Job title: Sr. Financial Analyst - Marketplace  Reporting to: Group FP&A Manager  Location: Dubai  About Souq Group  It is the Leading ecommerce group in the Arab World with operations across UAE, KSA, Egypt, Kuwait. The group consists of leading online shopping destination brands like Souq.com, Sukar.com, CashU (a payments service provider).   Souq.com the flagship brand of the group was established in 2005, and ever since has become the largest online retailer / market place in the Arab world. Souq is actively expanding both organically and thru M&A’s in the region.  Overall Purpose  Souq.com seeks a Financial Analyst to support the Souq Marketplace organization. The Marketplace organization drives the selling on Souq and develops solutions that enable thousands of sellers in the MENA region to sell to millions of customers. This position requires a proactive, highly motivated individual with an aptitude for streamlining processes and who can work independently to deliver accurate and timely results.  This role requires an individual with excellent investigative, research and communication skills, outstanding business acumen, and past audit experience a plus. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.  The individual will also participate in the effort to define workflow and be responsible for delivering the necessary results to support the business and related compliance requirement.  Primary responsibilities –  1. Act as a Finance Business partner to Marketplace organization.  2. Designing the right KPIs and scorecards for the Marketplace organization to capture the performance encompassing all the functions and works with the analytics teams to automating and designing systems reports, wherever required.  3. Leading the planning for Marketplace targets, management from FP&A side, manage and drive the targets set for BDs, Seller development, Order management teams  4. Analyze and help the Marketplace organization with improving and prioritizing of SKU’s, selection with Retail teams.  5. Working with the Marketplace organization on setting and improving financial process and also including but not limited to identifying new revenue streams.  6. Educating the marketplace teams on Order economics and how to improve overall health of the business.  7. Work with BU marketing teams on development of marketing budgets and plans for Marketplace organization and monitor weekly / monthly spending for online/offline marketing activities. Review and monitor ROI on a periodical basis and recommend the findings on optimization to BU management and Finance leaders if any actions are required.  8. Work with the business teams to help them understand the financial impact of the decisions they take and also identifying areas where they can bring more efficiency.  9. Budgeting/AOP: Working closely with the Group FP&A Manager and leadership team determining robust assumptions to drive the rolling forecast model.  a. Primary responsibility to facilitate the identification of business goals, strategies, and initiatives through the annual business planning process for Marketplace Organization.  b. Assist MP Org. in formalizing the yearly revenue targets, budgets and operating plans.  c. Covering the FP&A Manager on the quarterly forecast assumptions and performance to the Board on MP.  10. Forecasting and modeling and analysis: Monthly forecasts, identifying trends early and flagging teams if below the plans and recommend corrective actions to achieve plans. Conducting Weekly forecasting and planning meeting with Country and regional managers.  Desired Skills and Experience  - 5+ years of related work experience in a finance-related field (including management consulting, investment banking, corporate finance) - FMCG, retail, and e-commerce experience preferred  - Bachelor’s degree required; MBA-finance / ACCA essential  - Demonstrated exceptional analytical and quantitative skills  - Demonstrated record of process improvement  - Rigorous attention to detail  - Passion to learn and ability to absorb new information rapidly  - Strong written and verbal communication  - Solid understanding of accounting principles  - Must have substantial experience with MS Excel

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