Financial Operations Lead

We're excited to be partnering with a leading institution in the UAE that is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organization from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to join at an early stage and help shape the operational, financial, and control foundations of a business with significant institutional backing and long-term ambition. If you're passionate about financial operations, accounting excellence, and building scalable control frameworks, we'd love to hear from you.

• Lead day-to-day general ledger and journal processing, ensuring transactions are recorded accurately and on time.
• Execute accounting close activities and deliver complete, substantiated ledger balances for financial reporting.
• Own reconciliations across bank, nostro, suspense, and control accounts, ensuring timely resolution of exceptions.
• Manage finance-initiated payments, including vendor, payroll, tax, and treasury settlements, within a strong control framework.
• Maintain accounting controls, procedures, documentation, and audit trails to support a robust financial control environment.
• Build and develop the accounting operations team while implementing automation and AI-enabled reconciliation capabilities.

• 8+ years of experience in accounting operations, general ledger, reconciliations, or finance operations within banking or financial services, including team leadership experience.
• Strong expertise in general ledger management, journals, reconciliations, payments controls, and financial close processes.
• Proven experience building accounting operations processes and controls within a regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of IFRS and financial control requirements within banking or financial services.
• Experience with automation, advanced analytics, or AI-enabled reconciliation and exception management solutions.
• Professional accounting qualifications such as ACA, ACCA, or CPA are highly desirable.