What you will do

• Prepare strategic plan, annual budget (zero ba
• Regular operational and financial performance reports to relevant stakeholders
• Comprehensive analysis of the variances with budget and prior year performances and suggest action plan for improvement
• Provide adhoc financial analysis to support business decisions.
• Enhance automation to improve efficiency
• sed) and quarterly forecasts in co-ordination with relevant internal and external stakeholders along with action plan to deliver the Plan, Budget and Forecasts
• Upload Plan, Budget and Forecast into relevant systems
• Prepare presentations for Retail and Group Leadership
• Upload of budgets and forecasts using Anaplan
• Developing reports and dashboards using Anaplan

Required Skills to be successful

• Meeting Group & Brand SLAs and requests and feedback from Brand Finance leaders
• Collaboration success between central BP&A and Brands.
• Driving best practice

What equips you for the role

• Finance graduate with at least 2-3 years’ experience.
• CA/CMA/CFA/CPA (in process or completed) would be a plus
• Expert working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint and good working knowledge of other MS office packages
• Experience with SAP ERP, BPC and/or Anaplan
• Prior work experience in budgeting, financial/management reporting, and taxation in Middle East and Southeast Asia preferably in retail sector
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical, planning and organizing skills and good business acumen.

About Al-Futtaim Retail

Al-Futtaim Retail has established itself as one of the leaders in Retail across the Middle East, Africa & Asia over the past 30 years. We have developed partnerships with some of the biggest and most respected Brands in the world including IKEA, ACE and Toys R Us in the Middle East and the Inditex Group of Brands (Zara, Mango, Bershka and P&B) across Asia. We are also one of the largest Global partners of Marks and Spencer’s in both regions with over 75 stores offering both fashion & food options.

Most recently we have been responsible for bringing brands to the Middle East for the first time with the exciting launches of Watsons and B&Q and we aim to continue to be agile and adaptive to our markets with new launches and further development. For this to be poss