VP – Finance – Majid Al Futtaim

Majid Al Futtaim is hiring a VP – Finance in Dubai, a senior finance leadership role within one of the Middle East’s largest retail, real estate, and lifestyle conglomerates. This sits at the executive level of the finance function, with responsibility spanning financial strategy, planning, and oversight for a significant part of the business rather than day-to-day transactional finance.

At this level, the role is about partnering with senior business leadership to shape financial strategy, overseeing budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting, and ensuring financial discipline and governance across whatever business unit or function the VP is responsible for. Given Majid Al Futtaim’s scale and diversity – spanning malls, hypermarkets, cinemas, hotels, and more – the role likely requires working across multiple business lines and translating group-level financial strategy into unit-level execution.

It’s built for a senior finance leader with substantial experience, ideally within retail or a similarly complex, multi-business-line organization, who’s comfortable operating as a genuine business partner to senior leadership rather than purely a numbers function.

A VP of Finance at an organization the size and complexity of Majid Al Futtaim directly shapes how well capital gets allocated across a genuinely diverse portfolio of businesses - malls, retail, hospitality, cinemas, and more - each with different margins, growth profiles, and capital needs. Strong financial leadership at this level is what allows senior executives to make confident, well-informed decisions about where to invest, where to cut, and how to plan for the kind of economic volatility that retail and real estate businesses are especially exposed to. Get it wrong, and the business risks misallocating capital, missing financial targets, or losing the confidence of stakeholders and lenders; get it right, and this role is a core part of how Majid Al Futtaim maintains its position as one of the region's most trusted and financially disciplined conglomerates, which matters directly to its ability to raise capital, negotiate favorably, and keep expanding.

A VP - Finance role at Majid Al Futtaim sits near the top of the finance leadership ladder at one of the region's largest and most respected conglomerates, and the breadth of businesses involved - retail, real estate, leisure, hospitality - gives a finance leader exposure to a genuinely wide range of commercial models under one roof, which is unusually broad compared to a finance career spent inside a single-sector company. That breadth is exactly what prepares someone for a CFO or Group Finance Director role, either within Majid Al Futtaim as it continues to grow regionally, or at another major conglomerate or private equity-backed group across the GCC. The role also builds serious executive-level credibility: partnering directly with senior leadership on strategy, rather than just reporting numbers upward, is the kind of experience that differentiates candidates competing for the very top finance roles. For a senior finance professional already operating at VP level, this is a strong platform both for the scale of the business and the diversity of commercial exposure it offers. It also builds the kind of multi-sector financial literacy that's increasingly rare and valuable as more conglomerates diversify, giving a finance leader credibility that a single-sector career simply can't match.

• Significant senior finance leadership experience, including people-leadership experience
• At least 5+ years of professional experience within the retail industry specifically
• Strong track record in financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting at a senior level
• Experience partnering with senior business leadership on financial strategy
• Professional finance qualification (CA, CPA, ACCA, CFA, or equivalent)
• Strong governance, controls, and financial reporting expertise
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills