Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Industry: Retail
Job Responsibilities:
- Own and maintain key reporting metrics and evolve reporting and models to grow with the business needs
- Partner with Sr Director FP&A, Controllers, CFO and key stakeholders to produce monthly financial review packages, annual budget, 3-year strategic plan, and quarterly forecasts. This includes owning forecasting of the P&L, supporting analysis, and consolidation
- Work with business partners to set monthly strategic goals, review past monthly performance and track budget
- Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with senior leadership.
- Acquire and maintain a thorough understanding of business issues, strategies and risks and profitability opportunities.
- Bring new thinking and ways of doing things to the function, as appropriate, including analyzing and pushing new metrics and performance indicators to help identify trends.
- Provide detailed analysis on Gross Margins, ad-hoc analysis and lead various other reporting projects including decision support, metrics and analytics.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in related field (Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, Math, etc), and 10-15 years in FP&A, corporate finance, or equivalent combination of education and experience in Finance (Budgeting, Performance Reporting, and Financial analysis).
- Modeling guru with advanced excel skills.
- You enjoy problem-solving - digging into complex and ambiguous data sets and synthesizing the “so what”s at an executive level
- Self-directed, thrive in ambiguous situations and love to take charge of complex tasks with minimal direction.
- You are eager to develop new ways of approaching business challenges independently and proactively.
- Ability to implement new processes and systems
- Experience in a data-driven environment