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Financial Director

Disrupt.com
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Director
1 weeks ago
Financial Planning & ForecastingManagement ReportingTreasury ManagementFinancial ControlsCommercial FinanceDigital Assets
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Role Overview

  • We are looking for a Finance Director with a strong traditional finance foundation ideally from UAE banking, fintech, or regulated financial services, who has developed meaningful exposure to digital assets.
  • Your job is to own the financial operating engine and make the business legible — to the board, to investors, and to itself.

Financial Planning & Forecasting

  • Build and own the group's annual budget and rolling 12/24 month financial forecast across all three entities.
  • Design the financial planning cadence — monthly reviews, quarterly reforecasts, annual board level planning cycle.
  • Stress test plans against revenue scenarios, token price movements, and operational cost variables.
  • Ensure all three entities operate from a single consolidated financial model with clear entity level visibility.

Single Source of Truth — Reporting

  • Create integrated financial and commercial reporting that eliminates reconciliation gaps between sales data, treasury, and accounts.
  • Own all management reporting outputs — weekly financial flash, monthly board pack, quarterly business review.
  • Design the KPI dashboard framework that the executive team uses as its primary operating instrument.
  • Prepare clean, investor grade financial reporting for strategic partners, ecosystem stakeholders, and prospective capital providers.

Management by P&L

  • Lead the shift to P&L driven management — segmented by entity, product line, and market.
  • Partner with each business lead to define their unit economics, revenue drivers, and cost accountability.
  • Build the reporting cadence and accountability framework that ensures commercial leads own their numbers.
  • Identify margin leakage, cost overruns, and revenue shortfalls early and escalate with recommended actions.

Path to Profitability

  • Define a credible, board approved path to profitability roadmap with milestones, owners, and measurable outcomes.
  • Track performance against that roadmap monthly and drive corrective action when the business deviates.
  • Model the cash runway implications of commercial decisions — hiring, product investment, market expansion — before they are made.
  • Advise the COO and CEO on capital allocation trade offs with clear financial rationale.

Treasury & Cash Management

  • Manage multi currency operational treasury across fiat and digital asset holdings.
  • Maintain real time visibility of cash position across entities and jurisdictions.
  • Coordinate with the token advisory function on ZIG treasury governance — vesting, reserves, liquidity runway.
  • Manage banking relationships and ensure operational accounts are structured efficiently across DIFC and UAE free zone entities.

Controls, Compliance & Audit

  • Implement financial controls frameworks appropriate to a regulated virtual asset business operating in the UAE.
  • Own the external audit relationship and ensure group accounts are produced on time and to standard.
  • Coordinate with legal and compliance teams on VARA obligations, AML/KYC requirements, and any ADGM or DIFC reporting.
  • Maintain awareness of Islamic finance compliance requirements for Zamanat products.

Commercial Finance & Decision Support

  • Build financial models for new business opportunities — fee structures, partnership economics, new product launches.
  • Support fundraising processes with financial data rooms, models, and investor materials.
  • Lead the financial due diligence response for prospective investors and strategic partners.
  • Provide finance perspective in commercial negotiations with institutional partners and ecosystem stakeholders.

Required Experience & Qualifications

  • 8–12 years in finance, with meaningful time in a commercially oriented role beyond pure controllership.
  • UAE market experience — familiarity with local banking, regulatory environment, and doing business in the GCC.
  • Demonstrated ability to build financial infrastructure in a scale up or growth stage environment.
  • Hands on track record of building P&L reporting frameworks, forecasting models, and management reporting from scratch.
  • Qualified accountant — ACA, ACCA, CPA, or CFA strongly preferred.
  • Genuine familiarity with digital assets — can hold an intelligent conversation about token economics, DeFi mechanics, and on chain treasury.
  • Comfortable operating without a large support team; hands on until the function scales.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Background in UAE or MENA fintech, digital banking, financial exchange, or asset management.
  • Experience working in or alongside DIFC, ADGM, or VARA regulated entities.
  • Exposure to Islamic finance products — murabaha, sukuk, ijara — even at a working familiarity level.
  • Prior experience supporting a fundraise, capital raise, or M&A process from the finance side.
  • Exposure to institutional trading, exchange operations, or multi entity group finance.
  • Arabic language a plus, not a requirement.

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