Fp&a Sr Analyst

**Overview**

As Financial Planning & Analyst - Forecasting, your role is to: Financial modelling for BU & market plans and forecasts and comparison to actual results Manage end to end cycle of financial plans and forecasts including submission to sector Working on presentations for Business performance reviews with BU LT and sector.

**Responsibilities**
- Maintaining monthly Executive/financial calendars for ME Foods to ensure financial submissions and Business reviews are on track
- Responsible for UAE, Other Gulf and Iraq Financials and performance management
- Responsible for G&A actualization with Control & variances vs Plan and FCST
- G&A Actual review with CFO, HRD and IT Director
- Qtr FCST & AOP G&A file preparation, analysis, alignment with functions and review with CFO
- X-charges ownership, understanding with sector, COC on monthly basis and review
- IT financials ownership across P&L, working with IT director, COC on monthly basis and review
- DAPLR ownership BI vs HFM recon at month end driving improvements
- Bi-annual DAPLR rules refresher and DAPLR tracker
- Historical Country wise P&L databases
- Participate in Monthly/Quarterly business reviews preparation with FP&A Manager, CFO and LT
- Performance dashboards for ME Foods BU
- Responsible for weekly volume estimate for ME Foods BU
- ME Foods pre-close estimate
- ME Foods P&L and NOPBT COC HFM submission, validation and address AMESA sector queries **Others**:

- Adhoc sector requests: Managed Spend, Bill to Plan, etc
- Maintenance of Entity structures and hierarchies of all systems and user access database (who needs what change as roles change)
- Planning folder’s structure maintenance and access

**Qualifications**
- 4-5 yrs of Financial Planning experience preferably in FMCG industry
- Relevant finance qualification (CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA) or equivalent is a plus
- Solid presentation skills and hands on PowerPoint experience
- Excellent Financial modelling skills
- Sharp analytical skills and ability to identify interlinkages of data from multiple sources
- Experience of using HFM preferred
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and problemsolving skills.
- Ability to collect information from multiple sources/functions
- Ability to work remotely and coordinate with teams

Willing to work extended hours when required