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Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A)

Souq.com, An Amazon Company
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Posted 4 years ago
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  • The candidate shall act as a finance business partner on variety of new programs and processes –
  • Lead reviews as a Finance Partner.
  • Create and build models to manage the entire spends to deliver the objectives for growth and profitability. Hold teams’ accountable for their designed KPIs for the plans.
  • Launch and support the Investment framework for MENA.
  • Support Decision Making Process:
  • Deliver meaningful insight and practical recommendations, in addition to sound financial data analysis, to inform and influence business decisions.
  • Deliver key financial reporting to senior management including spends, ROIs, performance by channels and category.
  • Represent function in MBRs, QBRs with narrative on performance.
  • Evaluation of Initiatives: Analyze various ‘initiatives’ agreed with Category, country teams. Identify and document learnings, bring them back to teams for better planning.
  • Work on attribution model to allocate spends by channel to each Product line.
  • Build processes and Tools
  • Ensure smooth flow of information, metrics, and numbers amongst business teams.
  • Build and automate dashboards, scorecards necessary to run the business and assess teams’ performance.
  • Understand the inherent limitations of data and exercise judgment to make trade-offs between timeliness and accuracy of analysis and how to best synthesize findings
  • Work side-by-side with product managers to influence new program requirements and business decisions.
  • At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people.
  • If you'd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
  • The business finance partner will be owning a wide variety of planning and analysis activities.
  • This role acts as a finance partner to the Leadership team and support the healthy growth and financial operation.
  • He/she delivers this through detailed financial modelling, driving business initiatives, and identifying/implementing key business indicators.
  • Additional responsibilities include delivering cost and process improvements, performing reviews of forecast vs.
  • actual variances, and communicating with management and peers’ business issues and demanding actions.
  • The candidate shall act as a finance business partner on variety of new programs and processes –
  • Lead reviews as a Finance Partner.
  • Create and build models to manage the entire spends to deliver the objectives for growth and profitability. Hold teams’ accountable for their designed KPIs for the plans.
  • Launch and support the Investment framework for MENA.
  • Support Decision Making Process:
  • Deliver meaningful insight and practical recommendations, in addition to sound financial data analysis, to inform and influence business decisions.
  • Deliver key financial reporting to senior management including spends, ROIs, performance by channels and category.
  • Represent function in MBRs, QBRs with narrative on performance.
  • Evaluation of Initiatives: Analyze various ‘initiatives’ agreed with Category, country teams. Identify and document learnings, bring them back to teams for better planning.
  • Work on attribution model to allocate spends by channel to each Product line.
  • Build processes and Tools
  • Ensure smooth flow of information, metrics, and numbers amongst business teams.
  • Build and automate das

Job Requirements

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience of at least 8-10 years in Business Finance or Business Analytics.
  • Ideal candidate from finance and analytics background; MBA is a plus.
  • Some experience with managing a small team.
  • The successful candidate will have strong analytic and communication skills, and have a passion for using data to drive business decisions.
  • We are looking for a self-starter that attacks complex business problems with curiosity and dives deep to identify root causes.
  • This individual thrives by providing data-driven decision support and business intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable.
  • Deriving business insights from large volumes of data using data mining tools including proficiency in SQL, Databases and other coding mechanisms.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master’s or higher degree in an analytical area such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering

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