Senior Accountant - GL

About Calo (more here)

Calo is an app providing personalized meal plans for busy people through nutritional algorithms, built with love by chefs, nutritionists, and software engineers.

Launched in Bahrain in 2019, we have since expanded to 6 countries, delivered millions of meals to our customers, and are now expanding our mission of making healthy easy to retail and other verticals.

We're on a noble mission to make healthy easy. We think this is one of the most important problems to tackle in our world today. We have global ambitions - no small thinking here.

Why This Role Matters

At Calo, accurate financial reporting is essential to making informed business decisions as we continue to scale across multiple markets. As a Senior Accountant – GL & Reporting, you'll play a key role in ensuring the integrity of our financial records, overseeing the general ledger, leading the month-end close process, and delivering consolidated financial reporting.

Your work will strengthen our financial controls, improve reporting accuracy, and provide leadership with reliable insights to drive the business forward.

What You’ll Do

• Own the General Ledger, ensuring all journal entries, accruals, and reconciliations are accurate and completed on time.
• Lead month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities across multiple entities.
• Prepare consolidated financial reports and support the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
• Ensure compliance with IFRS, GAAP, internal accounting policies, and financial controls.
• Oversee day-to-day accounting operations, including Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, cash management, and bank reconciliations.
• Lead allocation and consolidation reporting across the group.
• Investigate and resolve complex accounting issues, ensuring financial data integrity.
• Partner with auditors by preparing schedules, supporting documentation, and resolving audit queries.
• Collaborate with Finance and cross-functional stakeholders to improve accounting processes, reporting efficiency, and internal controls.
• Identify automation and process improvement opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of the finance function.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• A professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CA, CMA, or equivalent is highly preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive accounting experience, including General Ledger and financial reporting.
• Strong experience managing month-end and year-end close processes.
• Solid understanding of IFRS and GAAP.
• Experience preparing consolidated financial statements.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and experience working with ERP/accounting systems.
• Strong analytical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• High level of accuracy, attention to detail, and ownership.

Who You Are

• You're highly analytical and enjoy solving complex accounting challenges.
• You take ownership of your work and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
• You thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving priorities.
• You're detail-oriented without losing sight of the bigger business picture.
• You proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and strengthen controls.
• You communicate confidently with stakeholders across Finance and the wider business.
• You're organized, reliable, and committed to delivering high-quality work with minimal supervision.

The Hiring Journey

• Screening meeting with our TA team
• Technical interview 1
• Technical interview 2
• Culture-fit interview
• Offer stage

Want to Gain Extra Points?

We’re not looking for cookie-cutter applications. Surprise us.

Show us your creativity, your drive, and who you are beyond a CV. Send a Loom, a Notion page, a deck, a video, a voice note, whatever feels most “you.” Tell us why you belong here at Calo and why this role excites you.

Ready to Join?

If this role excites you, and you see yourself matching at least 85% of the criteria above, what are you waiting for? Yalla, let’s gooo!