Head of FP&A

Ghobash Trading & Investment (GTI) is actively engaged in multi-asset class investment activities across various geographies. These activities are carried out by a highly qualified and experienced in-house team of investment professionals. The team uses an ‘Asset Allocation Matrix’ to realize risk adjusted returns on invested capital over a long-term period.

The Company’s investment activities include direct investments in startups, taking stakes in established businesses, acquisitions of business enterprises and setting-up new businesses through collaborative joint venture route.

GTI is also active in private financial investments, including private equity and debt, venture capital, real estate, and publicly listed financial investments.

Group FP&A Manager is a critical role responsible for preparing and presenting Group level (consolidated) Budgets, Forecasts, Monthly Reports, Quarterly Board Reports and Year-end Management reports. The role leads the financial information gathering, systems and their consolidation across the entire Group of 25+ companies by setting up and maintaining robust systems, frameworks and dashboards.

Group FP&A Manager also acts as the Finance Business Partner for the Head Office Functions including HR, IT, Finance and Marketing and is responsible for functional (consolidated) budgets and reporting as well.

This role will add great value in setting up Group FP&A center of excellence and play a pivotal role in investments & capex decisions, funding and capital management as well.

• Leading the monthly management reporting at Group level
• Review of monthly BU reports
• Monitoring of business and financial KPI’s across the Group
• Preparation of monthly management reports of the Head Office functions
• Leading the annual planning exercise across the Group
• Preparation of annual planning and budgets for the Head Office functions
• Implementation of processes, systems and frameworks to achieve the above
• Setting up frameworks and processes for investments and capex decisions
• Preparation of board reports on a quarterly basis
• Design and execute HO cost allocations to BU’s
• Ad-hoc reporting and analysis

Masters in Finance / CA / ACCA / CPA / CFA / CIMA

• 10 plus years
• Group Financial Planning & Analysis
• Financial modeling & feasibilities
• Budgeting and forecasting
• Oracle - Desired