Informa Markets Hiring for Finance Analyst Job at Dubai Full Time

Informa is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.

We’re the specialist’s specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions.

Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 11,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

Role Profile

This role sits within the finance team of Informa Markets Middle-East reporting into the Finance Director. The role will closely support the Executive Vice President for Cityscape, Energy and Egypt, and work with additional stakeholders.

The Finance Analyst provides insightful reporting and analysis to inform commercial decision making.

Key Responsibilities:

The Finance Analyst is expected to assume the following key responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:

• Deliver timely, high quality management information to inform the decision-making of business leaders. This includes monthly management reporting, forecasting, budgeting, headcount reporting and other ad-hoc reporting.
• Assist the Finance Director with business modelling exercises such as market, product, vendor and business analyses.
• Manage financial reporting processes including month-end and Balance Sheet review.
• Analyse and report on monthend close variances
• Update event cost trackers
• Liaise with sales, ops and other teams to complete event/product setup on CRM systems
• Review weekly sales and collections trends. Provide insights and determine follow up action plans as appropriate. Estimate financial impacts eg. Bad debt provisions
• Develop standardised reporting outputs and finance process improvement for the business.
• Work closely with Global Business Services and Finance Shared Services to optimise business services such as O2C, P2P and R2R.
• Provide guidance to business stakeholders regarding compliance matters
• Communicate finance policies and facilitate education/training sessions
• Manage and maintain key data, contract and policy documents
• Continuous business process improvement to streamline activities – “work smart”

Skills & Abilities

• Excellent quantitative skills
• Excellent analytical and presentation skills
• Excellent Excel, PowerPoint and financial modelling skills
• Able to interrogate data, demonstrating good commercial acumen to arrive at clear conclusions
• Good attention to detail and accuracy
• Self-starter with proactive nature, and ability to work autonomously
• Ability to build rapport, work independently and collaborate across all levels of the organisation.
• Experience using mainstream accounting systems such as Oracle/SAP/Hyperion. Experience with TM1 (IBM) and SAP would be advantageous

Qualifications & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in finance team with a demonstrated history of successful business partnering
• Qualified Accountant
• Bachelors Degree or higher

Additional Information

We know that sometimes the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don’t fit all the requirements. If you’re excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we’re looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under local law.