Senior Manager - FP&A

Role overview

Strategic responsibilities

• Analyze macroeconomic trends and provide business leaders with relevant insights.
• Drive retrospective and prospective business performance reviews.
• Support M&A, portfolio analysis, and corporate strategy with business-unit inputs.
• Develop financial strategies aligned with group vision and business objectives.
• Coordinate with commercial and operations teams to deliver value-adding FP&A insights.

Operational responsibilities

• Collaborate on project feasibility studies and development planning.
• Lead long-term planning, budgeting, and forecasting within group frameworks.
• Prepare advanced analyses and establish recurring financial and operational KPI reporting.
• Work with analytics teams on use cases and with IT stakeholders on FP&A technology tools.
• Evaluate complex projects and transactions and make recommendations on their financial implications.
• Maintain relationships with the external finance community.

People management

• Lead, direct, evaluate, and develop a team of financial professionals to ensure credible analysis and accurate, timely recommendations and reports.

Education and qualifications

• Relevant bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, accounting, or a similar field.
• Relevant professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CA, CIMA, CMA, or CFA is required.
• A master's degree in a related field is preferred.

Knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of financial planning, strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and modelling.
• Knowledge of corporate finance, capital budgeting, business case analysis, advanced analytics, and feasibility studies.
• Familiarity with quantitative and econometric methods, data, and analytics tools.
• Strong business acumen, critical thinking, strategy development, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to engage with senior leadership and inspire and motivate teams.

Experience

• At least seven years of total work experience, including three years in an FP&A role.
• Middle East experience is preferred.