Location: Dubai, AE
Company: Majid Al Futtaim
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Analysis and Value Creation
- Perform analysis that identifies value creation opportunities across the business.
- Coordinate with OpCos for timely collection of data/information and prepare monthly management reports.
- Benchmarking, sensitivity analysis, and other analysis to track performance and identify business opportunities.
- Forecasting, trend lining, and other analysis to predict yearly performance and long-term view.
Business Insights & Strategic Support
- Support in formulating and implementing key performance indicator reporting mechanisms to enhance/ facilitate superior investment decision support and target setting processes across all business units and countries.
- Support in developing standard models for investment planning and analysis to be implemented across all OpCos/ BUs.
Financial Control & Stewardship
- Ensure reasonableness of underlying information used for management reporting, project feasibilities/ Capital Approval Requests which require EC/Board approvals.
- Perform analysis to identify non-performing stores/sites, identify unusual spending at asset level, monitor KPIs for all investment projects on an ongoing basis, analyzing variances, for reporting and subsequent action.
- Identify and recommend improvements to the investment appraisal and capital allocation methodologies, policies and procedures.
- Monitoring the implementation of, and compliance with investment policy and framework.
Personal Characteristics and Required Background:
- Excellent skills to conduct root cause analysis and build a logical approach to address complex business problems. Ability to recommend suggestions/ solutions with respect to investment proposals.
- Thorough understanding of business drivers, flow of activities, operations & strategies. Ability to independently build business storyline based on numbers, with convincing communication.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the latest financial analysis techniques including DCF, WACC, EVA.
- Ability to understand tax and regulatory frameworks and to define tax projections for inclusion in Investment Analysis.
Minimum experience
- Demonstrated exceptional skills in independently performing investment analysis/ financial research/ economic forecast of business conditions with a reputable consultant or Company.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to deliver under time pressure.
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Minimum Qualifications/education
- Masters’ degree in business finance, economics or applied mathematics from one of the top 50 Global MBA Ranking Business- Schools.
- Qualified Finance professional – ACA, CPA, CFA qualified is desirable.
