Senior Finance Analyst - Payments

Amazon UAE; Dubai; On-site; AED 245,520 - 390,600; Full time

Job summary

Amazon UAE is looking for a Senior Finance Analyst – Payments in Dubai. This role will manage financial models and analytics supporting Amazon Payments initiatives across MENA, South Africa, and Turkey.

The ideal candidate has a strong analytical background, 4+ years of experience in finance, and proficiency in SQL. This position is a chance to contribute significantly to the payments strategy with clear recommendations for financial success.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years of experience in finance, tax, business analysis, or financial planning.
• Strong SQL experience for data mining, reporting, financial analysis, and business intelligence.
• Experience in fast-paced, multi-region, or digital commerce environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage financial models for Amazon Payment Experience initiatives.
• Prepare variance analysis, financial metrics, and KPI dashboards.
• Build trusted relationships with finance, commercial, and operational stakeholders.

Skills

Financial planning and analysis

Payments finance

SQL

Business partnering

Controllership

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field

MBA or CPA qualification preferred

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

Job description

Job Snapshot

• Role: Senior Finance Analyst – Payments
• Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Industry: Internet
• Function: Financial Analysis-Research-Reporting
• Experience: 4 years
• Job Type: Full‑time
• Salary: 22,000–35,000 (AED)
• Gender: Any
• Nationality: Any

Overview

Senior Finance Analyst – Payments in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is an Internet sector opportunity for a skilled finance professional who can support Amazon Payments initiatives across MENA, South Africa, and Turkey through financial planning, analysis, controllership, reporting, and strategic business partnering. This role requires an analytical finance expert with strong SQL capability, KPI reporting experience, an automation mindset, and the ability to turn financial data into clear recommendations for payments strategy and regional business performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage financial models that support short‑term and long‑term planning for Amazon Payment Experience initiatives across MENA, South Africa, and Turkey.
• Prepare variance analysis, financial metrics, KPI dashboards, and performance reporting to explain business trends and key financial movements.
• Partner with Amazon Payments commercial teams and business stakeholders to align financial analysis with operational priorities.
• Challenge assumptions, validate business cases, and support data‑driven decisions that improve payments strategy and regional financial outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships with finance, commercial, operations, product, and leadership stakeholders to ensure alignment on financial and business goals.
• Strengthen finance controllership by maintaining accurate models, reports, review mechanisms, and financial processes.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, external policies, financial regulations, tax‑related requirements, and reporting standards.
• Conduct deep‑dive reviews to confirm reporting accuracy, identify anomalies, and improve confidence in financial outputs.
• Perform strategic financial analysis to uncover cost optimization opportunities, process improvements, revenue growth levers, and performance risks.
• Provide clear recommendations that support better payment experience, improved profitability, and stronger financial governance.
• Lead finance projects from planning to completion, managing timelines, priorities, quality checks, progress tracking, and issue resolution with limited supervision.
• Identify opportunities to automate, standardize, simplify, and scale finance tools, reporting workflows, and business processes.
• Manage month‑end close activities, including commentary preparation, financial performance analysis, variance explanations, and risk‑opportunity updates.
• Present findings, business insights, and financial guidance to senior management in a clear and actionable format.
• Perform ad‑hoc financial analysis to support leadership requests, regional initiatives, and emerging business needs.
• Use SQL and business intelligence tools to mine data, validate trends, and develop reliable reporting outputs.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, economics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, or another related analytical field.
• Minimum 4 years of experience in finance, tax, business analysis, financial planning, or a related analytical discipline.
• At least 4 years of experience applying financial KPIs, performance indicators, and business metrics to support decision‑making.
• Experience identifying, leading, and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize, or simplify finance and business tools.
• Strong SQL experience for data mining, reporting, financial analysis, and business intelligence.
• Ability to work with financial models, variance analysis, month‑end close, controllership reviews, and management reporting.
• Strong business partnering skills with the confidence to challenge assumptions and influence commercial stakeholders.
• Experience working in fast‑paced, multi‑region, or digital commerce environments is an advantage.
• MBA or CPA qualification is preferred.
• Experience with large‑scale data mining and reporting tools such as SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos, Oracle, SAP, Lawson, or JD Edwards is preferred.
• Strong ownership, attention to detail, analytical thinking, and ability to manage finance projects independently.
• Clear communication skills with the ability to convert complex financial findings into practical business recommendations.

Skills Set

• Financial planning and analysis
• Payments finance
• Business partnering
• Financial modelling
• Variance analysis
• KPI reporting
• Month‑end close
• Controllership
• Compliance review
• Tax‑related financial controls
• Strategic analysis
• Cost optimization
• Revenue analysis
• Process improvement
• Finance automation
• SQL
• Data mining
• Business intelligence
• Financial reporting
• Risk and opportunity analysis
• Management reporting
• Forecasting
• Budget analysis
• Commercial finance
• Project management
• Stakeholder management
• MS Access
• Essbase
• Cognos
• Oracle
• SAP
• Lawson
• JD Edwards

Why Join Us

This opportunity gives a finance professional the chance to support a high‑impact payments function across several important growth regions. The Senior Finance Analyst – Payments role offers exposure to regional strategy, payment experience initiatives, financial automation, senior stakeholder engagement, and large‑scale business analysis. It is a strong fit for someone who wants to combine finance expertise, data capability, and commercial insight in a fast‑moving digital payments and e‑commerce environment.

About the Company

Amazon is a global technology and e‑commerce company operating across online retail, marketplace services, payments, logistics, cloud technology, and customer‑focused digital solutions. In the UAE and wider region, Amazon continues to develop services that improve customer experience, support sellers, simplify transactions, and strengthen the digital economy through scalable technology, operational discipline, and data‑led business execution.