Group Head of FP&A

Aventus; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Aventus is seeking a senior Group Head of Financial Planning & Analysis to architect and lead the group FP&A function for a diversified investment platform. The role requires shaping budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and performance governance across portfolio entities.

You will build the planning framework from scratch, align cross-portfolio processes, and present clear narratives to the Group CFO, CEO and Boards. Excellent stakeholder management is essential.

Qualifications

• 18+ years in finance with leadership in FP&A, strategic finance, planning or performance management.
• Experience at group/holding-company level with portfolio complexity.

Responsibilities

• Own group-wide budgeting, multi-year planning and rolling forecasts across a broad mix of businesses and asset classes.
• Put a single performance framework in place - KPIs, measures and reporting - that ties results back to strategy and makes accountability visible.
• Bring group and entity-level performance into one consolidated view, aligning planning standards across portfolio finance teams.
• Act as a genuine sounding board to the Group CFO, CEO and wider leadership, offering an independent view and pushing back where it counts.
• Produce both the numbers and the narrative behind executive and Board reporting, making complex detail land clearly.
• Model the scenarios and returns behind capital deployment, portfolio decisions and major investment cases.
• Design how FP&A will run day to day - processes, governance, systems and team - and build it out from the ground up.

Skills

FP&A leadership

Strategic finance

Planning

Education

Finance or accounting qualification

Job description

Title: Group Head of Financial Planning & Analysis

About the Company

Our client is an investment management conglomerate backed by a SWF, with diversified portfolio. They are hiring a senior finance leader to create their Group FP&A and performance capability from scratch - a rare chance to shape how a major investment platform plans, measures and makes decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Own group-wide budgeting, multi-year planning and rolling forecasts across a broad mix of businesses and asset classes
• Put a single performance framework in place - KPIs, measures and reporting - that ties results back to strategy and makes accountability visible
• Bring group and entity-level performance into one consolidated view, aligning planning standards across portfolio finance teams
• Act as a genuine sounding board to the Group CFO, CEO and wider leadership, offering an independent view and pushing back where it counts
• Produce both the numbers and the narrative behind executive and Board reporting, making complex detail land clearly
• Model the scenarios and returns behind capital deployment, portfolio decisions and major investment cases
• Design how FP&A will run day to day - processes, governance, systems and team - and build it out from the ground up

Requirements

• 18+ years in finance, with meaningful leadership time in FP&A, strategic finance, planning or performance management at group or holding-company level
• Background in a sovereign fund, holding group, infrastructure platform, pension fund or large asset manager - somewhere with real portfolio complexity
• Comfortable working across several businesses, entities, geographies or asset classes at once
• Has built or rebuilt a planning function before, rather than stepping into one that already worked
• Strong modelling, forecasting and scenario work, paired with a commercial view on where capital should go
• Credible in front of CEOs, CFOs and Boards - able to explain the story behind the numbers and challenge senior people without leaning on title
• A finance or accounting qualification, or relevant postgraduate degree, is welcome - though track record and executive credibility carry more weight