FP&A SFA MEPA Senior Financial Analyst - Dubai, UAE

at  Western Union

FP&A SFA MEPA Senior Financial Analyst - Dubai, UAE
Are you a strategic thinker with a talent for data-driven decision-making and a passion for optimizing business processes? Do you thrive in providing essential insights for analytics, pricing, agent renewals, and sales and marketing efforts? Then it’s time to join Western Union as a FP&A SFA MEPA Senior Financial Analyst.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support MEPA FPA in End-to-End Financial Planning process including Plan, Forecasting, R&O and results Process (monthly reporting to HQ).
• Monitor and provide insight into key variances and business trends to identify risk and opportunities.
• Track strategic initiatives and analyze data. Track pricing performance and ensure pricing investment calculations are accurate.
• Prepare business cases and model all pricing proposals to support business partners in key decisions making processes: pricing, new agents’ signings and renewals.
• Analyze agents’ performance and evaluate commercial terms, develop and evaluate agents’ incentives proposals, support business in optimizing revenues and costs.
• Analyze capital expenses requests and provide recommendations.
• Analyze operating expenses including marketing spends, travel, other expenses to help in efficient expense management.
• Prepare and publish performance reports and any other ad-hoc reports needed for business reviews.

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of commercial and analytical experience.
• Experience in multi-national organizations, educational background in finance or accounting.
• High degree of financial acumen, understanding of impacts on financial statements, links with accounting, tax, treasury, etc.
• Understands the company’s value delivery chain with the customer in mind and builds efficiency and effectiveness across the organization.
• Able to take a strong leadership role in implementing policies and procedures to support organizational objectives and business success.
• Able to have transparent and productive relationships and collaborate successfully across the organization.
• Proficiency in English.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.