Geography Finance Business Partner
Americana Group - United Arab Emirates
Total years of experience :25 years, 0 Months
• Managing a geographical remit spanning across the UAE & Lower Gulf. Reporting directly to Chief Financial Officer & Geography Sales Vice President.
• Managing full spectrum of the strategic finance role, tracking business expansion, performing feasibility studies, evaluating business proposals, forecasting and budgeting.
• Leading and mentoring a team of finance and accounts with focus on commercial achievement to meet the corporate requirements.
• Undertaking improvement projects to support enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of the finance department
• Supporting the commercial team to ensure growth of category, market share and achieve yearly finance goals as envisaged.
• Responsible to control trade spend investment and ensuring that costs were prudently controlled.
• Performing monthly reviews YTD & YTG of commercial investment plan, ascertaining reasons for gas or variances vs budget and formulating strategies to mitigate the same.
• Analyzing and preparing reports pertaining to ROI for consumer promotions and customer wise investment to enable strategic decision making.
• Formulating yearly budget volumes and metrics pertaining to trade spend investment to enable strategic decisions.
• Managing a geographical remit spanning across the UAE & Lower Gulf. Reporting directly to Chief Financial Officer & Geography Sales Vice President.
• Managing full spectrum of the strategic finance role, tracking business expansion, performing feasibility studies, evaluating business proposals, forecasting and budgeting.
• Leading and mentoring a team of finance and accounts with focus on commercial achievement to meet the corporate requirements.
• Undertaking improvement projects to support enhancements in the efficiency and effectiveness of the finance department
• Supporting the commercial team to ensure growth of category, market share and achieve yearly finance goals as envisaged.
• Responsible to control trade spend investment and ensuring that costs were prudently controlled.
• Performing monthly reviews YTD & YTG of commercial investment plan, ascertaining reasons for gas or variances vs budget and formulating strategies to mitigate the same.
• Analyzing and preparing reports pertaining to ROI for consumer promotions and customer wise investment to enable strategic decision making.
• Formulating yearly budget volumes and metrics pertaining to trade spend investment to enable strategic decisions.
• Developed and enhanced financial strategies and operations, analyzed the relative cost and benefits of potential actions and strategies to choose the most appropriate approach. Reported directly to Cluster General Manager, HUB Finance Manager and Finance Director
• Implemented financial continuous improvement measures, determined how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations and the environment would affect outcomes.
• Drove the yearly and midterm budget planning process across clusters.
• Reviewed with the sales team the group's investment plans and financial analysis of actual investment, performed scenario analysis and feasibility studies to arrive at recommendations.
• Validated and monitored gross to net - actual vs budget estimates and ascertained reasons for variance, also performed the analysis of and prepared ROI reports for consumer promotions and customer wise investments.
• Monitored the Saudi distributor GTM based on a cost-plus model and prepared monthly financial KPIs, tracked achievement of the same and implemented control measures to ensure achievement.
• Analyze SAP BI reports and issue management reports for strategic interpretation on the basis of findings obtained.
• Served as an IT Manager for 3 companies in the region (Main office in Saudi and 2 offices in Dubai). Reported directly to General Manager and Division regional IT Director.
• Responsible for setting up the whole IT infrastructure, managed budgeting, eliminated cost creep on projects, and ensured competitiveness in the industry. Managed IT Support for all cross functional departments (Manufacturing, Finance, Sales & Supply Chain).
• Responsible for all IT Projects in Saudi Arabia and Dubai subsidiaries.
• Undertook disaster recovery planning and implementation as per global company standards, ensured business continuity despite operational interruptions.
• Worked with Global IT team in developing Business continuity plan and Network security policy.
• Launched locally global IT infrastructure initiatives to the management and key functional support employees.
Analytical and IT Managerial skill