Finance and Operations Manager

About Us

What Makes CFTE Special

Job Summary

Finance

• 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.
• Support budgeting cycles and contribute to financial planning across programmes and projects.
• Maintain compliance with local financial regulations and keep our records audit-ready.
• Operations and Systems
• Identify where processes are broken, slow, or missing and build something better. You will be the person who sees a recurring problem and fixes it at the root.
• Design and implement operational workflows that make the team faster and less reliant on manual effort.
• Work across programme delivery, client management, and internal operations to streamline how things get done.
• Manage vendor and supplier relationships to ensure we get the right value and that payments and contracts are handled correctly.
• Support onboarding and internal operations as the team scales.
• Actively identify and deploy AI tools to automate repetitive tasks, improve output quality, and free up the team to focus on higher value work.
• Stay ahead of new tools and approaches. If there is a smarter way to do something, you will find it and implement it.

What You'll Bring

• Strong accounting foundation. You are comfortable with the numbers and confident in your ability to keep them straight.
• A genuine obsession with improving how things work. You do not accept inefficiency. You diagnose it, fix it, and build something that scales.
• A builder's mindset. You have experience not just managing processes but creating them, and you take pride in leaving things more structured than you found them.
• The ability to be hands-on. This is not a team of dozens. You will be doing real work, not just overseeing it.
• Deep comfort with AI tools and a track record of using them in practice. You think creatively about where AI applies and bring that into your daily work.
• High attention to detail and the discipline to maintain it under pressure.
• Clear, direct communication with leadership, with clients, and with external partners.
• Experience in fast-paced environments: startups, consulting, financial services, or similar.
• A drive to improve constantly. If you see a better way, you say so.

Why Join Us

• Be part of a driven, ambitious team building something at the edge of finance and technology.
• Take real ownership from day one. Your work shapes the business, not just a corner of it.
• Work directly with senior leadership and gain exposure to clients that include central banks, regulators, and major financial institutions.
• Build and lead processes that will serve us for years. Your fingerprints will be on how this company operates.
• Significant opportunity for growth as the organization scales in the Middle East and globally.