Dubai, UAE | Reports to Accounting Manager / Finance Lead | Up to AED 462,000 (tax-free) total annual cash compensation
Base salary up to AED 35,000/month (tax-free) plus a monthly performance bonus of up to 10%, with comprehensive benefits included.
WHERE THIS ROLE CAN LEAD
Business Finance and Transformation Manager
Senior Manager, Business Finance and Transformation Manager
Head of Business Finance
Career progression that takes 4-5 years elsewhere can happen in 1-2 years here for high performers.
Transform Finance Operations for a $1Billion+ brand. Build better workflows, stronger controls and a clearer view of where margins are heading.
We've been AI-first since December 2023: In this role, you'll use AI to stress-test forecast assumptions, challenge margin recommendations and review proposed process changes before sharing them with leadership. You'll document what was challenged and how you addressed it. You remain accountable for the numbers, the controls and the recommendation.
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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.
Who You'll Work With
Meet the team you'd be working with, and what you'd work on together:
AI Workflow Specialist
Your AI and workflow implementation partner
You’ll bring the Finance process knowledge, requirements and acceptance criteria; AI Workflow Specialist will support AI and workflow implementation. Together, you’ll test outputs, establish appropriate human checks and help the team adopt reliable ways of working.
What You'll Own
Finance Responsibilities
Improve Finance workflows: Diagnose bottlenecks across procure-to-pay and record-to-report. Redesign purchasing and payment controls, reconciliations, close and reporting with clear owners, controls and measures of success.
Own delegated controls: Review purchase orders, receipt evidence, invoice matching, approvals and payment readiness. Resolve exceptions with Accounting, Procurement and Operations, assigning evidence requirements, owners and resolution dates.
Own forecasting and commercial analysis: Maintain the rolling P&L forecast, test volume, mix, pricing, supplier-cost and freight assumptions, and analyse SKU, channel and entity profitability against reconciled actuals. Bring quantified recommendations to the Chief of Staff and business owners.
Implement reliable improvements: Define Finance requirements and acceptance criteria for AI-assisted or automated changes, working with specialists on implementation. Validate outputs against source records, establish monitoring and recovery procedures, and measure net time released and rework, including maintenance effort.
Build review capacity: Take on delegated control and reconciliation reviews, document procedures, coach operators and train backups. Develop accounting and close backup in agreed stages; expand Finale and supplier-held stock responsibilities only when scope, capacity and handover readiness are agreed. The Finance Lead retains accounting sign-off and technical and compliance accountability.
Finance Outcomes
A useful forward view: Deliver a first rolling forecast, margin diagnosis and quantified recommendations by day 30, with assumptions and data gaps clearly identified.
Capacity released: Put agreed workflow improvements into recurring use and show whether they reduce rework and release Finance time after ongoing review and maintenance effort is counted.
Stronger cost and payment controls: Improve the reliability of delegated procure-to-pay reviews, vendor reconciliations, inventory and landed-cost records, and their connection to COGS and margins.
Commercial actions followed through: Turn forecast and profitability findings into decisions with business owners, then track agreed margin and cost actions through to their financial outcomes.
Dependable coverage: Establish documented reviews, trained backups and staged handovers so improved workflows continue to run reliably without changing existing accountants’ routine processing or reporting lines.
Quality Standards
Make analysis auditable: Reconcile material forecast, margin and management-reporting figures to source and accounting records. Show the assumptions, data gaps and checks behind each recommendation.
Protect control integrity: Keep purchase, payment and close approvals intact. Record exceptions with the evidence needed, a clear owner and a resolution date.
Challenge AI-assisted work: Check AI outputs and proposed changes before relying on them. Each proposal should include an AI review link showing what was challenged and how you addressed it; you remain accountable for the final numbers and recommendation.
Design for recurring use: Test changes against real records and exceptions, with human review, monitoring and recovery procedures that the Finance team can sustain after handover.
Measure the full result: Report improvements using net time released and reduced rework, including preparation, review, correction and ongoing maintenance rather than only the time saved by an automated step.
Delivery Pace
Contribute from week one: Start gathering forecast and margin inputs with business owners while learning the existing Finance workflows and controls.
Deliver by day 30: Provide the first forecast, margin diagnosis and quantified recommendations in time to inform business decisions.
Keep recurring work moving: Complete delegated reviews and forecast updates against agreed Finance cycles, with fast turnaround that does not bypass required checks or approvals.
