Ekaterina Yachmeneva

Location: Riga, Latvia
Employment: Full-time
Compensation: Up to €2,500 gross/month
Experience: 1–3 years in billing, accounts receivable, or finance operations

We’re supporting a fast-growing international company in hiring a Billing & AR Accountant to join their finance team in Riga.

This role sits at the intersection of client billing, accounts receivable management, and accounting operations. The successful candidate will take ownership of the invoicing process across multiple entities and customers, ensuring that commercial agreements, pricing structures, VAT treatment, and revenue recognition are correctly reflected in the accounting system.The position combines hands-on operational work with contracts and billing data, while also providing exposure to finance process improvements and ERP implementation initiatives.

What You’ll Do

Billing & Accounts Receivable Operations

• Own the end-to-end invoicing process across multiple entities and customers, including preparation of monthly and ad-hoc invoices.
• Ensure all billing calculations accurately reflect commercial agreements, pricing structures, and contract updates.
• Monitor incoming client payments on a daily basis and resolve discrepancies in coordination with Account Managers, banks, or clients.
• Manage accounts receivable control, including overdue reminders and adherence to internal payment and debt collection policies.

Commercial Agreements & Billing Accuracy

• Read and interpret commercial agreements to ensure contract terms and pricing conditions are correctly reflected in the invoicing system.
• Participate in monthly meetings with Account Managers to review commercial updates, pricing changes, and new services.
• Collaborate with Legal and Commercial teams when clarification of contract terms or billing logic is required.

AR Accounting & Financial Accuracy

• Ensure correct VAT treatment across different entities where applicable.
• Support the proper accounting treatment of revenue, deposits, VAT, and accounts receivable.
• Contribute to AR-related accounting entries in the ERP system, including invoices, deposits, payments, and credit notes.
• Participate in AR analysis and preparation of internal AR reports.

Systems & Process Improvements

• Support improvements in billing processes and internal financial systems.
• Contribute to ERP implementation and migration initiatives, helping ensure billing data is accurately transferred and structured.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in billing, accounts receivable, or similar finance operations roles.
• Good understanding of accounting entries and financial concepts (revenue, deposits, VAT, AR).
• Ability to interpret commercial agreements and pricing structures.
• Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail.
• Upper-Intermediate or Advanced English.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Why Join?

• Opportunity to work in an international and fast-growing company with a modern finance team.
• Hands-on role combining billing operations, accounting, and commercial contract understanding.
• Exposure to ERP implementation and finance process transformation projects.
• Hybrid work model in Riga with collaboration across finance, commercial, and legal teams.
• Competitive compensation of up to €2,500 gross/month, depending on experience.

Location: Riga, Latvia (hybrid)
Product: Payments / Acquiring (EMI journey, new company & product)
Seniority: Executive / Technology Leadership
Employment: Part-time / Full-time
Compensation:
Part-time €3,000–4,000 net/month
Full-time: €6,000–8,000 net/month
Experience: Proven hands-on background in payments processing & acquiring

We’re supporting a newly established fintech company in Latvia in hiring a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to lead the end-to-end technology strategy and execution for a new acquiring-focused payments product.

This role sits at the core of the business: the company is building a next-generation acquiring platform that combines EMI capabilities, payment processing, and a modern payment gateway. The CTO will shape the full technology foundation – architecture, vendor ecosystem, engineering culture, scalability, and operational reliability.

This position is ideal for a hands-on engineering leader who understands the commercial, technical, and compliance demands of the payments industry and is ready to build the product and the team from the ground up.

What You’ll Do

Technology Strategy & Architecture

• Define and execute the technology strategy aligned with product goals, regulatory expectations, and long-term scalability.
• Own the architecture for payment processing and acquiring, including security, reliability, performance, and data integrity.
• Establish engineering standards: SDLC, code quality, testing frameworks, documentation, and release processes.

Payments & Scheme Integrations (Core Focus)

• Lead and, when necessary, directly implement integrations with Visa, Mastercard, and other payment rails.
• Own integrations with external vendors: KYC/AML providers, PSP/processing partners, fraud systems, monitoring tools, etc.
• Ensure robustness across all payment workflows—authorisation, capture, settlement, refunds, chargebacks, reconciliation, reporting.

Product & Delivery Leadership

• Work closely with founders and business stakeholders on shaping the product roadmap and delivery priorities.
• Translate product requirements into scalable and compliant technical solutions.
• Drive a culture of ownership, fast iteration, and disciplined engineering execution.

Engineering Management & Team Building

• Lead and scale the engineering team: hiring, onboarding, mentorship, performance management, and career development.
• Build an engineering culture that balances speed with security, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
• Implement clear delivery processes and accountability structure across the tech organisation.

Security, Reliability & Compliance Readiness

• Ensure the platform meets security and compliance expectations relevant to payments and EMI environments.
• Drive best practices in encryption, secure key management, access control, monitoring, auditing, and incident response.
• Support external audits and security reviews, including scheme requirements.

