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Head of Enterprise IT (Finance, HR and Group Functions)

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-13 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, , United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates Full-time Hybrid ICT

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Market rate

AED 35,000–AED 80,000/mo (AED 420,000–AED 960,000/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

Etihad Airways is the UAE's national airline, shaping the future of global aviation with the 'Journey 2030' ambition to double its fleet, expand its network, and grow its people for a new era of excellence.

Responsibilities

  • ● Lead the end to end delivery of the SAP S/4HANA transformation programme across Finance, Procurement, HR, and related business functions.
  • ● Develop and execute the ERP transformation roadmap aligned with business and digital transformation objectives.
  • ● Overall responsible for Agile and waterfall projects.
  • ● Establish programme governance, budget controls, risk management, and benefits realization frameworks.
  • ● Partner with Finance, Procurement, HR, and Technology stakeholders to design future state business processes and technology solutions.
  • ● Drive process standardization and optimization enabled by SAP S/4HANA.
  • ● Manage System Integrators, consulting partners, vendors, and delivery teams.
  • ● Oversee programme delivery across design, build, testing, data migration, cutover, deployment, and hyper care phases.
  • ● Ensure integration between SAP and enterprise applications, operational platforms, and third party systems.
  • ● Lead business readiness, change management, training, and adoption activities.
  • ● Provide regular executive reporting, steering committee updates, and programme governance oversight.
  • ● Ensure compliance with governance, audit, security, and regulatory requirements.
  • ● Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation capabilities to improve business processes and ERP outcomes.

Requirements

  • ● Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • ● MBA or Master's degree preferred.
  • ● Minimum 15 years of experience leading large scale enterprise transformation programmes.
  • ● Minimum 8 years of SAP programme delivery experience, including at least one full SAP S/4HANA implementation.
  • ● Proven experience leading Finance, Procurement, and HR transformation initiatives.
  • ● Strong experience managing large implementation budgets, external vendors, and system integrators.
  • ● Strong delivery record across both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies.
  • ● Extensive experience managing executive stakeholders, programme governance, and organisational change.