Raise issues early: Flag material risks, missing inputs and unresolved exceptions promptly, with their likely impact and a recommended next action.
Expand scope deliberately: Document the work and establish backup coverage as improvements enter regular use. Take on wider inventory and close responsibilities in agreed phases, subject to readiness and the Finance Lead’s delegated boundaries.
What You Bring
What you must demonstrate
Relevant experience: At least 5 years in finance and accounting, with responsibility for financial delivery, controls and business analysis.
Finance transformation: Personally delivered Finance process improvements into recurring use and measured the results, whether through redesign, systems, automation or AI.
Business-finance ownership: Maintained forecasts, challenged assumptions and taken margin or cost recommendations through to business decisions.
Accounting and controls: Owned or reviewed controls and reconciliations, with sound knowledge of procure-to-pay, record-to-report, inventory, landed costs, COGS and close.
Reporting: Built transparent, auditable spreadsheets, validated source data and reconciled management figures to accounting records.
Ownership and influence: Secured inputs and action across functions, communicated with leaders and escalated issues with a recommendation.
Practical AI judgment: Used AI critically, validated outputs and applied appropriate human review and financial controls. Previous transformation projects need not have used AI.
Must be willing to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Additional advantages
Experience in inventory-led, e-commerce, retail or multi-entity businesses.
Familiarity with QuickBooks, Zoho or comparable accounting systems.
Experience with Finale or similar inventory platforms.
Hands-on experience with AI tools, workflow automation or querying and integration tools used in Finance.
CA, ACCA, CMA or comparable financial training.
WEEK 1
— Land well
Get access to the Finance records, reporting files and approved tools for your agreed scope. Complete Asana training and a role-specific AI-Native Starter Pack covering financial-data handling, source reconciliation and scenario checks. Meet the Finance Lead, Chief of Staff and your cross-functional partners; start gathering forecast and margin inputs.
WEEK 2
— Get the full picture
Review current procure-to-pay, reconciliations, close and reporting work, including earlier changes and their limits. Examine the data behind forecasts and margins, then agree the inputs and checks for your first financial view.
WEEK 3
— Start contributing
Build your first forecast and margin diagnosis with business-owner inputs. Test assumptions, reconcile outputs to accounting records and define Finance requirements and human checks for a priority workflow improvement.
WEEK 4
— Your first ship
Deliver your first forecast, margin diagnosis and quantified recommendations with clear assumptions and data gaps. Share your early view of where Finance can release capacity and improve its forward view, then agree next implementation priorities with the Finance Lead and the Chief of Staff.
Meet GIA, your AI talent partner, who will share how and why this is more than just a job!
Our team includes alumni from some of the world's most competitive institutions and companies. When you join Puffy, you're joining colleagues who push each other to be better.
A few of the many ways we invest in you, applicable based on your work location and eligibility
Pay and Recognition
Monthly performance bonus of up to 10%
Annual salary review every January
Monthly leader awards and Leaders Club
Merit-based progression
Up to 50% product discount, free mattress after one year
Growth
Learning budget for courses and certifications
Career progression as we grow
Quarterly feedback
Health and Time Off
Premium health insurance
Leave entitlement follows your location, plus public holidays
How We Work
AI-native since 2023
State-of-the-art tech and tools, equipment provided
A team spanning many nationalities
Additional benefits vary by location. See Where You'll Work for details.
Live and Work in Vibrant Dubai
Relocating to Dubai? Our office is a diverse and vibrant workplace of 65+ team members from more than 16 different nationalities, backgrounds and cultures.
Apply for any of our Dubai roles and enjoy:
No income tax — keep 100% of your earnings!
Flight to Dubai
Two-week hotel stay
Full relocation support
Annual flight home
Arthur Andreasyan, Puffy CEO, Founder & Forbes Council Member
Hi there,
If you're reading this, you're probably asking whether Puffy is the right place for your next chapter. I founded Puffy in 2017 after a simple question: "What would it feel like to sleep on a cloud?" That question became a business, and I wanted to build a company where ambitious people could grow with us.
That same mindset is why we became AI-first in December 2023, well before it became a standard way of working. We move quickly, stay relentless and hungry, question the usual way of doing things, and give people real ownership. We believe a focused team can outperform much larger companies. What matters here is the quality of your work, the decisions you make, the problems you solve before anyone asks, and the impact you create.
