Manager – Reporting (Group Finance) – Aldar Education – Aldar Properties

Aldar Properties is hiring a Manager – Reporting (Group Finance) – Aldar Education, based in Abu Dhabi. Aldar Properties is Abu Dhabi’s leading real estate developer, and through Aldar Education also operates a network of private schools across the UAE. This role sits in group financial reporting for a schools business, providing the financial analysis, planning or reporting that the wider business relies on to make informed commercial decisions.

Core responsibilities typically include budgeting and forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, and partnering with operational business units to translate numbers into something decision-makers can actually act on. In a diversified group like Aldar Properties, that often means working across multiple business lines rather than a single P&L, which adds genuine complexity to the role.

Aldar Properties will be looking for someone with a solid finance or accounting background, strong Excel and financial modelling skills, and the ability to communicate financial insight clearly to non-finance stakeholders who need the headline, not the full spreadsheet.

Finance functions like group financial reporting for a schools business are the part of a business that leadership relies on to actually know what is happening commercially — not what everyone hopes is happening, but what the numbers say. At a diversified organisation the size of Aldar Properties, that honesty has outsized value, because decisions made on bad or late numbers compound quickly across multiple business lines. The person in this seat is effectively translating raw transactional data into something a non-finance leader can use to make a real decision — invest here, cut there, hold steady — and that translation work, done well, is what lets a business move with confidence instead of guesswork. It's rarely visible work from the outside, but every serious leadership team at a company this size knows exactly how much they depend on this function being accurate and on time, every single reporting cycle.

Corporate finance experience at a large, diversified group like Aldar Properties is a genuinely strong foundation for a long finance career — exposure to multiple business lines builds broader commercial pattern-recognition than a role at a single-business employer typically offers, and that breadth is recognised by future employers. It's also one of the clearer internal progression paths in a large organisation: strong financial analysts and planners are the typical pipeline for finance manager, FP&A lead or business-partner roles over time. The UAE package for finance roles at this level is generally tax-free and competitive, with standard benefits including medical insurance and annual leave, and often support toward professional qualifications for those pursuing ACCA, CFA or similar credentials. Beyond the immediate role, the discipline of working to recurring, non-negotiable reporting deadlines while maintaining real accuracy is a durable professional habit that shows clearly in every finance role that follows, and it's exactly the kind of track record that senior finance leaders look for when deciding who to promote. For a Manager - Reporting (Group Finance) - Aldar Education role specifically, what actually separates a strong hire from an average one is consistency on the fundamentals, day after day, not any single standout moment.

• Relevant degree in finance, accounting or a related field; professional qualification (ACCA/CA/CMA/CFA) is an advantage
• Demonstrable experience in group financial reporting for a schools business, budgeting, forecasting or management reporting
• Strong Excel and financial modelling skills
• Ability to translate financial analysis into clear, actionable business recommendations
• Comfortable partnering with non-finance operational stakeholders
• High accuracy and attention to detail under reporting deadlines