About the job Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis Manager

Company:

Our client is an advanced and professional regional distribution company (In the Tobacco industry) with a presence across the Middle East and Africa. The company offers an amazing culture and is driven by integrity, courage, and passion. They are currently on the lookout for an experienced Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis Manager to join the team in Dubai, UAE.

Job Title: Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis Manager

Reporting Line: Group Senior Finance Director.

Position Overview:

This position plays a key leadership role in our Finance Function.

The Financial Planning, Reporting and Analysis Manager is responsible for leading the organizations annual planning and budgeting process, translating strategic operating goals into financial and performance targets.

For this role, we seek a collaborative partner, a decisive and influential communicator, and an analytically oriented finance leader.

This individual will interact at the senior level and guide the Finance and Commercial professionals in our 6+ countries of Commercial operation and across our teams in Marketing, Operations and HR.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Lead the organization annual planning and budget process, providing transparent processes for clarifying prioritization of organization strategic initiatives, ensuring timely and fact-base resource allocation decision-making, and providing visibility to key strategic metrics all to enable the efficient cross-organization alignment behind the years annual plan.
• Ensure the appropriate levels of cross-organization coordination of the annual planning and budgeting process through effective communication, and integration of business processes in operations, Commercial, and administrative support functions. Present updates to the Management team to ensure timely and efficient decision-making support.
• Act as finance business partner with the Countries Heads, advising leadership about resource utilization, modeling performance scenarios, and guiding them through the annual planning and budgeting process.
• Provide strategic subject matter expert-level input to BD and Commercial operation and financial planning tools, ensuring that the organizations future global requirements are incorporated into the recommendation.
• Design and implement dynamic and flexible projection/forecasting processes that enhance the timely allocation of resources, including achievement of annual budget goals, performance trends in expense and revenue, and drivers of performance variance vs budgets and prior years.
• Identify, arrange for and train staff resources at key organization budgeting levels (country heads, regional field support offices and HQ).
• Improve and expand digital capability across the Finance organization including the automation of budgeting and forecasting, as well as building capacity among field finance and country teams, and cross training other finance team members.

Qualifications:

• 10 years of professional experience with 7-10 years of experience in FP&A, preferably including a management role.
• Prior experience ensuring that budgeting systems are efficient, current and align with performance reporting to address diverse operating and management audience needs.
• Track record of leading change management initiatives with significant organization impact.
• Prior success influencing and building relationships with leadership and colleagues in multiple functions and geographies, including Development, Accounting, People and Commercial.
• Expert skill levels in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated effectiveness in a fast-paced, growth-oriented regional organization, requiring flexibility and adaptability to changing organization priorities
• Demonstrated influence, communication, presentation and facilitation skills
• Proven track record of managing projects and achieving results
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

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