Senior Analyst - Financial Planning and Management Reporting

Role Purpose: Develop and implement Financial Planning & Controlling strategies, policies, and procedures across the group entities. Contribute to the execution of key deliverables within the Planning & Controlling function. Drive enhancements in MIS reporting, financial planning, and control processes. Key Responsibilties: Record Keeping: - Ensure accurate & timely preparation of daily, weekly and monthly management reports related to all areas of Finance Planning and Control. - Maintain detailed record of all periodic reports submitted to the Holding Group and other external agencies. Business Improvement: - Support to implement approved financial planning & internal control systems at new sites to ensure productivity and efficiency in terms of Finance planning & function. - Help to design and implement automated procedures and reports to facilitate periodic reporting to Holding Group and other external parties. - Conduct periodic inter plant/site comparative analysis of cost, efficiency and other KPIs as per plan of the Planning & Control Department. Monitoring: - Review cost centers of all Departments of Emsteel. Help to support cost centres owners in providing details of expenses and budgets as per Emsteel requirement. - Monitor the various pricing and margin calculations being prepared and maintain strict version control. FP&A and controlling: - Prepare and maintain Weekly and Monthly Management Report (MRM) presentations, ensuring accuracy, completeness and timely submission. - Prepare Monthly Steel Performance Report in Excel and PowerPoint, highlighting key business performance indicators, variances and value drivers. - Responsible for preparation of annual business plan and monitoring adherence of the same on a periodic manner. Preparation of long term, five-year plans, and financial models. - Preparing & updating other management reports and business planning models as required by the finance planning and control function. - Study financial reporting process of the organization to propose improvements in process and outputs to facilitate the reporting for Finance planning and control function. - Assist in accurate consolidation and group reporting to the holding group and BOD. - Assist in timely preparation of all periodic finance and costing reports for the holding group in required format. - Prepare financial outlooks and financial forecasts with ensured compliance of local, state, and federal budgetary reporting requirements. Value+ Transformation Project: - Assist to achieve sustainable annual EBITDA enhancement as per Value+ Programme Sales, Commercial and Marketing Facilitation: - Calculate estimated margins based on proposed pricing for various products. - Assist to prepare back up workings for sales pricing task force and pricing committee. Procurement & Logistics Facilitation: - Costing of back-to-back billet price linked fixed sales price for short term contracts with suppliers through Procurement and Logistics liaison with finance planning and control function. - Assist in calculating financial impact of IOP shipment planning. Minimum Qualification: - Bachelor’s degree in finance/commerce. - Chartered Accountant. - Additional Cost Accounting qualification is preferred. - AI / BI Dash boards certifications preferred. Professional Experience: - 5-7 years of post-qualification work. - Working experience in financial planning and controlling function. - Experience in UAE/Middle East and manufacturing / industrial environment (steel industry preferred). - Strong hands-on experience with SAP S4Hana and financial data extraction. - Advanced proficiency in MS Excel, including data analysis, financial modelling and reporting is essential. - Proficiency in PowerPoint for preparation of management reports and presentations. - Working knowledge of BI tools and AI applications, with demonstrated ability and interest in using latest technology to automate and enhance financial reporting. Language(s) Known: - Proficiency in English; Arabic is an added advantage