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Finance Manager, FinOps Business Partnering
DESCRIPTION
The Finance Operations Business Partnership (BP) team is seeking a Finance Manager to be part of the Middle East Retail BP team. This individual will be responsible for driving Retail procure-to-pay and order-to-cash performance. In this role, you will responsible for developing and maintaining operational and business metrics and targets, driving global operational reviews, as well as owning improvements to achieve targets. As a business partner, you will work daily alongside Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Service Centers, Vendor Managers, Retail Finance, Vendors, and other operational groups at all levels in a global environment. Complex problem solving and financial analysis skills are required to manage multiple high visibility priorities in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous situations.
Responsibilities:
– Define key performance indicators – develop operational and business metrics and service level agreements for programs and processes, and track delivery against global objectives.
– Consolidate inputs, and challenge assumptions, on performance drivers and projections from stakeholders
– Develop and maintain effective partnership between Finance Operations, Service Centers and Retail.
– Identify and drive opportunities for improved cash flow, margin or productivity improvements related to vendor payments and receivables.
– Solve critical vendor, process and system escalations effectively to ensure root cause analysis and effective problem resolution.
Identify and quantify financial and operational risks and opportunities
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dubai, ARE
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
– 8+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience
– 3+ years of advanced proficiency in Excel (pivots, lookups, etc.) experience
– 6+ years of Accounts Receivable or Account Payable experience
– 6+ years of applying key financial performance indicators (KPIs) to analyses experience
– 6+ years of building financial and operational reports/data sets that inform business decision-making experience
– 6+ years of creating process improvements with automation and analysis experience
– 5+ years of directly managing and leading a team of 5+ members experience
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
– 6+ years of participating in continuous improvement projects in your team to scale and improve controllership with measurable results experience
– 6+ years of identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan experience
– 6+ years of mentoring junior finance and/or business team members experience
– 3+ years of working with senior staff (e.g. c-suite) experience
– MBA, or CPA
– Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, MSAccess, Essbase or Cognos) and providing recommendations based on results of ad hoc analyses to management for strategic decision-making
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