FinOps Specialist

Nodi; Madrid; On-site; EUR 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Nodi is seeking a FinOps Specialist to safeguard financial integrity, drive operational resilience, and optimize high-risk transactional flows across merchants, FX, and financial processes.

You will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Data, and Finance to design automated controls, dashboards, and governance that scale with the business; fluently using SQL and BI tools to deliver insights.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in projects, QA testing, auditing, reconciliations, or multinational companies.
• Ability to manipulate large data sets; experience with Simetrik is a plus.
• Attention to detail with strong analytical thinking.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Strong SQL and BI tool proficiency (Tableau, PowerBI, Looker).

Responsibilities

• Establish, monitor, and enforce robust assurance frameworks across regional markets.
• Design and execute a roadmap to automate fx reconciliations, controls, and risk monitoring.
• Identify gaps; partner with Product, Engineering, Data, and Finance to build scalable automation.
• Lead root-cause analysis of operational differences and ensure corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Finance, Treasury, Commercial, Product, Tech, and Compliance to align priorities.
• Set up dashboards and metrics for continuous monitoring and executive visibility.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Multitasking

English communication

Tools

SQL

BI tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Looker

Simetrik

Job description

As our FinOps Specialist, you will be responsible for safeguarding business integrity, operational resilience, and financial precision. Acting as a strategic subject matter expert, you will oversee high-risk transactional flows and collaborate cross-functionally to proactively identify, mitigate, and resolve operational risks related to merchants, FX, and financial processes.

You will play a key role in elevating the FinOps Specialist function into a highly standardized, automated, and data-driven discipline. You will design and execute an assurance roadmap that levers technology, robust control frameworks, and best practices to drive operational excellence, scalability, and governance.

What will you be doing?

• Oversight & Assurance: Serving as a senior regional authority to establish, monitor, and enforce robust business assurance frameworks across regional markets and operations.
• Process & Control Transformation: Designing and executing a process transformation roadmap to simplify, standardize, and automate complex fx reconciliations, controls, and risk-monitoring mechanisms.
• Digitalization & Automation: Identifying operational gaps and manual vulnerabilities (e.g., in reconciliations, FX monitoring, merchant settlements) and partnering closely with Product, Engineering, Data, and Finance teams to implement sustainable, automated, and scalable solutions.
• Issue Governance & Structural Fixes: Driving root-cause analysis on operational differences, control deficiencies, and transactional anomalies; ensuring cross-functional execution of corrective and preventive action plans to achieve long-term structural fixes.
• Cross-Functional Influence & Alignment: Collaborating strategically with regional and global stakeholders (Finance, Treasury, Commercial, Product, Tech, and Compliance) to align priorities, mitigate operational exposure, and streamline workflows.
• Continuous Improvement & Risk Analytics: Establishing continuous monitoring mechanisms through key metrics, automated dashboards, and regular assurance reviews to provide visibility to executive leadership.

What skills do I need?

• High attention to detail, well organize and excellent analytical skills.
• 2+ years of experience in Projects, QA testing, internal/external auditing, reconciliations, or multinational companies.
• Ability to manipulate large amounts of data. Experience with Simetrik would be a plus
• Ability to adapt to change quickly and multi-task.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated, and confident.
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Solid experience with SQL and BI tools (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI, Looker) to query, analyze, and build automated assurance dashboards.
• Applied AI & Automation Skills: Practical experience leveraging AI tools (e.g., LLMs, Generative AI, or machine learning frameworks) and prompt engineering to accelerate data analysis, automate anomaly detection, enhance risk identification, and streamline core assurance workflows.