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Why this job is important

As a Finance Business Analyst, you will assist Business Partners and Key Stakeholders in decision-making, seizing opportunities, and achieving goals. Reporting to the Finance Director, MENA in Dubai, you will provide insights, strategic support, and analysis to help the business make informed decisions that drive financial success. Your role will be crucial in ensuring profitable growth, enhanced working capital and cashflow management, strong balance sheet management, data-driven decision making, improved transparency and predictability, and efficient budgetary management.

What you’ll be doing

Understanding the business, shaping and managing performance and business reporting.Retaining accountability and ownership of Balance sheet performance to inform the P&L.Delivering and supporting business strategy and leading the Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting process.Shaping decisions, exploiting opportunities, and delivering outcomes to the business.Delivering on business priorities - Investments, business case, and cost take-out scenarios.

The skills & experience needed as Finance Business Analyst

Minimum 5-8 years of business finance or other relevant experience.Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or economics.Strong analytics and data gathering skills.Strong business acumen.Ability to develop and support detailed sales plans to assist in delivering stretched targets for Revenue and Net sales.Experience in analysing job budgets, tracking sales orders, and providing commentaries on variances.Proficiency in preparing business monthly review decks and flagging loss-making jobs.Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

What’s in it for you

At Kantar, we understand the importance of looking after our people. We offer a flexible working environment to support your health and wellbeing. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers, and communities. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

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Location

Cairo, Downtown MallEgypt

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. 

 

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us. 

 

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration. 

 

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.