Technology Operations & Service Management

• Own platform availability and resilience, including redundancy, failover, DR planning, and operational continuity.
• Define and run incident management processes with on-call rotation, escalation paths, and severity handling.
• Monitor and optimise performance KPIs: authorisation latency, throughput, error rates.
• Ensure full observability across transaction and system flows—monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards.
• Meet scheme operational requirements and any mandatory reporting obligations.

Technology Stack

• Core languages: PHP, Go
• APIs: Node.js (TypeScript)
• Protocols: REST APIs, gRPC
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS RDS & Aurora, data modelling, performance optimisation
• Messaging / Events: Kafka or RabbitMQ (event-driven payment flows)
• Caching & asynchronous processing
• Cloud: AWS (infrastructure design, scaling)
• Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (required)
• IaC: Terraform
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions / GitLab CI with automated testing pipelines
• Observability: Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Sentry (or equivalents)

What You Bring

• Proven hands-on experience building payments processing, acquiring platforms, or payment infrastructure(not just e-commerce integrations).
• Direct experience with payment scheme integrations (Visa/Mastercard) or closely related transactional rails.
• Strong engineering background with ability to dive deep technically when needed.
• Experience leading engineering teams and delivering complex products in fast-paced environments.
• Ability to balance strategic architectural thinking with practical execution—especially around integrations, vendor management, and operational readiness.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• “Builder” mindset — comfortable operating in a new company with a greenfield product.

Why Join?

• Part-time or full-time executive role with €3,000–4,000 net/month (part-time) or €6,000–8,000 net/month (full-time), depending on experience. 
• High-impact leadership position shaping the architecture, product, and engineering organisation from day one.
• Opportunity to build a next-generation payments/acquiring platform from the ground up.
• Close collaboration with founders, product, operations, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Fast-moving, modern environment where technology sits at the centre of the business.
• Real ownership and influence over long-term scalability, performance, and technical excellence.

Location: Riga, Latvia (hybrid)
Regulatory Status: Electronic Money Institution (EMI), Bank of Latvia
Seniority: Executive / Key Function Holder
Employment: Part-time / Full-time
Compensation:
Part-time €3,000–4,000 net/month
Full-time: €6,000–8,000 net/month
Focus: AML/CFT for acquiring-focused EMI

We’re supporting a newly established fintech company in Latvia in hiring a Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) – a key function holder responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the full AML/CFT framework as the company progresses through the Electronic Money Institution (EMI) licensing process with the Bank of Latvia.

This is a high-impact leadership role ideal for someone who is comfortable building compliance frameworks from scratch, working closely with regulators, and operating in a fast-moving environment. The MLRO will play a central role during the pre-license phase and transition into a full-time position once the EMI license is granted, scaling the AML function in line with the growth of a new acquiring-focused payments business.

What You’ll Do

AML/CFT Strategy & Framework Design

• Build a comprehensive AML/CFT framework from the ground up, aligned with Bank of Latvia regulations, EU AML Directives, and FATF standards.
• Develop and maintain AML policies, procedures, risk assessments, and control frameworks tailored for an EMI with acquiring activities.
• Ensure AML processes are embedded into product design, merchant onboarding, transaction monitoring, and operational workflows from day one.

Regulatory & Reporting Responsibilities

• Act as the officially approved MLRO and primary point of contact for the Bank of Latvia on AML/CFT matters.
• Prepare and maintain documentation required for the EMI license application and ongoing supervision.
• Oversee suspicious activity monitoring and ensure timely reporting to relevant authorities.
• Lead regulatory audits, inspections, and ongoing supervisory communications.

Operational Oversight

• Oversee customer and merchant due diligence, including CDD, EDD, PEP, sanctions, and adverse media screening.
• Define and supervise transaction monitoring rules, escalation processes, and case management workflows.
• Ensure effective record-keeping, data protection, and audit trails in line with regulatory requirements.

Team Building & Leadership

• Build and lead the AML/compliance function as the company scales.
• Define roles, responsibilities, reporting lines, and performance expectations.
• Cultivate a strong internal compliance culture through training, guidance, and day-to-day cooperation with business teams.

Business Partnership

• Advise founders and senior leadership on AML/CFT risk, regulatory expectations, and risk-based decision-making.
• Balance regulatory requirements with commercial realities in a growing acquiring business.
• Contribute to building a sustainable, regulator-ready organisation during an early and transformative stage.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience as an MLRO or senior AML professional within payments, acquiring, fintech, or other regulated financial institutions.
• Proven experience working with EMI, PSP, or acquiring-focused companies.
• Hands-on experience building AML frameworks and operational processes from scratch.
• Strong understanding of EU AML/CFT regulations, risk-based approaches, and financial crime controls.
• Experience working with regulators and participating in licensing or supervisory processes.
• Ability to operate effectively in early-stage environments with limited structure.
• Languages: Fluent English and Latvian.
• Mindset: hands-on, pragmatic, proactive — a true starter and doer.

Why Join?

