Sephora
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
- Urgent
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Job expiry date: 29/06/2025
Job overview
Date posted
15/05/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Manager
Qualification
Masters degree
Expiration date
29/06/2025
Job description
Sephora Middle East is hiring a Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to oversee regional financial performance across six countries and seven legal entities. Reporting to the Finance Director, this role will manage a team of four and lead budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and strategic analysis activities. The ideal candidate is a dynamic finance professional with strong leadership skills, advanced financial modeling capabilities, and a proactive approach to business partnering. Experience in the retail sector and multinational environments is preferred, with proficiency in tools such as SAP, Excel, and Power BI.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead and manage the regional financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
- Deliver accurate and insightful weekly and monthly financial and KPI reports.
- Analyze performance variances and recommend corrective or strategic actions.
- Coordinate and contribute to market-level business reviews for regional and global stakeholders.
- Ensure proactive risk management and support profitability improvement initiatives.
- Conduct gross margin and stock depreciation analysis; propose optimization strategies.
- Develop financial models to support business decisions and investment proposals.
- Supervise capital investment submission and evaluation processes.
- Coach, mentor, and develop a team of finance professionals.
- Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, tools, and reporting systems.
- Support pricing process coordination and related analysis.
Experience & skills
- Masterās degree in Finance or Business Administration.
- 10+ years of financial leadership experience, ideally in a retail or multinational environment.
- Proven success in leading budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning teams.
- Strong analytical skills with expertise in variance analysis, modeling, and profitability management.
- Fluency in English; French is a plus.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint is required.
- Experience with SAP and Power BI is strongly preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills; ability to influence across all levels.
- Proactive, dynamic, and agile team player with a problem-solving mindset.
