Junior Business Controller - FP&A & SAP (Dubai)

Caparol Middle East and Africa; Dubai; In loco; AED 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Caparol Middle East and Africa seeks a Junior Business Controller in Dubai to ensure accurate financial data, support reporting, budgeting, variance analysis and forecasting across departments and production lines.

You will work with SAP FI/CO and Excel to deliver reliable insights, contribute to monthly closes, and help drive performance in a manufacturing setting. Fluency in English is required.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics, or Statistics.
• 1–3 years of hands-on experience in controlling or FP&A.
• Experience in a manufacturing/industrial environment is a plus.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Excel with pivot tables and lookups.
• Strong MS PowerPoint skills for executive-ready presentations.
• Fluency in English.

Mansioni

• Extract, clean, and consolidate financial data across cost centers, business units, and operational systems.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting packs for department leads and Finance Management.
• Gather and validate data from department leads, in coordination with the internal team.
• Pull target vs. actual data (Plan / Last Year vs. Actual) and flag numerical deviations.
• Monitor operational budgets against actual spend to flag cost deviations and margin shifts.
• Assist in identifying the underlying causes of budget variances across departments or production lines.
• Maintain planning templates and input baseline figures for the annual budget and rolling forecast updates.
• Assist with cost‑center setups, internal order allocations, standard product costing, and cost‑accounting maintenance in SAP FI/CO.
• Handle recurring operational tasks such as updating weekly KPI trackers, running month‑end close extracts, and processing cost‑center reallocations.
• Ensure figures in SAP match operational reality and that reporting templates are populated correctly.
• Identify data discrepancies or system errors and elevate them to senior team members for resolution.
• Conduct desk research, scenario checks, and financial evaluations for special internal projects or leadership inquiries.

Conoscenze

Excel

PowerPoint

English

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Mathematics, or Statistics

Strumenti

SAP FI/CO

SAP S/4HANA

Power BI

Tableau

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Analysis for Office (AfO)

think-cell

Descrizione del lavoro

Caparol Middle East and Africa seeks a Junior Business Controller in Dubai to ensure accurate financial data, support reporting, budgeting, variance analysis and forecasting across departments and production lines.

You will work with SAP FI/CO and Excel to deliver reliable insights, contribute to monthly closes, and help drive performance in a manufacturing setting. Fluency in English is required.