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.
• 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).
• 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.
• 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.
At Soum, we're on a mission to build a marketplace that enables users to buy and sell anything online with convenience, trust, and ease starting in the MENA market. We began with second-hand electronics in KSA, becoming market leaders, and are now expanding to used cars and collectibles. In just two years, we've facilitated hundreds of thousands of transactions across 150+ locations in the Kingdom, maintained 10,000 active listings at any given time, earned the distinction of being the 10th most downloaded e-commerce app in KSA for 2023, and received more than 5 million app downloads.
Our team, Soumers, have worked in over 14 countries from the US to South Korea. We are always on the look out for the best and brightest to join. We look beyond resumes and titles, we look for the innovators, the hungry, the go-getters. We offer them the autonomy to experiment, learn, fail, and grow.
Every transaction on Soum is guaranteed; we hold funds until the item is delivered and confirmed by the buyer, thanks to our proprietary fulfillment and payment systems. This ensures a secure and reliable marketplace experience.
Soum has pioneered a solution that have transformed digital commerce for sellers in the wider region:
Individuals: Enjoy unique home pick-up and delivery services, secure payments, and transaction guarantees for worry-free selling.
Small Businesses: Sell faster and reach a wider audience with our dedicated "Merchant App."
Teleco and retail partners: Gain optimal returns with bulk-selling options, comprehensive inspections, and efficient warehouse management.
We deploy AI models to power our marketplace with personalized recommendations, dynamic pricing, predictive analytics, and fraud detection, ensuring a smarter, safer, and more efficient platform for our users.
Soum is backed by local and regional investors including, amongst others, Jahez Group, Isometry Capital, and Al Rajhi Partners and have raised $22Mn to date.
