We are looking for a strategic and analytical Business Controller to join our Beauty & Luxury team.
The ideal candidate is someone who’s capable to handle the below responsibilities:
- Lead the preparation of annual budgets, reforecasts, and strategic plans for the sector, aligned with Group guidelines
- Consolidate inputs from Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, and Accounting into a coherent financial plan
- Develop and maintain financial models to simulate pricing scenarios, promotions, product launches, and commercial initiatives (aligned with external industry standards)
- Drive the month-end closing process for the sector, ensuring accuracy of revenue, trade spend, gross margin, OPEX allocation, and inventory valuation and shrinkage
- Validate the sector's Profit and Loss (P&L) with the Accounting’s General Ledger (GL) team
- Prepare monthly dashboards, variance analyses (vs budget, LY, forecast), and flash results, recommending corrective actions where gaps arise
- Partner with Sales and Marketing to evaluate promotions, pricing, discounts, FOC schemes, and trade investment efficiency, including post-promotion ROI analysis
- Provide margin, customer, and brand profitability analysis, and act as a strategic advisor to the Business Manager / Sector Head
- Analyze SKU-level profitability, cost to serve, and margin drivers; ensure correct application of pricing policies and discount matrices
- Support yearly price adjustments and tender costings
- Monitor receivables and overdue risks with AR teams; validate stock levels, inventory aging, and provisioning
- Support cashflow planning with Treasury and AR/AP teams
- Ensure compliance with Group policies on pricing, promotions, purchasing, accounting classifications, and FOC issuance, and strengthen internal controls
- Liaise with external and internal auditors and support data compilation
- Enhance reporting systems (SAP, BO, OneStream), ensure data integrity across ERP modules, and drive automation through BI dashboards
- Work daily with Accounting, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Marketing, IT, and Group Finance, and handle Group Finance requests for consolidation, budgeting, audit, and reporting
- Perform various responsibilities related to team management including hiring, setting objectives, reviewing performance, coaching, deciding on increases and bonuses, taking disciplinary actions, resolving grievances and conflicts, etc.
Qualifications
Min 7 years experience in similar position.
BA in Accounting & Finance, Business Administration, Economics or related field. Master’s degree or CMA/CPA is a plus.
Experience in FMCG, distribution, pharma, or supply-chain-intensive industries
Experience with BI tools, dashboards, and forecasting tools.
Excellent command of English and Arabic, French is a plus
Advanced Excel knowledge. Experience with ERP systems (SAP preferred)
