Financial Analyst – Planning and Analysis – Al-Futtaim Group

This Financial Analyst role sits within Al-Futtaim’s Financial Planning and Analysis function in Dubai, supporting one of the region’s largest privately held business groups. Al-Futtaim’s operations span automotive, retail, real estate, and financial services, giving an FP&A analyst here genuine exposure to a diverse, multi-sector business rather than a single narrow product line.

Day to day, the role involves building and maintaining financial models, preparing budgets and forecasts, and analysing business performance to support decision-making for members and business stakeholders across the group. That means translating raw financial data into clear, actionable analysis — variance reporting, trend analysis, and scenario modelling — and presenting findings in a way that non-finance stakeholders can act on. Close collaboration with business unit leaders is central to the role, since good FP&A work depends on understanding the operational reality behind the numbers, not just the numbers themselves.

It suits someone analytically strong with solid financial modelling and Excel skills, who also communicates well enough to translate financial analysis into business recommendations. It’s a good fit for an early-to-mid career finance professional who wants broad exposure across a diversified group rather than the narrower scope of a single-industry employer.

Good decisions inside a large, diversified group like Al-Futtaim depend on business leaders trusting the financial analysis put in front of them, and that trust is built one accurate forecast and clear variance report at a time — which is exactly what this Financial Analyst role delivers. Budgets, forecasts, and performance analysis produced here directly inform how business units allocate resources, where investment gets prioritised, and how leadership tracks whether the business is performing against plan. Because Al-Futtaim operates across automotive, retail, real estate, and financial services, consistent, high-quality FP&A work also helps leadership compare performance meaningfully across genuinely different kinds of businesses — which is a harder analytical challenge than FP&A within a single-sector company, and a more valuable one when done well. Reliable financial planning and analysis is, in a real sense, the connective tissue that lets a diversified group actually manage itself as one coherent business rather than a set of disconnected units.

Financial Planning and Analysis experience within a group as diversified as Al-Futtaim is a genuinely strong foundation for a finance career, because it builds fluency across multiple business models — automotive, retail, real estate, financial services — rather than deep expertise in just one, which is exactly the kind of broad commercial finance experience that senior finance and strategy roles later require. The analytical skills built here — financial modelling, forecasting, variance analysis, and stakeholder communication — are core, transferable finance skills valued across every industry and company size. Al-Futtaim's scale means real structure around career progression within finance, from Financial Analyst toward senior analyst, FP&A manager, or business-unit finance business-partner roles over time, along with the professional credibility that comes from having worked inside one of the region's most established private business groups. For someone pursuing or holding a professional finance qualification, the breadth of exposure here — analysing genuinely different business types side by side — builds exactly the commercial judgment that qualification alone doesn't teach. It's a strong platform for a finance career either within Al-Futtaim's long-term structure or as a launchpad into corporate finance roles elsewhere in the region. It also gives an analyst early, direct exposure to how senior finance leaders actually think about resource allocation decisions, a perspective that's hard to get from textbook finance training alone.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
• Experience in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, or financial modelling
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with financial planning software or ERP systems is a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail in financial reporting
• Clear communication skills for presenting financial analysis to non-finance stakeholders
• Professional finance qualification (CFA, ACCA, CMA or progress toward one) is an advantage
• Comfortable working across multiple business units within a large, diversified group