Finance Business Partner

Stealth AI Company; Dubai; On-site; AED 260,000 - 380,000; Full time

Job summary

Balio is seeking a senior finance partner to lead FP&A and budgeting for a cluster of portfolio companies across UAE, UK and US. You will own forecasts, budgets, FP&A dashboards and ensure timely closed books, collaborating with offshore accountants.

The role requires IFRS expertise, 6+ years of experience, and strong communication to partner with operational teams and GMs. This is a high-ownership, analytical role in a fast-paced, acquisitive environment.

Qualifications

• Professional accounting qualification mandatory.
• 6+ years relevant experience.
• Strong IFRS knowledge.
• Experience with ERP implementations.
• Forecasting, budgeting and FP&A proficiency.
• Ability to lead offshore teams.
• Clear written and verbal communicator.

Responsibilities

• Business partnering — support the operational teams and GMs of your portfolio companies, translating financial performance into clear, actionable insight and challenge.
• Forecasting & budgeting — own the budgets and rolling forecasts for your entities: build them, keep them current, and hold the business to them.
• FP&A & reporting — produce and maintain FP&A dashboards and management reporting that give operators and leadership a live view of performance.
• Month-end close oversight — ensure the books close accurately and on time each month, directing offshore team activity.
• Technical accounting — own and resolve technical accounting matters (IFRS treatment, revenue recognition, judgemental areas) across your entities.
• AR & AP — track and control receivables and payables, maintaining working capital.
• Cash flow — track, forecast and report cash flow for your entities and the group.
• Efficiency & controls — drive process improvements and robust controls across the finance function.

Skills

Business partnering

Forecasting

Budgeting

FP&A

Management reporting

IFRS knowledge

Technical accounting

AR/AP & cash flow

Offshore coordination

Communication

Education

Professional accounting qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CPA)

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

About Balio

Balio is a permanent-capital software group that acquires and operates a portfolio of B2B SaaS companies across the US, UK and UAE. Group Finance runs a single-source financial record for the whole portfolio — consolidated in USD, closed monthly — and partners closely with the General Managers and operational teams who run each portfolio company. Day-to-day bookkeeping is handled by a dedicated offshore support-accounting team, freeing this role to focus on planning, analysis, technical accounting and business partnering. It's a fast-moving, acquisitive environment where finance owns outcomes end to end.

About Balio

Balio is a permanent-capital software group that acquires and operates a portfolio of B2B SaaS companies across the US, UK and UAE. Group Finance runs a single-source financial record for the whole portfolio — consolidated in USD, closed monthly — and partners closely with the General Managers and operational teams who run each portfolio company. Day-to-day bookkeeping is handled by a dedicated offshore support-accounting team, freeing this role to focus on planning, analysis, technical accounting and business partnering. It's a fast-moving, acquisitive environment where finance owns outcomes end to end.

Purpose of the role

Act as the finance partner to a cluster of portfolio companies — supporting their operational teams, owning their forecasts, budgets and FP&A, and standing behind the integrity and timeliness of their numbers. The transactional bookkeeping is done by the offshore support accountants; your job is to turn those books into insight, plans and decisions, resolve the technical accounting, and keep the whole cycle running efficiently.

Key Responsibilities

• Business partnering — support the operational teams and General Managers of your portfolio companies, translating financial performance into clear, actionable insight and challenge.
• Forecasting & budgeting — own the budgets and rolling forecasts for your entities: build them, keep them current, and hold the business to them.
• FP&A & reporting — produce and maintain FP&A dashboards and management reporting that give operators and leadership a live view of performance.
• Month-end close oversight — ensure the books close accurately and on time each month, reviewing and directing the work of the offshore support accountants rather than performing the bookkeeping yourself.
• Technical accounting — own and resolve technical accounting matters (IFRS treatment, revenue recognition, judgemental areas) across your entities.
• AR & AP — track and control receivables and payables, keeping working capital clean and issues surfaced early.
• Cash flow — track and forecast cash flow for your entities and feed the group cash position.
• Efficiency & controls — ensure the finance process for your cluster runs at maximum efficiency, with sound controls and continuous improvement of ways of working.

What Success Looks Like In The First 6 Months

• Every entity in your cluster closes accurately and on time, with the offshore team working smoothly to your direction.
• Budgets and rolling forecasts are live, trusted and used by operators to make decisions.
• FP&A dashboards give leadership a real-time view of portfolio performance, and technical accounting issues are resolved cleanly at source.

Requirements

• Professional accounting qualification (ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CPA or equivalent) — mandatory.
• 6+ years' relevant experience.
• Strong working knowledge of IFRS.
• Experience with ERP or other finance-tool implementations.
• Proven forecasting, budgeting and FP&A capability, including building management dashboards.
• Strong technical accounting judgement and comfort owning close, AR/AP and cash flow.
• Self-directed and effective in a lean, fast-paced, acquisitive environment; able to direct offshore support and partner with non-finance operators.
• Clear written and verbal communicator.

Preferred / Desirable

• UK tax experience preferred.
• SaaS / technology-sector finance experience preferred, including familiarity with SaaS metrics (ARR, NDR/GDR, MRR).
• QuickBooks and Xero experience advantageous.
• Exposure to group consolidation, multi-entity and multi-currency finance.
• Experience onboarding or integrating an acquired business into a group.
• Experience in a private-equity, holding-group or portfolio environment.
• UAE / DIFC or international group experience.

Team & working context

You'll be one of a small group of portfolio-facing finance business partners reporting to the Financial Controller, supported by an offshore support-accounting team that handles transactional bookkeeping. The role is high-ownership and analytical: someone who wants to partner the business, own the plan and direct the numbers across several companies will thrive; someone who wants to do the bookkeeping themselves will not. By submitting this application, I agree that my personal data will be collected, processed, and retained by the company solely for the purposes of managing and assessing my candidacy.