Financial Controller
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About the Role
Ezra seeks an experienced Global Financial Controller to lead accounting and financial control across multiple international entities in a fast-scaling cross-border lending business.
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Responsibilities
- Lead global month end, quarter end, and year end close processes across multiple jurisdictions
- Ensure accurate and timely financial reporting under IFRS/local GAAP, focusing on financial instruments and loan portfolio accounting
- Own loan book accounting end to end, including interest income recognition, fee deferral, loan origination, modifications, and derecognition
- Own expected credit loss provisioning under IFRS 9, including staging, model inputs, and governance
- Manage and develop a small international finance team
- Own global audit process and coordinate relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, and regulatory bodies
- Strengthen financial controls, governance frameworks, and risk management practices
- Oversee balance sheet integrity, reconciliations, and accounting policy compliance
- Support lender and debt facility reporting, covenant compliance, and reconciliations between operational lending systems and financial ledger
- Partner with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Credit/Risk, Legal, and business leaders to support strategic decision making
- Drive process improvement, automation, and finance transformation initiatives
- Support M&A, integration projects, and corporate restructuring activities
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline
- Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CA or equivalent)
- 8–12+ years of progressive finance and controllership experience
- Prior experience in lending, consumer/SME credit, fintech lending, banking, or financial services environment with loan book accounting
- Experience managing multi entity, multi currency international operations
- Experience leading financial audits and working with external auditors
- Experience managing and developing finance teams
- Comfortable working in Google Sheets, Oracle ERP
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About The Role
- We are seeking an experienced Global Financial Controller to lead accounting and financial control activities across multiple international entities in a fast scaling, cross border lending business.
- You will own the integrity of our financial reporting, including accounting for a growing, multi currency loan book, while strengthening controls, supporting audits, and driving finance transformation.
- This is a hands on leadership role demanding deep technical accounting expertise, fluency in loan book and financial instrument accounting, and resilience to bring order to a high growth environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the global month end, quarter end, and year end close processes across multiple jurisdictions.
- Ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial reporting under IFRS/local GAAP, with particular rigour around financial instruments and loan portfolio accounting.
- Own the accounting for the loan book end to end, interest income recognition under the effective interest rate method, fee deferral, loan origination accounting, modifications, and derecognition.
- Own expected credit loss provisioning under IFRS 9, staging, model inputs and assumptions, governance of the ECL process, and clear articulation of movements to auditors and management.
- Manage and develop a small international finance team, fostering a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Own the global audit process and coordinate relationships with external auditors, tax advisors, and regulatory bodies.
- Strengthen financial controls, governance frameworks, and risk management practices across the organisation.
- Oversee balance sheet integrity, reconciliations and accounting policy compliance.
- Support lender and debt facility reporting, covenant compliance, and reconciliations between operational lending systems and the financial ledger.
- Partner closely with FP&A, Tax, Treasury, Credit/Risk, Legal, and business leaders to support strategic decision making.
- Drive process improvement, automation, and finance transformation initiatives to enhance scalability and efficiency.
- Support M&A, integration projects, and corporate restructuring activities where required.
Qualifications And Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
- Professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACA, ACCA, CA or equivalent).
- 8–12+ years of progressive finance and controllership experience.
- Prior experience in lending, consumer/SME credit, fintech lending, banking, or another financial services environment where loan book accounting is core.
- Experience managing multi entity, multi currency international operations.
- Previous experience leading financial audits and working with external auditors, including defending technical judgements.
- Experience managing and developing finance teams.
- Comfortable working in Google Sheets, Oracle ERP Experience.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Company Overview
- Ezra provides B2B digital lending solutions for emerging markets in partnership with mobile and digital wallet operators and financial service providers.
- Ezra supports 24 operations in 23 countries across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
- Key office locations are in Nairobi, Kenya and Dubai, UAE.
- Flagship products: Airtime Credit Services (ACS), Nano, and BNPL.
- As a FinTech company, business is entirely technology and data driven, processing approximately 21M loan requests and 1.4 TB of data daily.
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