Intern - Fintech

As an Intern in Fintech, you will support the Fintech Financial Controller in maintaining the integrity, completeness, and timeliness of core Fintech control activities across multiple product lines. In this role, you will play a critical part in strengthening financial governance, ensuring robust data oversight, managing recurring reconciliation workflows, and eliminating single points of failure across key financial processes.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the periodic reconciliation of financial flows, supporting data validation and identifying financial discrepancies across multiple Fintech product lines.
• Track, investigate, and follow up on unresolved items to ensure smooth, accurate, and timely month-end and period-end closing cycles.
• Support variance analysis against established benchmarks, proactively flagging operational anomalies and financial deviations for senior review.
• Contribute to cost control effectiveness by systematically monitoring expense deviations and escalating operational risks before they impact financial performance.
• Maintain, structure, and update key financial logs, reconciliation trackers, and audit documentation across assigned Fintech service streams.
• Continuously monitor the completeness and accuracy of financial records to ensure full alignment with underlying transactional activity.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets (pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, advanced logical formulas, structured data manipulation).
• Exceptional attention to detail, comfort working with large datasets, and a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to manage recurring monitoring tasks and routine control workflows with consistency, ownership, and follow-through.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills in English, with a proactive approach to escalating issues and following up across teams.
• Familiarity with financial control concepts, reconciliation frameworks, or prior exposure to audit, fintech, or payment processing environments is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of data querying or scripting tools (e.g., SQL, Python) is an advantage.

Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates