Media Billing Specialist – Advertising Operations – Talabat

This Media Billing Specialist role sits within talabat’s Advertising Operations function in Dubai, supporting the retail media and advertising business that runs alongside talabat’s core delivery platform. As delivery apps increasingly monetise through on-platform advertising — restaurants and brands paying for visibility within the app — the billing and financial operations behind that ad revenue become a genuinely important operational function in their own right.

Day to day, the role covers media billing and payments processing for advertising campaigns running on talabat’s platform, requiring a minimum of 3-4 years of experience in digital media payments specifically. That means reconciling billing against actual campaign delivery, managing invoicing and payment processes with advertisers and agencies, and troubleshooting billing discrepancies or campaign processing issues as they arise. It’s a role that sits at the intersection of finance, ad operations, and client-facing coordination, requiring both process rigor and the ability to resolve issues that affect advertiser relationships.

It suits someone with solid digital media or ad-tech billing experience who’s comfortable with detailed financial reconciliation work, understands how advertising campaigns are structured and measured, and can communicate clearly with advertisers or agencies when billing issues need resolving.

Retail media and advertising revenue is an increasingly important part of how delivery platforms like talabat monetise, and that revenue only actually lands correctly if the billing behind it is accurate and well-managed — this Media Billing Specialist role is directly responsible for that. Billing errors or slow reconciliation don't just create internal accounting headaches; they damage relationships with the advertisers and agencies whose ongoing spend depends on trusting that talabat's advertising operations run professionally and accurately. Getting billing right also protects revenue that's already been earned — a discrepancy that goes unresolved can mean real money left uncollected or, on the other side, advertiser disputes that threaten future campaign spend. As talabat's advertising business grows, the operational discipline this role brings to billing and payments processing becomes an increasingly material part of protecting and enabling that revenue stream's growth. As talabat's advertising business scales further, this kind of billing discipline becomes an increasingly material factor in how much of that growing revenue actually converts into cash collected on time.

Media billing and ad-tech payments experience is a genuinely specialised and increasingly valuable skill set, since the retail media and digital advertising industry is growing quickly across e-commerce and delivery platforms, and the operational billing expertise behind it is in real demand. Working within talabat's Advertising Operations function builds direct, practical experience in how a fast-growing retail media business actually manages its advertiser-facing financial operations — knowledge that's highly transferable across ad-tech, retail media, and digital media companies more broadly. Being part of the Delivery Hero Group also adds scale to that experience, given the group's advertising operations likely span multiple markets and platforms, offering exposure beyond talabat alone. For someone building a career at the intersection of finance and digital advertising, this role offers a genuinely useful specialisation — media billing expertise is a narrower niche than general finance or general ad operations, but it's one that's well compensated and in growing demand as more platforms build out retail media businesses, making this a strong foundation for senior ad operations, media finance, or retail media leadership roles later on. That specialised expertise also tends to command a premium in hiring conversations, since fewer candidates combine genuine finance discipline with real advertising operations fluency.

• 3-4+ years minimum experience in digital media payments or advertising billing operations
• Strong understanding of how digital advertising campaigns are structured, delivered, and measured
• Experience with billing reconciliation and invoicing processes for advertising or media campaigns
• Attention to detail for identifying and resolving billing discrepancies accurately
• Comfortable working with finance and ad operations systems and processes
• Clear communication skills for coordinating with advertisers, agencies, and internal teams
• Experience in ad-tech, retail media, or digital media environments is a strong advantage