• Part-time engagement with €3,000–4,000 net/month.
• Full-time role with €6,000–8,000 net/month.
• Opportunity to build the AML function from the ground up in a newly licensed EMI.
• Direct influence on product design, risk strategy, and regulatory posture.
• Close collaboration with founders in a fast-moving, decision-driven environment.
• Long-term leadership role in an acquiring-focused fintech with international growth ambitions.
• A rare chance to define compliance culture in a company where it truly matters.

Location: Riga, Latvia
Employment: Full-time
Languages: English (must), Latvian or Russian (preferred)

We’re supporting an international company in strengthening its Finance team with a Payroll Specialist who will take ownership of payroll operations across multiple jurisdictions (EU and non-EU).

This is a structured, detail-driven role for someone who understands payroll mechanics beyond basic calculations – someone who can validate data, coordinate with HR and external payroll providers, ensure compliance, and contribute to process optimization and automation initiatives.

If you’re comfortable working with confidential data, strict deadlines, and multi-country environments – this role offers both stability and professional growth.

What You’ll Do

Payroll Operations & Control

• Validate payroll-related data received from HR (employment changes, compensation updates)
• Review payslips and payroll reports prepared by external payroll advisors
• Ensure accurate monthly calculation of salaries, bonuses, sick leave, and vacation pay
• Monitor timely payroll payments, including taxes and social security contributions
• Prepare final payroll calculations for employee terminations
• Record payroll-related entries (salaries, bonuses, taxes, contributions) in the ERP system
• Maintain payroll documentation and ensure confidentiality and compliance

Collaboration & Support

• Work closely with HR and Finance teams across jurisdictions
• Handle payroll-related queries from employees and internal stakeholders
• Support monthly Finance onboarding processes for newcomers
• Assist in internal payroll audits and reviews

Process Improvement & Automation

• Participate in standardization and optimization of payroll processes
• Regularly update payroll policies and internal guidelines
• Support automation initiatives and workflow improvements
• Strengthen internal controls and data accuracy practices

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Audit
• 2–4 years of payroll experience
• Strong understanding of payroll processes, taxes, and statutory contributions
• Experience working with external payroll providers and HR teams
• Multi-country payroll experience is a strong advantage
• English at Upper-Intermediate or Advanced level
• High attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to manage deadlines and sensitive information
• Proactive mindset and strong communication skills

Why Join?

• Comprehensive health insurance
• 100% paid sick leave
• 20 paid vacation days + 6 additional days for important life events
• Continuous learning and professional development opportunities
• Language courses to support multilingual communication
• International, dynamic team environment
• Corporate events and team-building activities
• Top-quality hardware and equipment
• Welfare support program in critical situations
• Thoughtful milestone gifts (marriage, parenthood, and more)

Location: Riga, Latvia + business trips
Employment: Full time or project based
Languages: English (must), Latvian or Russian (preferred)
Application requirement: CV + Portfolio

A fast-growing international luxury real estate developer with headquarters in Dubai — delivering iconic, branded luxury projects in collaboration with big luxury brands— is expanding its creative team in Latvia. The company specializes in signature architectural concepts, ultra-premium residential properties, and globally recognized landmark developments across the UAE, Europe, and India.

To support the growing portfolio of high-end projects, we are seeking an experienced Interior Designer — someone who understands premium materials, refined aesthetics, brand alignment, and the expectations of UHNW clients. This is not a mass-market role. We are looking for a designer with proven experience delivering sophisticated, high-budget, detail-driven interiors.

What You’ll Do

• Develop interior design concepts for luxury residential and branded real estate projects (UAE, Italy, India)
• Translate architectural vision into refined interior solutions aligned with brand identity and positioning
• Create mood boards, space planning solutions, material selections, FF&E specifications
• Prepare design presentations for clients and senior leadership
• Coordinate with architects, engineering teams, suppliers, and contractors
• Oversee implementation to ensure design integrity and execution quality
• Source premium materials, custom furniture, and bespoke design elements
• Participate in site visits and supervise realization of interiors internationally

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in interior design, with a strong background in high-end / luxury projects
• Strong portfolio demonstrating high-end residential, hospitality, or branded real estate projects
• Deep understanding of luxury materials, custom furniture, lighting design, and detailing
• Experience working with international clients or premium brands
• Strong sense of aesthetics, composition, and spatial balance
• Proficiency in design tools (AutoCAD, 3D visualization software, Adobe Suite, etc.)
• Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders
• Fluent English (working language for international projects)
• Highly detail-oriented, structured, and comfortable in a fast-paced international environment

Important: Please attach your portfolio together with your CV. Applications without a portfolio will not be considered.

Why Join?

• Work on landmark branded developments with global visibility
• Be part of ultra-luxury real estate projects in Dubai and international markets
• Collaborate with world-class architects, designers, and engineering teams
• Join a rapidly expanding international developer
• Influence the aesthetic identity of iconic, globally recognized properties

Interested? Let’s talk. Reach out and we’ll share more about the company, the setup, and next steps.