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Group Financial Controller (Fintech/Crypto)

In short

Group Financial Controller role owning accounting, financial reporting, consolidation, and tax compliance across an international multi-entity group with fintech and crypto-related business lines. The company is a multi-jurisdiction group handling high-volume transactional data, bank/payment provider/exchange reconciliations, and complex intercompany structures. Requires 5+ years of accounting or financial control experience, strong IFRS and multi-entity consolidation knowledge, and practical understanding of Corporate Tax and VAT; fintech, crypto, or UAE experience is a plus. Based in Dubai with onsite, remote, or hybrid work options.

Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates; onsite, remote, or hybrid work format
Company
International multi-entity group operating across several business lines, including fintech and crypto-related activities.
What you will do
•Own accounting and financial reporting across the group's legal entities.
•Manage month-end and year-end closing, reconciliations, financial statements, and consolidation across jurisdictions.
•Coordinate tax compliance, transfer pricing, intercompany transactions, audits, and regulatory reporting.
•Oversee bank, payment provider, exchange, and crypto-related reconciliations.
•Analyze high-volume transactional data, investigate discrepancies and non-standard transactions, and determine appropriate accounting treatment.
•Improve financial systems, controls, and accounting processes, including processes for new entities, products, and transaction types.
Requirements
•5+ years of relevant experience in accounting or financial control.
•Strong experience with multi-entity accounting, consolidation, intercompany transactions, and multiple jurisdictions.
•Practical understanding of IFRS, Corporate Tax, VAT or indirect taxes, and coordination with local tax advisers.
•Experience with reconciliations, financial analysis, high-volume transactional data, complex datasets, auditors, banks, and external advisers.
•Strong Excel and financial systems skills; experience with transfer pricing and international groups is advantageous.
•Strong working proficiency in English; UAE experience is advantageous.
Nice to have
•Experience in fintech, payments, banking, EMI, PSP, or crypto.
•Experience with transfer pricing and international groups.
•UAE accounting or financial control experience.
Culture & Benefits
•Full-time role with onsite, remote, or hybrid work options.
•Independent ownership of group-level accounting, reporting, and financial processes.
•Work in a fast-changing international environment with complex financial structures.
•Opportunity to build processes where no established process exists and work across a broader scope than routine accounting.

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