Head of Finance job at Eversend

About The Company

Eversend is an all-in-one financial platform designed for Africans, African migrants, and businesses. We specialize in providing affordable cross-border payments, virtual cards, stablecoins, and investment opportunities. As a leader in using stablecoins for payments, Eversend offers users a seamless way to manage multiple currencies, send money globally, and access secure financial services through one easy-to-use platform.

Our mission is to simplify cross-border transactions, digital currencies, and investments, helping underserved markets access fast, transparent, and reliable financial tools. Eversend is transforming the way people and businesses navigate the global financial landscape.

About The Role

As Head of Finance, you will own the integrity of the financial records, controls and reporting of Eversend’s Ugandan business. You will ensure that the books close properly, balances reconcile, statutory and regulatory-finance filings are accurate, and the numbers can withstand scrutiny from management, auditors and regulators.

This is a hands-on role. You will work close to the ledger and reconciliations while building processes that become more automated, controlled and scalable over time — staying close enough to the detail to stand behind every number.

This role is distinct from the CFO function. You own accounting, financial control, the close, statutory reporting, regulatory-finance reporting and audit. Financial strategy, FP&A and fundraising sit with the CFO.

You will partner closely with Operations, Treasury, Compliance and Product, while maintaining independent judgment over the numbers. As the group grows, the role can expand into wider group financial control.

What You’ll Own

• The monthly and annual close: maintain ledger integrity and produce accurate multi-currency accounts and Uganda statutory financial statements.
• Reconciliations: ensure bank, customer-fund, partner, float and ledger positions reconcile; investigate and resolve breaks rather than allowing unexplained balances to accumulate.
• Financial controls: design, document and evidence appropriate maker-checker controls, approval limits and accounting processes.
• Reporting: own required financial and regulatory-finance returns, ensuring that they are complete, accurate and submitted on time.
• Customer funds: own the accounting integrity and independent reconciliation of trust and safeguarded balances, working with Operations and Treasury on float execution.
• Audit, tax and filings: lead the external audit, manage tax compliance and statutory filings, and maintain a disciplined financial calendar.
• Scalable systems: identify repetitive or weak finance processes and work with data, Product and Engineering to automate them safely.

What Success Looks Like In The First Year

• Establish a reliable monthly close with clear ownership, timetables and reconciled balances.
• Strengthen financial controls, customer-fund accounting and regulatory-finance reporting so that evidence is complete and auditable.
• Complete the statutory audit and leave the Uganda finance operation ready to support group consolidation.

What You Get

• Compensation: competitive, discussed at interview.
• Genuine ownership: the Uganda entity’s numbers are yours — the close, the controls, the audit relationship — with a direct line to the CEO.
• The step up: own the finance function under your own name, rather than running it from the second chair.
• A path to group scope: as the group grows, this role is the natural foundation for wider group financial control.
• Room to build: you will design the processes and systems rather than inherit them, with Engineering and data support to automate what should be automated.

Required

• Current ICPAU membership in good standing.
• A recognised accounting qualification and strong grounding in audit, financial reporting and accounting judgment.
• Hands-on finance, financial-control or audit experience within — or serving — a bank, payments company, licensed financial institution or regulated fintech — you have personally run closes and worked reconciliations, not supervised them from a distance.
• Demonstrated ability to run a close, interrogate reconciliations, identify control failures and resolve discrepancies.
• Comfort with multi-currency accounting, regulatory reporting and the accounting treatment of customer or safeguarded funds.
• An automation-first instinct: faced with a repetitive manual finance process, you reach for data, systems and Engineering support before headcount.

Strong advantage

• Big Four or similarly rigorous audit training.
• Experience in payments, e-money, fintech or stablecoin infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-entity reporting or group consolidation.

• The monthly and annual close: maintain ledger integrity and produce accurate multi-currency accounts and Uganda statutory financial statements.
• Reconciliations: ensure bank, customer-fund, partner, float and ledger positions reconcile; investigate and resolve breaks rather than allowing unexplained balances to accumulate.
• Financial controls: design, document and evidence appropriate maker-checker controls, approval limits and accounting processes.
• Reporting: own required financial and regulatory-finance returns, ensuring that they are complete, accurate and submitted on time.
• Customer funds: own the accounting integrity and independent reconciliation of trust and safeguarded balances, working with Operations and Treasury on float execution.
• Audit, tax and filings: lead the external audit, manage tax compliance and statutory filings, and maintain a disciplined financial calendar.
• Scalable systems: identify repetitive or weak finance processes and work with data, Product and Engineering to automate them safely.

• Strong grounding in audit, financial reporting and accounting judgment.
• Hands-on finance, financial-control or audit experience.
• Demonstrated ability to run a close, interrogate reconciliations, identify control failures and resolve discrepancies.
• Comfort with multi-currency accounting, regulatory reporting and the accounting treatment of customer or safeguarded funds.
• Automation-first instinct.

• Current ICPAU membership in good standing.
• A recognised accounting qualification.
• Hands-on finance, financial-control or audit experience within — or serving — a bank, payments company, licensed financial institution or regulated fintech.
• Big Four or similarly rigorous audit training (strong advantage).
• Experience in payments, e-money, fintech or stablecoin infrastructure (strong advantage).
• Experience with multi-entity reporting or group consolidation (strong advantage).