Job description

A large, government-linked organisation in the UAE is hiring a Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst to join its central finance and shared services function, reporting into the Senior Director for FP&A. The role focuses on FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting across complex programmes, with a strong emphasis on manpower planning, workforce cost planning, headcount budgeting, workforce cost modelling, and variance analysis. The position plays a key role in enterprise-wide planning, financial control, and decision support, delivering actual vs budget analysis, forward-looking financial insights, and scenario modelling. The role involves conducting cost-benefit analysis, monitoring spend against approved budgets and controls, producing accurate management reports and dashboards, preparing PowerPoint presentations for senior stakeholders, and providing ad-hoc financial analysis. The analyst will act as a finance business partner to programme leaders and operational teams, support audits, uphold high standards of financial governance, and operate within enterprise finance systems such as SAP and Oracle. The role also contributes to FP&A process improvements, controls, reporting quality, standardisation, and continuous improvement initiatives, and is suited to a technically strong, professionally qualified finance professional experienced in large, complex, or government-linked environments. No prior UAE experience is required.