Finance & Project Coordination Manager (Secondment)

• Finance & Project Coordination Manager (Secondment)
• Location
• Abu Dhabi, UAE – full-time, on-site
• Contract
• Secondment, minimum 3 months
• Experience
• 7+ years
• Role Summary

We are looking for a finance professional with corporate finance and project management experience to support a client's team on a secondment basis. The aim is to bring more structure and efficiency to the team's activities by setting clear priorities, coordinating projects and workstreams, and improving visibility over deliverables, dependencies and resource needs. The role also needs enough financial expertise to support and challenge finance-related workstreams.

Key Responsibilities

Finance-related workstreams

• Coordinate budgeting, forecasting and business planning for existing and newly established entities
• Support the review of financial models, forecasts and business cases, making sure assumptions, inputs and outstanding decisions are documented and followed through
• Coordinate finance activities for entity establishment, including ADGM and FSRA-regulated entities where applicable
• Track finance deliverables for investments, due diligence, carve-outs and transfers of businesses or assets into the group
• Facilitate the review of delegations of authority, bank signatory matrices and financial policies and procedures, with technical ownership remaining with the relevant finance and specialist teams

Management reporting and decision support

• Set up concise reporting on project status, priorities, resource allocation and matters needing decisions
• Prepare management presentations, board and committee updates and project performance dashboards
• Maintain decision logs and give timely visibility of overdue actions, delivery risks and competing priorities
• Recommend practical improvements to project governance and departmental performance

Project prioritisation and planning

• Consolidate ongoing and planned initiatives into a central project portfolio, with clear objectives, scope, owners, milestones and deliverables
• Support management in prioritising projects by strategic importance, urgency, dependencies and available resources
• Develop and maintain an integrated delivery plan, identifying capacity constraints and recommending how to sequence activities
• Turn management priorities into actionable work plans and track execution

Project coordination and delivery

• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams involving internal stakeholders, consultants and transaction counterparties
• Monitor milestones, deliverables, risks, issues and dependencies, and escalate matters that need management attention
• Organise virtual and in-person meetings, prepare focused agendas, document decisions and follow up on actions
• Track external advisers deliverables against agreed scopes and timelines
• Help the team resolve bottlenecks and keep priority projects moving

Essential Experience

• At least 7 years relevant experience across corporate finance, budgeting, board presentation preparation and project management, with substantial project delivery responsibility
• Strong understanding of financial planning, reporting and corporate finance, and the ability to engage with finance teams and external advisers
• Degree in finance, accounting, business or a related field
• Buy-side experience within an investment group, family office or private equity firm, ideally involving M&A, carve-outs, new entity establishment or regulated environments
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, practical experience with project management and reporting tools, and the ability to interpret financial models and management information

Desirable

• Project management qualification such as PMP or PRINCE2, and/or professional finance qualification such as CA, CPA, ACCA, CFA or CMA
• Power BI experience
• Wider financial services experience, particularly in regulated environments

Key Competencies

• Structures complex workloads and turns priorities into clear, achievable plans
• Practical, hands-on approach to improving efficiency and driving delivery
• Sound judgement in prioritising competing demands and escalating issues
• Clear written and verbal communication, including presenting to senior management
• Strong stakeholder management, coordinating cross-functional teams without direct reporting authority
• Analytical thinking, attention to detail and effective problem-solving
• Adaptable under pressure and tight deadlines
• Integrity and discretion with confidential information