Senior Finance Business Partner – Couriers & Food – United Arab Emirates
We are looking for a Senior Finance Business Partner – Couriers & Food who will own the commercial finance function for our Couriers and Food verticals end-to-end.
Couriers is a double-digit million dollar revenue vertical scaling rapidly with ambitious product launches and expansion plans. Food (Restaurant delivery) is launching imminently through strategic partnerships with plans to grow quickly. In this role, you will build the financial infrastructure from scratch — driver-based forecasting models, initiative ROI frameworks, partnership unit economics, and automated reporting. You will own target-setting, rolling reforecasts, weekly performance tracking, and scenario modelling, while acting as the single finance counterpart to the Director of Delivery. The business expects you to challenge assumptions, flag risks early, and translate complex operational dynamics into clear financial recommendations that drive better decisions. This is a greenfield role with significant autonomy.
Couriers is a double-digit million dollar revenue vertical scaling rapidly with ambitious product launches and expansion plans. Food (Restaurant delivery) is launching imminently through strategic partnerships with plans to grow quickly. In this role, you will build the financial infrastructure from scratch — driver-based forecasting models, initiative ROI frameworks, partnership unit economics, and automated reporting. You will own target-setting, rolling reforecasts, weekly performance tracking, and scenario modelling, while acting as the single finance counterpart to the Director of Delivery. The business expects you to challenge assumptions, flag risks early, and translate complex operational dynamics into clear financial recommendations that drive better decisions. This is a greenfield role with significant autonomy.
- Build the couriers driver-based financial model from scratch: GMV → orders → done rate → take rate → net revenue, split by market and product/initiative line
- Model the business case for every major product/initiative launch and new market entry using a standardised ROI template
- Own all couriers forecasting in Workday Adaptive Planning with full driver assumptions documented
- Monthly plan-fact analysis by market: explain every material variance, challenge the business when assumptions are wrong
- Weekly performance tracking against budget and stretch targets, with early warning flags when run-rates indicate risk to quarterly commitments.
- Own monthly rolling forecasts — update driver assumptions based on actuals, flag risks and opportunities, and provide management with a credible landing range.
- Scenario modelling: quantify the impact of operational improvements (done rate, pricing changes, new channels) and give the business a range of outcomes, not a single number
- Transition all courier reporting from Google Sheets to Workday and Tableau: build automated dashboards for market-level performance, done rate trends, take rate analysis, cost per delivery
- Resolve cross-vertical cost allocation issues (e.g. shared Delivery Hub expenses, ride-hailing bonus allocation)
- Stand up finance for Food vertical launch: New partnership unit economics modelling (revenue share, restaurant commission rates, AOV, delivery cost, path-to-break-even), investment due diligence for potential acquisitions, and standardised financial onboarding playbook for future food partnerships
- Own the annual Couriers and Food budget: revenue by market, OPEX by cost centre, built from drivers
- Prepare BRM, investor deck, and management board inputs for Couriers & Food: growth story, unit economics improvement, path to target
- Management consulting, Big 4 advisory background or CIMA/ACCA qualification (or equivalent management accounting credential) strongly preferred.
- 6+ years relevant experience in commercial finance, FP&A, or finance business partnering, with at least 1–2 years in a senior or lead role
- Strong financial modelling skills: able to build unit economic driver-based models from first principles in Excel. You should be comfortable with a blank spreadsheet, not just inherited templates
- Experience with marketplace, logistics, delivery, or food delivery economics (GMV, take rate, done rate, cost per delivery, route economics, partnership unit economics) is a strong advantage
- Proven ability to work independently and build financial processes where none exist – this is a greenfield role with significant autonomy
- Comfortable challenging senior stakeholders with data: you will be the financial voice in the room, and the business expects you to push back on a Director-level counterpart
- Experience with partnership or joint venture economics (revenue share modelling, due diligence) is a plus
- Experience with Workday Adaptive Planning, Tableau, or similar BI/planning tools is preferred
- Strong communication skills: ability to translate complex financial analysis into clear recommendations for non-finance audiences
- Fluent English required. Additional languages relevant to our operating markets are a plus
- Problem-solving orientation: hypothesis-driven, comfortable with ambiguity, unit economics mindset
- Stable salary, official employment
- Health insurance
- Hybrid work mode and flexible schedule
- Access to professional counseling services including psychological, financial, and legal support
- Diverse internal training programs
- Partially or fully paid additional training courses
- All necessary work equipment
