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Senior FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis) Analyst
Creative Fabrica
Dubai, UAE
Senior
4 weeks ago
Financial ModelingFinancial Planning & AnalysisBudgetingForecastingVariance AnalysisSQL
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About the Role
Creative Fabrica is looking for a Senior FP&A Analyst to join their international finance team. The role involves financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, building financial models, and partnering with the COO and business leaders.
Key Skills for This Role
Financial ModelingFinancial Planning & AnalysisBudgetingForecastingVariance AnalysisSQL
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Accounting team during month end close to analyze variances, ensuring high data integrity and a deep understanding of actual vs. plan performance
- Own the end to end planning cycle, including budgets, rolling forecasts, long range plans, and performance reporting
- Build and maintain financial models, dashboards, and KPIs that provide actionable insights and support data driven decision making
- Analyze financial and operational performance, identify risks and opportunities, and provide recommendations to improve business outcomes
- Partner with the COO and business leaders to evaluate strategic initiatives and growth scenarios
- Collaborate with Finance and Data teams to ensure data integrity, accurate reporting, and meaningful variance analysis
- Drive continuous improvement of FP&A processes, systems, and reporting frameworks to support the company's growth and scalability
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis, ideally within a high growth or scale up environment
- Advanced financial modeling experience, including 3 statement modeling and scenario analysis
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Able to deal with large data sets
- Good communication skills to present financial information clearly
- Self starter with a scale up mindset who thrives in fast changing environments
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field (nice to have)
- Understanding of SaaS specific metrics (ARR, Net Retention, CAC Payback, LTV) and revenue recognition principles (nice to have)
- Experience with financial software and tools (nice to have)
Full Job Posting
About the Role
- We are looking for an analytical, proactive, and ambitious FP&A Analyst who is excited about diving deep into financial data and joining an international team to elevate our financial planning to new heights.
- You will work closely with the rest of the Finance team, the Data Team and the COO to sharpen our financial insights, drive better decision making, and scale our planning processes.
- You will balance high level strategic thinking with the technical rigor to build from the ground up.
What you will do
- Partner with the Accounting team during month end close to analyze variances, ensuring high data integrity and a deep understanding of actual vs. plan performance.
- Own the end to end planning cycle, including budgets, rolling forecasts, long range plans, and performance reporting.
- Build and maintain financial models, dashboards, and KPIs that provide actionable insights and support data driven decision making.
- Analyze financial and operational performance, identify risks and opportunities, and provide recommendations to improve business outcomes.
- Partner with the COO and business leaders to evaluate strategic initiatives and growth scenarios.
- Collaborate with Finance and Data teams to ensure data integrity, accurate reporting, and meaningful variance analysis.
- Drive continuous improvement of FP&A processes, systems, and reporting frameworks to support the company's growth and scalability.
What you will bring
- 4+ years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis, ideally within a high growth or scale up environment.
- Advanced financial modeling experience, including 3 statement modeling and scenario analysis.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Able to deal with large data sets.
- Good communication skills to present financial information clearly.
- You're a self starter with a scale up mindset who thrives in fast changing environments and values rapid, iterative execution.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Understanding of SaaS specific metrics (ARR, Net Retention, CAC Payback, LTV) and revenue recognition principles.
- Experience with financial software and tools.
Location & Sponsorship
- This role can be based either in Amsterdam in our HQ or remotely across Europe, West Asia and Africa.
- At this time we can only sponsor visa for applicants who are already in the Netherlands.
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