Senior Associate - Finance

Chalhoub Group; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Chalhoub Group is seeking a Senior Associate in Finance to analyze risks and economic trends, guiding business planning and forecasting. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in finance and at least 5 years of relevant experience, along with strong analytical and communication skills. This role offers competitive benefits and opportunities for career growth within a diverse and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Health care

Child education contribution

Remote and flexible working policies

Exclusive employee discounts

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in finance or accounting required.
• Strong analytical skills and out-of-the-box thinking.
• Fluency in Arabic is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial information to produce forecasts.
• Prepare analysis and recommendations on monthly financial figures.
• Support monthly closing process and prepare operating budgets.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Business partnering

Analytical thinking

Proficiency in Microsoft Power BI

Proficiency in MS Excel

Fluency in Arabic

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or related field

Job description

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up The Greenhouse, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

What You'll Be Doing

The Senior Associate - Finance is responsible for analyzing risks and economic trends to guide the Business and assist stakeholders in measurement, planning, forecasting of activities, and implications on the income statement and the balance sheet.

You Will Be Expected To

• Analyze financial information to produce forecasts of business
• Plan and analyzing the performance of various business modules and industries across the region
• Establish analytics frameworks across all verticals and preparing presentations on actuals, budgets, and reports
• Prepare analysis and recommendations on monthly financial figures from business units compared to budget and last year and issue reports as required by the management
• Provide analysis and recommendations on annual and revised budgets, challenge assumption and propose revisions
• Run GAP analysis to maintain financial standards as budgeted and process revisions
• Prepare operating budgets based on previous figures or estimated revenue and expense reports
• Support monthly closing process, preparation of journal entries, compilation of financial statements and analysis of financial activity
• Participate in new projects by processing simulations for new joint ventures and preparing business plans, study of the cash flow and P&L
• Prepare and monitor the performance of internal rate of return (IRR) studies for proposed outlets and new products
  
  

What You'll Need To Succeed

• Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or any related field.
• From 5 years of experience in finance or accounting
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and business partnering skills
• Out of the box thinker with a Can-do attitude
• Proficiency in Microsoft Power BI and MS Excel.
• Fluent in Arabic would be a plus.
  
  

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.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.