Regional Chief Financial Officer — Low-Carbon Platform

The mandate

The next planning cycle has brought into focus regional capital and performance discipline lagging the enterprise standard within a institutionally backed integrated energy producer and services platform. The immediate arena is the low-carbon platform during a commodity-cycle repositioning. For mandate 373, the successful executive inherits decisions that have been deferred, competing stakeholder expectations and a need to establish facts before committing further capital.

The Regional Chief Financial Officer operating perimeter covers approximately AED 37,450 million in operated asset and trading portfolio, with activity spanning several low-carbon platform customer, product and delivery clusters rather than a single asset. The Regional Chief Financial Officer Oil & Energy remit carries direct influence over roughly 1,150 colleagues and third-party capacity.

The chair, executive committee and principal capital sponsors want a Regional Chief Financial Officer who can convert ambiguity into a short list of explicit choices for the low-carbon platform. The Regional Chief Financial Officer Oil & Energy seat must resolve a commodity-cycle repositioning, while preserving the underlying strengths of the low-carbon platform. For mandate 373, value will come through sharper allocation, stronger leaders and an operating cadence that exposes variance early.

The Regional Chief Financial Officer’s first year on the low-carbon platform is expected to end with cash, forecast confidence and investment governance. In mandate 373, authority covers resources and leadership appointments; material trade-offs go directly to the board sponsor.

Why this seat is open

This is a planned replacement for the Regional Chief Financial Officer — Low-Carbon Platform seat. The incumbent continues to lead the low-carbon platform through an agreed succession period and will support a structured handover. The board has allowed 4–6 months to assess candidates, complete diligence and protect continuity while a commodity-cycle repositioning is addressed. The search is confidential so the transition can be communicated to employees, customers and partners in a controlled sequence.

What you will own

• Set the Regional Chief Financial Officer value-creation thesis for the low-carbon platform, translate it into no more than five enterprise priorities and stop work that does not support them.
• Carry stewardship of approximately AED 37,450 million in operated asset and trading portfolio, including allocation, risk acceptance and board forecasts.
• Lead the Regional Chief Financial Officer Oil & Energy organisation of about 1,150 employees and partners, appointing a team with clear decision rights and credible succession for every critical seat.
• Resolve the low-carbon platform economics and execution constraints created by a commodity-cycle repositioning, with Regional Chief Financial Officer-approved owners, dated milestones and transparent escalation thresholds.
• Establish one Regional Chief Financial Officer operating review across commercial, customer, financial, people, technology and risk outcomes for the low-carbon platform; remove reconciliations that obscure accountability.
• Have signed or directly owned board financial statements, liquidity decisions and investment cases at the stated scale in mandate 373.
• Build the Regional Chief Financial Officer’s three-year succession and capability plan for the low-carbon platform, reducing dependence on individual executives and improving mobility across the wider Oil & Energy organisation.

The first 12 months

• Days 1–90: Validate the low-carbon platform baseline, meet the 30 stakeholders most consequential to regional capital and performance discipline lagging the enterprise standard, assess the leadership team, stabilise immediate delivery risks and agree a board-owned scorecard with explicit decision gates.
• Months 4–9: Make the principal Regional Chief Financial Officer portfolio and organisation choices for the low-carbon platform, install the new operating cadence, fill critical leadership gaps and deliver the first measurable release of cash, capacity or customer value.
• Months 10–12: Demonstrate a repeatable low-carbon platform trend against cash, forecast confidence and investment governance, lock the following year’s capital and talent plan, evidence control sustainability and present a credible three-year value case with downside actions.

What the board will measure

• Delivery of the Regional Chief Financial Officer’s agreed first-year low-carbon platform value case within a 10% tolerance, with variance explained before rather than after the relevant quarter closes.
• A Regional Chief Financial Officer forecast that remains decision-useful across three consecutive quarters and reconciles the low-carbon platform’s operating, cash, customer and people assumptions.
• Closure of the Regional Chief Financial Officer mandate’s highest-priority low-carbon platform risk and execution issues by their board-approved dates, with independent evidence that fixes are sustained.
• Retention of at least 90% of critical low-carbon platform talent and ready-now successors for at least 70% of the Regional Chief Financial Officer’s direct reports.
• A quantified Regional Chief Financial Officer-owned improvement in the low-carbon platform operating constraint behind a commodity-cycle repositioning, supported by a clean baseline and named data owner.
• Clear stakeholder confidence in mandate 373: no unresolved high-severity escalation older than 30 days and no material surprise withheld from its agreed governance forum.

The person

You are currently a Regional CFO, Divisional CFO or Finance Vice President in a institutionally backed Oil & Energy or adjacent enterprise. In relation to the low-carbon platform, your Regional Chief Financial Officer track record includes a transition where the original plan was no longer sufficient; you can explain your choices, evidence and numerical impact. Candidates from energy, oil and gas, utilities, chemicals, renewables or industrial services will be considered where the operating model, customer stakes and governance intensity match this Regional Chief Financial Officer brief.

As a Regional Chief Financial Officer candidate, you bring 22–28 years of progressive Oil & Energy or adjacent-sector experience, consistent with the 22-28 experience band. At minimum, you have carried a P&L, book, budget or accountable portfolio of AED 21,700 million and led an organisation of at least 800 people.

For mandate 373, the board wants two transitions: a difficult low-carbon platform portfolio choice and a leadership-system change during a commodity-cycle repositioning. As the prospective Regional Chief Financial Officer for this low-carbon platform, you must challenge optimistic cases and still create followership. References for mandate 373 must distinguish your contribution from the institution around you.

The Regional Chief Financial Officer must be based in Abu Dhabi; international relocation is supported, but this Oil & Energy role is not designed as a remote appointment.

Non-negotiables

• Current or recent accountability at the level of Regional CFO, Divisional CFO or Finance Vice President, with direct exposure to a board, investment committee or equivalent Oil & Energy governance forum.
• Proven Regional Chief Financial Officer ownership of at least AED 21,700 million and leadership of no fewer than 800 employees in a comparable low-carbon platform context.
• One completed Oil & Energy or adjacent-sector example of regional capital and performance discipline lagging the enterprise standard with outcomes sustained for at least two reporting periods after the initial intervention.
• Sector credibility from energy, oil and gas, utilities, chemicals, renewables or industrial services; experience that is purely functional and lacks Regional Chief Financial Officer-level low-carbon platform consequences will not meet the bar.
• Willingness to meet the Abu Dhabi location expectation, complete conflicts and background diligence, and protect the confidentiality of mandate 373.

Compensation and terms

The anticipated Regional Chief Financial Officer package is AED 1.9–2.7 million fixed + annual incentive and LTI, calibrated to the final low-carbon platform scope and the candidate’s current mix. Any long-term participation for mandate 373 follows standard vesting and performance conditions. The Regional Chief Financial Officer appointment in Abu Dhabi, centred on the low-carbon platform, offers regular exposure to the chair, executive committee and principal capital sponsors. A notice period of up to 6 months can be accommodated for the selected executive in mandate 373.

Confidentiality

This search is being conducted without naming the client for mandate 373. Identifying information will follow only when both sides elect to proceed under confidentiality; nothing in the published mandate should be treated as a clue to ownership or brand for mandate 373.