Head of Revenue & Recognition

🚀 Welcome to Your Next Adventure! Snoonu is looking for a Head of Revenue Recognition to own end-to-end revenue recognition and settlement accounting across our multi-country footprint (Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman). This role sits at the heart of Finance — ensuring that complex, multi-rail transaction flows (cash, card, wallet, BNPL, and POS) are recognized, reconciled, and reported in line with IFRS 15 and Snoonu's accounting policies. You will lead a team of finance professionals responsible for daily and monthly reconciliations, partner settlement operations, and cash-flow forecasting, while setting the accounting policy, controls, and governance framework that keep revenue recognition accurate, compliant, and audit-ready. This is a senior leadership role that combines strong technical accounting judgment with the ability to coach a team, present decision-ready reports to Finance leadership, and act as the trusted point of contact for merchants, banks, and auditors. 🛠 What You’ll Get Your Hands On • Own Revenue Recognition & Settlement Operations: Lead end-to-end fund-flow, reconciliation, and revenue-recognition reporting across Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman, ensuring revenue, fees, and merchant liabilities are recognized in accordance with IFRS 15 and managing a team responsible for accurate and timely settlement outcomes. • Set Revenue Recognition Policy & Accounting Treatment: Define and maintain the accounting policy and liability mapping that determine how multi-rail transactions (cash, card, wallet, BNPL, POS) are translated into revenue, fees, and merchant liabilities, ensuring consistent application of IFRS 15 across all entities. • Translate Business Requirements into Accounting Logic: Partner with Finance Systems and business stakeholders to turn new business and product requirements into documented, well-controlled accounting treatments, reducing reliance on manual spreadsheet processes. • Design Controls & Exception Handling: Establish validation controls, exception-management processes, and dispute-resolution workflows (e.g., IBAN validation, eligibility checks) that reduce manual intervention and strengthen the integrity of settlement and revenue data. • Govern Recurring Revenue Adjustments: Oversee the calculation, validation, and posting of recurring revenue-impacting items — delivery promotions, canceled-order wallet/bank adjustments, and delivered-order refunds and coverage mapping — across AMS and Odoo ERP. • Lead Cash-Flow Forecasting & Payment Prioritization: Link collections, payouts, and merchant liabilities to provide Finance leadership with a decision-ready, working-capital view and a prioritized merchant payment plan. • Drive System Migrations & Reconciliation: Lead ERP and platform migrations (e.g., AMS-to-BigQuery-to-Odoo), including reconciliation of balances, resolution of exceptions, and stabilization of new finance workflows. • Assess Financial Impact of Product & Marketplace Changes: Partner with Product, Commercial, Operations, and Engineering to evaluate the accounting and revenue impact of new initiatives (e.g., segmented offers, marketplace orders, multi-cart, loyalty programs) and design the resulting accounting treatment. • Build Reporting & Dashboards: Oversee reporting and dashboards (Tableau, Power BI, Excel) that give the business real-time visibility into settlement status, reconciliation progress, and revenue-recognition KPIs. • Act as Finance Point of Contact: Resolve queries from Accounts Managers, merchants, auditors, banks, and payment partners, and support internal and external audit walkthroughs with accurate, well-documented data. • Lead & Develop the Team: Manage workload balancing, coaching, performance follow-up, and hiring input for the Partner Settlement and Revenue Recognition team. • Drive Process & Control Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline revenue-recognition and settlement processes and strengthen financial controls, building team capability so the function works faster and with greater accuracy. 🧙‍♂️ The Magic You Bring • Qualified Accountant: Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field, and a recognized professional accounting qualification (CPA, CMA, or ACCA) is required. • Experience: 6+ years of progressive experience in revenue recognition, financial reporting, or partner settlement, including demonstrated experience leading and developing a team; e-commerce, fintech, or marketplace experience is a strong plus. • IFRS 15 Expertise: In-depth knowledge of IFRS 15 (Revenue from Contracts with Customers) and proven ability to apply it to complex, multi-rail transaction flows (cash, card, wallet, BNPL, POS), including judgment calls on recognition timing and merchant-liability treatment. • Technical Accounting Judgment: Strong command of financial reporting standards and internal control frameworks, with the ability to design accounting treatments for new business scenarios and defend them to auditors and stakeholders. • Leadership: Proven track record leading and developing a finance team — coaching, balancing workload, managing performance, and building team capability. • Stakeholder Management: Confident communicator able to act as the primary finance liaison across Product, Commercial, Operations, and external stakeholders such as auditors, banks, and payment partners. • Analytical Mindset: Strong ability to work through complex, high-volume financial data, identify root causes, and make well-supported accounting and business recommendations. • Reporting Tools: Proficiency in Excel and familiarity with data-visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau) to review and present decision-ready reporting. • Attention to Detail & Compliance: Meticulous approach to accuracy, with the judgment to escalate issues appropriately and uphold compliance with local regulations, IFRS, and Snoonu's internal policies. • Adaptability: Comfortable operating across multiple legal entities and countries (Qatar, Kuwait, Oman) in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Inside Snoonu’s Universe Snoonu is Qatar’s homegrown Super App, reinventing daily life with blazing-fast delivery, shopping, and more – all in one place. Powered by tech, driven by a global team, and obsessed with making life easier. The Dream We’re Chasing To be the first Qatari Ultra App that propels the region and its community through innovation and technology. We have global ambitions where what we do surpasses norms and limitations every time. The Quest We’re On To radically transform how people live by leveraging technology to connect them with endless possibilities. Our Everyday Superpowers Be Customer Obsessed: “Focus on the customer and all else will follow.” Act with Integrity: “We are honest, ethical, and trustworthy in everything we do.” Be Curious and Creative: “We constantly innovate and create solutions to bring a lasting positive impact.” Lead by Example and Take Ownership: “Be the change you want to see and take ownership.” Work Smart and Deliver Results: “You can do more by doing less, better, and faster.”