Lean Technologies
Finance Integration Lead (6-month Fixed Term Contract)
- Contract
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
Job expiry date: 08/04/2026
Job overview
Date posted
22/02/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Job description
The Finance Integration Lead (6-month FTC) based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, will support a defined finance integration initiative across a group of international entities within Lean, a rapidly scaling fintech infrastructure company operating across MENA in payments, data, and lending. The role is execution-focused and highly hands-on, tasked with stabilising financial records, migrating accounting systems, and aligning finance processes before handing ownership back to Lean’s ongoing finance leadership. Lean has tripled in size over the past twelve months and is expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building new capabilities as a multi-product infrastructure company. The Finance Integration Lead will lead a defined finance integration workstream across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, review, clean up, and stabilise historical and current financial records, and re-map charts of accounts to align with Lean’s group General Ledger (GL) structure. The role includes migrating financial data from multiple legacy accounting systems including Zoho Books, QuickBooks, and crypto-native accounting tools into Wafeq, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and auditability. Responsibilities extend to managing month-end and year-end close, preparing and reviewing management accounts, reconciliations, and supporting schedules, aligning accounting policies with group standards, and resolving historical accounting gaps. The role also covers tax registrations and compliance across jurisdictions including corporate tax, VAT/GST, and withholding taxes, coordinating statutory submissions, working with external tax advisors, and identifying historical tax risks. Additionally, the position oversees statutory audits, acts as primary contact for external auditors, manages audit timelines, supports IFRS or relevant local GAAP compliance, and supervises finance operations including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, expense management, and payroll coordination. The role requires implementation of appropriate controls, approval workflows, and documentation, alignment of reporting processes into a consistent operating model, stakeholder management, and structured handover to the BAU finance team at the end of the contract period.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead a defined finance integration workstream across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions, stabilising financial records and aligning finance processes within a fixed 6-month timeframe.
- Review, clean up, and stabilise historical and current financial records, and re-map charts of accounts to align with Lean’s group General Ledger (GL) structure.
- Migrate financial data from legacy accounting systems including Zoho Books, QuickBooks, and crypto-native accounting tools into Wafeq, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and auditability.
- Manage month-end and year-end close processes for in-scope entities, prepare and review management accounts, reconciliations, and supporting schedules, and align accounting policies with group standards under IFRS or relevant local GAAP.
- Review tax registrations and ensure compliance with corporate tax, VAT/GST, and withholding tax requirements across multiple jurisdictions, coordinating timely tax filings and statutory submissions.
- Coordinate and oversee statutory audits across multiple entities and jurisdictions, act as primary finance contact for external auditors, and manage audit timelines and deliverables.
- Oversee day-to-day finance operations including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, expense management, and payroll coordination during the transition period.
- Implement appropriate controls, approval workflows, and documentation, align reporting processes into a consistent operating model, provide progress updates to stakeholders, and ensure structured handover to the BAU finance team.
Experience & skills
- Demonstrate 10+ years of experience in finance, accounting, or financial operations with proven delivery of multi-entity or cross-border finance integrations or transformations.
- Exhibit strong hands-on experience with General Ledger (GL) clean-ups, chart of accounts alignment, and accounting systems migration across platforms such as QuickBooks, Zoho Books, Wafeq, NetSuite, or similar.
- Show experience coordinating tax registrations, corporate tax, VAT/GST, withholding tax compliance, and statutory filings across multiple jurisdictions.
- Demonstrate experience managing statutory audits across multiple jurisdictions and acting as primary contact for external auditors.
- Possess strong understanding of IFRS or relevant local GAAP and practical working knowledge of corporate and indirect tax concepts.
- Hold ACA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent professional qualification (preferred).
- Demonstrate exposure to fintech, payments, or crypto-adjacent businesses as an advantage within a high-growth, multi-product infrastructure environment.
- Operate effectively in ambiguous or evolving environments, manage stakeholder relationships, and independently take ownership of integration outcomes within a fixed-term contract.