Finance Analyst

Job description / Role

Based in Dubai - the headquarter for the MENA area you will be involved in various financial controlling aspects of this strategic and fast-growing region.

Supporting and leading day-to-day finance operations, you will ensure a reliable controlling and reporting as well as key follow-up activities with adequate analysis and action plans. You will be a key role of the organisation being at the interface between business and finance teams [local and headquarters].

Closing & Reporting
- Perform and support the month-end financial closing process
- Prepare and submit monthly and quarterly reporting
- Provide detailed monthly analysis per cost center and cost type, analyzing main variances with latest revision, budget and previous year
- Prepare the monthly management report with analytic comments

Planning and Controlling
- Support the budget and revision processes, by performing retro-planning and coordinating with finance team members and other departments on information requirements
- Provide evaluation and analysis on budget data that has been returned on consistency and reasonableness
- Support the consolidation process of sales and budget data to provide a running estimate and analysis of P&L
- Be sufficiently knowledgeable on expense budget details and monitoring tracking tools

Projects
- Support for business and finance integration of new brands in the existing set-up upon opportunities
- Optimization of existing processes and tools, while targeting the best practices and standards implementation

Requirements

- University degree/Master in Business [Corporate Finance / Controlling]
- Solid accounting knowledge

Profile & Key competencies
- Excellent communication skills / Dynamic and open-minded
- Self-management and drive execution skills
- Ability to work under pressure and deadlines
- Analytic mind / Strong business acumen
- Ability to adapt and be flexible to changing environment and business needs
- Fluent in English / Fluent in French is a + / Fluent in Arabic is a +
- Previous experience in Luxury / FMCG is a +

Technical Skills
- Strong proficiency in Office [Excel, Word, PPT]
- Confortable with ERP systems

About the Company

Robert Walters is one of the world's largest specialist professional recruitment consultancies with 53 offices spanning 24 countries.

We've helped thousands of professionals find permanent, contract and interim roles with leading global corporations, small to medium sized companies and innovative start ups. Our specialist recruitment focus includes: accountancy and finance, banking, engineering, operations, legal, IT, sales, marketing, procurement & logistics, HR and support/administration.