Media Billing Specialist – Advertising Operations – Talabat

Talabat, part of the Delivery Hero Group, is hiring a Media Billing Specialist for its Advertising Operations function in Dubai. As Talabat has built out its retail media and advertising business — letting restaurant and retail partners pay to promote themselves within the app — accurate billing for that advertising spend has become its own specialized operational function, sitting between ad operations, finance, and partner management.

The role focuses on the billing and financial reconciliation side of digital media campaigns: processing payments for advertising placements, resolving discrepancies between campaign delivery and billed amounts, and working closely with both the advertising operations team and partners to keep the billing process accurate and disputes to a minimum. This requires genuine familiarity with how digital media campaigns are structured and billed, not just general finance or accounts receivable experience.

This suits someone with specific digital media billing or ad operations finance experience — the role calls for 3-4 years minimum in digital media payments specifically, reflecting how specialized and detail-critical this function is within a fast-growing retail media business.

Retail media is one of the fastest-growing and highest-margin parts of a marketplace business like Talabat's, but that revenue only counts if it's billed accurately — a billing error, whether it overcharges a partner or undercharges the platform, either damages a valuable advertiser relationship or quietly leaks revenue that should have been captured. This role is the safeguard against both failure modes: accurate, well-reconciled billing keeps advertising partners confident that they're being charged fairly for what was actually delivered, which protects the trust that keeps them investing ad budget on the platform, while disciplined billing processes protect the revenue the advertising business is actually generating. As Talabat's advertising operations scale alongside its core delivery marketplace, the accuracy and reliability of this billing function becomes increasingly consequential — a growing, high-margin revenue line is only as valuable as the operational discipline that captures it correctly. Left unmanaged, small recurring billing errors can also accumulate into a much larger reconciliation problem that's far more costly and time-consuming to unwind months later.

Digital media billing and ad operations finance is a genuinely specialized skill set with strong demand across the advertising, retail media, and adtech industries, since every platform running an advertising business needs people who understand both the billing mechanics and the media campaign side well enough to reconcile the two accurately. Building this specific expertise at Talabat, within one of the region's fast-growing retail media operations, positions someone well for progression into broader ad operations, revenue operations, or finance leadership roles within adtech or retail media specifically — a niche that continues to grow as more retailers and marketplaces build out their own advertising businesses. Being part of the Delivery Hero Group also provides exposure to how retail media billing operates across a larger international network, useful for anyone building a long-term career in this increasingly important and still-maturing corner of the advertising industry. It's also a role that builds credibility working directly with both finance and commercial teams, a cross-functional fluency that's increasingly valued as more companies build out in-house retail media and advertising operations functions of their own. That specific mix of finance and advertising fluency remains genuinely scarce in the market, which gives someone who builds it real negotiating power in future roles.

• 3-4 years minimum of experience in digital media payments or billing, as specified in the role
• Strong understanding of how digital advertising campaigns are structured, delivered, and billed
• Excellent attention to detail for reconciling campaign delivery against billed amounts
• Experience resolving billing discrepancies or disputes with advertising partners
• Proficiency with billing, finance, or ad operations systems and reporting tools
• Strong communication skills for working across advertising operations, finance, and partner teams
• Comfort working in a fast-growing, still-maturing retail media business function