Financial Analyst

Job Description

National Paints Egypt is looking for a Financial Analyst to support the Sales, Costing, Marketing and projects for its business in Egypt.

The successful candidate will be thoughtful, analytical, and have a demonstrated ability to effectively influence the decisions of senior business leaders through effective verbal and written communication, financial analysis, logical reasoning, and the presentation of alternatives. The role operates in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment, and will provide decision support and advice for middle east key business leaders.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Manage the corporate business reporting processes, including annual budgeting, long term financial and cash flow forecasts, monthly/quarterly business reviews, weekly metrics, and forecast updates.
• Lead and participate as the key finance stakeholder, partner with cross-functional teams (like Pricing, Costing, Seller success and fulfillment, etc).
• Implement and drive the core financial processes and reporting for the business including Annual Operating Plans, Long Term Plans, and Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews.
• Identify operating improvements, deep dive on cost structures, and lead various free-cash flow initiatives.
• Leading ad hoc financial analyses and root cause investigations.
• Participate in building and evaluation of business proposals.
• You will continuously audit business inputs and processes to ensure that strong financial controls remain fit for purpose, you will be required to dive deep into every aspect of the business, to drive improvement, and use data and strong business judgment to drive the right long-term decisions.
• You will lead the effort to develop insightful analysis and reporting to support decision making and monitor performance. You will be working closely with senior leadership in UAE and expected to interact with Finance and business teams across the middle east.