If you join us, I'll expect a lot from you, and I'll make sure you have the trust, context, and support to do meaningful work. If that kind of challenge excites you, I'd be glad to have you build Puffy with us.
Looking forward to working with you,
ArthurA
Arthur Andreasyan
Puffy CEO, Founder & Forbes Council Member
At Puffy, we want to get to know you and the strengths you bring.
Our hiring process gives you a chance to show your skills and explore the work you could do.
2-phase process, as quick as 7 business days.
Note: Our process is 100% free. We never use third-party agencies or ask for payment.
1
YOUR TIME
Up to 60 minutes total
Show how you think and apply your skills in two parts:
Phase 1A: Role-Based Questions
Up to 30 minutes · Without AI
Answer role-specific questions that assess the skills and knowledge you would use in the role.
Phase 1B: Technical Case Study
30 minutes · AI encouraged
Apply your skills to a practical problem relevant to the role. Explain your approach and the reasoning behind your proposed solution.
OUR RESPONSE
Within 2 business days of completing both parts
2
Phase 2A: Hiring Manager Interview
YOUR TIME
45-60 minutes
Discuss your experience, approach to the Technical Case Study and use of AI with the hiring manager.
Learn more about the role, team and expectations.
OUR RESPONSE
Within 2-3 business days after your interview
Phase 2B: Final Interview
YOUR TIME
Around 30 minutes
Discuss how you work, what motivates you and the practical details of joining, including location, compensation expectations and availability.
OUR RESPONSE
Within 2 business days after your interview
From application to a clear yes or no, either way.
Can you tell me more about Puffy's benefits?
Puffy knows that happy, healthy employees do good work. Here’s a list of full benefits in addition to the highlights mentioned above:
Learning and development support (we pay for courses you need to upskill)
Career progression opportunities — you grow as we grow
Get a chance to earn a monthly performance bonus based on your performance, with the maximum percentage specified in your role’s compensation package.
Annual salary review every January
Quarterly feedback
Commitment to diversity and inclusion
Merit-based progression and achievement recognition
State-of-the-art tech and tools
Premium health insurance
Team life insurance coverage (Dubai roles)
Annual flight home (Dubai roles)
Generous annual leave entitlement (vacation, sick leave, parental, maternity, study leave), in addition to public holidays
Free catered lunch for the
entire team on Fridays
Kitchen restocked daily with healthy
snacks, fresh fruits, and beverages
Regular social activities and events
Monthly Puffy leader awards to
recognize achievement
Puffy product discount of up to 50%
for employees and eligibility for a
free Puffy mattress after 1 year of service
Why do I have to take an online test if I have the relevant skills and experience?
We’d love to see how you put your skills and experience into practice. Through role-based questions and a technical case study, you can show us how you think and solve problems while getting a feel for the work at Puffy. We use consistent criteria for candidates applying to the same role, giving you a fair opportunity to demonstrate your strengths.
Is there an expiry date for the online test? When do you expect me to complete the online assessment?
The invitation link for the online test only expires once the position is filled. However, our hiring process moves quickly, so we highly recommend you complete it as soon as you can.
Please note these important details:
Session Time: Once started, the test has a 4-hour inactivity timer before it auto-submits your answers.
Returning Candidates: If you applied for this same role within the last 6 months, our system may use your previous assessment score. In this case, you may be taken directly to a confirmation page.
Top Tip: The invitation email may go to your spam or junk folder, so please check there if you haven't received it.
If you still encounter any issues, please reach out to us at careers@puffy.com.
Does Puffy offer flexible or remote working arrangements?
Our goal is to create the optimal environment for you to do your best work. Our approach is tailored to the focus of each role:
Dubai Hub (On-site): Our Dubai office is our hub for deep, in-person collaboration. All roles here are on-site to help our teams move fast and innovate together.
North Hollywood Hub (On-site): Our North Hollywood office brings teams together for close, in-person collaboration. Roles based here are on-site to support fast decisions, strong teamwork, and shared momentum.
Remote US: Some roles are designed to be fully remote across the US, giving us access to exceptional talent while keeping teams closely connected and aligned.
Remote Global: Selected roles are open globally, allowing us to bring exceptional people together regardless of where they are based.
Not every position is available remotely. You’ll always find the location and working arrangement clearly stated in the job posting, whether the role is based in Dubai, North Hollywood, Remote US, or Remote Global.
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