Finance Director – Dubai, UAE
Drive financial strategy and performance, oversee reporting and compliance, manage M&A, and lead a high-performing finance team in a dynamic environment.
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- 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’s 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 a 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
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