Business Finance and Transformation Manager

Puffy; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 260,000 - 460,000; Full time

Job summary

Puffy, the $1B+ e-commerce brand, seeks a hands-on Finance Leader to transform procure-to-pay and record-to-report operations, delivering clearer, AI-assisted insights. You will own end-to-end financial delivery while maintaining strong controls and partnering with cross-functional teams.

Reporting to the Accounting Manager / Finance Lead and collaborating with the Chief of Staff, you will drive workflow improvements, forecast accuracy, and actionable recommendations for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Identify bottlenecks in procure-to-pay and record-to-report, and implement improvements that preserve control and accuracy.
• Turn margin and forecast findings into quantified recommendations for action by business leaders.

Job description

Job description

About the Role

About the Role

The Opportunity

You'll transform how Finance operates for Puffy.com, a $1Billion+ e-commerce brand, improving procure-to-pay and record-to-report work while turning forecasts and margin analysis into clear business recommendations. Reporting to the Accounting Manager / Finance Lead and partnering directly with the Chief of Staff, you'll own business-finance delivery, agreed workflow improvements and delegated operational reviews; the Finance Lead retains accounting sign-off. This is a hands‑on individual‑contributor role with no direct reports, combining commercial judgment, accounting depth and AI-assisted delivery with specialist implementation support.

The Problems You'll Own

1. Primary: Release Finance capacity without weakening controls

Recurring work and manual reviews across procure-to-pay and record-to-report consume Finance capacity and create review bottlenecks. You'll identify the causes and implement improvements that reduce rework and release time while preserving financial accuracy, approvals and accountability.

2. Secondary: Turn financial analysis into business action

Recurring delivery limits the team's capacity for proactive forecasting and margin analysis. You'll build a reliable forward view of performance, investigate margin and cost issues, and turn findings into quantified recommendations that business leaders can act on.

Resources Provided

You’ll have access to our latest company-provided AI tools, including ChatGPT, Claude, multiple AI agents, bots, plugins, AI projects, and automations through platforms such as n8n. You’ll also receive the department tools, relevant data, assets and specialist support needed to deliver your work. We expect you to use these resources to automate routine work and deliver high-quality results quickly.

Decision-making authority

You'll own the work and recommendations within agreed Finance priorities and delegated control scope.

1. You can decide independently: Choose analytical methods and organise your work using approved tools and authorised data; investigate forecast and margin issues; and recommend practical workflow improvements.

2. Approval required: Agree changes to priorities, delegated responsibilities and resources with the Finance Lead. Obtain approval before spending, purchasing tools, sharing sensitive data externally, or changing live systems, controls or approval routes.

The Finance Lead retains accounting sign-off and technical and compliance accountability. Existing accountants retain routine processing and their reporting lines.