Senior Account Executive
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About the Role
Deriv is looking for an early-career finance professional to join its Trading Finance team in Dubai. You will prepare journal entries, reconciliations, support month-end close, and work with regulated entities.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Prepare journal entries and reconciliations across the monthly close cycle
- Learn CFD revenue logic (A book and B book) at journal entry level
- Support regulated entity accounting across CFD broker, VASP/CASP, and banking licensed entities
- Support audit preparation and contribute to regulatory inputs
- Use finance automation tools and flag recurring manual steps
Requirements
- Experience with month end close, journal entries, and reconciliations
- Working level Excel skills (lookups, pivots, conditional logic)
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, or related field
- AI curious and willing to use automation tools
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Role Overview
- Early career finance role inside Deriv’s Trading Finance team
- Work with guidance from experienced accountants and a team leader
- Real regulated entities, real client money obligations, monthly close cycle
Closing & Reporting
- Prepare journal entries and reconciliations across the monthly close cycle.
- Learn CFD revenue logic — A book and B book mechanics — at journal entry level.
- Support regulated entity accounting across CFD broker, VASP/CASP, and banking licensed entities.
Audit & External Stakeholders
- Support audit preparation — building workpapers, organising supporting schedules.
- Contribute to regulatory inputs — providing accurate financial data behind regulatory submissions.
Process & AI
- Use the finance automation tools already in production.
- Spot recurring manual steps and flag them to the team.
Who You Are
- You understand month end close and have prepared journal entries and reconciliations.
- Experience at a CFD broker is a real advantage.
- You care why the numbers work and check your own work.
- Excel at a working level (lookups, pivots, conditional logic).
- AI curious in your day to day.
- Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field.
- You ask early and don’t go quiet.
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