Manager - Accounts and Finance

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

Job summary

Apparel Group in Dubai seeks a Finance Planning Lead to drive annual business planning and budgeting for the brand, ensuring targets are realistic and aligned with potential.

The role collaborates with the Business Head and Senior Finance Manager to monitor performance, analyze P&L, present to management, and recommend preventive or corrective actions to safeguard profitability across stores and markets.

Responsibilities

• Preparation of Financial statements/MIS on monthly basis for stakeholders
• Financial analysis of P&L and presenting it to management
• Feasibility study for new stores as well as current stores to access profitability
• Business plans & Budgets presentation for brand
• Responsible for Import payments which constitutes purchasing
• Keeping the track on profitability of the new age stores
• Presenting P&L's to principals and being the point of contact for all business affairs
• Breakeven Analysis for loss making stores to attain business call
• Keeping the track & authorizing all the expenses related to Trade licenses and Rent elements in brand
• Stock reports analysis. Authorizing any movement of small wares & equipment’s in warehouses
• Ad-hoc reports preparation based on customized requirements which is the key in dynamics of brand

Job description

Position Objective: - Works in conjunction with the Business Head and Senior Finance Manager to drive the annual Business planning/ budgeting process for the brand. Ensures that the targets set within the Budgets are realistic, stretched, and reflect actual business potentials

• Monitors on-going performance to track and report achievements. Highlights variances and advises Business Head on various preventive measures and corrective actions and reinforcements, if required.
• Undertakes decision
• support analyses to facilitate various business decisions i.e. new stores; new brands; new countries; store refurbishments; closures/ exit options; any other.

Key Responsibilities

• Preparation of Financial statements/MIS on monthly basis for stakeholders
• Financial analysis of P&L and presenting it to management
• Feasibility study for new stores as well as current stores to access profitability
• Business plans & Budgets presentation for brand
• Responsible for Import payments which constitutes purchasing.
• Keeping the track on profitability of the new age stores
• Presenting P&L's to principals and being the point of contact for all business affairs
• Breakeven Analysis for loss making stores to attain business call
• Keeping the track & authorizing all the expenses related to "Trade licenses and Rent" elements in brand
• Stock reports analysis. Authorizing any movement of small wares & equipment’s in warehouses
• Ad-hoc reports preparation based on customized requirements which is the key in dynamics of brand