Senior Manager

Job description

Al Ghurair is hiring a Senior Manager - FP&A in Dubai to lead the Financial Planning & Analysis function for its business unit, covering financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, business performance management and MIS reporting.

The role provides financial analysis that supports management decisions and keeps business strategies and financial plans aligned with the company's overall objectives. It suits a finance professional with a professional accounting or finance qualification, at least seven years of experience and three in an FP&A role, who is comfortable working with senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Understand broader macroeconomic trends impacting the BU and provide relevant insights to business leadership.
• Drive the business performance review and analysis agenda by provide retrospective and prospective insights to business leadership.
• Support M&A, portfolio analysis and corporate strategy development activities in the Group (provide relevant BU inputs).
• Contribute to the development of financial strategies for the BU that align with the Group's overall vision and its current and long-term business objectives.
• Work in close coordination with commercial & operations to share insights and enhance FP&A with real value-add outputs.
• Collaborate with BU teams regarding project feasibility studies and development planning.
• Orchestrate LT planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes in the BU, within the respective frameworks set out by Group FP&A.
• Prepare advanced analyses and reports for BU leadership.
• Set recurring management reporting frameworks for BU (, financial, and operational metrics, KPIs), within the broader framework set out by the Group FP&A.
• Collaborate with Group FP&A / Advanced Analytics CoE on the progress of advanced analytics in BU ( design and roll out of analytics use cases).
• Collaborate with IT and other relevant stakeholders regarding the roll out of technology tools that impact the FP&A remit.
• Manage large, complex projects evaluate findings, prepare reports, and make recommendations to senior management about the financial implications of the proposed investments and transactions.
• Establish and maintain positive, ongoing relationships with the external finance community.
• Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of financial professionals to ensure financial planning and analysis projects are conducted credibly and that recommendations and reports are accurate and timely.

Requirements

• Relevant Bachelor's degree , Business, Economics, Finance, Accounting or similar.
• Relevant professional qualification , Chartered Accountant (CPA / ACCA / CA and similar), CIMA/CMA, CFA.
• Master's degree in related field.
• Financial planning.
• Strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting financial analysis and modelling.
• Financial analysis and modelling (, capital budgeting, business case analysis, advanced analytics).
• Corporate Finance.
• Conducting development projects feasibility study, DCF / cost of capital modelling etc. funding and project cash flow preparation and monitoring.
• Strong business acumen and end to end understanding of the BU value chain.
• Familiar with advanced analytics, quantitative and econometric methods and tools, data etc.
• Strong critical thinking and strategy development skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Personal gravitas and ability to interact with senior leadership of an organization.
• Ability to inspire and motivate teams.
• MINIMUM : 7 years of total work experience with 3 years of experience in an FP&A role
• PREFERRED : Experience in the Middle East.

Skills

• Advanced Analytics
• Budgeting
• Corporate Finance
• Financial Modelling
• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Forecasting
• MIS Reporting