Finance Director UAE

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic business partner to the CEO and PE sponsors, driving financial strategy, commercial performance, and exit readiness.
• Group financial reporting IFRS and statutory compliance.
• Act as a genuine business partner to the CEO translating financial insight into commercial strategy and decisions.
• FP&A budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, and management reporting.
• Treasury, tax, and cash flow management across multiple jurisdictions.
• M&A due diligence, financial modelling, and deal structuring.
• Franchise and partner financial management.
• Work collaboratively with Executive Leadership team.
• Own the group financial strategy, annual budgeting, long-range forecasting processes and treasury management.
• Lead board-level financial communications and investor reporting.
• Oversee financial reporting controls, compliance, and governance across all group entities and jurisdictions.
• Manage external relationships with investors, bankers, lenders, auditors and insurers.
• Lead exit preparation ensuring the business is sale-ready from financial, governance and reporting perspective.
• Provide financial leadership for franchise operations.
• ESG reporting and non‑financial disclosures.
• Drive cost optimisation, margin improvement, and working capital optimisation across the group.
• Lead finance transformation modernising systems, processes, and operating models to support growth.
• Manage M&A activity due diligence processes and any refinancing or capital structure work.
• Build, mentor, and develop a high‑performing global finance team based across Dubai and the UK.

• Proven Finance Director in consumer, retail, or beauty / FMCG business.
• PE-backed environment—investor reporting, value creation, and exit processes.
• Track record as a CEO/Leadership business partner—influencing commercial strategy.
• Strong P&L ownership in a complex, multi‑market, multi‑entity business.
• Finance transformation—systems, processes, team capability, and operating model.
• UAE‑based or proven Middle East experience, or clear willingness to relocate to Dubai.
• Franchise / partner‑led business model experience (desirable).
• M&A, business sale, or exit process experience (desirable).