Finance Business Partner MENA

McCain Foods; Dubai; On-site; AED 380,000 - 580,000; Full time

Job summary

McCain Middle East FZE in Dubai seeks a Finance Business Partner to drive regional profitability and strategic planning across the MENA region. Based in Dubai, you will partner with commercial leadership, manage budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning, and influence pricing decisions plus working capital management.

You will lead cross-functional initiatives, interact with supply chain and Treasury, and leverage SAP S4HANA, Power BI, and Anaplan to deliver a single financial narrative

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Finance or related field; professional qualification is an asset.
• Significant experience in commercial finance / FP&A, FMCG or food manufacturing desirable.
• Strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders and translating data into decisions.
• Solid understanding of pricing, margin, credit risk, working capital, and FX impacts.

Responsibilities

• Act as embedded finance partner to regional leadership, contributing to strategy and negotiations.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning for the region; align with commercial plans.
• Own regional performance analysis of volume, net sales, gross profit, and profitability.
• Develop and execute regional pricing strategies; evaluate distributor profitability and margins.
• Drive profitable growth by building business cases and leading execution in a fast-moving market.
• Monitor working capital and credit exposure, supporting payment term negotiations.

Skills

Commercial Finance

FP&A

Budgeting & Forecasting

Pricing & Margin

Cross-functional collaboration

ERP systems

Education

Master's degree in Finance

CPA/CFA/ACCA asset

Tools

SAP S4HANA

Power BI

Anaplan

Job description

Job Description:

Position Title:Finance Business Partner MENA

Position Type:Regular - Full-Time

Requisition ID:44775

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and passionate about creating exceptional work experiences - together. With a customer-first mindset, we make doing business with McCain easy.

About The Role.

The Middle East region is a strategic growth platform for McCain, with significant ambition towards 2030. The Finance Business Partner MENA acts as the financial co-pilot to the regional commercial leadership team, driving profitable growth across the region. Based in Dubai, the role combines commercial finance, business partnering, strategic planning, pricing, working capital management, and financial performance management.

Based in Dubai, the role provides financial leadership across the regional P&L and serves as the key link between the Middle East commercial organization and the wider EMENA Finance team.

This is a boots-on-the-ground partnership — with a presence in the market, alongside customers and distributors, close enough to the business to shape decisions before they are made. The role reports on a solid line into EMENA Finance and on a dotted line to the leader of the Middle East business.

What You’ll Be Doing.

• Act as the embedded finance partner to the regional commercial leadership team — in the room for key decisions, providing financial insight and robust challenge on strategy, pricing, investment, and distributor discussions.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes for the region, ensuring alignment between commercial plans and financial commitments, and providing clear visibility on risks, opportunities, and mitigation actions.
• Own regional performance analysis across volume, Net Sales, Gross Profit, and profitability — monitoring key drivers such as price, mix, inflation, currency, and customer performance.
• Support the development and execution of regional pricing strategies, evaluate customer and distributor profitability, and drive margin improvement initiatives while balancing growth ambitions.
• Own the profitable growth agenda for the region — identifying where growth is worth having, building the business case, and driving it through to execution at the pace a fast-moving market demands.
• Monitor customer credit exposure and working capital performance, partnering with Commercial, Credit, and Treasury teams to support payment term negotiations and mitigate financial risk.
• Support evaluation of alternative sourcing opportunities, production footprint scenarios, and landed cost implications, developing financial business cases for strategic growth initiatives and market entries.
• Operate effectively across a matrix organization — building alignment across Commercial, Supply Chain, Treasury, Credit, and Global FP&A, and communicating a single, consistent financial narrative to regional and EMENA leadership.
• Champion the future of finance in the region — leveraging McCain's digital, data, and AI capabilities to shorten the distance between data and decision, and shifting time from producing numbers to influencing outcomes.

What You’ll Need To Be Successful.

• Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field; CPA, CFA, ACCA, or an equivalent professional qualification is an asset.
• Significant experience in commercial finance / FP&A, ideally within FMCG or food manufacturing, with exposure to distributor-led markets and the Middle East region.
• Strong track record of influencing senior commercial stakeholders and translating financial data into clear business decisions.
• Solid understanding of pricing, margin, credit risk, working capital, sourcing, and foreign exchange impacts on business performance.
• Strong digital and data fluency — confident with modern planning, ERP, and BI tools (SAP/S4, Power BI, Anaplan or equivalent), and genuinely curious about how automation and AI will reshape the finance function.
• Proven ability to operate with a high degree of autonomy and ambiguity in a fast-growing, evolving international environment.
• Proven success in a matrix organization — delivering through influence rather than authority, managing competing regional and functional priorities.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills — fluent English required, Arabic an advantage.

About The Team.

This role is part of an international team of Business Partners and Finance Analysts spanning the EMENA & GB region, reporting into the Director, Commercial Controlling.

Based in Dubai, the Finance Business Partner MENA is the dedicated finance presence embedded within the Middle East commercial leadership team. The role provides financial leadership across the regional P&L and acts as the key link between the Middle East commercial organization and the wider EMENA Finance team — bringing regional insight into the broader finance community and translating group priorities into on-the-ground execution.

About McCain.

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Leadership principles.

At McCain, our leadership principles guide how we engage with customers, collaborate as a team, and achieve success. We focus on understanding customer needs, driving innovation, empowering people, and taking ownership to clear obstacles and deliver results.

AI & Digital Capabilities

At McCain, AI and digital capabilities are part of how we work and innovate. We value curiosity toward emerging technologies and the thoughtful, responsible use of AI-enabled tools to improve outcomes as part of our future-ready culture

The McCain Experience.

We are McCain. This statement is a testament to our collective strength and our individual value. Your contributions play a vital role in our success. Our winning culture is rooted in authenticity and trust, empowering us to bring out the best in one another. Here, you’ll find opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Join us and experience why we’re better together.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.

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Job Family: Finance; Sales

Location(s): AE - United Arab Emirates : Dubai : Jebel Ali

Company: McCain Middle East FZE