Senior Manager - Finance

Chalhoub Group
Dubai
AED 200,000 - 400,000
Job description

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 Senior Manager Finance will be a key advisor to functional leaders and stakeholders ensuring prevalent financial information and data is communicated to ensure effective business decision making. This role will entail leading budgeting process, optimizing financial performance, provide key insights, and improve financial controls & processes.

The Senior Manager Finance will be expected to:

  • Review and provide advice on strategic financial plans in partnership with business leaders.
  • Partner to provide insights and decisions support through financial analysis to enable business partners to make key decisions and achieve strategic vision.
  • Provide delivery of inputs, insights, challenges, and analysis to key planning processes for the business to ensure all financial plans support the achievement of strategic and operational objectives.
  • Develop and manage metrics to monitor the performance of the overall business and highlight key risks and opportunities to stakeholders.
  • Support Inventory reporting and process improvements and ensuring the appropriate level of inventory in place.
  • Explain, present, and analyze the financial performance of organization to Heads of Business, Group Finance, Internal & External Stakeholders.
  • Provide meaningful, actionable insights, advice, and recommendations on historic and the future financial performance to leadership.
  • Identify and prioritize challenges, risks and opportunities while recommending action plans.
  • Serve as a catalyst to drive forward initiatives critical to delivering the overall strategy.
  • Manage treasury along with legal contracts in coordination with the treasury and legal department.

What you’ll need to succeed

  • From 8 years of experience in financial management and modelling, operations and business analytics, budgeting, and risk management.
  • Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics or any related field.
  • Financial certification required: CFA, CPA, or CIMA.
  • Prior experience in Team Management.
  • Strong business planning skills to execute strategic projects, addressing implications for various business areas with rapidly evolving processes.
  • Flexibility in understanding industry business cycles, demands, and their effects on financial results.
  • Proven track record of managing profitability, including the ability to analyze and discuss financial impacts, status, and improvement strategies.
  • Working knowledge of all statutory legislation and regulations across regions.
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills with ability to present to multi-level stakeholders.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Finance, Hyperion, Looker 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.

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