Finance Manager

FashionUnited; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Chalhoub Group seeks a Finance Manager to act as the key finance partner for one of its brands, ensuring robust financial control, accurate reporting, and commercial insight to support daily trading decisions. The role also supports a new strategic project, ensuring financial discipline, scalability, and governance from inception.

The position is highly operational, interfacing with finance, operations, and commercial teams to drive performance and profitability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• ACCA/CA/CMA qualification preferred.
• 3–5 years of finance experience in retail, trading, FMCG, or high-volume environments.
• Strong understanding of P&L management, inventory accounting and margin analysis.
• Ability to translate financial data into actionable insights.
• Proficient Excel and financial modelling; SAP and Looker are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Act as key finance partner for the brand with strong financial control and reporting.
• Support day-to-day trading decisions with commercial insight.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis across sales, margin, and inventory.
• Drive profitability and cost control across liquidation and trading activities.
• Provide governance for a new strategic project from inception to launch.
• Deliver clear, actionable insights to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Excel

Financial modelling

P&L analysis

Stakeholder management

Inventory accounting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting

ACCA/CA/CMA

Tools

SAP

Looker

Job description

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

As a Finance Manager, you will act as the key finance partner for one of our brands, ensuring strong financial control, accurate reporting, and commercial insight to support day-to-day trading decisions. The role will also play a critical part in setting up and supporting a new strategic project, ensuring financial discipline, scalability, and strong governance from inception. This role is highly operational and hands-on, with close interaction across finance, operations, and commercial teams to drive performance and profitability.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Act as the primary business finance partner for the brand, ensuring strong financial control, accurate reporting, and commercial insight to support day-to-day operations.

Partner closely with Planning, Retail, GM and Ecommerce teams to support decision-making and drive overall business performance.

Manage financial reporting including weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc performance analysis across sales, margin, and inventory.

Monitor and drive profitability across the liquidation business, ensuring tight control over costs, pricing, and stock efficiency.

Support forecasting and budgeting processes, ensuring alignment with commercial plans and trading performance.

Provide financial input into operational and trading decisions, ensuring data-led decision-making across all channels.

Support the end-to-end setup and financial governance of a new strategic project, ensuring scalability and control from launch.

Identify risks and opportunities across trading performance and proactively recommend corrective actions.

Improve and streamline financial processes to support a fast-moving, high-volume operational business.

Deliver clear, actionable insights to senior stakeholders to influence strategy and execution.

What you’ll need to succeed

You hold a degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.

You preferably hold a professional qualification such as ACCA, CA, CMA.

You possess 3 to 5 years of experience in finance, ideally within retail, trading, FMCG, or high-volume operational environments.

You have a strong understanding of P&L management, inventory accounting, and margin analysis.

You have experience working in fast-paced, commercially driven businesses with tight operational cycles.

You have the ability to translate financial data into clear, actionable business insights.

You possess strong Excel and financial modelling skills; experience with SAP systems and Looker is a plus.

You have a proven ability to partner with non-finance stakeholders, especially operations teams.

You are comfortable working in a hands-on, execution-focused role with high levels of ambiguity.

You have experience supporting or leading project-based work or new business launches.

You are a strong communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive accountability.

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 employeediscounts.

Using GenAI in Your Application Process

To support a fair and consistent experience for all candidates, we ask that assessments and interviews are completed independently and without assistance from generative AI tools. This ensures we understand your strengths, your thinking, and how you approach real situations.

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.