Asst. Manager – FP&A

Job Description

Asst. Manager – FP&A | Hamad & Mohd Al Futtaim | Finance

Overview of the role:

The purpose of this role to support FP&A function, managing the budgeting and forecasting activities of financial services consists of AFF, H&M, Hertz, MOOV, Thrifty (Oman), AVR (Qatar). This is an existing position that has arisen due to the movement of current employee.

What you will do:

Financial Planning and Analysis

–   Support the FP&A function with respect to an asset portfolio of over AED c. 1Bln (vehicle leasing, rental and lending)

–   Preparation and Maintenance of Financial Models for Financial Services, Rental & Leasing entities for budgeting and forecasting activities. Support overseas Rental & Leasing entities during budgeting & forecasting exercise

–   Submission of budgets & forecasts in a timely manner in SAP & other modules like IFRP, BPC etc.

–   Preparation of Business Plan: To ensure that business plan is prepared for 3 year or 5 year periods for all the entities for fund-raising activities

–   Monthly Sales Target setting: To coordinate with sales team in monthly target setting process. To ensure that product penetration set are in line with budgeted or forecasted targets 

–   Payplan review: Ensure that pay plan grids or slabs at brand level are reviewed on periodic basis for B2B & B2C channels to track ITI% vis-à-vis budget or forecast   

–   MIS reporting and Variance analysis: To prepare KPI analysis with respect to revenue streams of all the entities. To calculate/arrive the revenue variance based on revenue components for all the entities

–   Monthly Dashboard & Scorecard: To prepare dashboard and scorecard highlighting key financial KPI’s variance vis-à-vis Budget/Forecast/Last year for monthly & periodic financials

–   Assist in Monthly Board presentation deck: Prepare and compile slides related to financial KPI’s for monthly board presentation 

Systems 

–   SAP Budget Upload module, SAP BPC, Auto IFRP

–   Tableau for detailed revenue analysis

–   Lead the system enhancement and implementation with new and proposed CRs and RFCs

–   Support in overall process improvement 

Governance and process improvement

–   Overall governance of FP&A activity 

–   Manage the target setting process

Skills

Required Skills to be Successful:

–   Advanced Excel, Financial Modelling, and presentation skills 

–   Experience in financial planning including budgeting and forecasting, strategic plan etc.

– In-depth knowledge of data analyses and managing business KPIs 

–   Knowledge of SAP FICO, SAP BPC, Reporting tools examples Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI

–   Minimum experience of 5 years (CA, MBA Finance or ACCA)

What equips you for the role:

Education: Chartered Accountant 

Minimum Experience and Knowledge: Automotive, financial services, rental and leasing industry

Job-Specific/Technical Skills required to complete the tasks: Advanced Excel, Financial Modelling & SAP