Senior Director of Finance

Aspire · Dubai

Hybrid: DubaiFull TimeFinance & Banking
Posted 3 months ago

Job description

Responsibilities

  • Lead Aspire's Finance and Revenue Operations/Deal Desk functions in the UAE, establishing scalable financial processes, controls, and reporting.
  • Partner with the executive team on strategic planning, capital allocation, and board communications.
  • Own budgeting, forecasting, scenario planning, cash flow and working capital management.
  • Drive revenue forecasting, SaaS metrics, and KPI frameworks that link operational activity to financial outcomes.
  • Provide cross-functional financial partnership to GTM, Product, and Customer teams to improve retention, predictability and unit economics.
  • Build and maintain scalable systems, dashboards and reporting to deliver timely, actionable financial insights.

Requirements

  • 8-12+ years progressive finance leadership
  • Proven SaaS / tech experience
  • Deep FP&A expertise
  • Revenue operations knowledge
  • Strong financial modeling skills
  • NetSuite and Salesforce familiarity
  • Advanced Excel / Sheets skills
  • Excellent stakeholder communication

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with fundraising and investor relations
  • Prior leadership of deal desk or revenue operations teams
  • Experience implementing scalable finance systems in high-growth companies
  • Familiarity with UAE corporate and tax environment preferred

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical) coverage
  • Paid annual leave and flexible PTO
  • End-of-year company break
  • Relocation allowance (where applicable)
  • Gratuity as per UAE law

About the Company

Aspire is a leading word-of-mouth commerce platform that helps brands scale influencer, affiliate, customer and UGC-driven marketing. Founded to accelerate performance across paid, owned and earned channels, Aspire partners with global ecommerce and consumer brands. This Senior Director of Finance role will be based in Dubai with hybrid working flexibility, and will lead finance operations for Aspire's next stage of growth in the region.

Skills & tools

FP&ASAASFinancial ModelingForecastingRevenue OperationsNetsuiteInvestor RelationsExcel

What the team is looking for

Use this list as a quick fit check before you apply.

  1. 01Finance leadership
  2. 02SaaS experience
  3. 03FP&A
  4. 04Revenue ops
  5. 05Financial modeling
  6. 06NetSuite
  7. 07Advanced Excel
  8. 08Investor relations