Financial Analyst

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

What you'll be doing

The Analyst FP&A is responsible for analyzing risks and economic trends to guide the Business and assist stakeholders in measurement, planning, forecasting of activities, and implications on the income statement and the balance sheet.

You will be expected to:

• Support Marketing and Sales Teams in preparing P&L projection
• Analyze financial information to produce forecasts of business
• Measure, plan and forecast Marketing activities and implications to income statement and balance sheet
• Develop Financial Strategic Planning as 3-Y Plan, strategic plan, Annual Plan & Quarterly Plan updates
• Review purchase cycle and analyze the Cash Flow on weekly basis to provide corrective actions if necessary
• Prepare the Monthly Tableau de Bord (TDB), the Budget and the revised Budget TDB from individual company TDBs
• Prepare analysis and recommendations on monthly financial figures from business units compared to budget and last year and issue reports as required by the management
• Provide analysis and recommendations on annual and revised budgets, challenge assumption and propose revisions
• Build and manage a comprehensive KPI’s model (Financial & Business) in line with Company’s objectives and captures all relevant info needed to manage the business
• Run a GAP analysis to maintain financial standards as budgeted and process revisions
• Prepare operating budgets based on previous figures or estimated revenue and expense reports
• Provide Internal Control, ensure compliance with all Group Policies & Procedures and assist departments in running their businesses
• Support monthly closing process, preparation of journal entries, compilation of financial statements and analysis of financial activity
• Participate in new projects by processing simulations for new joint ventures and preparing business plans, study of the cash flow and P&L
• Prepare and monitor the performance of internal rate of return (IRR) studies for proposed outlets and new products.

What you’ll need to succeed

• At least Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or any related field.
• From 2 years of experience in finance or accounting
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to present to multi-level stakeholders
• Agility and adaptability to navigate through a complex business model
• A Can-do attitude will make a difference
• Proficiency in Microsoft Power BI and MS Excel.

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 employee discounts.

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.