Commercial Planning & Controlling Manager UAE & Kuwait
Ferrero
Date: 14 hours ago
City: Dubai
Contract type: Full time
Job Location: Dubai
Company Description
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella, Tic Tac, Ferrero Rocher, Raffaello, Kinder Bueno and Kinder Surprise. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
About the Role:
As the Commercial Planning & Controlling Manager for the UAE and Kuwait, you’ll lead the financial planning cycle—budgeting, forecasting, and ensuring all Group deadlines are met. You’ll oversee market data accuracy, guarantee robust financial reporting, and collaborate across departments for smooth monthly closings and insightful variance analysis. Your expertise will validate budget assumptions and drive data quality, ensuring that our reporting meets Group standards. Join us to play a pivotal role in strategic decision-making and elevate financial performance across our organization.
Main Responsibilities:
Are you ready to partner with the Region CFO and Country Managers to provide key financial insights that support mid- and long-term strategic goals? You will collect and validate financial data from cross-functional departments, including sales, trade marketing, and supply chain. You will oversee the timely and accurate preparation of the annual budget in line with Group requirements and supervise forecasting simulations to evaluate business performance, ensuring accuracy. Regular forecasting reviews will be conducted to align financials with business objectives.
Managing monthly and year-end closing processes, you will analyse variances related to products, margins, and channels. Monitoring and controlling customer and channel-level performance ensures accuracy in customer P&L reporting. You will oversee accrual processes, particularly trade spend-related provisions, maintaining cost accuracy while driving automation and simplification of reporting tools and dashboards.
You will lead accounts receivables, ensuring monthly accurate collections and maintain DSO targets by aligning collection strategies with commercial teams. Managing trade spend from end-to-end, you will ensure transparency and control, coordinating local financial projects aimed at process improvement and operational efficiency.
By managing, motivating, coaching, and developing your team, you will guarantee their professional development, proposing development initiatives that contribute to the definition of the function's organization. You will evaluate people, ensuring a management system based on Group values, motivation, competence development, and empowerment.
Who we are looking for:
We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field; an overall experience of 10-12 years in the field with at least 5-7 years in financial or accounting management role.
A Master’s degree or professional certifications such as CFA, CPA, or CMA are preferred.
As a Finance Manager, you will be responsible for financial analysis and planning, risk management, budget development and management, team leadership and management, and communicating financial information to stakeholders.
You should possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, proficiency in financial software and Excel, excellent communication and presentation skills, a solid understanding of accounting principles and regulations, and the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
Join us and be part of a dynamic organization where your expertise will drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of efficiency and innovation within the finance function.
If you have a keen eye for detail, strong organizational skills, and a solid business acumen, apply now to make a significant impact and advance your career within the GAC Region!
How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
Company Description
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella, Tic Tac, Ferrero Rocher, Raffaello, Kinder Bueno and Kinder Surprise. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
About the Role:
As the Commercial Planning & Controlling Manager for the UAE and Kuwait, you’ll lead the financial planning cycle—budgeting, forecasting, and ensuring all Group deadlines are met. You’ll oversee market data accuracy, guarantee robust financial reporting, and collaborate across departments for smooth monthly closings and insightful variance analysis. Your expertise will validate budget assumptions and drive data quality, ensuring that our reporting meets Group standards. Join us to play a pivotal role in strategic decision-making and elevate financial performance across our organization.
Main Responsibilities:
Are you ready to partner with the Region CFO and Country Managers to provide key financial insights that support mid- and long-term strategic goals? You will collect and validate financial data from cross-functional departments, including sales, trade marketing, and supply chain. You will oversee the timely and accurate preparation of the annual budget in line with Group requirements and supervise forecasting simulations to evaluate business performance, ensuring accuracy. Regular forecasting reviews will be conducted to align financials with business objectives.
Managing monthly and year-end closing processes, you will analyse variances related to products, margins, and channels. Monitoring and controlling customer and channel-level performance ensures accuracy in customer P&L reporting. You will oversee accrual processes, particularly trade spend-related provisions, maintaining cost accuracy while driving automation and simplification of reporting tools and dashboards.
You will lead accounts receivables, ensuring monthly accurate collections and maintain DSO targets by aligning collection strategies with commercial teams. Managing trade spend from end-to-end, you will ensure transparency and control, coordinating local financial projects aimed at process improvement and operational efficiency.
By managing, motivating, coaching, and developing your team, you will guarantee their professional development, proposing development initiatives that contribute to the definition of the function's organization. You will evaluate people, ensuring a management system based on Group values, motivation, competence development, and empowerment.
Who we are looking for:
We are seeking an experienced Finance Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field; an overall experience of 10-12 years in the field with at least 5-7 years in financial or accounting management role.
A Master’s degree or professional certifications such as CFA, CPA, or CMA are preferred.
As a Finance Manager, you will be responsible for financial analysis and planning, risk management, budget development and management, team leadership and management, and communicating financial information to stakeholders.
You should possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, proficiency in financial software and Excel, excellent communication and presentation skills, a solid understanding of accounting principles and regulations, and the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
Join us and be part of a dynamic organization where your expertise will drive continuous improvement and foster a culture of efficiency and innovation within the finance function.
If you have a keen eye for detail, strong organizational skills, and a solid business acumen, apply now to make a significant impact and advance your career within the GAC Region!
How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
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