About this role
Job Description:
Accounting & Books Closure
- Own the month-end, quarter-end and year-end close across multiple entities, delivering accurate books within agreed monthly closure deadlines.
- Prepare and review journal entries, accruals, prepayments, provisions and intercompany transactions.
- Manage multi-currency accounting, including FX revaluation, translation and consolidation into group reporting currency.
- Prepare the consolidation of books of account across group entities, including intercompany eliminations, and deliver consolidated financial statements.
- Maintain a clean, well-documented general ledger and close checklist, and continuously improve the close timeline.
Reconciliations
- Perform bank, intercompany, balance sheet and payment-platform reconciliations across entities and currencies.
- Investigate and resolve reconciling items promptly, escalating issues with clear analysis.
Treasury
- Support daily cash positioning and liquidity monitoring across bank accounts, entities and regions.
- Prepare short-term cash flow forecasts and coordinate intercompany funding and fund movements.
- Monitor FX exposure and support decisions on currency conversions and payments.
Financial Projections & Analysis
- Build and maintain financial projections, and support budgeting and forecasting with the FP&A team.
- Analyse results against budget and prior periods, explaining key movements to management.
Stakeholder Management & Compliance
- Work with global stakeholders across finance, operations, product, and external partners in multiple time zones.
- Support statutory audits, tax filings and regulatory reporting, preparing schedules and responding to auditor queries.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen controls and automate manual accounting processes.
Job Specification:
- Qualification: CA Inter or MBA (Finance).
- Experience: 3–5 years in accounting, with hands-on ownership of books closure.
- Multi-entity and multi-currency accounting, including intercompany transactions and consolidation.
- Treasury experience, including cash management, cash flow forecasting and FX.
- Reconciliation experience across bank, intercompany and balance sheet accounts.
- Financial projections: experience building forecasts and supporting budgeting.
- Global exposure: experience working with international teams, entities or stakeholders.
- Delivery: a proven track record of meeting monthly closure deadlines consistently.
- Tools: strong Excel / Google Sheets skills and experience with accounting or ERP software.
Skills & Attributes
- Analytical mindset: comfortable working with data to find the story behind the numbers.
- Eye for detail: takes pride in accuracy and in getting things right the first time.
- Team player: collaborative, supportive and willing to step in when the team needs it.
- Clear communicator: able to explain accounting matters to non-finance stakeholders.
- Ownership: organised, dependable and able to manage priorities under deadline pressure.
Why Join Wahed
At Wahed, you will help build the financial backbone of a fast-growing global fintech with a clear ethical purpose. You will gain broad exposure across entities, currencies and markets, work alongside a collaborative international team, and see the direct impact of your work on how we serve our customers.