FinOps Specialist

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Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, ESP
Hybrid
Junior
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
Oversee high-risk transactional flows, financial controls, FX reconciliations, merchant settlements, and operational assurance across regional markets. The role drives process standardization, automation, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, risk monitoring, and executive reporting. It partners with Finance, Treasury, Product, Engineering, Data, Compliance, and Commercial teams to improve operational resilience, governance, and financial accuracy through SQL, BI tools, AI, and automated dashboards.
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Why Join dLocal?
dLocal is the financial infrastructure powering global commerce in the world's fastest-growing markets. The biggest companies in the world trust us to unlock growth in 60+ countries across emerging markets—moving money where others see complexity. We don't just process payments; we are architects of payment ecosystems and partners in our customers' expansion. You'll work alongside 1,300+ teammates from 40+ nationalities and tackle global challenges from day one.

 

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 leverages 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.
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What do we offer? 
Besides the tailored benefits we have for each country, dLocal will help you thrive and go that extra mile by offering you:
- Flexibility in how you work: We focus on impact and productivity over fixed hours. This means our teams have flexible schedules and, depending on your role and location, you will combine self‑managed focus time with moments of in‑person connection in our collaboration hubs.
- Fintech industry: work in a dynamic and ever-evolving environment, with plenty to build and boost your creativity.
- Referral bonus program: our internal talents are the best recruiters - refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded.
- Work From Anywhere: Team members can work while traveling for up to 3 months every year.
 
 
What happens after you apply?
Our Talent Acquisition team is invested in creating the best candidate experience possible, so don’t worry, you will definitely hear from us. We will review your CV and keep you posted by email at every step of the process!
 
Also, you can check out our webpage, Linkedin and Youtube for more about dLocal!

Skills Required

  • 2+ years of experience in projects, QA testing, internal or external auditing, reconciliations, or multinational companies
  • High attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and excellent analytical abilities
  • Ability to manipulate large amounts of data
  • Ability to adapt quickly to change and multitask
  • Fluent written and spoken English
  • Solid experience with SQL and business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker
  • Practical experience using AI tools, LLMs, generative AI, or machine learning frameworks
  • Prompt engineering experience for data analysis, anomaly detection, risk identification, or workflow automation
  • Experience with Simetrik
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The Company
HQ: Montevideo
932 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

dLocal started with one goal – to close the payments innovation gap between global enterprise companies, and customers in emerging economies. We have over 900 payment methods, in more than 40 countries. With the ability to accept local payment methods and facilitate cross-border fund settlement worldwide, our merchants reach billions of underserved consumers in the high-growth markets of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. dLocal offers the ideal payment solutions for global commerce: Payins: Accept local payment methods Payouts: Compliantly send funds cross-border Defense Suite: Manage fraud effectively dLocal for Platforms: Unify your platform’s payment solution Local Issuing: Localize payments for your gig-economy workers, suppliers, and partners

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