Group Head of FP&A, Global Investment Fund UAE

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.

• 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

• 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