Company Overview

Since 1992, Big Ticket LLC has been offering huge cash prizes and dream cars, creating unforgettable experiences for our customers. Our monthly guaranteed draws give participants the chance to win massive cash prizes, luxury cars, and more, with millions of dirhams awarded to lucky winners every month.

At Big Ticket, we’re more than just a raffle; we create moments of hope, joy, and excitement for people around the world. With a mission to turn dreams into reality through exciting games and entertainment and make every draw an event to remember.

Purpose and Objectives for the Role 

This is a hands-on, senior finance role sitting at the heart of the business. You’ll own the full financial control function, from month-end close and statutory reporting through to treasury, audit, and compliance, while also building out the division’s procurement capability from scratch. 

You’ll be the go-to person for anything finance-related across the business, working closely with the Finance Director and wider leadership team. If you’re the kind of person who wants to shape how a finance function operates rather than just maintain it, this role will suit you. 

Overall Responsibilities 

• Own the month-end process end to end. That means preparing and overseeing financial statements, producing monthly management accounts, and making sure everything is accurate, reconciled, and delivered on time.
• Run the accounting department on a day-to-day basis, managing the team, keeping operations moving, and stepping in where needed. You’re not just overseeing from a distance; you’re in the detail.
• Take full accountability for treasury, cashflow, accounts payable, and accounts receivable. Monitor cash positions, manage working capital, and flag risks before they become problems.
• Ensure all financials are fully reconciled across the balance sheet, intercompany, and bank. No loose ends. 
• Drive compliance across FTA, VAT, corporate tax, and financial audits, keeping the division clean and audit-ready at all times.
• Implement and maintain internal controls that safeguard company assets and make sure the right checks and balances are in place as the business grows.
• Manage the external audit relationship, coordinating with auditors, handling queries, and owning the process from planning through to sign-off. 
• Lead, coach, and develop the accounting team. Set clear expectations, build capability, and create an environment where people do their best work. 
• Build and enforce accounting policies, procedures, and systems. If a process doesn’t exist or doesn’t work, fix it. Continuous improvement is part of the job.
• Deliver financial analysis that actually drives decisions, partnering with leadership to support strategic planning, performance reviews, and investment decisions.
• Build the procurement function from the ground up. Create SOPs, draft procurement policy, and put a proper framework in place for how the division buys.
• Develop and execute procurement strategies that are aligned to business goals. This isn’t just admin. You’ll be shaping how we source, what we spend, and who we work with.
• Identify, evaluate, and negotiate with suppliers to secure the best terms, build strong vendor relationships, and hold suppliers to account.
• Track market trends and supplier performance, using data to inform purchasing decisions and stay ahead of cost pressures.
• Ensure procurement compliance with Group company policies and relevant regulations, working within the wider group framework while tailoring processes to divisional needs. 
• Own the procurement budget and report on cost-saving initiatives, showing where money is going and where it can be saved.
• Maintain accurate procurement records including purchases, pricing, contracts, and vendor information. Keep it clean and accessible. 

Skills Required 

• Strong technical accounting skills. You know IFRS, you know month-end, and you’ve done it at pace.
• Hands-on experience with Dynamics 365. SAP or Oracle experience is a plus. 
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills. You dig into the numbers, not just report them. 
• Solid leadership skills. You’ve managed teams before and know how to get the best out of people.
• Procurement experience or exposure, including supplier negotiations, contract management, and policy development. 
• A strong communicator who can translate finance into plain English for non-finance stakeholders. 
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, international environment with multiple priorities. 
• UAE corporate tax and VAT knowledge is a strong advantage. 

Qualifications Required 

• Qualified Accountant (CPA, ACCA, or equivalent). 
• Minimum 5 years’ post-qualified experience. Big 4 audit background preferred. 
• Extensive experience as a Financial Controller or equivalent senior finance role. 
• Ambitious, career-driven, and ready to step up into a leadership position. 

We are partnering with a venture-backed, early-stage technology company building a programmable loyalty and rewards operating system for global consumer brands. The platform enables brands to launch white-label fan engagement and monetisation experiences—including predictions, quests, digital drops, auctions, and ticketing—without gambling mechanics.

At its core, the platform combines consumer-grade applications with a tokenised exchange and settlement layer, enabling branded tokens to be issued, traded, and distributed at scale. Initial verticals are in global sports and entertainment, with expansion planned into additional IP-driven markets.

The company is now seeking a Founding CTO to lead the architecture and build-out of its protocol, exchange infrastructure, and engineering organisation from day one.

As Founding CTO, you will be responsible for designing, building, and scaling the full technical stack, with a particular focus on the exchange and protocol layer. You will oversee smart contract development, liquidity and market mechanics, wallet infrastructure, and the integration between on-chain systems and high-scale consumer products.

This is a hands-on leadership role suited to a senior Web3 technologist who has shipped production protocols and wants full ownership of technical strategy in a greenfield environment.

Responsibilities

• Exchange & protocol architecture
• Design and deploy a hybrid AMM / orderbook-based exchange for branded tokens
• Build liquidity pools, routing logic, and market-making infrastructure
• Define token economics, liquidity incentives, and trading mechanics
• Smart contracts
• Develop, test, and deploy core protocol contracts, including:
• Token standards
• Liquidity pools and staking
• Rewards distribution and governance
• Lead audit processes and ensure a strong on-chain security posture
• Wallet & settlement infrastructure
• Implement abstracted wallet solutions (e.g. smart accounts, MPC)
• Integrate fiat on/off-ramps and external custody providers where required
• Platform integration
• Oversee architecture connecting the protocol layer to:
• Engagement mechanics (predictions, quests, missions)
• Rewards and commerce systems (drops, auctions, ticketing, merchandise)
• Analytics and reporting dashboards
• Consumer products
• Guide development of mobile (iOS/Android) and web applications delivered under partner branding
• Leadership & strategy
• Hire, lead, and scale the engineering team across protocol, backend, and product
• Set engineering standards, development workflows, and technical roadmap
• Make strategic build-vs-buy decisions and select vendors and tooling

Qualifications

• 5+ years building blockchain or crypto infrastructure
• Proven experience shipping at least one protocol or exchange to mainnet
• Deep understanding of DeFi mechanics (AMMs, liquidity mining, tokenomics)
• Strong production smart contract experience with a clean audit track record
• Experience working with L2s, rollups, or app-chains
• Familiarity with consumer-facing systems and real-time platforms
• Comfortable operating in early-stage, resource-constrained environments
• Able to balance protocol purity with product and user experience needs
• Strong communicator across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Technical environment

• Smart contracts: Solidity (advanced), Foundry / Hardhat, formal verification fundamentals
• Languages: TypeScript/JavaScript, Rust or Go, Python
• Infrastructure: RPC operations, indexers/subgraphs, GCP, Docker/Kubernetes
• Security: Audit coordination, attack vector mitigation (reentrancy, flash loans, oracle risk), monitoring and incident response
• Product stack exposure: React Native or Flutter, PostgreSQL, Redis, event streaming (useful for protocol-to-product integration)