Finance Business Analyst

Role overview

Financial reporting and performance analysis

• Develop and maintain management reports, financial dashboards, and executive performance scorecards.
• Analyze financial and operational trends, identifying risks, opportunities, and improvement areas.
• Support monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting cycles.
• Provide insights on revenue, cost, margin, profitability, and operational performance.
• Prepare management reporting packs and presentations for business leadership.

FP&A support

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning.
• Perform variance analysis between actuals, budget, and forecast.
• Conduct trend analysis, scenario modelling, and business performance reviews.
• Support business cases, investment evaluations, and financial decision-making.

Power BI and business intelligence

• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions.
• Create visualizations for executive and operational decision-making.
• Develop and maintain KPI frameworks and reporting standards.
• Validate financial and operational data for accuracy and consistency.
• Promote self-service reporting and improve reporting efficiency.

Business analysis and improvement

• Partner with Finance, Operations, Project Management, and Shared Services to understand business requirements.
• Facilitate reporting and analytics workshops and translate requirements into reporting solutions and dashboard specifications.
• Challenge assumptions, align reporting outputs with business objectives, and bridge Finance stakeholders and technical teams.
• Support finance data governance, reporting standardization, data quality, and KPI consistency.
• Identify process improvement and automation opportunities; document reporting processes, methodologies, and standards.
• Contribute to finance transformation and business improvement initiatives.

Required qualifications

• 4–7 years of experience in FP&A, financial reporting, management reporting, business control, finance transformation, or business analysis within finance environments.
• Experience supporting Finance, Controlling, or Performance Management functions.
• Experience building Power BI dashboards and management reporting solutions.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders across Finance and Operations.

Preferred experience

• Experience in manufacturing, maritime, engineering, industrial, construction, project-based, or shared services environments is highly preferred.

Location and employment

• The description gives the role location as Abu Dhabi, UAE.
• Employment is listed as full-time.