Website Careem
Careem is the technology platform for our region. A region of over 600 million people that extends from Morocco to Pakistan, Turkey to Sudan. It’s an area of the world that up until now, has largely missed out on the transformational power of the internet revolution – but through its ambition and focus is catching up fast. Half of the population are under 25, and the same amount are connected to the internet yet only a small proportion have bank accounts, access to public transport and critical infrastructure.
Business Finance Manager
Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.
What you’ll do:
Build a world-class Business Finance function that plays an instrumental role in Careem’s future by delivering par excellence on the following requirements:
Business Finance:
- Setting up the vision and strategy for the team, along with detailed plans and goals.
- Maintain influential relationships with key business customers and stakeholders and lead presentations on finance-related insights across the organization
- Drive operations strategy for Careem by understanding the macro realities of markets and business lines. This includes, but not limited to, scouting for ideas outside Careem.
- Create business cases and financial models for operations supported by data and analytics.
- Collaborate with a wider range of stakeholders including Product & Tech, Central Strategy, Care, Markets GM, Vertical Owners and support function heads.
Planning:
- Provide critical inputs to leadership to make finance-related decisions in collaboration with the business
- Create business cases and financial models to launch new business lines supported by data and analytics
- Work on identifying new potential markets / segments / use-cases and devise the entry strategy
- Define organizational priorities on an annual and quarterly basis, at the group-level
- Conduct market research, competitive analysis and industry benchmarking needed for strategy articulation and assessment
Accounting:
- Maintain accurate transaction recording process and GL maintenance.
- Review the reconciliations of payments, verification, bank statements, and transfers.
- Managing cash flow and petty cash reports for all cities.
Reporting:.
- Maintain monthly budgets and performance against targets
- Provide timely visibility to management on key decision making
What you’ll need:
The ideal candidate will have a passionate commitment to improving the lives of people, an insane focus on excellence and customer service, and a strong alignment with our core values: being bold, focused, agile and collaborative. Additional qualifications include:
- Degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field & professional accounting qualification
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience, ideally in technology companies in MENA
- Operational experience in hyper growth business, preferably fintech
- Experience in Oracle will be a plus
- Experience building function from scratch and managing regional teams
- Excellent communication skills in English and an additional language would be highly preferred
What we’ll provide you
We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a Careem colleague you will be able to:
- 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.
- Enjoy the flexibility that comes with the trust of being an owner; work in a hybrid style with a mix of days at the office and at home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year.
- Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including: gym, health club and training classes.
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