Head of Finance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Arab Emirates (UAE).

📋 Description

• Take charge of comprehensive management reporting, which includes P&L, Cash Flow Statement, Balance Sheet, plan-vs-actual analysis, and profitability assessment.

• Develop and oversee the budgeting cycle, payment calendar, cash-flow forecasting, gap analysis, scenario planning, and obligation monitoring.

• Create and implement the financial control framework, incorporating reconciliations, mismatch classification, SLA-driven resolutions, approval processes, and audit trails.

• Manage merchant settlements, covering settlement calculations, provider fees, minimum fees, surcharges, refunds, chargebacks, FX conversions, and balance transfers.

• Supervise multi-entity finance operations across legal entities, currencies, and intercompany transactions.

• Prepare data for statutory accounting and external audits.

• Lead financial automation by establishing financial logic, KPIs, data sources, requirements, and acceptance criteria for dashboards and reports.

• Collaborate with Data Analysts, Data Engineers, Development teams, and Treasury departments.

• Lead and nurture the Finance team by recruiting, structuring roles, assigning responsibilities, and fostering continuous improvement.

• Present financial results and insights to the CEO and founders.

• Within six months, create the Finance department structure, automate P&L reporting, implement cash-flow forecasting, enhance merchant settlement oversight, and clarify responsibilities among Finance, Treasury, and Data teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in finance.

• At least 3 years of experience managing a finance team or function.

• Experience in fintech, payments/PSP, acquiring, EMI, banking, crypto payments, or any high-volume transactional business.

• Demonstrated ability to build or transform financial processes and transition from manual Excel-based reporting to automated systems.

• Experience managing multiple legal entities, currencies, and intercompany operations.

• Hands-on experience with P&L, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet, and plan-vs-actual reporting.

• Capability to define financial metrics and standard calculation formulas, as well as develop unit economics.

• Conduct profitability analysis by product, client, channel, or business line.

• Proven experience in presenting financial results to C-level executives and board members.

• In-depth understanding of cash flow within a payment business.

• Familiarity with settlement cycles, provider fees, processing and clearing costs, refunds, chargebacks, FX conversions, and balance transfers.

• Ability to trace financial outcomes from a single transaction to the consolidated P&L.

• Practical experience in organizing regular reconciliations across internal data, PSPs, banks, obligations, and actual payouts.

• Proficient in classifying discrepancies, setting thresholds, assigning ownership, defining SLAs, and establishing resolution processes.

• Experience with audit trails, separation of duties, and control over manual adjustments.

• Ability to formalize financial business logic and establish formulas, data sources, and acceptance criteria for reports and dashboards.

• Experience in setting requirements for Data Analysts, Data Engineers, and Development teams.

• Competence in validating calculations, identifying discrepancies between dashboards and source data, and prioritizing automation based on business impact.

• Advanced skills in Excel / Google Sheets and experience in building financial models.

• Familiarity with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Grafana, Looker Studio, or similar.

• Comfort working with large volumes of data.

• Proficiency in English at a B2+ level (Upper-Intermediate or higher).

• Nice to have: experience with crypto payments, SQL, BigQuery or other DWH, ERP/reconciliation/treasury management systems, international company experience, European PSP/EMI/bank experience, finance department development or transformation, external audit experience, and remote team management experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Enjoy the flexibility of working fully remote as part of an international company.

• Operate in a data-driven environment with an established Data Platform, automated reconciliations, and data-quality checks.

• Benefit from a direct reporting line to the founders and CEO, with full ownership of the Finance function.

• Receive a clear mandate, resources, and support to build the Finance department and automate financial reporting.

• Work alongside existing finance staff and a dedicated Data team for collaborative automation efforts.

• Benefit from a separate Treasury function that manages execution.

• Experience career growth as the company expands across multiple entities, currencies, and markets.

• Competitive salary based on experience and individual performance evaluations.

• Enjoy transparent feedback in a culture that values ownership, open communication, and tangible impact.