Finance and Operations Analyst
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Location: Abu Dhabi Type: Full-time About Us The Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) is on a mission to empower the financial industry with the knowledge and skills required to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
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About Us
The Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) is on a mission to empower the financial industry with the knowledge and skills required to thrive in a rapidly changing world.
We operate at the intersection of finance, emerging technology, and education, working with central banks, governments, and financial institutions across the globe.
We believe the skills of tomorrow need to be built today.
We apply that belief to everything we do, including how we build our own team.
What Makes CFTE Special
We bet on people.
This is not a motto.
It is how we operate.
We move fast, take on ambitious work, and build things that matter.
The team is small, so your contribution is visible.
The work is real, so your impact is immediate.
Job Summary
CFTE is growing fast across the Gulf and the financial infrastructure of the business needs to keep pace.
We are searching for an exceptional profile to join our Abu Dhabi office.
As one of our early hires in the region you will be pivotal to facilitating CFTE's expansion and work across finance, operations and growth.
What You'll Do
- Own accounts receivable and payable, follow up on payments, manage invoices, and keep our financial position accurate and up to date
- Produce financial reports, forecasts, and projections that give leadership a clear picture of where we stand and where we are heading
- Manage financial documentation including contracts, purchase orders, and expense records with the rigour of someone who knows that detail matters
- Identify where processes are broken, slow, or missing and build something better
- Design and implement operational workflows that make the team faster and less reliant on manual effort
- Actively identify and deploy AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, improve output quality, and free up the team to focus on higher value work
What You'll Bring
- Strong work ethic and a passion for making a difference
- A solid accounting foundation and the discipline to keep the numbers straight under pressure
- A genuine obsession with improving how things work, you diagnose inefficiency, fix it, and build something that scales
- The ability to think on your feet, solve problems creatively, and learn quickly
- An entrepreneurial, proactive attitude with the hunger to grow
- Previous experience in fast-paced environments, startups, banking, management consulting, or similar
- Exceptional communication skills
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Strong competencies using digital tools, including AI tools in daily work
Why Join Us
- Be part of a driven, hard-working team on a mission to shape the future of finance
- Gain exposure to and learn from senior leaders of financial organisations, central banks, regulators, and rapidly growing startups
- Work on some of the most interesting topics today: innovation, technology disruption, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and many others
- Make a meaningful impact to a fast-growing company and benefit from significant opportunities for progression
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