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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
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Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
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EN – JOB DESCRIPTION
POSITION PURPOSE:
To lead the financial planning and controlling department, coordinating a team of 4 people. To oversee the overall financial performance of the middle east region (6 retail countries and 7 legal entities), through insightful analysis, proactive risk management, and providing decision support to both local management and the headquarters in France.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Financial Planning Oversight: Manage and improve key financial planning processes.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Lead the development of annual budgets, estimates, in collaboration with retail managers and department heads.
- Business Review Support: Assist in the preparation of market-level business reviews.
- Weekly and Monthly Reporting & Analysis: Deliver accurate sales and financial reports, including KPIs. Provide insightful analysis of variances against budget and prior year performance.
- Profitability Management:
- Investigate and address significant budget overspends and deviations, recommending corrective actions.
- Conduct gross margin and stock depreciation analysis, offering optimization strategies.
- Analyse market performance to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Team Development: Coach and mentor finance team members.
- Project Leadership: Lead financial projects as required.
- Process Improvement: Optimize existing financial processes and tools to support business development.
- Pricing process Coordination
- Financial Modelling: Develop financial models
Capital investments preparation, submission and assessment
SKILLS, QUALITIFCATIONS AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
- Master’ degree in Finance or Business administration
- 10+ years as Finance Leader in multinational and large-scale companies; a previous experience in retail industry is preferred
- Strong analytical and Finance skills
- Proven experience as a successful team leader
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with ability to influence at various organizational levels
- Dynamic profile, agile & proactive, problem solver, team player
- Fluent in English, French is a plus
- Advanced Excel and Power Point is mandatory
Expert knowledge of SAP & Power BI is a plus
To apply for this job please visit www.lvmh.com.