MENA Finance Financial Planning & Analysis Lead Pakistan

The opportunity

As we roll out All In across our firms the FP&A function becomes even more critical to help maintain/improve profitability and provide strategic insights. The support role will be instrumental in helping the Tax FP&A Lead to carry out this role.

This role requires a finance professional offering support to the MENA Tax FP&A Lead on P&L analysis and other KPIs. The role will be best in class support functional expertise and reporting solutions with a particular focus on analytics and financial modelling.

Your key responsibilities:

• Develop a good understanding of the FP&A cycle in a year along with SL performance KPIs.
• Conduct data analysis on large sets of data to give leadership insights on performance and profitability to drive business decisions.
• Lead in development of financial models for different scenarios to assess impacts of changing levers.
  • Apply strong analytical judgement to translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights trends and recommendations for leadership decision-making.
  • Leverage AI-enabled tools and techniques to build enhance and automate analytical models that improve forecasting scenario analysis and business performance insights.
• Support Operations team in various reporting and analytical requirements.
• Collaborate with GDS Experience Management Talent and Markets team to ensure accurate financial input.
• With time develop effective working relationships with the extended Finance team and Tax leadership team.
• Participate in various improvement initiatives and information gathering activities within FP&A space.
• Be the Go-to Person for all analysis and financial modelling.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Keen to solve problems and provide a credible solution.
• Ensure delivery of exceptional client service to all stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and numeracy skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Good time management skills and able to balance multiple priorities by considering risk importance and level of urgency.
• Eagerness to learn quickly be proactive and ask questions.
• Well-developed listening skills.
• Confident communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders and senior management present insights clearly and influence discussions constructively.

To qualify for the role you must be:

• Willing to work in a fast-paced environment with a strong work ethic.
• Able to interact well with people at all levels within the firm and build strong relationships.
• Having strong knowledge of MS Office Packages. Excel PowerPoint Outlook Power BI and Word in particular.
• Having excellent communications and organizational skills.
• Detail oriented and eager to analyze and solve complex cases
• Have a finance-related degree or qualified accountant
• Have 4-6 years of relevant work experience
• Be innovative confident and creative thinker with ability to make quick decisions.

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1