Director Financial Planning & Reporting

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC (EITC); Dubai; On-site; AED 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC (EITC) seeks an experienced senior FP&A leader to drive strategic financial planning, advanced forecasting, and enterprise-wide performance reporting from Dubai. You will partner with EXCO, Boards, and regulators to translate strategy into robust financial plans and scorecards.

You will coordinate budgeting and long-range planning, manage dashboards, and lead a high-performing team, leveraging analytics, scenario planning, and data-driven

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Mandatory Professional qualification (e.g. CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA).
• 12 - 15 years of progressive experience in financial planning, management reporting, or corporate finance within large, complex organizations.
• Proven experience supporting EXCO level decision-making.
• Demonstrated track record in leading enterprise-wide budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
• Experience in telecoms, regulated environments and/or capital-intensive industries is highly desirable.
• Strong people leadership experience managing and developing medium level finance professionals.
• Advanced financial modelling, forecasting, and scenario analysis capabilities.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to link financial performance to operational drivers.
• Exceptional communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to influence medium/senior stakeholders.
• High proficiency in financial systems, planning tools, and performance analytics platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset.
• Strong people management skills
• Proficiency in use of Oracle EPMS tool.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the end-to-end annual budgeting, medium-term forecasting and 5-year business planning processes, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy.
• Facilitate regular forecasts and financial projections, providing forward-looking insights, scenario analysis, and risk/opportunity assessments for the company.
• Support the Head in translating strategic priorities into robust financial plans, balance scorecards, and performance commitments.
• Coordinate and enhance enterprise-wide management reporting, including weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and non-financial KPI dashboards.
• Ensure accurate, timely and insightful reporting to EXCO, Board, and regulator, highlighting performance drivers, value creation, and corrective actions.
• Drive consistent performance narrative across business units by integrating financial outcomes with operational and strategic metrics.
• Establish best-in-class forecasting models, incorporating scenario planning, sensitivities, and stress testing.
• Provide decision support on major investments, CapEx/OpEx trade-offs, cost optimization initiatives, and strategic business cases.
• Proactively identify performance risks and opportunities and recommend data-driven actions to improve outcomes.
• Ensure strong financial governance, data integrity, and adherence to internal controls, policies, and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate inputs across the company to ensure a single source of truth for planning and reporting.
• Act as the primary interface for financial planning and performance matters with auditors, regulators, and internal governance forums.
• Coordinate the Investment Committee’s meeting agenda, action points closure and presentation submissions.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing financial planning and reporting team, fostering a culture of accountability, insight, and continuous improvement.
• Drive capability uplift through advanced analytics, automation, and modern planning tools.
• Embed best-practice planning and performance management standards across the organization.

Skills

Leadership

Financial modelling

Forecasting

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Regulatory reporting

Cost optimization

Oracle EPMS

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business

CA/CPA/ACCA/CIMA/CFA

Tools

Oracle EPMS

Job description

Key Accountabilities:

Strategic Financial Planning & Business Advisory

• Coordinate the end-to-end annual budgeting, medium-term forecasting and 5-year business planning processes, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy.

• Facilitate the regular forecasts and financial projections, providing forward-looking insights, scenario analysis, and risk/opportunity assessments for the company.

• Support the Head in translating strategic priorities into robust financial plans, balance scorecards, and performance commitments.

Management Reporting & Performance Insights

• Coordinate and enhance enterprise-wide management reporting, including weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and non-financial KPI dashboards.

• Ensure accurate, timely and insightful reporting to EXCO, Board, and regulator, highlighting performance drivers, value creation, and corrective actions.

• Drive consistent performance narrative across business units by integrating financial outcomes with operational and strategic metrics.

Forecasting and Analytics

• Establish best-in-class forecasting models, incorporating scenario planning, sensitivities, and stress testing.

• Provide decision support on major investments, CapEx/OpEx trade-offs, cost optimization initiatives, and strategic business cases.

• Proactively identify performance risks and opportunities and recommend data-driven actions to improve outcomes.

Governance, Controls & Stakeholder Management

• Ensure strong financial governance, data integrity, and adherence to internal controls, policies, and regulatory requirements.

• Coordinate inputs across the company to ensure a single source of truth for planning and reporting.

• Act as the primary interface for financial planning and performance matters with auditors, regulators, and internal governance forums.

• Coordinate the Investment Committee’s meeting agenda, action points closure and presentation submissions.

Leadership & Capability Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing financial planning and reporting team, fostering a culture of accountability, insight, and continuous improvement.

• Drive capability uplift through advanced analytics, automation, and modern planning tools.

• Embed best-practice planning and performance management standards across the organization.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Mandatory Professional qualification (e.g. CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA).
• 12 - 15 years of progressive experience in financial planning, management reporting, or corporate finance within large, complex organizations.
• Proven experience supporting EXCO level decision-making.
• Demonstrated track record in leading enterprise-wide budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes.
• Experience in telecoms, regulated environments and/or capital-intensive industries is highly desirable.
• Strong people leadership experience managing and developing medium level finance professionals.
• Advanced financial modelling, forecasting, and scenario analysis capabilities.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to link financial performance to operational drivers.
• Exceptional communication and executive presentation skills, with the ability to influence medium/senior stakeholders.
• High proficiency in financial systems, planning tools, and performance analytics platforms.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic, solution-oriented mindset.
• Strong people management skills
• Proficiency in use of Oracle EPMS tool.