Head of FP&A

Job Summary

This is a senior regional FP&A leadership role responsible for driving financial insight, performance management and strategic decision making across a multi-site operation in the Middle East. Based in Dubai, the role partners closely with regional and group leadership to translate financial data into actionable commercial outcomes and ensure delivery against financial targets.

• Opportunity to step into a regional FP&A role with strategic influence
• Ideal role for a commercially minded finance leader

Job Description

• Lead the regional FP&A function, owning end to end management reporting, forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning across multiple entities
• Coordinate and consolidate monthly management accounts, ensuring accuracy, consistency and adherence to internal deadlines
• Produce high quality monthly reporting packs with clear variance analysis, performance commentary and insights against budget and forecast
• Challenge financial performance, identifying key drivers, risks and opportunities, and support leadership with corrective action planning
• Lead the annual budget cycle and biannual forecast process, ensuring assumptions are robust, well understood and aligned to strategic objectives
• Develop and maintain long term financial models to support strategic planning and investment decisions
• Act as a senior finance business partner to regional leadership, providing commercial insight to support growth, efficiency and profitability
• Support evaluation of strategic, tactical and operational initiatives through detailed financial analysis and scenario modelling
• Provide financial input into pricing reviews, investment cases and capital expenditure proposals
• Monitor capital expenditure against approved budgets and highlight variances or risks
• Deliver detailed profitability analysis by business unit, function and activity, identifying areas for performance improvement
• Analyse operational, sales and marketing data to improve understanding of cost efficiency and return on investment
• Lead performance discussions with senior stakeholders, driving accountability and financial ownership
• Support integration of newly acquired entities into group reporting and planning processes
• Build, develop and coach a regional FP&A and finance community, driving best practice, consistency and capability uplift
• Act as a key regional finance representative, partnering closely with group finance leadership

The Successful Applicant

• Fully qualified finance professional with significant FP&A experience in a commercial, multi-site environment
• Professional qualification (CA, CMA, CPA) etc.
• 5 to 7 years of experience within the FP&A function
• Strong track record in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial modelling
• Proven ability to operate as a senior business partner and influence stakeholders at leadership level
• Experience working in complex, fast paced or high growth organisations
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate data into clear business insight