Lead Financial Reporting

Summary

Join Careem's finance team in Karachi as a Lead – Financial Reporting. This role involves managing cost and expense accounting, ensuring accurate financial statement verification, and overseeing timely month-end close and reporting. The ideal candidate has strong technical accounting expertise, process improvement skills, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. Responsibilities include cost and expense accounting, financial closing and reporting, reconciliations and controls, reporting and analytics, and process improvement and automation. A bachelor's or master's degree in accounting or finance, along with relevant experience, is required. The position offers a hybrid work model, healthcare benefits, fitness reimbursements, and opportunities for professional growth.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field
• 3–4 years in accounting or finance, with a strong focus on cost and expense accounting, preferably in a tech, fintech, or fast-paced environment
• In-depth understanding of IFRS/GAAP, accrual accounting, and financial reporting requirements
• Extensive experience with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday Financials, NetSuite) and advanced proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets
• Strong problem-solving abilities and adaptability in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner effectively with business finance, FP&A, and senior leadership
• Detail-oriented with a strong sense of ownership and accountability

Responsibilities

• Own and manage cost and expense accounting, ensuring accurate and timely recognition of expenses in accordance with IFRS/GAAP
• Validate and reconcile cost and expense accruals, prepayments, and amortizations
• Partner with business finance teams to ensure proper cost allocations and recharges across departments
• Analyze cost trends and variances to ensure completeness and accuracy of expense recognition
• Lead the month-end and quarter-end closing, ensuring timely completion of all key deliverables
• Prepare and review expense-related journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting documentation
• Ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance of financial statements with accounting policies and internal controls
• Collaborate with FP&A and business finance teams to validate financial results and variance explanations
• Perform balance sheet reconciliations for expense-related accounts (e.g., accruals, prepayments, intercompany costs)
• Identify and resolve discrepancies, ensuring proper documentation and accounting treatment
• Strengthen financial controls and governance around expense accounting and reporting
• Ensure compliance with SOX/internal audit requirements and maintain appropriate documentation
• Prepare expense-related financial reporting decks and presentations for senior leadership
• Provide insights and analysis on cost trends, variances, and opportunities for optimization
• Support ad-hoc financial analysis and projects to improve cost efficiency and transparency
• Identify and drive process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and scalability in expense accounting and reporting
• Work with cross-functional teams to automate manual accounting processes using ERP, data analytics, and finance automation tools
• Support system enhancements, upgrades, and automation initiatives related to financial close and reporting

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, ACCA, ACA, CMA, or an equivalent professional certification
• Familiarity with financial automation, analytics, and process improvement tools (e.g., SQL, Python, Power BI, Tableau)
• Prior experience with SOX compliance and internal controls

Benefits

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes