Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the FP&A function across the GCC region, supporting a complex, multi market business with multiple manufacturing units.

• Lead integrated business planning processes, including monthly and quarterly forecasts, annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and long-term strategic plans, ensuring alignment across Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance.

• Manage the end-to-end Flash reporting process, ensuring accurate and timely submission of preliminary financial results, risks, and opportunities.

• Own the end-to-end month-end financial close process, ensuring accurate and timely preparation of P&L statements across markets, channels, and SKU-level profitability.

• Deliver executive management reporting, providing insightful financial analysis, variance explanations, strategic recommendations, and business performance updates to senior leadership. • Partner with senior business leaders to support strategic decision-making through financial analysis, scenario modelling, investment evaluations, and performance management.

• In collaboration with Commercial Finance Partners, evaluate and optimize end to-end value chains, identifying opportunities to improve margins, reduce costs, enhance operational efficiency, and strengthen profitability.

• Develop and maintain advanced financial models, dashboards, and analytical tools to support strategic initiatives, pricing decisions, investment cases, and market expansion opportunities.

• Monitor key financial and operational KPIs, proactively identifying business risks, opportunities, and performance improvement initiatives.

• Champion digital finance transformation by implementing AI, automation, and advanced analytics solutions to enhance forecasting, business insights, and finance productivity.

• Drive financial governance and reporting standardization to ensure consistent, accurate, and timely financial reporting across the region.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure financial targets are embedded into commercial and operational plans and successfully executed. Internal Key Deliverables

• Accurate and timely monthly financial close and regional P&L reporting.

• Executive dashboards and performance reviews with actionable business insights.

• Monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasts with high forecast accuracy.

• Annual budgets and long-term financial plans aligned with strategic objectives.

• Financial models and business cases supporting investment, pricing, and growth initiatives.

• Value chain analyses identifying profitability improvement opportunities.

• Standardized and automated reporting processes across the region.

• Timely identification and communication of financial risks and opportunities to leadership.

Qualifications

Must Have

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

• 8+ years of experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, or Business Finance, preferably in FMCG or Manufacturing.

• Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, business partnering, and performance management.

• Proficiency in ERP/EPM systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle Hyperion), advanced Excel, and Power BI or similar BI tools.

• Strong analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.

Good to Have

• MBA or professional qualification (CA, CPA, ACCA, CIMA, or CFA).

• Experience working across multiple markets or in a regional finance role.

• Experience leveraging AI, automation, and advanced analytics to improve financial planning, reporting, and decision-making.

• Experience leading finance transformation and process improvement initiatives. Internal