Finance Operations Specialist

Job Description

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