MMC Corporate Hiring for Senior Specialist – FP&A Job at Dubai Full Time

FP&A collaborates with leaders and management teams, providing trusted financial and strategic advice to drive business growth and profitability. By creating, tracking and analyzing budgets, forecasts and financial results, they develop performance insights that contribute to critical business decision making and strategic plans. A Senior Financial Planning & Analyst Specialist makes an impact as a seasoned, professional individual contributor, ready to manage projects, work independently, help teammates thrive and collaborate with stakeholders across the company.

Mercer is looking for a Senior Specialist to undertake a one year limited term contract.

We will count on you to:

• Provides client support and financial business partnering to senior and executive management at a multi-function, complex function or large scale business level.
• Independently executes financial modeling, including performing financial analyst activities, and financial reporting, and various metrics projects.
• Acts independently to represent Finance on cross-functional management teams for a function or business.
• Collaborates to resolve complex issues and provide strategic direction, to support the Finance function.
• Collaborates across multiple functions and businesses at a senior level to resolve complex issues and provide strategic direction on an enterprise level.
• Develops budgets and quarterly forecasts.
• Ensures financial reports, P&L, balance sheets, cashflows, and statistical analyses are developed and accurate.
• Identifies financial and operational KPIs and converts them into dashboards to drive accountability for performance throughout the company.
• Prepares and delivers reports and presentations to advise management on financial analyses, results, and recommendations.

We are interested if you:

• Have 5-6 years of finance business partnering experience, ideally within financial planning & analysis.
• Have a strong analytical mindset & supporting capabilities.
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Accounting, Data Science, Engineering or similar.
• Demonstrate an active willingness to continually learn and develop as a finance professional.

We believe you would excel at Mercer if you:

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity and an ability to learn quickly and think creatively without extensive supervision.
• Are proactive and seek to continuously improve the way things are done.
• Can organize yourself, have the ability to manage multiple priorities whilst working towards challenging deadlines.
• Have the ability to pay attention to detail while working under pressure
• Thrive in working independently within a diverse team and know when to seek support.
• Enjoy solving complex problems without a set answer based on strong research and analytical skills, both of quantitative and qualitative in nature.
• Are operating at expert levels of the Microsoft Office suite, particularly Power Bi and Excel.
• Have outstanding verbal and written communication skills and are empathetic to the viewpoints of others.

What’s in it for you?

At Mercer, we recognize that our most important asset is our people. We believe in the value of healthy, happy colleagues and promote a culture of caring and well-being. In joining Mercer, you would benefit from working on challenging projects with leading clients across the region, have access to highly flexible work arrangements, participate in training and development programs, and be eligible for benefits such as private health insurance in addition to a competitive rewards package. You would be part of a professional environment where your career matters to us and is supported in our global organization through regular check-in’s with your line manager and a focus on upskilling you for your next career step. And you will enjoy a great team culture, working with motivated and engaged colleagues from different parts of the world driven by a common purpose –aiming to merge economics and empathy in everything we do!

About us

With more than 25,000 employees in more than 40 countries worldwide, Mercer is the leading global service provider for Human Resources, Talent Management, Employee Health, Retirement and Investment Consulting. We at Mercer work with clients across the globe to solve their most complex challenges related to Health, Wealth and Career related matters.

Next steps

If you are still reading and thinking this opportunity could be of interest to you, please submit a cover letter and one-page CV.