Financial Analyst- Shesido

**INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT**

For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken to build a future where luxury dreams become reality — bridging cultures and crafting memorable experiences for our consumers. Be it by constantly reinventing itself, committing to innovation, or embracing new technologies, the Group is shaping the future of luxury retail. It delivers seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps. Driving this innovation journey is The Greenhouse — the Group’s innovation hub, incubator, and accelerator for startups and emerging businesses, regionally and globally.

Chalhoub Group fosters a people-at-heart culture rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a workplace catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. Today, it brings together over 16,000 talented professionals across eight countries in the Middle East, with a presence in LATAM. Their collective efforts have earned the Group the Great Place to Work certification in several markets.

Sustainability is at the core of the Group’s strategy, guided by a clear commitment to people, partners, and the planet. Chalhoub Group is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, and to have pledged to reach Net Zero by 2040.

**What you'll be doing**
- Liaison with outsourced accounting team to ensure completeness of accounting transactions and monthly closing processes.
- To ensure monthly closing and reporting activities are performed.
- Analyze PNL for revenue, expenses, and profitability trends and to provide insights to optimize financial performance.
- Identifying and implement process improvements within the finance function to enhance efficiency, accuracy and internal controls.
- Assist in audits and financial compliance reviews, providing necessary documentation and support.
- Actively participate in LEs and budget exercises to ensure completeness of submission before regional deadlines.
- Review accuracy of budget and LEs submissions from marketing and commercial departments ( eg. Sellout and sell in, A&P ).
- Develop and automate detailed sales templates in collaboration with marketing and commercial teams to assist them in finalization of latest estimates, sales budget and forecasts.
- Develop and automate sales commission templates to assist commercial team in calculation of sales force commission.
- Develop A&P comparison templates for marketing team to assist them in comparison of actuals vs budget \ LEs.
- Liaison with marketing team on monthly basis for justification on actual A&P expenses vs budgeted.
- Assist in training of marketing and commercial teams, supervisors on spreadsheets automation for efficient calculations of sales estimations, forecast and comparisons of actual vs targets.

**What you’ll need to succeed**
- English proficiency level.
- 3+ years of experience in the same field.
- Bachelor’s degree in finance.

**What we can offer you**

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

**We Invite All Applicants to Apply**

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.