
Chalhoub Group
Senior Analyst β Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 20/04/2026
Job overview
Date posted
06/03/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Job description
The Senior Analyst β Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) plays a critical role in driving financial performance, transparency, and strategic decision support across the Services Operations function within a luxury retail organization operating across fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories. The position partners closely with Operations, Commercial Finance, and Group Finance to manage monthly close activities, budgeting, financial forecasting, and performance analysis across Finance Operations. The role focuses on analyzing and optimizing operational cost drivers and unit economics for each P&L function head, ensuring that financial planning aligns with operational activity levels and rate cards. Responsibilities include leading budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes while translating operational volumes and activity drivers into financial forecasts that support business planning. The position supports scenario analysis and sensitivity modelling to evaluate the impact of changes in volume, network configuration, and cost structures. The Senior FP&A Analyst owns the monthly close process, ensuring accurate P&L reporting, Balance Sheet reporting, and Cashflow reporting including analysis of Working Capital, Capital Expenditure (Capex), and EBITDA performance. The role also involves preparing monthly performance packs and KPI dashboards for functional leadership and ensuring alignment between operational KPIs and financial results. The position conducts deep-dive analyses on cost drivers and cost per unit to identify operational efficiencies, structural cost challenges, and scale opportunities within the Services function. In addition, the role supports strategic investment and productivity initiatives by building financial models that evaluate project viability using ROI, payback period, Net Present Value (NPV), and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) methodologies. The position collaborates with functional leaders on automation initiatives, operational optimization projects, and capital investment proposals. As a finance business partner, the role translates complex financial data into actionable insights for operational leaders and works closely with Commercial Finance teams to interpret rate cards and volume-driven cost models. The position also supports data governance and reporting improvement initiatives by ensuring adherence to Group FP&A standards, reporting frameworks, and financial controls while improving reporting tools, implementing dashboard automation, and standardizing financial reporting processes. The role requires advanced financial modelling expertise, strong analytical capabilities using Microsoft Excel, and familiarity with ERP systems and business intelligence tools such as Power BI, with experience in retail and supply chain finance environments considered advantageous.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead budgeting, financial forecasting, and long-range planning processes for the Services Operations function by translating operational volumes and activity drivers into financial forecasts aligned with approved rate cards
- Support scenario analysis and sensitivity modelling to assess the financial impact of volume changes, network adjustments, and cost structure variations on operational performance
- Own the monthly close process by ensuring accurate P&L reporting, Balance Sheet reporting, and Cashflow reporting including detailed analysis of Working Capital, Capex, and EBITDA performance
- Prepare monthly financial performance packs and KPI dashboards for functional leadership, ensuring that operational KPIs are clearly aligned with financial outcomes
- Conduct detailed cost driver analysis and unit economics analysis to identify efficiency opportunities, structural cost issues, and operational scale benefits across Services Operations
- Develop financial models for investment cases and strategic projects including productivity improvements, automation initiatives, and operational optimization programs
- Evaluate investment opportunities using financial modelling techniques including ROI modelling, payback period calculations, NPV modelling, and IRR modelling
- Act as the primary finance business partner to function leaders by translating complex financial data into actionable insights that support operational and strategic decision-making
- Collaborate with Commercial Finance teams to explain rate cards, analyze volume-driven charges, and ensure financial alignment between commercial agreements and operational performance
- Ensure adherence to Group FP&A standards, reporting frameworks, governance policies, and internal financial controls across reporting and planning activities
- Improve financial reporting tools and processes by supporting reporting standardization initiatives and implementing dashboard automation for financial performance monitoring
Experience & skills
- Obtain a Bachelorβs degree in Finance or Economics
- Demonstrate a minimum of 4 years of professional experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Operations Finance, or Retail Finance roles
- Possess strong experience in budgeting, financial forecasting, and monthly close processes within corporate finance environments
- Demonstrate expertise in analyzing operational cost drivers and unit economics to support operational performance improvement and financial optimization
- Apply strong financial modelling capabilities including ROI modelling, NPV modelling, IRR modelling, and investment case analysis
- Demonstrate advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel for financial analysis, modelling, and reporting activities
- Show familiarity with ERP systems used for financial management and reporting
- Demonstrate experience working with business intelligence tools such as Power BI for data visualization and KPI dashboard development
- Possess a strong understanding of fixed versus variable cost structures, rate cards, and volume-driven cost models used in operational finance
- Demonstrate ability to translate complex financial and operational data into actionable insights that support leadership decision-making
- Show experience working collaboratively with cross-functional teams including Operations, Commercial Finance, and Group Finance
- Possess background knowledge or experience within retail and supply chain environments as an advantage