Overview

About the job

Job Purpose:

The Assistant Manager – FP&A plays a key role in supporting the financial planning, analysis, and reporting activities of the organization. This position is responsible for preparing detailed financial models, budgets, forecasts, and performance reports to enable effective decision-making.

Responsibilities:

Budgeting & Forecasting:

  • Assist the preparation and consolidation of annual budgets and periodic forecasts.
  • Analyze financial data and provide actionable insights to support business decisions.
  • Coordinate with cross-functional teams to gather input and ensure alignment with organizational objectives.

Management Reporting:

  • Prepare and present monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports, including variance analysis.
  • Deliver insights and recommendations through Power BI dashboards and reports.
  • Ensure accuracy and timeliness in reporting to support senior management decision-making.

Systems and Process Optimization:

  • Utilize Oracle EPM for data consolidation, reporting, and planning.
  • Develop and optimize Power BI dashboards for improved data visualization and analytics.
  • Drive automation and efficiency improvements within FP&A processes.

Stakeholder Collaboration:

  • Partner with business units to provide financial guidance and support.
  • Work closely with other finance teams to ensure alignment on financial goals.

Compliance and Governance:

  • Support audits and compliance reviews as required.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Professional qualification: ACCA, CA, or CPA (or equivalent).
  • Minimum 5 years of post-qualification experience in FP&A or related finance roles.
  • Hands-on experience in budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial modeling.
  • Expertise in Oracle EPM and Power BI is essential.

Knowledge:

  • Experience in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, preferably in F&B or Retail
  • Knowledge of IFRS and advanced Excel skills.
  • Familiarity with ESG and sustainability reporting will be an added advantage.

Skills:

  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Ability to build complex financial models from scratch.
  • Ability to work in a cross functional team environment as well as on individual assignments.

Core Competencies:

Communication

  • Clearly articulates even the most complex concepts, ensures communication process for clarity and accountability
  • Encourages direct and open discussions about important issues, enables communication flow within the team, department, AMERICANA.
  • Can have balance of listening and talking while interacting with others.

Emotional Intelligence

  • Respect oneself and is self-confident.
  • Resists or delays impulse to act.
  • Is aware of own strengths and blind spots. Reflects and acts consistently on his/her own development.

Teamwork and collaboration

  • Creates platforms and systems for organizational knowledge management as well as best practice sharing.
  • Inspires the spirit of cooperation between team members and across the organization.

Change Management

  • Encourages new ways of leading and working, develops the skill of tolerating uncertainty in others.

Execution and result orientation

  • Knows how to translate direction into priorities and actionable tasks for self and the team.
  • Creates the environment for effective problem-solving root-cause analyses and routines to drive things done.
  • Owns decisions within the area of responsibility, is challenging regarding priorities relevance, resourceful, creates sense of urgency.

Business acumen and commercial awareness

  • Good understanding of market prices of different materials and services related to the job domain.
  • Capable of proposing alternate solutions to effectively reduce the overall capex.

Strategy

  • Ensures the alignment of the department/function tactics to AMERICANA/business unit strategy.
  • Understands and acts within overall strategy, makes the vision shareable by everyone.

Decision making and problem solving

  • Able to distinguish between facts and opinions, and to give appropriate weight to both.
  • Able to make effective decisions, even when the information is unclear or incomplete.

About Americana Foods

Americana Foods is one of the largest FMCG companies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. From our humble beginnings in Kuwait where we were born, to our strong presence and extended reach in the UAE, KSA and Egypt, we have over decades grown to become a trusted household brand name in the region and beyond. Today, Americana Foods’ products are enjoyed by consumers in more than 50 countries and territories across the world.