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Role Overview
Finance Manager at Chalhoub Group. This is a highly operational, hands-on role serving as the key finance partner for one of the Group's brands, with additional responsibility for supporting a new strategic project.
Company Overview
Chalhoub Group is a luxury retail group with over seven decades of history in the Middle East. The Group operates a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and distributes over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories. It delivers seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps. The Group operates across eight countries in the Middle East with presence in LATAM and employs over 16,000 professionals. It has earned Great Place to Work® certification in several markets. Chalhoub Group fosters a people-at-heart culture rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion. Sustainability is core to the Group's strategy; it is a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles, and has pledged to reach Net Zero by 2040. The Group operates The Greenhouse, an innovation hub, incubator, and accelerator for startups and emerging businesses regionally and globally.
Role Purpose
To act as the primary finance partner for a brand, ensuring strong financial control, accurate reporting, and commercial insight to support day-to-day trading decisions. The role also plays a critical part in setting up and supporting a new strategic project, ensuring financial discipline, scalability, and strong governance from inception.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Partnership & Reporting
- Act as the primary business finance partner for the brand, ensuring strong financial control, accurate reporting, and commercial insight to support day-to-day operations.
- Manage financial reporting including weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc performance analysis across sales, margin, and inventory.
- Deliver clear, actionable insights to senior stakeholders to influence strategy and execution.
Stakeholder & Commercial Collaboration
- Partner closely with Planning, Retail, General Manager, and Ecommerce teams to support decision-making and drive overall business performance.
- Provide financial input into operational and trading decisions, ensuring data-led decision-making across all channels.
- Prove a proven ability to partner with non-finance stakeholders, especially operations teams.
Profitability & Performance
- Monitor and drive profitability across the liquidation business, ensuring tight control over costs, pricing, and stock efficiency.
- Identify risks and opportunities across trading performance and proactively recommend corrective actions.
Planning & Forecasting
- Support forecasting and budgeting processes, ensuring alignment with commercial plans and trading performance.
Project Governance & Setup
- Support the end-to-end setup and financial governance of a new strategic project, ensuring scalability and control from launch.
Process Improvement
- Improve and streamline financial processes to support a fast-moving, high-volume operational business.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
- Professional qualification such as ACCA, CA, or CMA (preferred).
- 3 to 5 years of experience in finance, ideally within retail, trading, FMCG, or high-volume operational environments.
- Experience working in fast-paced, commercially driven businesses with tight operational cycles.
- Experience supporting or leading project-based work or new business launches.
- Strong understanding of P&L management, inventory accounting, and margin analysis.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong Excel and financial modelling skills.
- Experience with SAP systems and Looker (a plus).
- Ability to translate financial data into clear, actionable business insights.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive accountability.
- Comfortable working in a hands-on, execution-focused role with high levels of ambiguity.
Additional Information
- Health care coverage.
- Child education contribution.
- Remote and flexible working policies.
- Exclusive employee discounts.
- Learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within the role or through internal mobility.
- Chalhoub Group is committed to equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin, or disability status.
- Assessments and interviews should be completed independently and without assistance from generative AI tools.