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title: 'Finance Operations Associate / Accountant at SOUM'
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# Finance Operations Associate / Accountant at SOUM

- **Company:** SOUM
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/soum/4dfe46ff-0c19-4376-9cc6-d06b88f0dd03

## Job description

## About Soum

Soum is a fast-growing B2C marketplace based in Riyadh, connecting buyers and sellers of used electronics and used cars across Saudi Arabia. Built on trust, speed, and a strong sense of ownership, our Finance function is central to how we scale responsibly — keeping the business financially disciplined as it grows.

## About the Role

As Finance Operations Accountant, you'll sit at the centre of Soum's day-to-day financial operations — owning reconciliations, supporting month-end close, and making sure our books in Odoo are accurate and audit-ready at all times. This role suits someone with sharp analytical instincts, a foundation in audit or assurance, and the confidence to work directly with internal teams and external parties (auditors, banks, vendors) alike.

Responsibilities:

- Own day-to-day bookkeeping and ledger accuracy in Odoo — ensuring transactions are correctly coded, classified, and mapped to the right accounts and cost centres.
- Perform monthly balance sheet and bank reconciliations, investigating and resolving discrepancies promptly.
- Support month-end and year-end close: journal entries, accruals, prepayments, and supporting schedules.
- Analyze financial data to flag anomalies, trends, or control gaps before they become issues — bringing an audit-minded eye to routine operations.
- Act as a key point of contact for external auditors — preparing schedules, responding to requests, and ensuring documentation is audit-ready year-round, not just at year-end.
- Partner with internal stakeholders (Commercial, Operations, Procurement) to resolve financial queries and ensure accounting treatment reflects business reality.
- Maintain and improve Odoo-based accounting workflows — identifying automation opportunities and tightening controls as the business scales.
- Support the Senior Accountant on financial reporting, ad hoc analysis, and process documentation.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies and relevant local regulatory/tax requirements (e.g., ZATCA, VAT).

What We're Looking For:

- 2–4 years of experience in accounting, finance operations, or audit — audit/assurance background (Big 4 or mid-tier) is a strong plus
- Sharp analytical skills with genuine attention to detail; comfortable digging into numbers until they make sense.
- Hands-on experience with Odoo (or a similar ERP) and a solid understanding of the accounting logic behind it — not just how to enter data, but why it's structured that way.
- Strong stakeholder management skills — able to communicate clearly and confidently with internal teams, auditors, banks, and vendors.
- Solid grounding in accounting principles (IFRS) and practical month-end close experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- A self-starter who takes ownership, moves fast, and holds a high bar for accuracy — fits naturally with Soum's culture of trust, speed, and accountability.

Why Join Soum:

- Be part of a fast-scaling Saudi marketplace where Finance has real influence over how the business is run.
- Work directly with senior Finance leadership and gain broad exposure across accounting, audit, and financial operations.
- A culture that values ownership, speed, and constant improvement over hierarchy and red tape.

## About SOUM

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Soum is a re-commerce marketplace platform based in Saudi Arabia that enables individuals and businesses to buy and sell pre-owned goods—starting with electronics and expanding into automobiles and collectibles—with guaranteed, end-to-end transaction support.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Bader Almubarak (CEO), Fahad Al Hassan, Fahad Albassam

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Internet Marketplace Platforms / Re-commerce
- **Target customers**: B2C (individual buyers and sellers), B2B (small businesses via Merchant App), and B2B2C (telecom/retail partners with bulk-selling options)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Build a marketplace that enables users to buy and sell anything online with convenience, trust, and ease starting in the MENA market."

## Products & Services
- **Peer-to-Peer Marketplace**: A platform for individuals to list and sell second-hand electronics, used cars, and collectibles. Soum manages the entire transaction cycle including listing approval, logistics coordination, payment holding, and delivery guarantee.
- **Merchant App**: A dedicated tool for small businesses to sell faster and reach a wider audience through the Soum marketplace.
- **Bulk-Selling Solutions for Partners**: Tailored services for telecom and retail partners (e.g., bulk inspections, warehouse management, optimal returns) for high-volume inventory.
- **AI-Powered Platform Features**: Personalized recommendations, dynamic pricing, predictive analytics, and fraud detection models deployed across the marketplace.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $22M USD to date
- **Notable Investors**: Jahez Group (lead, Series A), Isometry Capital (New York-based), Al Rajhi Partners, Khwarizmi Ventures, Outliers Venture Capital
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 10th most downloaded e-commerce app in KSA in 2023
  - Over 5 million app downloads
  - 10,000+ active listings at any given time
  - 30,000+ new listings every month
  - Facilitated hundreds of thousands of transactions across 150+ locations in Saudi Arabia
  - Headcount grew +10.3% YoY (90 employees as of latest data)
  - Expanding into UAE and other MENA markets, and testing new categories (used cars, collectibles)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Trust & Safety Moat**: Proprietary fulfillment and payment systems hold funds until the buyer confirms delivery—reducing fraud risk in a high-friction category (used goods).
- **Full-Stack Marketplace**: Unlike pure listing platforms, Soum manages pre-approval of listings, logistics, and payment escrow, creating a controlled, consistent user experience.
- **AI Integration**: Uses machine learning for recommendations, dynamic pricing, and fraud detection, making the platform smarter and safer as it scales.
- **First-Mover in MENA Re-commerce**: Dominant position in Saudi Arabia’s second-hand electronics market with a trusted brand and strong local logistics network.

## Strategic Focus
- Geographic expansion across the MENA region, starting with the United Arab Emirates
- Category expansion beyond electronics into automobiles and collectibles
- Extending return windows (from 24 hours to a week or month) to increase buyer confidence
- Scaling the merchant and partner programs to drive B2B revenue
- Continued investment in AI/ML to improve personalization, pricing, and fraud detection

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Soum describes itself as looking for "innovators, the hungry, the go-getters" and offers autonomy to experiment, learn, fail, and grow. The team is called "Soumers" and has worked across 14+ countries from the US to South Korea.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Mixed. Many roles are remote (e.g., Cairo-based positions), but some roles (e.g., Senior Compliance Officer, Operations roles) are on-site in Riyadh or Jeddah. The company has offices in Riyadh and Cairo.
- **Global & Diverse Team**: 90 employees spread across 8 countries (Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Pakistan, UAE, South Korea, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, US). Engineering and product teams are distributed.
- **Engineering Culture**: AI/ML is core to the product; they deploy models for recommendations, dynamic pricing, predictive analytics, and fraud detection. The technical team makes up ~12% of headcount.
- **Growth Trajectory**: High-growth startup (10%+ YoY headcount growth, expanding geographies and categories) offering significant ownership and impact.
- **Compensation**: Senior Software Engineer roles reported at ~SAR 128,877/month. Overall employer rating is 3.7/5 (19 reviews on LinkedIn), with Culture rated 3.6 and Career growth rated 3.5.
- **AI in Hiring**: Soum discloses that they use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process (reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, identifying signals), but final decisions are made by humans.

## Sources
1. [soum.sa](https://soum.sa)
2. [jobs.lever.co/soum](https://jobs.lever.co/soum)
3. [linkedin.com/company/soum-sa](https://linkedin.com/company/soum-sa)
4. [techcrunch.com](https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/20/soum-18m-series-a-funding/)
5. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/soum)
6. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/soum)

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