Senior Finance Analyst

We are seeking a highly analytical and proactive Senior Finance Analyst to join our Finance team in the UAE. This role will play a key part in supporting the company’s FP&A and performance management activities across multiple entities in the Middle East, with primary responsibility for preparing insightful financial reports, monitoring key financial and operational KPIs, and analyzing actual performance against plan, forecast, and prior periods.

Responsibilities:

1. Strategic Initiatives

• Support the company’s performance management activities across multiple Middle East

entities by preparing insightful financial reports, monitoring financial and operational

KPIs, and analyzing actual performance against plan, forecast, and prior periods.

Support planning and forecasting processes by consolidating and validating financial and

operational inputs, analyzing business drivers and performance trends, and highlighting

significant variances, risks, and opportunities.

• Support management decision-making by translating available data into meaningful

insights, investigating performance fluctuations, and monitoring key indicators, including

revenue, profitability, operating expenses, DSO, DPO, collections, working capital, cash

flow, and CAPEX.

• Identify reporting gaps, data inconsistencies, performance risks, and process

inefficiencies, and support improvements to management reporting, dashboards,

analytical tools, data quality, and forecasting accuracy.

2. Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with finance leadership, regional finance teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the timely and accurate delivery of financial reports, forecasts, performance analyses, and management information.
• Work closely with operations, commercial, AP, AR, HR, and other relevant teams to understand business performance, validate financial and operational data, investigate significant variances, and obtain reliable inputs for planning and forecasting activities.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to monitor and analyze key performance indicators, including revenue, profitability, operating expenses, DSO, DPO, collections, working capital, cash flow, and CAPEX, and support follow-up on agreed actions.
• Communicate financial results, performance trends, risks, and opportunities clearly and effectively, providing meaningful insights to support management decision-making and action planning.
• Coordinate with finance and business stakeholders to resolve data inconsistencies, improve reporting accuracy, and strengthen the quality and reliability of management reports, dashboards, and forecasts.
• When required, support finance teams, auditors, and other relevant stakeholders with finance routine activities, such as reconciliations, internal control reviews, audit requests, policy implementation, and compliance-related documentation.
• Share knowledge and provide practical guidance to junior finance staff and relevant stakeholders on reporting requirements, data quality, KPI calculations, and the consistent application of finance processes and company policies.

Desired Candidate Profile

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Relevant experience in FP&A, performance analysis, management reporting, or a similar finance role.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret financial and operational data and translate it into meaningful business insights.
• Good knowledge of planning, forecasting, variance analysis, financial statements, and performance reporting.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel. Experience with Power BI, Power Query, or similar analytical tools is an advantage.
• Experience using ERP and financial reporting systems.
• Good understanding of working capital, cash flow, collections, and CAPEX analysis.
• Ability to work with operational information, including transaction volumes, service volumes, productivity indicators, and other business drivers.
• Experience in a multinational, multi-entity, or operationally intensive organization is preferred
• A recognized finance or accounting qualification, or progress toward one, is an advantage.