Financial Planning

5 months ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Savills Middle East Full time

**The Role**

Savills Middle East comprises of 5 countries, employing over 500 employees. The division has gone through exponential growth over the last 5 years, this has been achieved mainly through organic growth. Each country has a financial representation, but all financial consolidation for Savills Middle East, in addition to monthly variance analysis, business reviews, investment reviews and strategic planning is managed by the regional Middle East finance team based in Dubai.

The Regional ME Finance team is made up of the Financial Director, Financial Controller and FP&A Manager and support ton a business partner basis. They work together supporting a larger team of country Finance Managers, Accountants and Analysts across the region.

As the senior member of the team, this role will focus on business partnering activities which cover the opportunity areas across the region - countries and business lines where significant development of the business is planned, through growth/acquisition and/or development of the back office. With the current outlook, this focus will be on the entire Middle East region and the growing residential business.

This role will undertake leadership responsibilities in developing the FP&A function both within regional team and across all countries in the Middle East. The role will engage the wider finance community across the ME and the leadership of the countries and business lines to refine and enhance the FP&A activities and output.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Preparation and in-depth analysis of the consolidated monthly actual, quarterly forecast and annual budget financial reporting (including additional deliverables) to EME Finance
- Production of consolidated Middle East monthly financials in a presentable format to management
- Review of monthly country and department financials including carrying out profitability analysis and normalizations to enable senior management with informed decision making
- Review of key areas of balance sheet and prompting actions to mitigate risks
- KPI reporting and analysis to investigate business performance and robustness of financial plans
- Preparation of financial sections of presentations to be delivered by the Finance Director at meetings/committees
- Supporting the annual Remuneration Committee process by analysing and presenting the data submitted by each country ahead of each Remuneration Committee meeting
- Building rapport with Finance Managers across the region and using these relationships to influence achievement of common goals
- Supporting Finance Managers to deliver local management reports which are aligned to regional reports
- Continually drive improvement in quality and efficiency of financial reporting processes through alignment of local and global processes and policies to meet the objectives of Group’s reporting requirements
- Undertaking ad hoc analysis and projects e.g. detailed review of loss-making teams, working closely on system implementations

**Skills, Knowledge and Experience**
- Strong verbal and written communication skills - with a track record of creating and presenting C-suite ready presentations that deliver clear and compelling financial information in a succinct and straightforward format
- History of building robust financial models that use key inputs to drive a range of scenarios and that can be developed quickly and easily as parameters and information change
- Able to communicate vision and objectives, showing credibility and authority in leading others to achieve the objectives
- Proven ability to build rapport and relationships with a range of stakeholders across a business and using those relationships to influence and persuade to achieve common goals
- Proven ability to navigate competing business proprieties and stakeholder views
- Evidence of working calm under pressure and successfully managing multiple tasks simultaneously
- Proven ability to manage own workload, taking into account needs of stakeholders, timelines and deadlines and wider prioritisation
- Experience of working in a team including supporting others, drawing on support from others and sharing in successes and challenges
- Must be a qualified Accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent)
- Minimum 5 years’ post qualified experience in financial planning and analysis role
- Experience of using a large-scale consolidation and reporting system is essential. Experience of using Hyperion (Oracle financial reporting system), Microsoft Dynamics AX 365 and PAX TM1 is highly desirable
- Advanced proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint



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