Who we are:
GMG is a global well-being company retailing distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport everyday goods health and beauty properties and logistics sectors. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family for over 45 years GMG is a valued partner of choice for the worlds most successful and respected brands in the well-being sector. Working across the Middle East North Africa and Asia GMG has introduced more than 120 brands across 12 countries. These include notable home-grown brands such as Sun & Sand Sports Dropkick Supercare Pharmacy Farm Fresh Klassic and international brands like Nike Columbia Converse Timberland Vans Mama Sitas and McCain.
Job Summary:
- The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementation of robust processes aligned to both legislative and company requirements and ensuring that the Sports Finance function delivers a timely and accurate reports. Manage all accounting activities include P&L & B/S reviews to support the business by implementing and maintaining a partnership approach with each function.
Accountabilities:
Core Responsibilities:
- Development experience in financial dashboards in the Power BI & enhancement on existing Dashboards on need basis.
- Responsible for the Daily Financial and management reporting for Sports Division.
- Developed monthly Business Review Deck that enables in identifying dark areas and allocating resources accordingly this includes- Sales comments Sales bridges analyzing on Retail KPIs P&L Comments price volume analysis to generate awareness of financial performance of the business with Operations and Business unit leadership team.
- Commercial analysis on rentals savings for lease renewals/contracts of non-performing stores and financial based conclusion on proposed action plans.
- Developed Investment appraisal model basis capital budgeting methods such as NPV IRR Payback Period and Capital Intensity ratio helps in business expansion analysis
- Supporting in Annual Budgeting/Quarterly forecasting and drafted standalone and consolidating model analyzing and validating inputs provided by Business Teams.
- Preform monthly closing activities analysis this includes: -
- Researching general ledger activity and variances to budget and prior year
- Monitor the cost structure of business unit and its departments.
- Liaising with internal departments including Retails Operations Buying & Planning Marketing Accounting and Payroll.
- Tracking the capex spend vs budget for all major projects and subsequent preparation of capex pack on monthly basis.
- Review of provisions accruals and Credit Notes
Educational Qualifications and Certificates:
- CA/CIMA/ACCA holder (or pursuing) or
- Tertiary qualifications in accounting or finance
Experience:
3 - 5 years experience preferably in retail industry in financial planning and analysis or commercial finance.