Finance Business Partner

4 days ago

Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Arla Foods Full time

Finance Business Partner

Introduction

UAE is the second largest market within Arla's International Zone, driving a major share of profit and growth within the MENA Region. UAE is part of the UOQ cluster including Oman and Qatar. UOQ has been on a strong growth journey, and plans are in place to continue the exciting development journey in the coming years – now is your chance to join the team and be part of the journey in UAE

If you are ready to apply your strong business acumen and take an active role in driving the business partnering agenda across our commercial organization, then you could be just the person we are looking for to fill the position as Sales Finance Business Partner – UAE. You will be located at our UAE office in Sharjah, close to Dubai, but the office will move to a new place in Jebel Ali in Dubai ultimo 2024. You will be reporting to Head of Finance in UOQ, while working closely with the Sales Director for UAE and the Head of Foodservice and their teams, with whom you will be business partnering on a daily basis. You will therefore get exposure to the leadership on a daily basis and be a valuable member and "wingman" to the leadership team in UAE to drive the business performance.

Key responsibilities of the role

As Finance Business Partner, your key responsibility will be to drive the business partnering agenda towards our commercial organization. This will include driving the discussions on channel and customer performance, with providing insights and transparency to the organization on cost developments, customer profitability, etc. You will be also get exposure to the UOQ Management Team and MENA leadership team with focus on performance review and forecast updates.

In addition to the above, you will be co-driving the strategic Performance Management agenda towards the UOQ Leadership team and commercial organization, including developing performance review. You will also be a key player in defining and driving efficiency initiatives across the business by creating financial insights, facilitating business cases, and driving resource allocation.

Finally, you will be involved in "hands-on" topics such as ongoing, monthly closing, forecast loads, etc. – overall, this is a very exciting and diverse role, covering different finance disciplines, and with a broad exposure towards the UAE organization.

Your profile

You hold a degree in Economics, Finance, or Management Accounting and minimum 3-4+ years of experience in a relevant role, preferably within Performance Management and/or as a Finance Business Partner. The role will also expose you to our commercial organization, so additionally you need an appetite for building commercial understanding and adding commercial finance to your tool box.

To be successful, you must be independent and thrive in a position that calls for your strong financial competencies. You are results-oriented and enjoy taking on challenges that invite you to cooperate in a multicultural global organization. You understand how to turn financial analysis into insights, and how to communicate these to the organization by building strong storylines, which enables efficient decision making. Navigating a complex set of stakeholders and being partner to senior leaders comes naturally to you and you thrive in that environment as an equal partner and support to the team.

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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