Finance Analyst
About the role
The Role
Ziina is looking for a Finance Analyst to own reconciliations across our business and build the data foundations that power Finance automation. This role is an exciting opportunity to shape how money is tracked, trusted and reported at a fast-growing, UAE-regulated payments company. That could mean tracing a variance across our ledger, gateways and banks until every dirham is accounted for, automating a weekly tracker that used to take hours, or building the dashboard leadership uses to make decisions on cash and runway. We're at a big moment in our growth, with a reconciliation engine already running, an ERP migration underway and a Finance team ready to automate more of how it works.
Our ideal candidate is a curious problem solver who digs into the numbers until they make sense and loves fixing things that are still done by hand. You'll thrive here by asking sharp questions, cross-checking your sources and turning what you learn into clear, reliable systems the rest of the team can depend on. In short, we want someone who loves getting to the bottom of things and is ready to help build a Finance function that scales with us
As a Finance Analyst at Ziina you will:
- Own Ziina's full set of reconciliations across our bank, GL, product ledger and gateways, delivering zero unexplained money variances at every month-end
- Run our reconciliation engine day to day, monitoring outputs, investigating every break to its root cause and partnering with Ops, Product and Engineering to see it through to resolution
- Automate the reconciliations that are still manual, and help define the exception logic that decides what's a match, a flag or an escalation
- Partner with our Accounting Manager to keep month-end close on track, with every reconciliation signed off, evidenced and audit-ready before the books close
- Build and own the Finance dashboard leadership relies on for cash, burn, runway and managerial P&L, and automate the weekly burn tracker so it runs itself
- Own the data pipelines feeding payroll, Ops, bank and gateway data into our ERP, and create shared definitions for revenue, TPV, rebates and chargebacks across every system
- Play a key role in our ERP migration and the rollout of new Finance tools, from mapping the chart of accounts and integrations to administering the tools once they're live
- Document how our Finance systems, integrations and data flows connect, so anyone on the team can understand and build on them
To succeed in this role, you likely:
- Have 1-3 years of experience in Finance, Accounting or a data-focused role, ideally at a fintech, bank or payments business where transaction data flows through multiple systems
- Write solid SQL independently and use it to answer Finance questions from scratch
- Are investigative by nature, digging into the numbers, cross-checking sources and questioning outputs until you understand exactly what's happening
- Have built or maintained a Finance report, tracker or dashboard, and know what makes data trustworthy
- Spot inefficiency quickly and feel a real pull to automate it
- Write clearly and concisely, summarising findings so others can act on them straight away
- Build strong working relationships across teams, especially with Ops and Engineering
- Are based in, or open to relocating to, the UAE
What would amaze us
- Hands-on experience with payment flows, including gateways, settlements, wallets and chargebacks
- A track record of turning a manual Finance process into an automated, self-running one
- Experience partnering with Engineering or Product on a data or systems project
- Confidence with Metabase, Looker, Mode or a similar BI tool
- Experience with month-end close, ERP systems or an ERP migration
