Finance Business Partner Landmark Arabia

Job Title: Finance Business Partner

Location: Riyadh, KSA

Position Type: Full Time

Landmark Group – Introduction

The Landmark Group began its journey in 1973 with one store in Bahrain and has grown into one of the largest retail and
hospitality conglomerates in the Middle East, Africa and India. Currently the Group operates over 2,200 outlets, encompassing
over 30 million square feet across 21 countries.

Job Description

• Preparation of Annual Budgets as per the Company’s budgeting policies and timelines.
• Work closely with Regional and National Business Heads to understand market conditions, discuss and constructively
challenge assumptions relating to Budgets.

• Provide insights at a detailed level in preparing high quality and accurate budgets.
• Preparation of Forecasts and Estimates on a regular basis.

• Analysis and insights for Monthly Business Review

• Perform weekly analysis of sales, margins and inventory at store and sku level and have a discussion with Business

Head on risks and opportunities

• Monitoring of non-performing locations and categories and deep dive to find root causes along with corrective action

plans

• Drive margin improvement and cost optimization initiatives

• Ensure accurate accounting of all transactions in accordance with Accounting policies
• Ensure 100% compliance on internal controls relating to expenses, inventories, store operations etc
• Preparation of Adhoc analysis based on requests from Management

• Strong stake holder management with Concept office, Corp Finance and Business ops
• Tight control on capex spends in accordance with approved budgets

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Job Experience • Solid Finance Business Partnering
• Financial Planning and Analysis

• Strong Financial accounting and reporting knowledge • Excellent analytical skills using various Power Tools

• Exposure to working in complex industries with high volumes of data
• Exposure to ERP (Oracle, SAP), Budgeting tools (Cognos , Hyperion etc.),
Analytical Tools (QlikView, Tableau etc.)

• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Experience in engaging with Senior leadership in a large organization
• Good Team player and has exposure to working in matrix organization

Required Leadership Skills The position will require someone has the following:
• Ability to work with senior management on projects, especially in a high growth
environment

• Exceptional analytical skills to understand key drivers of business
• Strong communication skills visible in writing, conversation, and presentations
• Strong MS Office – presentation, excel modelling skills
• Eye for detail & Process orientation

• Self-starter, willing to work with minimal supervision and guidance