Finance Integration Lead; FTC

Location

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Full time

Business

Lean is seeking a Finance Integration Lead to support a finance integration initiative across a group of international entities. This role will be focused on stabilising financial records, migrating accounting systems, and aligning finance processes, before handing ownership back to Lean’s ongoing finance leadership.

The role is highly hands-on and execution-focused, suited to a senior finance professional with strong multi-entity and cross-border integration experience, who is comfortable operating in ambiguity and delivering outcomes within a fixed timeframe.

Lean has tripled in size over the past twelve months. We’re on track to triple again next year. What started as the region’s pioneering Open Finance platform is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA. We’re expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building capabilities that didn’t exist here before.

We’ve processed billions of dollars in transactions. We’re trusted by 350+ clients - from Binance and Careem to Etisalat - and backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq. Our $67.5M Series B was just the beginning.

• Lead a defined finance integration workstream across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions.

• Review, clean up, and stabilise historical and current financial records.

• Re-map charts of accounts across entities to align with Lean’s group GL structure.

• Migrate financial data from multiple legacy accounting systems (including Zoho Books, Quick Books, and crypto-native accounting tools) into Wafeq, Lean’s accounting platform.
  Ensure data accuracy, consistency, and auditability throughout the migration process.

• Manage month-end and year-end close activities for in-scope entities during the integration period.

• Prepare and review management accounts, reconciliations, and supporting schedules.

• Align accounting policies and treatments with Lean’s group standards.

• Identify and resolve historical accounting gaps, inconsistencies, or process weaknesses.

• Review tax registrations and ongoing compliance requirements across relevant jurisdictions.

• Ensure appropriate tax registrations are in place (e.g. corporate tax, VAT/GST, withholding taxes where applicable).

• Coordinate the preparation, review, and timely filing of tax returns and statutory submissions.

• Work with external tax advisors to address local and cross-border tax matters.

• Identify historical tax gaps or risks and support remediation as part of the integration.

• Align tax processes, documentation, and compliance calendars with Lean’s group standards.

• Coordinate and oversee statutory audits across multiple entities and jurisdictions.

• Act as the primary finance contact for external auditors during the integration period.

• Manage audit timelines, deliverables, and responses.

• Support compliance with applicable accounting standards and local regulatory requirements.

• Oversee day-to-day finance operations for in-scope entities during the transition period, including:

  • Accounts Payable

  • Accounts Receivable

  • Expense management

  • Payroll coordination

• Support the implementation of appropriate controls, approval workflows, and documentation aligned with Lean standards.

• Align finance and reporting processes into a consistent, documented operating model.

• Work closely with Lean’s finance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Provide regular updates on progress, risks, and key milestones.

• Ensure a structured handover to Lean’s BAU finance team at the conclusion of the contract.

• 10+ years of experience in finance, accounting, or financial operations

• Demonstrated experience delivering multi-entity or cross-border finance integrations or transformations

• Strong hands-on experience with GL clean-ups, chart of accounts alignment, and accounting system migrations

• Experience coordinating tax registrations, filings,…