Finance Business Partner | Commercial Mobility Solutions | Al Futtaim Finance - KSA

Job Requisition ID: 176096 

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate. 

By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day

Overview Of The Role:

• The Finance Business Partner is a key support role that empowers the business by providing vital financial insight and coordination across various departments including Operations, Sales, and Shared Services.
• This role ensures seamless daily financial operations, facilitates robust understanding of financial outcomes, assists in risk management, and supports informed strategic decisions.
• The Finance Business Partner is responsible for delivering accurate financial information, maintaining compliance with group policies, and translating complex financial data into actionable insights for performance management and planning.
• The role acts as a trusted advisor, ensuring financial implications are clearly communicated, issues identified proactively, and actions aligned with organizational objectives.

What You Will Do:

Financial Operations

• Support daily financial activities to ensure transactions are recorded accurately and on time.
• Assist with monitoring invoices, payments, accruals, and financial postings.
• Coordinate with Shared Services to help resolve issues related to billing, postings, or cost allocations.
• Act as a support point for operational teams on invoice status, payment follow-ups, and general finance-related queries.
• Help ensure smooth running of daily finance processes and confidence in reported financial information.

Cash Flow & Working Capital

• Support the preparation and monitoring of cash flow forecasts.
• Assist in tracking expected cash inflows and outflows to improve visibility.
• Monitor key working capital areas such as receivables, payables, and accruals.
• Highlight potential timing issues or risks to management for awareness and action.
• Support initiatives aimed at improving cash collection and overall cash discipline.

Budgeting & Forecasting

• Support the annual budgeting and periodic forecasting processes.
• Coordinate inputs from Operations, Sales, and other functions.
• Assist in consolidating submissions and checking assumptions for completeness and consistency.
• Support rolling forecasts and updates based on actual performance.
• Help prepare variance analysis between budget, forecast, and actual results for management review.

Reporting & Insight

• Support preparation of management reports and dashboards.
• Assist with variance analysis across revenue, costs, margins, and key operational KPIs.
• Provide financial information and explanations to help stakeholders understand performance.
• Support development of business cases, pricing reviews, and investment proposals.
• Help translate financial data into clear, practical insights for non-finance stakeholders.

Planning & Reporting Coordination

• Support adherence to Group planning and reporting timelines.
• Help ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of financial submissions.
• Coordinate with multiple teams to support timely reporting.
• Assist in preparing materials for leadership and review meetings.
• Contribute to maintaining a structured and reliable finance reporting cadence.

Month-End Close

• Support the monthly financial close process in coordination with Shared Services.
• Assist with review of revenue and cost cut-off, accruals, deferrals, and provisions.
• Help investigate variances or unusual movements and gather explanations.
• Support timely completion of month-end reporting packs in line with accounting standards and Group requirements.

Accounting & Compliance

• Support management of accruals, prepayments, and deferrals.
• Assist in maintaining appropriate documentation and validating assumptions with business owners.
• Help ensure compliance with accounting standards and internal policies.
• Support integrity and consistency of financial statements.

Audit

• Act as supporting finance contact for internal and external audits.
• Assist in preparing audit schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documents.
• Help respond to audit queries and track follow-up actions.
• Contribute to maintaining audit readiness and reducing compliance risk.

Stakeholder Support & Collaboration

• Work closely with Operations, Sales, Shared Services, Group Finance, and auditors.
• Provide responsive and professional finance support to stakeholders.
• Communicate clearly and constructively to help resolve issues and manage priorities.
• Build trust through reliability, transparency, and consistent service delivery.

Required Skills To Be Successful:

• Financial analysis and reporting skills to deliver precise and insightful data.
• Excellent interpersonal communication abilities for collaboration across departments.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency in creating and reviewing budgets and forecasts to ensure strategic alignment.

What Equips You For The Role:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Minimum of 3-5 years experience in a finance role, preferably within a similar industry.
• Proficiency in financial software and reporting tools.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy.

About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate
The real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across MENA. With high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational and healthcare developments, the master developer caters to the diverse needs of cities and communities in the region. From origination, conception, development, sales, procurement and construction of mega-projects and the leasing, operation and management of these projects after completion, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (AFGRE) has been developing and managing owned landbanks, unlocking the economic potential of the region and contributing to future development for more than 40 years. 
Our focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make our properties the best places to live and work, build additional products and services and enable partnerships to create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience with us.
AFGRE is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including two large scale mixed use destinations: Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.

About Al-Futtaim Malls 
Al-Futtaim Malls provides development and asset management expertise, specializing in building retail-led super regional malls in prime locations across MENA and beyond. With a proven track record of creating both sustainable revenue growth and value enhancement for tenants, Al-Futtaim Malls delivers exceptional experiences and exciting shopping environments for customers. 

Part of the Al-Futtaim Group, Al-Futtaim Malls leadership team brings more than 30 years of experience and a deep understanding and knowledge of the retail sector, both from a shopper’s point of view but as curators of space or landlords to other brands. The company has a directly managed portfolio including over 9 million sqft of retail space across four malls in the MENA region and two under development. Malls under the Al-Futtaim Malls portfolio include Dubai Festival City Mall and Festival Plaza in the UAE, Cairo Festival City Mall in Egypt, Doha Festival City in Qatar and Zenata Mall, Morocco.

Leveraging on the expertise of its parent company, Al-Futtaim Malls established PLEX Management Services offering a full array of services including asset management and development, leasing, and brand experience expertise to shopping mall landlords and retail organizations globally. Implementing global best practice and deploying Al-Futtaim Mall’s deep understanding of mall management and retail dynamics, PLEX promises to deliver continuous growth and long-term value for its partners.

For more information on Al-Futtaim Malls, please visit https://www.al-futtaimmalls.com/

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies
Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions. 
 
The Engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, Energy Management, Technology Infrastructure and Digital Transformation. 
 
The Technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include, contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services. 
 
These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.