Head of Financial Planning & Analysis | Al-Futtaim Automotive | Finance – Al Futtaim Group

Overview of the role

Lead the Financial Planning & Analysis agenda across Automotive operations in the UAE and overseas markets. You will translate business strategy into integrated financial plans, provide clear insights into performance, and support leadership decisions on growth, profitability and resource allocation.

Acting as the key link between business units, Automotive leadership and Group Finance, you will drive consistent planning, forecasting and executive reporting while strengthening analytics, automation and technology-enabled decision-making.

What you will do

•  Lead planning and forecasting: Own the annual budget, periodic forecasts and long-range plans, integrating P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital and capital expenditure.

•  Challenge business assumptions: Partner with business units to assess volume, pricing, margins, productivity, costs and investments, developing scenarios and identifying risks, opportunities and mitigation actions.

•  Deliver executive reporting: Lead performance packs and business reviews for the Automotive CFO, President and senior leadership, turning financial and operational results into clear insights, recommendations and actions.

•  Support commercial decisions: Provide analysis for pricing, campaigns, incentives, channel strategy, cost optimisation and capital expenditure prioritisation.

•  Strengthen performance management: Standardise KPIs, reporting methodologies and benchmarking across business units, linking financial outcomes to operational drivers and tracking performance-recovery actions.

•  Drive systems and process improvement: Lead the FP&A technology roadmap, improve planning models and dashboards, automate reporting, and support adoption of BI and AI-enabled decision-support tools.

•  Maintain financial integrity: Ensure accurate, reconciled reporting, transparent assumptions, strong data quality and appropriate model governance.

•  Partner with Corporate Finance: Align planning assumptions on liquidity, funding and working capital, and contribute operating forecasts and performance evidence to business cases and post-investment reviews.

•  Lead and coach the FP&A function, build commercial and digital capabilities, strengthen succession, and support talent development and Emiratization objectives.

Job Details

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