Senior IFRS Reporting & Consolidation Lead

Astra Tech Group; Dubai Emirate; On-site; AED 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Astra Tech Group Dubai seeks a senior accounting professional to own complex IFRS reporting, consolidation, and close. You will interact with auditors, manage tax, VAT, and regulatory inputs, and drive process improvements across the finance function.

You will act as the IFRS authority across lending, payments and remittance products, ensuring accurate financial statements and robust controls, with a hands-on, detail-focused approach in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of accounting experience, including financial close, IFRS reporting and group consolidation, with at least 3 years in a controllership or financial reporting role.
• Hands-on experience managing an external audit end to end.
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, including IFRS 9 in a lending context.
• Oracle Fusion (or a comparable tier-one ERP), advanced Excel and AI (Claude) exposure.
• Experience in banking, lending, payments or fintech.
• Detail-oriented and a clear writer, comfortable challenging the business with evidence in a fast-moving environment.

Responsibilities

• Run the monthly close to 3rd Calendar Day, owning the close checklist, cut-off and accruals, and prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations.
• Prepare annual IFRS financial statements and disclosure notes for each entity, and assemble a complete, audit-ready file (supporting schedules, reconciliations, memos).
• Produce monthly management packs with key metrics and explain variances and trends to management and the Board/investor reporting cycle.
• Act as the day-to-day lead for the external audit: plan the timetable with the auditors, manage the PBC list, resolve queries and drive the audit to sign-off on time.
• Coordinate internal audit requests and track remediation of findings to closure.
• Draft accounting position papers and assess the impact of new standards, with particular focus on IFRS 9 (classification, ECL on loan books), IFRS 15 (revenue for payments and remittance, gross vs net presentation) and IFRS 16.
• Manage group consolidation, including elimination entries, currency translation and minority interests, and reconcile intercompany balances monthly.
• Own key financial controls: journal approval, reconciliations, segregation of duties and ERP access.
• Document and maintain accounting policies, SOPs and process narratives, and remediate audit findings on time.
• Prepare VAT returns, support Corporate Tax and Pillar Two computations, and prepare financial inputs to CBUAE regulatory returns and licence-holder submissions, ensuring reconciliation back to the ledger.
• Act as finance key user for Oracle Fusion, owning the chart of accounts, period controls and close configuration.
• Review current finance processes and propose and implement improvements, with a focus on shortening the close.
• Automate reconciliations, reporting and dashboards.
• Drive Agentic AI automation of processes across the month end close process.

Skills

IFRS knowledge

External audit management

Advanced Excel

Oracle Fusion knowledge

AI (Claude) exposure

Banking/fintech experience

Detail-oriented writer

Controllership experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; ACCA/CA/CPA or equivalent

Tools

Oracle Fusion

Claude AI

Tier-one ERP

Job description

Astra Tech Group Dubai seeks a senior accounting professional to own complex IFRS reporting, consolidation, and close. You will interact with auditors, manage tax, VAT, and regulatory inputs, and drive process improvements across the finance function.

You will act as the IFRS authority across lending, payments and remittance products, ensuring accurate financial statements and robust controls, with a hands-on, detail-focused approach in a fast-paced environment.