An excellent opportunity has arisen for a forward-thinking Commercial Finance Manager to join a growing and dynamic organisation. With world class communication skills, you will business partner the General Manager & management team. Provide strong commercial and financial advice ensuring finance play an instrumental role with business decision making.
Duties will include:
· Business partnering with the GM and management team
· Responsible for budgeting and forecasting - explaining any key variances across the business with full commentary
· Support the creation of business plans
· Complete financial evaluation on all pricing & promotions, working closely with the sales and marketing teams
· Ensuring margin analysis (Volume, product and price) and pre & post launch information is captured - to help with decision making
· Driving analysis of all departments to support with ROI for marketing campaigns & investment
· Managing OPEX and top line budgets
· Work closely with sales and marketing on contractual arrangements
· Input of pricing decisions & support with observations on market dynamics including footfall, velocity, competitor information and market share data
· Provide data for accruals to accounting team
· Review month end financials, flagging issues to Accounting Manager as required
· Work closely with the management team regarding their spend vs budget/forecast
· Ensure spend authority levels are maintained in line with Group policies
· Ensure strategic risks to delivery of the financial plan are mitigated and managed
· Provide data to Treasury, Tax and Insurance teams as required
The successful candidate should have a strong business acumen and be able to work closely with all departments across the business to provide meaningful financial data. You should be a qualified Accountant and have a background working within FMCG. If you want to work for a future market leader in Dubai, apply without delay.