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Financial Planning Analyst
Soneva
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Mid
4 weeks ago
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About the Role
Soneva seeks a Financial Planning Analyst to support Group FP&A with performance reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and business planning across a portfolio of resorts. The role requires 3-5 years of FP&A experience, advanced Excel, and strong analytical skills.
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Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly reporting packs including CFO reports, internal management reports, resort performance reviews, and other Group FP&A outputs
- Consolidate inputs from resorts, corporate finance, commercial, operations, and other functions
- Draft clear commentary on revenue, EBITDA, GOP, cash flow, and key drivers
- Maintain core performance trackers covering actuals, pacing, forecast, risks, actions, and key operational KPIs
- Reconcile reporting outputs against ERP, BI, and operational data
- Support the annual budgeting process end to end
- Run the monthly forecast cycle, coordinating timelines, templates, assumptions, submissions, reviews, and consolidation
- Build and maintain forecasting and budgeting models
- Analyse performance drivers across the portfolio including occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, segment mix, ancillary revenue, payroll, departmental costs, GOP flow through, EBITDA, and cash flow
- Support the practical use of AI and automation within FP&A processes
Requirements
- 3 to 5 years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, business analysis, corporate finance, or consulting
- Hospitality, leisure, real estate, multi unit, or asset heavy experience strongly preferred
- Advanced Excel including financial modelling, pivots, lookups, Power Query, and Power Pivot
- Strong PowerPoint skills
- ERP exposure (Business Central, Sun, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar)
- Working knowledge of BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Avalon, or similar
- Strong understanding of financial statements, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Good understanding of hospitality KPIs including occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, GOP, EBITDA, segment mix, flow through, and ancillary revenue
- SQL, basic data querying, or experience working with databases is an advantage
- Experience using AI tools for analysis, reporting, commentary, automation, or productivity improvement is an advantage
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Role Overview
- Support Group FP&A in delivering high quality performance reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and business planning across the Group’s portfolio of resorts and corporate functions.
- The role owns the structured groundwork behind Group FP&A outputs: consolidated inputs, clean trackers, reconciled data, first draft commentary, forecast coordination, and practical analysis.
- This is a hands on role with direct exposure to Group performance, multi resort operations, senior stakeholders, and business planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare monthly reporting packs including CFO reports, internal management reports, resort performance reviews, and other Group FP&A outputs.
- Consolidate inputs from resorts, corporate finance, commercial, operations, and other functions, ensuring consistency, completeness, and accuracy.
- Draft clear commentary on revenue, EBITDA, GOP, cash flow, and key drivers.
- Maintain core performance trackers covering actuals, pacing, forecast, risks, actions, and key operational KPIs.
- Reconcile reporting outputs against ERP, BI, and operational data, investigating and resolving variances at source.
- Support the standardisation of reporting formats, templates, definitions, and timelines across resorts and corporate functions.
- Work with the Head of FP&A to help design and improve the Group budget process.
- Support 5 year business planning, long range forecasting, scenario modelling, and sensitivity analysis.
- Support the annual budgeting process end to end, including planning calendars, input templates, budget models, review decks, review sessions, and final consolidation.
- Run the monthly forecast cycle, coordinating timelines, templates, assumptions, submissions, reviews, and consolidation.
- Build and maintain forecasting and budgeting models that are structured, scalable, and easy to update.
- Track actuals versus budget, prior forecast, and prior year, highlighting key variances, trends, risks, and opportunities.
Candidate Profile
- 3 to 5 years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, business analysis, corporate finance, or consulting.
- Hospitality, leisure, real estate, multi unit, or asset heavy experience are strongly preferred.
- Hands on experience across monthly reporting, forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and management presentations.
- Able to interpret performance data independently and produce a clear point of view.
- Strong analytical discipline with the ability to reconcile data, investigate variances, challenge assumptions, and close issues at source.
- Comfortable working with imperfect inputs, tight deadlines, and multiple stakeholders.
- Strong written communication, with the ability to produce clear commentary, slides, trackers, and short management notes.
- Curious about the business, not just the numbers; interested in understanding resort operations, commercial drivers, departmental performance, and management priorities.
- Practical improvement mindset, with the ability to spot pain points and build simple tools or processes to fix them.
Technical Skills
- Advanced Excel, including financial modelling, pivots, lookups, structured data handling, Power Query, and Power Pivot.
- Strong PowerPoint skills, including executive ready slide structuring, clear logic, clean layouts, and concise messaging.
- ERP exposure, preferably Business Central, Sun, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar systems.
- Working knowledge of BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Avalon, or similar platforms.
- Strong understanding of financial statements, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
- Good understanding of hospitality KPIs including occupancy, ADR, RevPAR, GOP, EBITDA, segment mix, flow through, and ancillary revenue.
- SQL, basic data querying, or experience working with databases is an advantage.
- Experience using AI tools for analysis, reporting, commentary, automation, or productivity improvement is an advantage.
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