Interim Senior Vice President, Finance, AI Control UAE

Outcomes that will define success

• Within 90 days, agree one economic baseline and named owners across all 8 countries.
• Within 9 months, reduce unresolved forecast and control exceptions by 16% from the agreed baseline.
• Within 18 months, evidence $13 million of annual value without weakening regulatory or fiduciary controls.

Core responsibilities and decision rights

• Own the finance authority required to govern AI adoption through finance, risk and operating evidence.
• Decide the planning, reporting and evidence standards used across the 8-country scope.
• Set the capital and resource cases that may reach Global Chief Financial Officer.
• Stop commitments that preserve use-case sponsorship committees without measurable economic or control evidence.
• Decline investment requests whose value owner, delivery dependency or downside remains unnamed.
• Choose the sequence for digital and AI transformation and expose dependencies before funding is committed.
• Determine the finance leadership accountabilities and escalation routes needed for GCC finance and investment decisions.

Candidate profile

You have led digital and AI transformation where finance carried the operating consequence, not merely the reporting calendar. You have worked at or above $755 million of revenue and across at least 4 countries, with direct accountability for forecasts, controls and capital choices. You can show where your judgement stopped a weak commitment as well as where it released investment. Digital and AI investment, value, adoption and controls must be judged together. You have owned planning and forecasting at scale, connected control evidence to commercial decisions, and explained unresolved gaps to a board without hiding behind functional language. You understand the economics of digital financial services and the operating pressure created because automated decisions are expanding while model cost, customer outcomes and control exceptions sit in separate forums. You can work across GCC finance and investment decisions, challenge use-case sponsorship committees, and remain accountable through the full 18-month horizon. You will distinguish urgent decisions from hurried ones, protect controls that work, and make the cost of every exception visible.

Critical experience

• Digital and AI transformation: The finance mandate requires digital and AI change already led where value, controls and adoption were measured together.
• Growth scale-up: Experience of growth scale-up matters because automated decisions are expanding while model cost, customer outcomes and control exceptions sit in separate forums.
• Turnaround: Prior turnaround and distress recovery gives the leader a tested reference point for changing use-case sponsorship committees.

Required leadership capabilities

• FP&A and forecasting — level 4: Recognised authority in planning and forecasting is needed because the first decisions depend on a trusted economic baseline.
• Controls and reporting — level 3: The leader must connect reporting evidence with the operating choices that finance is expected to challenge.
• Capital allocation — level 3: Capital allocation judgement determines which commitments continue when the portfolio exceeds available capacity.
• Risk judgement — level 3: AI-enabled decisions require explicit judgement about uncertainty, control ownership and acceptable evidence.

Scope and operating context

• Comparable experience should include responsibility for at least $755 million revenue, $490 million P&L, 1300 colleagues, and 4 countries.
• Principal leadership interfaces: Audit, Risk, Technology committees.
• Direct-report scope: Financial planning and analysis, Controllership, Treasury, Tax, Business finance, Finance transformation
• Candidates may be considered from: Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Doha, Qatar.
• Relocation support is available. Sponsor-supported work authorisation may be considered for qualifying candidates.

This mandate is unlikely to be right if

• You need use-case sponsorship committees to remain untouched while accountability changes around it.
• You prefer advisory influence without ownership of the financial consequences attached to the work required to govern AI adoption through finance, risk and operating evidence.
• You require complete information before making choices across 8 countries; the sponsor expects staged decisions under uncertainty.

Application

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