Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

The Role

Scope of Work: The Financial Planning & Analysis Manager leads the budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and performance analysis functions. This role is responsible for transforming financial and operational data into meaningful insights that support strategic decision-making. T...

The Role
Scope of Work: The Financial Planning & Analysis Manager leads the budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and performance analysis functions. This role is responsible for transforming financial and operational data into meaningful insights that support strategic decision-making. The FP&A Manager ensures the accuracy and alignment of financial plans with business goals while enhancing financial visibility across the organization.

Requirements
Duties & Responsibilities: - Develop financial models to support scenario analysis, strategic planning, and decision-making. - Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual performance reports, highlighting key variances and trends. - Consolidate budget and forecast submissions from various departments, ensuring accuracy and consistency. - Monitor financial performance metrics and develop dashboards for senior leadership. - Identify risks, opportunities, and business drivers impacting financial performance. - Support management in evaluating investments, new business opportunities, and capital expenditure plans. - Enhance and standardize reporting tools, templates, and processes to improve financial transparency. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of operational and financial plans. - Ensure compliance with internal policies, financial controls, and reporting standards. - To perform any other tasks assigned by the direct superior. Authorities: - Access financial and operational data required for budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis. - Request budget/forecast inputs and supporting details from all departments and set submission timelines. - Review and challenge departmental assumptions and recommend revisions to improve accuracy and alignment. - Prepare and submit financial models, dashboards, and management reports for leadership review. - Highlight and escalate key risks, variances, and forecast gaps with recommended actions. - Recommend improvements to planning and reporting processes, templates, and internal controls. - Support evaluation of investments and capex by providing analysis and financial impact assessment

About the company
MAG Group Holding is a multinational conglomerate based in Dubai, UAE. The group was established in 1978 by Founder and Chairman Moafaq Al Gaddah, and is now one of the largest corporations in the region, maintaining a highly prominent position of leadership among its peers in the real estate, contracting and engineering, industrial and commercial trading, freight services, and hospitality sectors. The group is headquartered in the UAE and has offices in China, Iraq, Turkey, and the USA, encompassing more than 50 companies and employing over 2,000 people around the world. MAG Group believes that success is reserved for those who dare to change and embrace progress. Underpinned by this vision, the groups mission is to achieve economic growth across all of the sectors it operates in, while always preserving its moral values and placing the priority on benefiting its customers and communities. Since its humble beginnings as a one-man spare automotive parts company, MAG Group Holding has evolved to become one of the most highly respected and awarded conglomerates in the Middle East.