Finance Business Partner

AstraZeneca GmbH; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

AstraZeneca seeks a Finance Business Partner to bridge Finance and Gulf business leadership, aligning with the company’s strategy and ensuring performance cycles are executed effectively.

You will provide financial insight, guidance and support to leadership, developing forecasts and managing budgeting, reporting, and governance with strong English communication.

Qualifications

• Must have 8–12 years of experience in Finance Business Partnering.
• Bachelor-level degree in Finance/Accounting or equivalent.
• Experience in working with multinational corporations.
• Strong communication and presentation skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the partnership between Finance and Gulf business directors to achieve strategic and operational goals.
• Provide financial insight, guidance and support to enable informed decision making.
• Develop reliable forecasts and manage budgeting, monthly reporting and commentary.
• Lead on cash, DSO and stock forecasting and drive process improvements.
• Highlight opportunities/risks and communicate financial insight to stakeholders.
• Prepare presentations for key business and finance review meetings.

Skills

Fluent English

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Presentation skills

Self-starter

Fast paced

Education

BS degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

Hyperion Planning

SAP

Power BI

Job description

Finance Business Partner

Job Description

• Leading the partnership between Finance and Gulf business directors to achieve the strategic and operational GULF goals in line with Company’s strategy via performance cycles (RBU / MTP).
• Proactively engage with business leaders (inc. Leadership Team, Regional and Global Business and Functional Leaders), providing financial insight, advice, guidance and support, enabling and influencing decision making to achieve optimal performance. Focus on consolidated management reporting.

Typical Accountabilities

Business Strategy & Decision Support:

• Working proactively with the business to understand future financial information needs and producing efficient solutions to meet these needs (Business Case Development, Benefits tracking, KPIs etc).
• Effective communication across teams and business units and with external parties to achieve a positive outcome, encouraging others to demonstrate flexibility when considering options and assessing business impact.
• Being actively involved in review and development of short & long-term strategy in area of accountability and maintaining an up-to-date understanding of all developments which may affect the organisation’s operations and policies and proactively advising customers of all relevant matters to achieve business requirements and objectives.

Business Performance:

• Having joint accountability with the business for the accuracy of forecasts and, using a good understanding of the business model and financial drivers, to challenge and influence the key cost drivers.
• Developing reliable operational and financial forecasts ensuring resources are allocated to maximise value creation for AZ.
• Leading the local / regional financial planning cycle in area of accountability; setting stretch but achievable performance targets, aligned with strategy and operational plans.
• Highlighting opportunities & risks and delivering timely, accurate and granular reporting and commentary on performance, linking business drivers to actual spend and forecast.
• Leading on technical forecast of cash, DSO and stock.
• Proactively driving efficiencies including seeking cross functional process solutions.
• Exploring needs of internal customers and suppliers and utilising this information to improve business results showing significant commercial and business acumen.
• Post deal management on agreements in area of accountability, ability to analyse and interpret financial statements, understand complex company valuations and contribution to deal-related commercial analysis.
• Preparation of all presentations for key business and finance review meetings.
• Working closely with Project / Capacity Managers to model and plan for volatile cost and resource demands.

Continuous Improvement, Governance and Coaching:

• Initiating changes to improve working practices and processes in Finance and communicating these amongst the Finance Business Partnering network.
• Communicating governance and compliance standards and statutory regulations to non-specialists in a way that is understandable and relevant and relays the risk of commercial decisions effectively.
• Leading insightful and proactive risk management processes to ensure the organisation’s regulations, rules and processes are adhered to, highlighting areas of concern and promoting continuous improvement in the robustness of the processes, sharing best practice across the business.
• Developing the professional capability of the Finance team and the financial understanding of non-finance managers.
• Manage key finance processes.
• Manage cycle financial processes like month closing, budgeting, monthly reporting.

Essential

• BS degree in relevant field (Finance, Accounting).
• Extensive experience of Finance Business Partnering, with at least 8-12 years of experience.
• Good understanding of Financial Controlling.
• Experience of working in well-known MNC.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, including oral & written; Fluent English is a must.
• Excellent Interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrable knowledge of global and corporate business context.
• Experience of using financial systems to support business decision making (budgeting, forecasting & modelling) inc. Hyperion Planning Systems, SAP, Power BI etc.
• Managing complex finance deliverables in tight deadlines and prioritizing workload.
• Self-starter, dynamic, curious and fast paced personality.

Desirable

• Experience of working in pharmaceutical organisation/understanding pharmaceutical business, its environment and dynamics, ability to manage actively P&L as a plus
• MBA or CPA / CIMA / ACCA
• Ability to challenge status quo.
• Innovative digital technology experience and curiosity
• Flexibility driven by financial budgeting and operational cycles.
• ‘Right first time’ approach

Date Posted

03-سبتمبر-2026

Closing Date

10-سبتمبر-2026

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.