Job Description
The FP&A function will play a critical role in building financial discipline, scalable reporting systems, and data-driven decision-making from an early stage.
Role Purpose
The FP&A professional will act as the financial backbone for the e-commerce business,supporting the Dubai leadership team with forecasting, performance tracking, unit economics, and strategic insights. The role is hands-on and requires strong ownership,startup mindset, and cross-functional coordination.
Key Responsibilities
- Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Prepare annual budgets, quarterly plans, and rolling forecasts.
- Build bottom-up financial models covering GMV, revenue, margins,
- Support cash flow planning and burn-rate monitoring for startup scale-up
- Management Reporting & MIS
- Develop daily, weekly, and monthly MIS dashboards for CEO and Finance
- Track key metrics: GMV, Net Revenue, Gross Margin, Contribution Margin,
- Ensure alignment of MIS with books of accounts.
- Variance Analysis & Cost Control
- Analyze actual vs budget/forecast variances with clear commentary.
- Identify cost leakages and margin improvement opportunities.
- Support cost optimization initiatives across marketing, fulfillment,
- Unit Economics & Business Analysis
- Build SKU-level, category-level, and order-level unit economics.
- Analyze pricing, discounting, promotions, and vendor commercials.
- Support strategic decisions such as new category launches, marketplace vs
- Stakeholder & GCC Support
- Act as primary FP&A support from India for Dubai-based leadership.
- Coordinate with operations, supply chain, marketing, and tech teams.
- Support ad-hoc strategic and board-level analysis.
- Systems, Automation & Process Building
- Work closely with accounting systems -Zoho Books
- Build automated reporting and dashboards using Excel / Zoho Analytics.
- Help establish FP&A processes suitable for a startup scaling environment.
- Forecast accuracy
- Timeliness and quality of MIS
- Contribution margin improvement
- Cost control and cash burn visibility
- Decision-support effectiveness
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- CA / CMA / preferred.
- 13 years of FP&A or Business Finance experience.
- Mandatory exposure to e-commerce, D2C, marketplace, or retail.
- Startup or high-growth environment experience strongly preferred.
- GCC or international reporting exposure is an advantage.
- Advanced Excel / Financial Modeling
- Strong understanding of e-commerce P&L and unit economics
- Data-driven mindset with business orientation
- Excellent communication and ownership
Skills: budgeting & forecasting,forecasting,ca,capital & expense budget management,cma
Skills
AccountingAccounting SystemsBudgetingBusiness AnalysisBudget ManagementCash FlowCost ControlManagement ReportingPerformance TrackingZoho BooksCaFinanceCashFinancial Planning & AnalysisIf an employer asks you to pay any kind of fee, please notify us immediately. Jobaaj does not charge any fee from the applicants and we do not allow other companies also to do so.
About Company
Important dates & deadlines?
Application Deadline
28 Mar 26, 01:49 PM IST
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