Senior Account Executive

Numbers that don’t add up won’t wait for you to finish reading about CFD revenue recognition. They’ll sit in a reconciliation, compound overnight, and surface as an auditor question at the worst possible moment. You’ll learn to find them first.

This is an early-career finance role inside Deriv’s Trading Finance team — working on real regulated entities, real client money obligations, and a close cycle that runs every month whether you’re ready or not. You’ll work with guidance from experienced accountants and a team leader who’s seen every edge case in this business. The work is real, the stakes are real, and what you learn here, you learn by doing.

Why This Matters

Deriv’s mission is Trading for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. That mission runs through regulated Trading entities — CFD brokers, VASP/CASP licences, and banking licences — each closing its books every month, filing regulatory submissions on time, and answering to external auditors. Real money, real regulations, real consequences.

The numbers coming out of this team feed capital adequacy calculations, client money reports, and Board-level decisions. They can’t be approximate. They can’t be late. You’ll be one of the people making sure they’re neither.

Why Deriv

We’re not theorising about AI in finance. We’re building it.

AI-powered PSP reconciliation platform already in production — processing real transactions, not demo data.

Treasury Management System consolidating 500+ cashbooks across 40+ entities.

Finance automation already eliminating manual processing across procurement, accounts payable, and reconciliation at scale.

400+ internal users on our workflow orchestration platform.

You’ll use these tools from day one, flag what breaks, and — as you grow — have a voice in what gets built next. The Finance Automation team is building the infrastructure. You’ll be one of the people telling them where it falls short.

What You’ll Do

Closing & Reporting

• Prepare journal entries and reconciliations across the monthly close cycle. Follow the close calendar, understand why each entry exists, and catch your own errors before someone else does.
• Learn CFD revenue logic — A-book and B-book mechanics — at journal-entry level. You’ll apply it with guidance initially, then with increasing independence.
• Support regulated entity accounting across CFD broker, VASP/CASP, and banking-licensed entities. You’ll learn how client money segregation works, what capital adequacy inputs require, and why the accounting across these entity types differs.
  
  
  

Audit & External Stakeholders

• Support audit preparation — building workpapers, organising supporting schedules, and fielding routine auditor follow-ups with guidance from senior team members.
• Contribute to regulatory inputs — providing accurate financial data behind regulatory submissions, in coordination with Compliance and Risk.
  
  
  

Process & AI

• Use the finance automation tools already in production: reconciliation platforms, workflow orchestration, and whatever comes next. Develop a view on what works.
• Spot recurring manual steps and flag them to the team. You won’t always be the one to fix it — but raising the issue early is part of the job.
  
  
  

Who You Are

• You understand month-end close. You’ve prepared journal entries and reconciliations — in a finance role, internship, or accounting programme — and you understand why accuracy at close matters, not just that it does.
• Experience at a CFD broker is a real advantage. Not required, but if you’ve worked in a regulated trading environment, you’ll spend less time learning the context and more time contributing.
• You care why the numbers work. When a reconciliation doesn’t balance, you want to trace it — not escalate it and move on. You check your own work before it goes to review.
• Excel at a working level. You build clean reconciliations that are readable six months later. Lookups, pivots, conditional logic — tools you reach for without thinking.
• AI-curious in your day-to-day. You’ve tried using AI tools in your work — drafting commentary, sense-checking output, interrogating data. You’re forming a view on what earns its place in a workflow.
• Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance, Mathematics, or a related field. We care more about how you think about numbers than which programme you attended.
• You ask early and don’t go quiet. When something’s unclear, you raise it — you don’t wait until the close is late to surface a problem. Studying or early-stage ACCA is a genuine advantage.
  
  
  

The Honest Reality

Month-end close doesn’t move because you’re still getting comfortable with the entity structure. Some processes are well-documented; others live in institutional knowledge you’ll need to extract from people who are also busy closing books. Some weeks will be frustrating.

You’ll make mistakes early on. That’s expected. What isn’t acceptable is making the same one twice or going quiet when you’re stuck. Your team will be there for judgment calls and escalations — but they’re not there to check your arithmetic. That part is yours.

If you want a structured rotation programme where someone else owns the hard parts, this isn’t it. If you want to learn regulated finance from the inside — on real entities, with real stakes, in an environment that’s actively rebuilding how finance works — this is the right place to start.

Location: Dubai

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