MIS / Management Reporting & Planning Lead

We're excited to be partnering with a leading institution in the UAE that is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to join at an early stage and help shape a modern finance function, reporting capability, and performance management framework within a business backed by significant institutional support and long-term ambition.About Role:As the MIS / Management Reporting & Planning Lead, you will be responsible for delivering management information (MI), financial performance reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and business analysis that supports executive decision-making. Working closely with Finance, Business, and Executive stakeholders, you'll play a key role in producing management packs, analysing financial performance, supporting planning activities, and providing the insights that help shape strategic decisions from day one.Key ResponsibilitiesProduce the periodic management pack with clear commentary on performance against budget and forecast, variances, trends, and drivers. Own the annual budget process, coordinating inputs across the business and consolidating a coherent plan. Produce the rolling forecast, updating the outlook for actuals, trends, and emerging risks and opportunities. Own cost-centre reporting, giving budget holders accurate, timely views of their spend against plan. Prepare board MI, translating detailed financials into concise, decision-ready insight. Build scenario and sensitivity analysis to support strategic, financial, and capital planning. Analyse and challenge business cases and investment proposals, testing assumptions and returns. Define and maintain management-reporting hierarchies, KPIs, and data definitions, and reconcile management information to the general ledger and financial statements for a single source of truth. Partner with product control, financial control, and the business to align plans, targets, and reporting. Develop and maintain planning models and improve reporting efficiency and self-service through better data models and automation. Build the combined reporting and planning capability and an AI-enabled operating model — automating pack production, variance commentary, forecast production, and scenario modelling.Required Experience & Skills:8+ years in management reporting, planning, or FP&A within banking or financial services, including leadership of a team. Deep expertise in management packs, cost-centre reporting, board MI, budgeting, rolling forecasts, scenario analysis, and business-case evaluation. Proven record building management-reporting and planning processes and data foundations in a regulated environment; experience standing up management reporting and planning in a new or newly licensed bank, or a comparable greenfield build, is strongly preferred. Strong knowledge of banking economics and performance drivers and applicable financial reporting and capital planning standards. Is able to think beyond manual pack production and planning cycles; brings experience of automated or AI-enabled management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario analysis; advanced data modelling, driver-based planning, and analytics.Qualifications & Certifications: (Preferred) Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, or a quantitative discipline; a relevant postgraduate qualification is preferred. Recognised professional finance or accounting qualification (e.g., CFA, ACA, ACCA, CPA) preferred. CBUAE Fit & Proper approval where the role holds a controlled function.