Job Description

Most accounting and audit roles box you in. This one does not.

Arandor is a privately owned Cyprus holding company. We acquire founder-owned businesses and operate them for the long term. We have no outside investors, the company is funded and run by its owners, who work in the business directly. We run a lean, efficient operation.

We are more than a year old, with several acquisitions completed, an eight-figure balance sheet ready to deploy, a pipeline of further deals, and a portfolio whose revenues are already in the eight figures. The businesses we operate are established and profitable.

We are looking for one sharp accountant to own the numbers across the group as it grows. You will shape and build out the finance function as we acquire, and done well, the role grows into Group Financial Controller or Head of Finance.

This is not a back-office bookkeeping job. Most day-to-day bookkeeping sits with the accountants inside each company, your job is to review and challenge their work and keep it honest, while owning the parent company’s books directly. Beyond that, you will look inside the companies we buy, understand how each one makes money, and help decide where our cash works hardest.

A lot of what we do is bring visibility. Most of the companies we buy keep books that are clean enough to pass an audit but do not explain what is going on inside the business: they know the year-end P&L but often cannot break it down by project, site, or product line. Closing that gap is a core part of the job, working with and constructively challenging the portfolio-company accountants to make the books detailed enough that an operator can run the business off them.

What you will do

Accounting operations. Day-to-day bookkeeping of the portfolio companies is mostly handled internally, but it needs real oversight and critical review, not a rubber-stamp. Bookkeeping of the parent company is your responsibility directly. This covers AP and AR (including overdue collections), payroll, bank reconciliations, and VAT and tax filings, inter-company accounting (loans, management charges, balance matching, interest accruals), and bank contact for KYC, facility documentation, letters of credit and guarantees.

Treasury. You run the group’s cash: intercompany funding and loans, moving cash between entities, and payment runs, keeping every company funded for what it needs to pay. You identify surplus cash and help deploy it through approved short-term cash-management arrangements, while maintaining short-term cash-flow forecasts.

Compliance. A master calendar across every entity: statutory, tax, VAT, payroll, annual levies, UBO updates. Coordinate the external tax, legal, audit and corporate-services providers so nothing files late, make related payments on time, and keep a clean evidence trail of confirmations, receipts, payment proof and signed resolutions.

Acquisitions. Finance and compliance due diligence on targets. Are the records clean, consistent and explainable? Tell us plainly what you find, including when something does not add up. After a deal, help bring the new company’s books up to the standard we need.

Who you are

The qualification is the starting point, not the finish line. What we care about most is how you think, how you take ownership and the standard you hold yourself to.

We are looking for more than someone who executes well. The people who do well here take real ownership: when something is theirs, it is handled, and they notice what no one has flagged rather than waiting to be told what is wrong. Much of the value in this role is catching what others missed, so we want someone dependable enough to be trusted with the whole picture, and curious enough to keep digging until it makes sense.

The work is also lumpy. Between acquisitions it can be quieter: time to go deep on a portfolio company, tighten the systems, and get ahead of the next close. When a deal is live, it flips: you might be working until 3am to get an acquisition due diligence over the line, and you do not walk away from it half-finished. We are upfront about this because the rhythm suits some people more than others.

You will recognise yourself here if:

–  You take ownership. When something is yours, it is genuinely handled, no chasing required.

–  You are organised and dependable around deadlines, reconciliations and evidence.

–  You investigate an unexplained balance until you understand it.

–  You can tell a minor accounting issue from something management genuinely needs to know.

–  You are curious about businesses, not just numbers; you want to understand how a company makes money.

–  You form your own view and can defend it.

–  An undefined problem feels like something to work through, not avoid.

Early in your career but you recognise yourself in the mindset above? Apply anyway. We hire on character and judgement before CV.

Requirements

–  ACCA or ACA qualified, with roughly 2 to 5 years of experience (your training years count)

–  Strong accounting fundamentals, with the ability to produce a clean set of accounts and defend every line

–  Strong Excel

–  Professional fluency in English; working knowledge of Greek

–  Comfortable working directly with a CEO and across several companies at once

–  Based in Cyprus (or willing to relocate); able to work in Nicosia and travel to portfolio companies

Nice to have

–  Audit experience with a recognised firm, experience reviewing the work of bookkeepers or junior accountants

–  Exposure to group accounting, consolidations or intercompany transactions

–  Cyprus VAT, payroll and corporate-tax compliance

–  Experience in an owner-managed business, holding company, family office or investment environment

–  You invest a little on your own; you enjoy pulling apart companies’ balance sheets and accounts for fun

What you will get

–  A competitive salary, discussed transparently at an early stage of the process.

–  Private medical and life insurance.

–  Employer contribution to a provident fund or pension plan.

–  Travel and parking support for visits to portfolio companies.

–  Offices in Nicosia and Paralimni.

–  Reimbursement of reasonable contractual costs incurred when leaving an existing employer early, where agreed in advance.

–  Direct exposure to the CEO and senior decision-makers.

–  Meaningful responsibility from the beginning.

–  The opportunity to build systems and processes rather than simply inherit them.

–  Exposure to acquisitions, operating companies and capital-allocation decisions.

How to apply

Send your CV to contact@arandor.com, along with your answer to the question below, in the body of the email or a short attachment, your choice. We read the answer before the CV. It tells us more than a qualification does.

The question

One of our companies is profitable and closes a clean year-end P&L every year. But it can only tell you the total; there is no P&L per project, per site, or per customer. The founder runs it on instinct, and it works. We want to change that, so an operator can eventually run the business off the numbers.

Assume you have just started, and you do not yet know what systems or processes the company has today.

What are the first three things you would do, and why those three first? Aim for around 250 words; treat it as a guide, not a hard limit. Spend around 10 minutes on it.

How to Apply

Answer the above question and email us your cv and answers at contact@arandor.com

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