Main duties, tasks, and responsibilities:
- Create / update financial feasibility studies for new and running projects, calculating the main financial KPIs (NPV, IRR, PBP, GPM, Funding Gap, etc.)
- Implement sensitivity analysis and “what if scenarios” for financial modeling to analyze different values of a set of independent variables affect the projects’ financial performance.
- Providing commercial insight and analysis of results, identifying underlying trends and challenging the business on performance.
- Responsibility for producing accurate and timely management reports, including an analysis of sales and operational expenditure.
- Supporting decision-making by providing stakeholders with timely, detailed, and meaningful insights and visibility on business performance.
- Provide financial insights to support the business decision-making processes.
- Suggest improvements by preparing and analyzing detailed flowcharts related to key business processes.
- Review and analyze the financial reporting practices and come up with proposed changes for better reporting of product costing, building up more accurate segment P&L’s, and working out reliable Cost to Serve / Deliver reports.
- Participate in verifying the reliability of business forecasts being prepared across Divisional / BU functions, assess the reasonableness of these, and gauge the level of cross-functional / inter-business unit integration.
- Assist the Finance Director in benchmarking the affiliates' performance against world-class standards of similar businesses.
- Help set up financial performance KPIs across BU functions.
- Support the standardization of key accounting policies/practices across the company enhance the affiliates' financial reporting.
- Adopting a partner/challenger role in evaluating business plans.
- Ensuring the integrity of financial data supplied by the financial accounting team to other areas of the business and to external stakeholders.
Qualifications:Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business Administration, Economics, or related discipline (preference goes to AUC/GUC graduates).Professional certification or advanced degree in finance (CMA, FMVA or similar)7+ years of overall combined corporate finance & planning experience.At least 3-4 years of recent experience within the real estate industry.knowledge of accounting standards and procedures, especially those related to the real estate industry and performance management and reporting.Advanced user of SAP/Oracle ERP system with previous exposure to the application within the real estate industry.Demonstrated strategic thinking combined with keenness on achieving short term goals.Structured mindset, skillful in managing the resources of interlinked, complex projects.Strong analytical, conceptual, and planning skills.Ability to work collaboratively across departmental functions and to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization.Ability to work under pressure and show evidence of creative thinking as well as the ability to handle complex problems in a timely manner.Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.Excellent written and verbal communication skills.Able to work in a very high transaction volume environment. Working Conditions:Work Location: Sheikh ZayedWorking Hours: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM with one flexible hourWeekends: Friday and Saturday