Accounts & Finance Associate AI-Enabled | Multi-Entity | Remote-Based

Accounts, Finance & Business Analyst

AI-Enabled | Multi-Entity | Dubai-Based

Role Title

Accounts, Finance & Business Analyst

Reports To

Founder / CEO

Location

Dubai, UAE (hybrid / remote considered for exceptional candidates)

Type

Full-time or Part-time (flexible for the right fit)

Entities

Multi-entity: UAE (DED/DET licensed), India, Singapore

Ventures

Learn with Leaders / Onward Fellowship, KnoWhere, Next Billion Lab, Future Doctors Fellowship, and adjacent ventures

Why This Role Exists

We run multiple ventures across education, AI-powered city intelligence, and student entrepreneurship — operating in UAE, India, Thailand, Korea, and China. Revenue flows through Stripe, Wallex, and local payment rails. Books live in Xero. Compliance spans UAE corporate tax, India GST, Thailand withholding tax, and more.

But this isn’t just a bookkeeping role. We need someone who can own the numbers AND turn them into decisions. That means pulling reports that tell us which Learn with Leaders programmes to double down on, which markets are converting, where our cohort economics are trending, and what to launch next.

You’ll use AI tools like Claude as your daily co-pilot — for analysis, anomaly detection, forecasting, and generating the kind of insights we’d otherwise need a separate analyst for.

Part A: Accounts & Finance

• Day-to-day bookkeeping and reconciliation across all entities in Xero

• Stripe reconciliation: subscription billing, cohort-based programme fees, refunds, disputes, payout matching

• Wallex (or similar) cross-border payment tracking, FX exposure monitoring, and vendor settlements

• Accounts payable and receivable: invoicing, collections follow-up, vendor payments

• Monthly management accounts, P&L by entity and by venture, cash flow forecasting

• UAE Corporate Tax filings, VAT returns, and transfer pricing documentation

• India GST compliance, TDS, and annual filings coordination with local CA

• Payroll processing coordination (UAE WPS + India payroll)

• Bank relationship management: signatories, account openings, documentation

• Audit preparation: year-end schedules, confirmation letters, statutory packs

Part B: Business Analysis & Programme Intelligence

This is the part that makes the role different. You’re not just closing books — you’re the person who tells us what the numbers mean.

Programme Performance (Learn with Leaders / Onward Fellowship)

• Build and maintain dashboards tracking enrolment, revenue, conversion rates, and cohort fill rates across all programmes and geographies

• Generate programme P&Ls: revenue per student, cost per cohort (mentors, operations, marketing), margin by programme type

• Forecast demand for upcoming programme cycles based on historical enrolment data, pipeline, and seasonal patterns

• Produce “go / no-go” analysis for new programme launches: minimum viable cohort size, break-even enrolment, marketing cost assumptions

• Track school partnership ROI: which school networks (GEMS, Aldar, Kings’, etc.) convert best, at what cost, and with what retention

• Analyse pricing sensitivity: what happens to conversion if we adjust pricing for Thailand vs UAE vs India

Cross-Venture Reporting

• Monthly venture scorecard: each venture’s revenue, burn, runway, and key KPIs on a single page

• Investor-ready reporting packs: clean, visual, narrative-driven — not just numbers dumped into a table