Commercial Finance Analyst (FMCG)

Kreol Group; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in consumer-goods distribution is seeking a Commercial Finance Analyst to enhance pricing strategies and profitability analysis. The role involves deep data analysis, reporting, and collaboration across departments to drive commercial decisions. Candidates should have extensive experience in analytics within FMCG and be proficient in Odoo and Excel. This position is based in Dubai Investments Park 2.

Qualifications

• 35 years analytics experience in FMCG distributor or manufacturer.
• Proven track-record delivering promo ROI and price-pack architecture analyses.

Responsibilities

• Build price-pack architecture dashboards and model elasticity curves.
• Produce monthly gross-to-net P&L by customer and territory.
• Support FP&A on rolling forecast and scenario modelling.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Excel

Data Analysis

Tools

Odoo

Job description

About The Organization

Kreol Group is a fast-scaling, multi-category consumer-goods distribution house supplying global, regional and in-house brands to Travel Retail, Modern Trade and E-commerce channels across the GCC, Indian Sub-continent and Africa. From airport duty-free chocolate to supplying hypermarkets with our innerwear clothing brands to selling mass-market perfume online, we manage the full value chain: procurement, pricing, trade-marketing, omnichannel sales, 3PL logistics and after-sales and use Odoo as our ERP.

About The Role

We are seeking a Commercial Finance Analyst who can turn thousands of rows of sell-in, sell-out and cost data into margin-expanding decisions. Your mandate: expose profit leaks, validate trade-spend, optimise pricing architecture, and fill the reporting and analytics gaps for every manager from the warehouse floor to the boardroom. There will be a product-wise commercial focus, but also analysis of regular financial reports. You will report to the Executive Director and essentially be the go-to guy for any data related research questions.

What You'll Do

Revenue & Pricing Analytics

• Build price-pack architecture (PPA) dashboards to balance channel price ladders vs competitors.
• Model elasticity curves and recommend price moves or promo mechanics by SKU & customer.
• Maintain a net-net price waterfall showing list ? rebate ? discount ? landed margin.

Trade Spend & Promotion ROI

• Reconcile planned vs actual promo spend; match debit notes to approved mechanics.
• Rank promotions by ROI, cannibalisation, spill-over and incremental volume.
• Monitor trade-spend budget vs forecast; flag overspend early to Sales & Travel-Retail teams.

Customer / Channel Profitability

• Produce monthly gross-to-net P&L by customer, territory and channel (Travel Retail, Modern Trade, E-com).
• Integrate cost-to-serve (freight, warehousing, credit terms, listing & display fees) into contribution margin.
• Create scorecards that link DSO impact to true customer profitability.

SKU / Category Economics

• Build ABC/XYZ + velocity matrices; advise Category on delist, innovate, or defend decisions.
• Quantify expiry & write-off risk; recommend markdown timing or return agreements.
• Evaluate new launches with post-launch P&L vs business case.

Supply-Chain & Inventory Analytics

• Partner with Ops to analyse landed-cost variance (freight, duty, demurrage).
• Track stock-ageing, OTIF and pick-pack efficiency; link to working-capital KPIs.
• Recommend safety-stock and MOQ tweaks to release cash.

Financial Planning & Reporting

• Support FP&A on rolling forecast, scenario modelling and board decks.
• Maintain commercial input drivers (pricing, promo, mix) in the master P&L model.
• Produce weekly Flash Margin and Month-End Commentary for leadership.

Odoo ERP & Data Stewardship

• Regularly extract and analyze data from all Odoo modules.
• Work to improve data accuracy, landed-cost splits, GRNI and master-data discipline.

Process & Compliance Insight

• Publish KPI scorecards on invoice cycle-time, bank-recon ageing, GRNI, and physical-file turnaround.
• Support audit prep by validating promo accruals, rebate provisions and landed-cost allocations.

Cross-Functional Stuff

• Present insights to Sales, Category, Procurement, HR (productivity per head) and Execs.
• Challenge managers diplomatically, backed by numbers, and push corrective actions.
• Design and maintain productivity scorecards in Odoo, invoice cycle-time, pick-pack rates, OTIF, GRNI ageing, and spearhead weekly review huddles with Warehouse, Sales Ops and Finance to close gaps.

Who You Should Be

• 35 years analytics experience in an FMCG distributor or manufacturer; exposure to Travel Retail or Modern Trade a plus.
• Proven track-record delivering promo ROI, price-pack architecture, or customer contribution analyses.
• Hands-on with Odoo
• Elite Excel (index-match, Power Pivot, VBA a bonus).
• Experience playing with LLMs like ChatGPT o3
• Strong grasp of landed-cost, freight/duty allocation, VAT and inventory valuation.
• Comfortable bridging Finance & Salescan translate insights into commercial actions.
• Able to work on-site in Dubai Investments Park 2
• Able to present to managers what needs to be done differently

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