Commercial Controller: Budget, Margin & Buy Oversight

SPORTLUX; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

SPORTLUX in Dubai seeks a Commercial Controller to own the money side of the buy, from annual planning to realised margin. You set budgets and margin targets, approve the order book, and report performance against plan.

Reporting to the Senior Financial Controller, you will gate the money on the order book, monitor variances, manage landed costs, and ensure accurate weekly and season-end reporting to guide executive decisions.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years in commercial finance, FP&A or merchandise finance in fashion wholesale or retail.
• Landed-cost modelling, intake margin, margin bridge, OTB and inventory maths.
• ERP and planning-tool literacy; strong Excel; Business Central an advantage.
• English; Arabic or Italian an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Plan and budget: build annual commercial plan by brand, channel and season.
• Maintain the plan through the year; update it after each order book with actuals, revised forecast and variance.
• Set and maintain landed cost by style: FOB, freight, duty, royalty and licensor minimums.
• Analyse margin by style against the price list and customer terms; margin by style is the basis of approval.
• At order book validation, approve or reject the matched book: margin against target, value against budget, cash against the forecast.
• Document each approval and each rejection with the reason, for CEO sign-off.
• Grant the OTB to Buying per master PO, sold buy and MOQ overage shown separately.
• Hold any PO that exceeds the granted OTB and return it to validation.
• Track price and cost variance from approval through supplier confirmation to GRN.
• Monitor inventory value, cover and ageing by brand and season; flag breaches into the next validation.
• Weekly: approvals, OTB granted, open holds, variance and inventory, to the Senior Financial Controller and Sales Operations.
• Season end: bridge planned to realised margin after cancellations, returns, claims, discounts and overage disposal, with drivers.
• Input to board reporting and the group forecast on buy, margin and inventory.
• Approves or rejects the order book on budget, margin and cash. Grants the OTB. Holds POs over OTB.
• Escalates to the Senior Financial Controller on target changes and to the Group CFO where plan, margin or cash are at risk.

Skills

Landed-cost modelling

Intake margin

Margin bridge

OTB & inventory maths

ERP literacy

Excel

Tools

Business Central

ERP systems

Job description

SPORTLUX in Dubai seeks a Commercial Controller to own the money side of the buy, from annual planning to realised margin. You set budgets and margin targets, approve the order book, and report performance against plan.

Reporting to the Senior Financial Controller, you will gate the money on the order book, monitor variances, manage landed costs, and ensure accurate weekly and season-end reporting to guide executive decisions.