Senior Finance Manager (Fashion, Watches, and Jewelry)
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About the Role
Chalhoub Group is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to act as strategic finance partner for a portfolio of luxury brands in the Middle East. The role involves business partnering, FP&A, corporate finance, governance, and executive reporting.
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Responsibilities
- Serve as primary finance partner for Fashion & Jewelry Joint Venture portfolio
- Lead annual budget, rolling forecast, and long term planning processes
- Monitor financial performance against Budget, Forecast and Prior Year
- Build robust financial models for new JV opportunities, business development, store investments, valuations, M&A
- Prepare high quality financial presentations for senior leadership and shareholders
- Drive automation and process efficiencies across finance activities
- Support Joint Venture governance, shareholder reporting and Board decision making
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related discipline
- MBA and/or professional qualification (CPA, ACCA, CFA or CMA) preferred
- Minimum 10 years of progressive finance experience, including FP&A, business partnering or corporate finance
- Experience in luxury retail, retail, FMCG or consumer goods preferred
- Advanced financial modeling and valuation skills
- Solid understanding of IFRS and financial reporting
- Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Commercial mindset with focus on value creation
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What You'll Be Doing
- As the Senior Finance Manager – Joint Ventures (Fashion & Jewelry), you will act as the strategic finance partner for a portfolio of leading international luxury brands across the Middle East, including Fendi, Givenshy, Louis Vuitton, Celine, Loewe, Repossi, De Beers, Max Mara, Zimmermann, Christian
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary finance partner for the Fashion & Jewelry Joint Venture portfolio.
- Partner with Joint Venture Finance Teams, and Chalhoub Executive Management to support strategic decision making.
- Challenge business assumptions and provide independent, data driven recommendations.
- Drive value creation initiatives focused on profitability, cash generation, and return on investment.
- Support negotiations with international luxury brand partners on strategic and financial matters.
- Lead the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long term planning processes.
- Monitor financial performance against Budget, Forecast and Prior Year, identifying risks and opportunities.
- Perform detailed variance analysis and translate financial results into actionable business insights.
- Drive initiatives to improve revenue growth, profitability, cash flow and working capital.
- Build robust financial models to support new Joint Venture opportunities, business development projects, store investment decisions, valuation exercises, M&A and shareholder transactions.
- Develop integrated financial models including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow, Enterprise Value, IRR, NPV and Payback analysis.
- Evaluate investment opportunities and prepare financial recommendations for Executive Management.
What You'll Need To Succeed
- You hold a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related discipline.
- You preferably hold an MBA and/or professional qualification (CPA, ACCA, CFA or CMA).
- You possess a minimum of 10 years of progressive finance experience, including significant exposure to FP&A, business partnering or corporate finance.
- You preferably have experience within luxury retail, retail, FMCG or consumer goods.
- You preferably have previous exposure to Joint Ventures, multinational organizations or matrix environments.
- You are adept in financial planning, budgeting and forecasting.
- You possess advanced financial modelling and valuation skills.
- You have a solid understanding of IFRS and financial reporting.
- You possess strong analytical and problem solving capabilities.
- You have advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with ERP and BI tools is an advantage.
- You possess excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders through credible financial insights.
- You have a commercial mindset with a strong focus on value creation.
What We Can Offer You
- Competitive benefits package including health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.
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