About our client
Our client is a leading global investment fund based in Abu Dhabi, with a diversified portfolio spanning multiple sectors and geographies. This is a newly created, high-profile role with responsibility for building and establishing the Group's FP&A and performance-management operating model from the ground up. The successful candidate will provide executive leadership with a clear, forward-looking view of financial performance, strategic priorities, capital deployment, key risks and opportunities across a complex and diversified organisation. Operating as a senior strategic finance partner to executive leadership, the Group Head of FP&A will bring the financial insight, commercial judgement and constructive challenge required to support enterprise-level decision-making. The role offers the opportunity to shape how performance is measured, understood and managed across the Group, positioning FP&A at the centre of strategic planning and decision-making.
What the job involves
- Lead the Group's annual budgeting, multi-year planning and rolling forecasting processes across a diversified portfolio of businesses
- Establish an enterprise-wide performance management framework, linking financial outcomes to strategic priorities and operational drivers
- Deliver scenario analysis, sensitivity modelling and forward-looking insight to support executive decision-making, identifying key risks, opportunities and emerging performance trends
- Develop meaningful KPIs and performance measures to drive transparency, accountability and performance across the organisation
- Act as a trusted strategic finance adviser to senior leadership, providing independent insight and constructive challenge
- Lead the development of high-quality executive and Board-level reporting, translating complex financial and operational information into clear, actionable business narratives
- Support strategic decision-making around performance, capital allocation, resource prioritisation, investment opportunities and portfolio optimisation
- Assess the financial and commercial implications of major business and investment decisions, including business cases, strategic opportunities and organisational trade-offs
- Establish a consolidated Group-wide view of performance, ensuring consistent planning, forecasting and performance-management disciplines across individual businesses and entities
- Challenge business plans, assumptions and forecasts, while building strong and effective relationships with senior stakeholders across the organisation
- Design and build the FP&A and performance-management operating model, including the relevant processes, governance, frameworks, systems and ways of working
- Build and lead a high-performing FP&A team, while driving greater automation, data quality and analytical sophistication across planning and management reporting
- Position FP&A as a strategic business partner at the centre of decision-making, rather than a traditional reporting or control function
Who we are looking for
- Significant experience in strategic finance, FP&A, enterprise planning and/or performance management at Group level
- A background in a strategic environment such as strategy consulting, investment banking, corporate development or another strategic finance role would be highly relevant
- Experience operating across a complex organisation with multiple businesses, entities, geographies or asset classes
- Strong exposure to executive and Board-level decision-making
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial analysis into clear commercial insight, strategic recommendations and actionable decisions
- Strong understanding of capital allocation, performance optimisation and enterprise-level financial decision-making
- Experience building or materially transforming FP&A capabilities, including teams, processes, operating models and performance-management frameworks
- Highly developed financial modelling, forecasting, scenario analysis and performance-management capabilities
- Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to understand the broader business implications behind financial performance
