About the Role
We are looking for a Finance Operations Specialist to run and improve the systems, processes, and controls that keep money moving cleanly through the organization. This is a role for someone who enjoys building the plumbing of a finance function as much as operating it.
You will sit at the center of our procure to pay, order to cash, treasury, and reporting workflows, working across finance, procurement, people, and project teams. You will own the tooling, the data, and the process design, and you will be the person who spots where cash, cost, or compliance is leaking and fixes it.
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What You Will Do
Process and Controls
- Own the procure to pay and order to cash cycles end to end, from purchase requisition and approval through invoicing, payment, and collection.
- Design, document, and continuously improve finance processes, approval matrices, and internal controls as the business scales.
- Build and maintain the supplier and customer master data, including onboarding, verification, and payment term governance.
- Identify bottlenecks and manual effort across finance workflows and automate or redesign them.
Cash and Treasury
- Manage daily banking operations, payment runs, and bank portal administration across multiple accounts and currencies.
- Produce short and medium-term cash flow forecasts and track actuals against forecast with clear commentary.
- Monitor working capital, aging, and payment cycles, and drive actions to improve collections and payment discipline.
- Support foreign exchange, corporate card, and petty cash administration with appropriate controls.
Systems and Data
- Act as functional owner of our finance systems, including the ERP or accounting platform, expense tool, and payment platforms.
- Lead or support finance system implementations, integrations, and data migrations alongside the wider team.
- Build reporting and dashboards that give leadership a reliable view of spend, cash, and commitments.
- Maintain data integrity across finance systems and reconcile between platforms where integrations are incomplete.
Compliance and Partnership
- Support UAE VAT and corporate tax compliance by ensuring transaction data and documentation are capture ready.
- Support payroll operations, WPS submissions, and employee expense and reimbursement cycles.
- Prepare audit ready schedules and respond to auditor and bank requests with complete supporting evidence.
- Partner with procurement, project, and people teams so budgets, purchase orders, and commitments stay aligned to reality.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
- Three to six years in finance operations, shared services, business finance, or a similar hands-on role.
- Experience in the UAE or wider GCC, with working knowledge of UAE VAT, corporate tax, and WPS.
- Strong practical ownership of an ERP or accounting platform such as NetSuite, Odoo, Xero, or QuickBooks, plus expense and payment tools.
- Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, and comfort working with large transaction datasets.
- A process mindset, with a track record of documenting, simplifying, and automating finance workflows.
- Sound understanding of accounting fundamentals and IFRS as applied to daily operations.
- Clear communication and the confidence to hold other teams to process without slowing them down.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias for building the system rather than waiting for one.
Nice to Have
- Part qualified or qualified accountant (ACCA, CPA, CA, or CMA).
- Experience in a scaling technology, robotics, or production business with project-based cost tracking.
- Exposure to finance automation tooling, scripting, or reporting platforms such as Power BI or Looker.
