FP&A Manager

Job description / Role

Client is a leading multinational Insurance provider offering the chance to wok in a thriving environment of Insurance professionals. They have a number of different offices globally and have a very strong presence in the Middle East with most of their operations working out of Dubai.

FP&A Manager oversees and is responsible for the delivery of regular Country, Regional and Corporate Reporting, Projection and Planning process.

Ensures the flow of accounting information and other financial and non-financial data originating from multiple sources across the company. Around key responsibility, the FP&A Manager will own several reporting responsibilities including involvement in projects as necessary.

This role is should provide visibility to Senior Management and departmental heads and enable to gather awareness of industry, company challenges and opportunities.

Principal Responsibilities:

Corporate Reporting:
- Ensures and is responsible for timely and accurate Country Corporate reporting
- Manages and evaluates quality of information provided
- Prepares financial analysis, presentations, business cases in line with monthly corporate reporting deliverables
- Develops controls necessary to ensure accurate and effective submissions of Corporate reporting

Projections / Plan
- Ensures and is responsible for preparation of Financial plan and projections
- Develops and coordinates country budgeting and planning process
- Communicate and coordinate with all the stakeholders to gather the data and various reports for the budget process.
- Collaborates with separate Distribution channels and Line of Business leads in the analysis of the actuals/projections and variances vs. Plan and Prior projections

Expenses
- Ensures and is responsible for monitoring and reporting country expenses and maintaining agreed budgets
- Develops and maintains monthly expense reporting, including variance analysis and delivers consistent summary of variances
- Analysis of the main variances between Plan and Previous Year

Partner with representatives of diverse business areas and provide them with awareness of financial processes and rules through instructions or training.

Delivers ad-hoc information for the management and the Regional office; is also able to highlight and comment key developments or variances in Company’s performance.

Requirements

- 5 years of experience in an Accounting / Finance role consistent with responsibilities outlined above
- Degree in Accounting, Finance or related discipline.
- Strong analytical, interpersonal, communication and time-management skills. High degree of attention to detail.
- Ability to quickly understand an organization's operations and its accounting systems.

About the Company

Michael Page is one of the world's leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

Finance & Accounting Banking & Financial Services Procurement Property & Construction Engineering & Supply Chain Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering Human Resources Sales Marketing Technology Secretarial Executive Search Legal

The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide.