FP&A Manager

Mondia Media; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic FP&A Manager to lead financial planning and analysis initiatives. This role is crucial for driving strategic decision-making, ensuring financial objectives are met, and maintaining the company's financial health. Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, along with presenting insights to senior leadership. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in finance, exceptional analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate across departments. Join a fast-paced environment where your contributions will directly impact business performance and growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in finance roles, ideally in technology or payments.
• Proficient in financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting.

Responsibilities

• Drive financial planning and analysis to support strategic decision-making.
• Conduct variance analysis and present insights to senior management.

Skills

Financial statement analysis

GAAP knowledge

Corporate finance concepts

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Team collaboration

Business judgment

Self-motivation

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting

ACCA / CIMA qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)

Job description

The FP&A Manager will drive financial planning and analysis activities in support of strategic decision making, ensuring the company attains its financial objectives and maintains its financial health. Core activities include budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and reporting to provide actionable insights and recommendations to senior management.

Additional responsibilities include:

1. Conduct variance analysis to compare actual performance against budgeted and forecast figures to provide insightful explanations for discrepancies.
2. Analyze internal KPIs and consolidated financials, communicate performance to key stakeholders, highlight trends and changes, and conduct deep dives when observing abnormalities.
3. Lead the production of key business reports and present monthly financial results to senior leadership to provide insight into business performance and financial results.
4. Manage the annual budgeting process and quarterly forecast process, including coordination with various departments and consolidation of submissions.
5. Create and maintain detailed financial forecasts and models that enable scenarios and sensitivity analysis to support strategic planning and facilitate decision-making.
6. Collaborate with the Accounting function to support period-end closing and financial reporting.
7. Perform financial review, challenge (as required) and validation of business case for entering new partnerships and tenant opportunities.
8. Act as first level finance review for contracts relating to new partnership and tenant agreements.
9. Identify and implement process improvements to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of financial planning and reporting activities.
10. Develop and maintain standardized reporting templates and tools to streamline financial analysis.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting and ACCA / CIMA qualification.
• Minimum 5 years of combined experience including time within public accounting firm, investment bank, private equity, venture capital, corporate finance, or FP&A team (ideally in a high-growth technology or payments company).
• Skilled knowledge of financial statement analysis and GAAP, corporate finance concepts, and reporting techniques.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator across multiple functions and management levels.
• Superior technical, quantitative and analytical skills. Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Proactive, independent, and self-motivated, with the initiative to research information, solve problems, and get things done.
• Capable of using sound judgment and unquestionable integrity when managing confidential information.
• Emotionally intelligent with the ability to build strong professional partnerships.
• Operate with minimal supervision and able to make informed, well-reasoned decisions independently, strong business judgement.
• Thrive in an environment that is fast-paced, rapidly changing, and customer service-oriented.
• Team player, ability to effectively interact with the other team members and managers.
• Advanced Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) skills.