Finance Business Partner

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Lead annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial planning.
• Report financial performance, analyze variances and gaps, and identify drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Partner with business leaders and provide financial insight for strategic decisions, investments, business cases, and commercial initiatives.
• Develop financial models, forecasts, and scenario analyses; analyze revenue, tariffs, contracts, costs, and capital projects.
• Support commercial negotiations and contract structuring with financial analysis and recommendations.
• Build and review bottom-up budgets; review purchase requisitions and orders for budget and control compliance.
• Maintain budgetary controls and appropriate profit-centre, cost-centre, and natural-account allocation.
• Support month-end and year-end close, audit, internal controls, governance, and compliance.
• Assess financial impacts of regulatory, tax, and other external developments.
• Prepare management presentations and financial decks for business leaders, C-suite stakeholders, regulators, vendors, and customers.
• Support internalization initiatives and portfolio expansion, and identify profitability and efficiency improvements.
• Use financial systems and reporting tools to improve planning and reporting quality, efficiency, and automation.

Requirements

• Professional accounting qualification such as CA, ACCA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent.
• Strong experience across FP&A, commercial finance, business partnering, and financial analysis.
• Hands-on Oracle Fusion and Hyperion/Oracle EPM experience is essential.
• Strong knowledge of financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, reporting, accounting principles, and controls.
• Experience in complex business environments; infrastructure, utilities, energy, waste management, or other capital-intensive industries are ideal backgrounds.
• Ability to turn financial data into commercial insights and actionable recommendations.
• Experience supporting contracts, negotiations, business cases, and investment decisions.
• Strong stakeholder management and experience preparing financial presentations and reporting packs for varied audiences.
• Power BI and data visualization skills are preferred.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and presentation skills; comfortable combining FP&A, business partnering, commercial finance, and controllership.
• Consulting or finance advisory experience combined with in-house FP&A or commercial finance experience is advantageous.
• Preference is given to candidates available immediately; the candidate must be able to work in the United Arab Emirates.