementation risks that may affect product launches. - Work with Product, Engineering, Finance Platform, R2R, FAR, GPA, Tax, FP&A, Legal, and other partner teams to resolve questions and dependencies. - Follow up on automation gaps and technical debt, ensuring that any manual activities have appropriate documentation, data, and controls. - Maintain complete, traceable, and up-to-date documentation throughout the product lifecycle. - Support audit inquiries and requests from regulatory authorities related to specifications owned by the team. ## ***What We're Looking For Someone Who Has*** - Experience in accounting, controllership, financial products, regulatory reporting, or related areas. - Knowledge of applicable accounting principles, including IFRS and/or Brazilian GAAP. - Ability to interpret operations and translate them into accounting rules, data flows, and implementation requirements. - Strong written and verbal communication in English - Analytical mindset, with strong attention to detail and the ability to investigate complex scenarios. - Strong written and verbal communication skills to document decisions and align with technical and business teams. - Ability to work autonomously, organize priorities, and drive topics end to end. - Interest or experience working with systems, data, ledgers, ERPs, automation, and accounting close processes. - Ability to collaborate in a multidisciplinary and fast-changing environment. ## ***Work Setup*** ***Location*** *Sao Paulo, Brazil* ***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 ***Office requirement*** *2 days per week at the office.* ## ***Our 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.