Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
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About the Role
Lead FP&A function across GCC region, manage budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, reporting, and business partnering. Requires 8+ years FP&A experience in FMCG or manufacturing, proficiency in SAP/Oracle Hyperion, Excel, Power BI.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead the FP&A function across the GCC region, supporting a complex, multi market business with multiple manufacturing units.
- Lead integrated business planning processes, including monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-term strategic plans, ensuring alignment across Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance.
- Manage the end-to-end Flash reporting process, ensuring accurate and timely submission of preliminary financial results, risks, and opportunities.
- Own the end-to-end month-end financial close process, ensuring accurate and timely preparation of P&L statements across markets, channels, and SKU-level profitability.
- Deliver executive management reporting, providing insightful financial analysis, variance explanations, strategic recommendations, and business performance updates to senior leadership.
- Partner with senior business leaders to support strategic decision-making through financial analysis, scenario modelling, investment evaluations, and performance management.
- In collaboration with Commercial Finance Partners, evaluate and optimize end to-end value chains, identifying opportunities to improve margins, reduce costs, enhance operational efficiency, and strengthen profitability.
- Develop and maintain advanced financial models, dashboards, and analytical tools to support strategic initiatives, pricing decisions, investment cases, and market expansion opportunities.
- Monitor key financial and operational KPIs, proactively identifying business risks, opportunities, and performance improvement initiatives.
- Champion digital finance transformation by implementing AI, automation, and advanced analytics solutions to enhance forecasting, business insights, and finance productivity.
- Drive financial governance and reporting standardization to ensure consistent, accurate, and timely financial reporting across the region.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure financial targets are embedded into commercial and operational plans and successfully executed. Internal Key Deliverables
- Accurate and timely monthly financial close and regional P&L reporting.
- Executive dashboards and performance reviews with actionable business insights.
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts with high forecast accuracy.
- Annual budgets and long-term financial plans aligned with strategic objectives.
- Financial models and business cases supporting investment, pricing, and growth initiatives.
- Value chain analyses identifying profitability improvement opportunities.
- Standardized and automated reporting processes across the region.
- Timely identification and communication of financial risks and opportunities to leadership.
Must Have
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, or Business Finance, preferably in FMCG or Manufacturing.
- Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, business partnering, and performance management.
- Proficiency in ERP/EPM systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle Hyperion), advanced Excel, and Power BI or similar BI tools.
- Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Good to Have
- MBA or professional qualification (CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or CFA).
- Experience working across multiple markets or in a regional finance role.
- Experience leveraging AI, automation, and advanced analytics to improve financial planning, reporting, and decision-making.
- Experience leading finance transformation and process improvement initiatives. Internal
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