Senior Accountant

👋 About Us

NALA is building Payments for the Next Billion. Faster, smarter, and fairer transfers for everyone. Since 2022, we've grown our business 120x, grown the team from 9 to 150+, raised $50M+ from top-tier investors, and were named to the Forbes Fintech 50 in 2025.

We operate two core products:

• NALA, our consumer app makes cross-border payments cheaper, faster and more reliable for the global diaspora. Allowing users to send money from the UK, US and EU to Africa and Asia.
• Rafiki, our B2B payments infrastructure, is powering global payments.

Our team includes alumni from Wise, Stripe, Monzo, Revolut, and CashApp — operators who’ve scaled world-class products. We act with urgency, think deeply, and put our customers first always.

At NALA, this isn’t just a job. It’s ownership, impact, and the chance to change global payments forever.

Join us in building Payments for the Next Billion.

🙌 Your Mission

The mission is to bridge the gap between our high-speed operations in Nairobi and our global reporting standards. You will be the Financial Controller’s right hand, taking full ownership of our audit and statutory footprint. This isn't just about 'doing the books', it’s about professionalising a global fintech scale-up, ensuring our financial engine is robust enough to support our expansion across hard and local currencies, and providing the transparency our lenders and regulators demand.

🎯 Your Responsibilities in this Role

• Own month-end and year-end close, delivering accurate management accounts within agreed timelines.
• Collaborate on both month end, reconciliation and other operational accounts
• Actively involved in accounts payable and vendor management
• Supporting in implementing the controls for revenue, payments, treasury and expenses, reducing risk and audit findings.
• Lead statutory reporting and coordinate external audits across multiple entities.
• Improve accounting processes and systems to support scale, automation and efficiency.

🔥 Must-have requirements

• 3+ years’ post qualified experience in accounting, including experience in a high-growth fintech, payments or financial services business.

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Experience with month-end close and preparing statutory financial statements.
• Strong understanding of revenue recognition, reconciliations and financial controls.
• Comfortable working with large datasets and high transaction volumes.
• Be comfortable with using Excel and NetSuite (or similar).
• Must be curious in using AI to make your role less manual to create more time for solving problems

💪 Nice to have requirements

• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions (UK, US, EU or Africa).
• Exposure to safeguarding, client money or regulated financial environments.
• Understanding of remittance

✅ Success in the role looks like

3-Month Metrics

• Working with the team to deliver the month-end close on time with clear, accurate management accounts.
• Worked with the FC to ensure audit deliverables are accurate and timely

6-Month Metrics

• Contributed to a clean audit process with no significant control deficiencies.
• Reduced close timeline and improved automation across core accounting processes.
• At 6 months, we’d like you to take over balance sheet reconciliation

➡️ Interview Process

You will need to first submit your application through our ATS Workable. There is no need to submit a Cover Letter.

If successful you will be selected for our interview process which has 4 stages:

[30mins] Interview with the Talent Team

We want to understand your experience and motivations.

[60mins] Interview with the Hiring Manager

A deeper dive into your CV and real-world experiences.

[30mins] Peer Interview

You’ll meet our Finance Manager who will have some BAU and system based questions.

[45mins] Leadership Interview

A final conversation with our CFO to discuss motivations and ask your own questions.

⭐️ Benefits

• 27 Days Off Plus UK Bank Holidays: Take the time to decompress. Working at a startup is hard!
• Birthday Leave: Celebrate your special day with a bonus day off to take off in that month.
• Enhanced Parental Leave: We offer 16 weeks of full pay for the primary caregiver and 4 weeks of full pay for the secondary caregiver (After a 6-month probationary period)
• Enhanced Pension: Salary sacrifice pension scheme via Penfold giving you flexibility and control on how you save for your future!
• Global Workspace: Get access to WeWork locations worldwide.
• Learning Budget: Fuel your growth with $1000 annually for learning and development.
• Sarabi: Themed snacks and Friday lunch focused on building great working relationships with the team.
• Monthly Socials: Join fun social events every month for great times.
• Free Coffee: Enjoy barista-style coffee at your fingertips.