Overview of the role:

Global Aftersales operations encompasses aftersales operations of all brands and companies covering all UAE, GCC and International geographies of Group\xe2\x80\x99s Automotive Division including specialized Body & Paint and Tier-2 company ALAC.

Senior Financial controller will participate in the planning, performance management and controlling cycle of the Global Aftersales. He/she will be a trusted business partner to Managing Director of Global aftersales and his operations team. He/she will be responsible to develop the (financial) reporting process with state-of-the-art tools to provide both internal and external stakeholders with insightful, accurate and timely financial information. Within his/her role as Senior Financial Controller, he/she has a lot of autonomy and responsibility. He/she, together with Business Control oriented staff, part of the Global Aftersales finance department and will report to the General Manager of Finance.

What you will do:

• Review and analysis of monthly financial statements of all Global Aftersales operations and dispersion management across all brands, ALAC;

• Partner with Sr. FCs of ALAC and other businesses to establish Global aftersales P&L performance review and develop reporting / KPIs to review with key stakeholders.

• Perform detail costing for cost to serve and provide visibility on financials KPI to drive business and operational accountability

• Understand individual market dynamic on return and after sales opportunity; translate to financials implication to drive P&L and Cashflow optimization.

• Analysis of forecasts and budgets of all activities, locations, of Global aftersales operations, including consistency checks;

• First line support of Global aftersales operations and local financial controllers on finance related questions;

• First line support of Global aftersales operations and local financial controllers on finance related questions;

• Development, maintenance and analysis of divisional specific reports and dashboards;

• Optimizing financial processes and performance through data analysis (e.g., process mining, business intelligence);

• Analysis of consolidated product contribution margins;

• Preparation of accounting position papers;

• Support in development and delivery of extensive KPI pyramid across all Global aftersales locations and brands/companies

• Lead initiatives to improve financial decision making and visibility regarding inventory, demand, and supply at region.

• Be the voice of finance in business and operations reviews. Challenge business case from a profitability and cashflow perspective

• Manage the control environment for inventory and develop best practices

• Participate, own, and deliver all Global aftersales M&A and unwind projects;

• Support operational leaders and GMs

• Liaise with peers (Sr. FCs) of all the businesses to build and deliver a monthly performance culture by also keeping strong focus on working capital and cashflows improvements

• Support in consolidating information for Brands and active point of contact with Brand Finance team.

• Collect data from both internal and external resources on various types of costs. Income and expense projection and variance analysis

• Help in preparing or sharing the site level P&L view on monthly basis.

• Review of P&L with Brand Lead / Performance office / GM on risk and opportunities

• Prompt support to get ad-hoc data and analysis for General Manager aftersales and his Brand Lead / planning team.

• Active role with Planning team on end-to-end forecasts, annual budget, strategic plans preparation

• Financial ownership of all warranty and retention products across Global aftersales portfolio with responsibility to provide effective and timely Management Reports on all Warranty and retention products

• Develop detailed business MIS to encapsulate all the key performance indicators for end-to-end global aftersales operations and performance covering all financial, commercial & operational dimensions

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