Bridgestone Corporation Hiring for Financial Planning and Analysis Team Leader at Dubai Full Time

Our Company

Tokyo-based Bridgestone Corporation is the world’s largest manufacturer of tires and other rubber products. We employ over 140,000 people around the world, operate 3 technical centers and 178 manufacturing plants and sell products in more than 150 countries. “Serving Society with Superior Quality” has been our mission since Shojiro Ishibashi founded Bridgestone in 1931 and we look for individuals who share our passion to fulfill this mission.

Bridgestone Middle East & Africa (BSMEA) operates from locations in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Ivory Coast. From these locations BSMEA covers 68 markets.

Role Summary

The Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Manager is a Manager position, with a small team of direct reports. This is a regional role, based in Dubai and reporting directly to the Head of Finance and IT. The scope of the role covers Bridgestone entities in KSA, Egypt, Jordan and Morocco.

The FP&A Manager has responsibility for the financial planning and analysis operations, in line with the Bridgestone Group core values. The people population consists of two colleagues.

The scope of the role is to provide finance business partnership and strategic guidance to the business, along with full range of financial planning and analysis activities.

Main responsibilities

• Financial planning and analysis operations:
  • Consolidate and interpret company’s financial results to management and recommend improvement activities
  • Report to management on variances from the established budget, and the reasons for those variances
  • Manage the preparation of the company’s budget and rolling forecasts
• Finance and business partnership
  • Engage in benchmarking studies to establish areas of potential operational improvement One sentence about main responsibility
  • Review company bottlenecks and recommend changes to improve the overall level of company throughput
  • Engage in ongoing cost efficiency in all areas of the company
  • Engage in benchmarking studies to establish areas of potential operational improvement
  • Support decision making process at operational level with the area managers and department heads.
  • Assist in the determination of product pricing and value chain analysis
• Strategic guidance
  • Assist management in the formulation of its overall strategic direction
  • Lead business cases for strategic initiatives

Requirements for the role

• Candidates will be required to demonstrate and role model the following Bridgestone Values:
  • Agility – to work in a matrix, complex and fast paced environment.
  • Courage – to share ideas, challenge the status quo.
  • Ownership – to see the bigger picture and take ownership by thinking and acting beyond the role (self-starter).
• Bachelors’ degree in business, finance, or similar field is essential.
• MBA from an accredited business school EQUIS is a benefit.
• 7-10 years’ experience in similar role, gained in sales-driven environment.
• Experience of fast paced, matrix & multinational environment.
• Experience of working with KSA, Egypt, Jordan or Morocco a benefit.
• Willing to travel frequently.
• Strategic problem solver.
• Ability to translate financial information and drive business decisions.
• Critical thinker.
• Thrives in a multicultural, diverse environment.
• Results Orientated.
• Excellent written and verbal English any other language a requirement/benfit.
• Expert knowledge of SAP and Office suite.

Further information about Bridgestone

Bridgestone EMEA operates in more than 60 countries and employs over 16,000 employees in its offices and plants:

• 9 Sales Regions with offices in Birmingham, Warsaw, Paris, Madrid, Milan, Bad Hamburg, Moscow, Johannesburg, and Dubai
• 14 plants in France (Bethune), Belgium (Lanklaar and Liege), Italy (Bari), Poland (Stargard and Poznan), Hungary (Tatabanya), Spain (Bilbao, Puente San Miguel and Burgos), South Africa (Port Elizabeth and Brits), Russia (Ulyanovsk) and a joint venture in Turkey (Izmit)
• A raw materials plant in Spain (Usansolo)
• A leading R&D facility in Italy
• State of the art proving grounds in Italy and Sweden
• The EMEA headquarters in Zaventem, Belgium.

Sales & Products

• With its leading materials technology, the company focuses on high-performance tyres:
  A major supplier of original equipment to car manufacturers (including VW/Audi group, BMW, Mercedes, General Motors, Toyota, Nissan- Renault, etc.)
• A pioneer in Run-Flat Technology tyres and major supplier to car manufacturers
• A leading manufacturer in the agricultural market
• A leading manufacturer in the motorcycle market
• A leading brand in the truck & bus replacement market and a leading supplier to vehicle

manufacturers (Mercedes, Renault, Volvo, Scania, MAN, DAF, Iveco, etc.)

Our tyres are sold under the Bridgestone, Firestone, Dayton and other brand names for:

• Passenger cars, 4×4 vehicles
• Trucks and buses
• All types of commercial, construction and off-the-road vehicles
• Tractors and agricultural machinery
• Motorcycles and scooters
• Motor sport
• Aircraft

Bridgestone Leadership Essence

Qualified candidates for this important position will therefore need to demonstrate the following:

• Establishes strategic direction and effectively communicates the vision: Communicates a clear and inspiring vision for the business; drives competitive and innovative strategies and is able to generate alignment against the strategic direction
• Demonstrates business acumen to achieve results through others: Understands, educates and applies the fundamental business concepts by which a company operates in order to deliver results and create a climate that fosters personal commitment to excellence
• Promotes and enhances company culture: Champions the organization’s shared values and beliefs
• Effectively manages across cultures: Achieves effective collaboration, alignment, and communication across multiple dimensions of cultural diversity
• BOSS focused – serves the customers having the end users in mind: Makes BOSS (end users) and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions; develops and sustains productive relationships with BOSS; leverages BOSS intimacy in the development of new products, services and competitive advantage
• Demonstrates self-awareness and emotional intelligence: Recognizes one’s personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and limits. Understands emotions and their effects
• Intellectually curious in support of learning agility: Actively identifies new areas for learning; regularly creates and takes advantage of learning opportunities; uses newly gained knowledge and skill on the job and learns through their application
• Embraces and leads change and innovation: Encourages different and innovative approaches to address problems and opportunities; facilitates the implementation and acceptance of change within the organization