MENA Finance - Financial Planning & Analysis Lead - Pakistan

The opportunity

As we roll out ‘All In” across our firms, the FP&A function becomes even more critical to help maintain/improve profitability and provide strategic insights. The support role will be instrumental in helping the Tax FP&A Lead to carry out this role.

This role requires a finance professional offering support to the MENA Tax FP&A Lead on P&L analysis and other KPIs. The role will be best in class support, functional expertise and reporting solutions with a particular focus on analytics and financial modelling.

Your key responsibilities:

• Develop a good understanding of the FP&A cycle in a year, along with SL performance KPIs.
• Conduct data analysis on large sets of data, to give leadership insights on performance and profitability, to drive business decisions.
• Lead in development of financial models for different scenarios to assess impacts of changing levers.
  • Apply strong analytical judgement to translate complex financial and operational data into clear insights, trends and recommendations for leadership decision-making.
  • Leverage AI-enabled tools and techniques to build, enhance and automate analytical models that improve forecasting, scenario analysis and business performance insights.
• Support Operations team in various reporting and analytical requirements.
• Collaborate with GDS, Experience Management, Talent and Markets team to ensure accurate financial input.
• With time, develop effective working relationships with the extended Finance team and Tax leadership team.
• Participate in various improvement initiatives and information gathering activities within FP&A space.
• Be the Go-to Person for all analysis and financial modelling.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Keen to solve problems and provide a credible solution.
• Ensure delivery of exceptional client service to all stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and numeracy skills, with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Good time management skills and able to balance multiple priorities by considering risk, importance and level of urgency.
• Eagerness to learn quickly, be proactive and ask questions.
• Well-developed listening skills.
• Confident communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders and senior management, present insights clearly and influence discussions constructively.

To qualify for the role, you must be:

• Willing to work in a fast-paced environment with a strong work ethic.
• Able to interact well with people at all levels within the firm and build strong relationships.
• Having strong knowledge of MS Office Packages. Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Power BI and Word in particular.
• Having excellent communications and organizational skills.
• Detail oriented and eager to analyze and solve complex cases
• Have a finance-related degree or qualified accountant
• Have 4-6 years of relevant work experience
• Be innovative, confident and creative thinker with ability to make quick decisions.