Head of Group FP&A & Performance

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

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.