Digital Asset Custody Finance & Accounting Lead — Remote (United Arab Emirates)

Overview

Own financial and management reporting, regulatory finance submissions and the safeguarding of client money and virtual assets for a VARA-regulated Dubai virtual-asset business. Maintain daily client asset reconciliation, capital and liquidity oversight, documented finance controls and cross-functional governance while working remotely from the United Arab Emirates.

Requirements

• Qualified accountant (ACA, CIMA, ACCA or equivalent) with significant financial-services experience; familiarity with VARA or a comparable digital-asset regime is preferred.
• Demonstrable experience with custody safeguarding and client money or client asset control regimes, including crypto, e-money or investment-firm frameworks.
• Working knowledge of VARA's rulebook architecture or demonstrated ability to acquire it rapidly.
• Proven group financial accounts, external reporting and regulatory reporting experience.
• Sound accounting knowledge under IFRS and/or US GAAP.
• Strong analytical and cross-functional project leadership, stakeholder communication and ability to manage simultaneous regulatory deadlines with minimal supervision.
• High integrity, attention to detail and accountability in client-asset stewardship; comfortable with evolving regulation.
• Knowledge of blockchain, virtual assets or wallet/custody technology is advantageous, not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Own monthly, quarterly and annual financial and management accounts, budgets and forecasts for the regulated entity.
• Prepare VARA reporting submissions, oversee statutory audits and maintain finance controls and a finance risk register.
• Reconcile client virtual assets and client money daily, investigate exceptions and escalate material shortfalls.
• Maintain one-to-one same-asset reserve coverage evidence and coordinate independent reserve asset assurance.
• Monitor paid-up capital and net liquid assets against regulated thresholds and maintain breach-notification and remediation processes.
• Enforce no-rehypothecation and client asset segregation controls and safeguard custody-related third-party bank and vendor arrangements.
• Maintain tested client asset return and wind-down procedures and coordinate required governance reports.
• Lead client asset safeguarding and finance workstreams across legal, compliance, risk and business teams, including incident and recovery requirements.

Conditions

• Full-time, fully remote role based in the United Arab Emirates.