Finance Business Partner, MENA Finance

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Dubai seeks an experienced Finance Analyst to generate actionable insights and develop tools to drive growth. Responsibilities include performing financial reporting, supporting monthly P&L analyses, and leading financial review meetings. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in tax finance, accounts receivable, and payable, along with a strong background in SQL and data analysis. The role offers opportunities for driving process improvements and strategic planning.

Qualifications

• 5 years of tax finance or related analytical field experience.
• 5 years of Accounts Receivable or Accounts Payable experience.
• 5 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• 5 years of identifying and executing improvements in financial processes.
• Experience with large-scale data mining and business intelligence tools.

Responsibilities

• Perform financial reporting and support monthly P&L analysis.
• Facilitate financial review meetings with business groups.
• Provide inputs for business reviews with data analysis.
• Lead cross-functional systems and process improvement initiatives.
• Build financial and operational analysis to support data-driven decisions.

Skills

Tax finance expertise

Accounts Receivable experience

Accounts Payable experience

Data analysis using KPIs

Process improvements with automation

SQL for data mining

Tools

SQL

MS Access

Essbase

Cognos

Oracle

SAP

Lawson

JD Edwards

Job description

Overview

Amazon is expanding its presence in the Middle East and North Africa.

Role Summary

A dynamic Finance Analyst who generates actionable insights and develops simple tools to equip teams to drive growth and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Perform financial reporting and support monthly P&L analysis and financial forecasts.
• Support monthly/quarterly financial closing activity in close coordination with business and accounting teams.
• Facilitate financial review meetings with business groups and work with business managers to ensure effective finance and cost management.
• Assist in measuring and reporting progress on key goals for the business team in a timely manner.
• Measure and monitor metrics for new business initiatives.
• Provide inputs for monthly and quarterly business reviews and facilitate the business reviews with data analysis.
• Perform ad-hoc business analyses and financial modeling; present recommendations to senior management on strategic decisions and planned future initiatives.
• Partner with the Global leadership team to develop strategic multi-year or long-term operating plans.
• Execute and drive KPI metrics for business and operation performance.
• Demonstrate appropriate understanding of accounting principles and internal controls, and apply them.
• Ensure financial policies, procedures and internal controls are documented and operating as intended.
• Work on critical projects that serve major parts of the business.
• Lead cross-functional systems and process improvement initiatives.
• Provide high-level support to business partners; compile and present materials to senior management.
• Build financial and operational analysis to drive and influence data-driven senior leadership decisions.
• Use a range of metrics and models to forecast and link operational objectives to financials, identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Business partner cross-functionally with key senior stakeholders, providing finance support and challenge.
• Lead projects by overseeing timelines, priorities, auditing quality and resolving issues.
• Produce a financial and operational plan to support business priorities and lead on associated projects.
• Generate insights from financial data, identify opportunities for greater efficiency and communicate findings with the leadership team to drive business actions.
• Support training of new team members and contribute to onboarding plans.
• Maintain and build tools for the team to support knowledge sharing and help standardize processes across teams.

Qualifications

• 5 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 5 years of Accounts Receivable or Accounts Payable experience.
• 5 years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses.
• 5 years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis.
• 5 years of identifying and executing opportunities to improve, automate, standardize or simplify finance or business tools and processes.
• Experience with advanced use of SQL for data mining and business intelligence.
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (e.g., SQL, MS Access, Essbase, Cognos) and other financial systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards).

About the Team

The MENA Finance team works independently while collaborating closely with partners. The role may involve occasional travel to sites on an ad-hoc basis.

Accommodation

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