Finance Manager

Full Time1 year ago

Job Description

Act as Senior Finance partner for New Business team, evaluating new business opportunities, preparing financial analysis, progressing AFEs, and then managing transition of new businesses through to handover to owning Brand. Particular focus on EVs and related activity as a priority. Finance support and oversight for CoEs – Indirect Costs, ad-hoc analysis, process guidance (prim. Marketing, CE...

Desired Skills

  • Minimum 10 years’ experience in auto or similar industry
  • Experience with forecast, and actuals environment, and profit modelling
  • Professional certified (CMA, CPA ..)
  • Good communication skills & confidence.

 

What equips you for the role:

  • Proactive Finance partner with strong entrepreneurial and commercial focus – engage with operational partners to provide commercial insight and shape business proposals. Includes navigation of required approval steps. 
  • Ideally finance qualification. Relevant commercial qualification would be considered. 
  • Professional Accounting qualification an advantage but not mandatory. 
  • Demonstrated experience with balance sheet, income statement, cashflow, and capital budgeting. 
  • Modelling experience, applied in new business, forecast, and actuals environment. 
  • Minimum approx. 10 years experience in auto or similar industry.
  • Comfortable with ambiguity and difficult timelines
  • Excellent communication skills – must be able to relate effectively across all levels and areas of organization. Communicates clearly and directly while remaining diplomatic. 
  • Excellent analytical skills – distil complex problems to critical messages, and communicate effectively to a non-technical audience. 
  • Confident self-starter with delivery focus and strong work ethic. 

 


 

About Al Futtaim Group Dubai, UAE

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim is one of the most progressive regional business houses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Structured into six divisions; automotive, retail, electronics, engineering and technology, real estate, financial services and general services, Al-Futtaim operates through more than 60 companies and maintains a decentralised approach, giving individual businesses flexibility and versatility to maintain a competitive stance.

Employing in excess of 20,000 people across the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, Syria, Pakistan, Singapore and Europe, this approach benefits employees, providing a clearly defined work culture where individuals are empowered with authority and responsibility for their work.

The success of Al-Futtaim is attributed to proactively managing change whilst upholding the values of integrity, service and social responsibility. The majority of businesses, built on a portfolio of world leading brands, dominate their sector.