Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

GMG is a global well-being company retailing, distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport, everyday goods, health and beauty, properties and logistics sectors. Working across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, GMG has introduced more than 120 brands across 12 countries.

Overview

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing robust processes aligned to both legislative and company requirements and ensuring the Sports Finance function delivers timely and accurate reports. Manage all accounting activities including P&L and Balance Sheet reviews to support the business by implementing and maintaining a partnership approach with each function.

Accountabilities

• Development experience in financial dashboards in Power BI and enhancement of existing dashboards as needed.
• Responsible for the Daily Financial and management reporting for the Sports Division.
• Developed monthly Business Review Deck to identify dark areas and allocate resources accordingly, including sales comments, sales bridges analyzing Retail KPIs, P&L comments, price–volume analysis to generate awareness of financial performance with Operations and Business unit leadership.
• Commercial analysis on rentals savings for lease renewals / contracts of non-performing stores with financial-based conclusions on proposed action plans.
• Developed investment appraisal models using capital budgeting methods such as NPV, IRR, Payback Period and Capital Intensity ratio for expansion analysis.
• Support in Annual Budgeting / Quarterly forecasting and drafted standalone and consolidated models, analyzing and validating inputs provided by Business Teams.
• Perform monthly closing activities analysis, including researching general ledger activity and variances to budget and prior year; monitor the cost structure of the business unit and its departments.
• Liaise with internal departments, including Retail Operations, Buying & Planning, Marketing, Accounting and Payroll.
• Track capex spend vs budget for major projects and prepare capex packs on a monthly basis.
• Review provisions, accruals and credit notes.

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Experience

3 - 5 years’ experience preferably in retail industry in financial planning and analysis or commercial finance.

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