Finance Business Partner

About the role

A leading semi-government company based in Abu Dhabi is looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner to join its Business Partnership team on a full-time permanent basis. This is a broad, commercially focused finance role combining FP&A, business partnering, financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting and financial controllership. The successful candidate will work closely with business and senior stakeholders, providing financial insight and supporting strategic and operational decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting, forecasting and long-term financial planning across the business.
• Provide regular financial performance reporting, variance and gap analysis, identifying key drivers, risks and opportunities.
• Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to business leaders, understanding their operations, objectives and financial needs.
• Support strategic decisions, investments, business cases and commercial initiatives with financial insight and consultancy.
• Develop and maintain detailed financial models, forecasts and scenario analyses.
• Analyse value drivers such as revenue, tariffs, contracts, operating costs and capital projects.
• Support commercial negotiations and contract structuring with financial analysis and recommendations.
• Build and review bottom-up budgets, and review and approve purchase requisitions and purchase orders from a budget and control perspective.
• Maintain budgetary controls, including allocation of profit centres, cost centres and natural accounts.
• Support month-end and year-end close and controllership, and assess the financial impact of regulatory, tax and other external developments.
• Support audit, internal controls, financial governance and compliance.
• Prepare management presentations and financial decks for business leaders, C-suite, regulators, vendors and customers.
• Support internalisation and portfolio expansion, identify profitability and efficiency improvements, and use financial systems to automate planning and reporting.

Required profile

• Professional accounting qualification such as CA, ACCA, CPA, CMA or equivalent.
• Strong experience across FP&A, commercial finance, business partnering and financial analysis.
• Experience in complex business environments, ideally in infrastructure, utilities, energy, waste management or other capital-intensive industries.
• Ability to turn financial data into commercial insights and to support contracts, negotiations, business cases and investment decisions.
• Stakeholder management with business leaders and senior management; experience preparing reports for C-suite, regulators, vendors and customers.
• Advantageous: consulting or finance advisory background combined with in-house FP&A or commercial finance experience; immediate availability preferred; willing to work in the UAE.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion and Hyperion / Oracle EPM is essential.
• Financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting and scenario analysis.
• Power BI and data visualisation skills preferred.

Candidates apply by submitting their resume with contact details through the recruiter, Edari, who will review applications within 7 working days.