Senior Finance Officer – FP&A

About the role

EDGE Group PJSC is seeking a Senior Finance Officer to lead financial planning and analysis (FP&A) for its LAHAB operations in Abu Dhabi. The role will drive budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and performance analysis while partnering with finance, operations, and business teams.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the annual financial planning and budgeting cycle, managing timelines, templates, submissions, and consolidation across functions.
• Prepare and maintain budgets and forecasts, review estimates for accuracy, and monitor performance against approved plans.
• Produce monthly and quarterly management reports, analysing actual vs. budget, cost‑centre performance, financial trends and key variances.
• Analyse financial and operational performance, delivering insights and recommendations to senior management.
• Maintain product costing, including standard and actual costs, bill of materials, overhead allocation, margins and cost of goods sold.
• Support pricing decisions by reviewing product costs and conducting margin analysis.
• Develop business cases, feasibility studies and financial models for new products, acquisitions and strategic initiatives.
• Monitor cost variances, identify root causes and recommend cost‑management actions.
• Review accounts, accruals and trial‑balance reconciliations to ensure accuracy.
• Assist with inventory closing, reconciliation and ensure proper GL representation.
• Validate purchase orders and CAPEX requests against budgets and commercial values.
• Upload and monitor project costs in the ERP system and support cost disbursement approvals.
• Prepare monthly reports for the EDGE Cluster and support internal and external audits.
• Develop and improve reporting tools, dashboards and analytical models for timely decision‑making.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Management or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Professional qualification such as CPA, CIMA, CA or ACCA highly desirable.
• 5–10 years of experience in FP&A, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, management accounting or financial analysis.
• Experience in manufacturing, defence, high‑technology or global organisations.

Required skills