Financial Controller - Fintech
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Overview
- About the Company
- Our client is a fast-growing financial technology business operating in a transaction-heavy, regulated environment.
- The business has moved quickly from early-stage build into scale-up mode and now requires stronger finance infrastructure, tighter controls and cleaner reporting discipline.
- This is a commercially ambitious, execution-led environment with senior leadership that values ownership, accuracy, speed and practical problem-solving.
- The company is looking for someone who can strengthen the finance function from the inside: not just maintain the books, but improve the way the numbers are produced, reconciled, controlled and reported.
Role Overview
- The Financial Controller will own the core accounting and controllership function across a multi-entity and multi-jurisdiction environment.
- This is a hands-on role responsible for the integrity of the underlying numbers: books, journal entries, reconciliations, close process, controls, tax compliance and month-end reporting.
- The successful candidate will work directly with senior finance leadership, taking ownership of the operational finance engine so leadership can rely on accurate, timely and well-controlled financial information.
- This role is best suited to an A-player who enjoys detail, structure and ownership, and who is comfortable improving a finance function that is still being formalised as the business scales.
Key Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day accounting operations across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
- Manage bookkeeping oversight, journal entries, general ledger integrity and operating expense accounting.
- Lead bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations, transaction reconciliations and multi-currency accounting workflows.
- Build and run a disciplined month-end close process, including close checklists, supporting schedules and reporting packs.
- Ensure financial data is accurate, complete, timely and properly supported.
- Strengthen controls around approvals, documentation, reconciliations, reporting cadence and audit readiness.
- Support external audit, statutory reporting, tax/VAT compliance and regulated entity reporting requirements.
- Partner with finance leadership, operations, compliance and senior management to ensure finance outputs properly reflect business activity.
- Improve data quality, tagging, reporting visibility and the flow of finance information into management reporting.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual accounting, reconciliation and reporting processes.
- Help build, mentor and formalise the finance/accounting team as the organisation grows.
Operating Environment
- High-volume transactional business with multiple reconciliation points.
- Multi-currency activity across several bank accounts, entities and jurisdictions.
- Finance function moving from founder-led/start-up processes into more formalised scale-up controls.
- Some clean-up, process tightening and documentation improvement required.
- Strong appetite for automation, better systems usage and AI-enabled finance workflows.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Approximately 8-15 years of experience across accounting, controllership, finance operations or audit-to-industry finance roles.
- Strong preference for candidates from payments, fintech, financial services, marketplace, remittance, banking, lending, FX, brokerage, trading, SaaS or other high-volume transaction environments.
- Deep experience with reconciliations, month-end close, journal entries, GL ownership, controls and financial reporting.
- Hands-on operating finance experience is essential; this is not a purely review-based, advisory or strategic finance role.
- Strong understanding of IFRS and accounting standards; ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA or equivalent qualification preferred.
- Experience across multi-currency, multi-entity and regulated environments is highly advantageous.
- Naturally precise, structured and control-focused, with a genuine desire to get the books right down to the detail.
- Comfortable in a high-growth environment where processes are still being built and improved.
- Curious about automation, AI and modern finance workflows, with the mindset to make accounting faster, cleaner and more scalable.
What Success Looks Like
- A tighter, cleaner and more reliable month-end close process.
- Clear ownership of underlying numbers across entities, accounts, reconciliations and reporting.
- Improved finance controls, documentation and audit readiness.
- Better visibility across revenue flows, expenses, cash movement and operating financials.
- A scalable accounting function that can support the next stage of company growth.
- Practical automation of manual finance tasks without compromising accuracy or control.
Compensation & Opportunity
- Indicative salary range: AED 35,000 per month, depending on experience and fit.
- Direct exposure to senior finance leadership in a high-growth financial technology business.
- Opportunity to build and own a core finance function rather than inherit a mature corporate machine.
Application Note
- This role is best suited to candidates who are hands-on, precise, resilient and excited by the opportunity to build finance infrastructure in a growing, transaction-heavy business.
- Candidates looking purely for a strategic CFO-track role in the first 6-12 months may not be the right fit. The immediate priority is accounting ownership, clean-up, control, process discipline and execution.
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