Senior Country Finance Manager – Egypt

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.

What you’ll be doing  

 responsible for leading the Finance Department within the  country while ensuring coordination with both respective President and Group Head of Finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee the operations of the Finance Department, provide expertise, encourage teamwork and facilitate related professional work processes to achieve high performance standards and staff pride in contribution
• Monitor the yearly budget of Finance Department and control expenditure to ensure optimal use
• Lead the completion and consolidation of monthly management reporting to Captain for a variety of businesses included in his Vertical highlighting key performance and finance indicators, variance versus Budget and defining and tracking corrective actions plans to be implemented by each BU GM
• Lead, coach and develop  finance members responsible for financial control of individual BUs cross-country within the vertical
• Lead and manage, in liaison with key stakeholders, the formulation and strategic review process for his/her vertical with reference to: 3 YRS plan, the annual budget and (Re)-Forecast submissions with all country Finance Managers to ensure deliverables for the verticals are timely and accurate
• Act as the business partner for respective Country Manager ensuring also his/her finance team grant on-going support to the commercial and HR teams to ensure corrective action plans on both revenue and costs are timely implemented to correct any material variance vs budget in OP or cash flow
• Ensure implementation of a robust and enhanced internal control environment following central processes as defined by Group Finance to deliver efficiencies and Budget OP and ROCE
• Assign individual objectives for employee performance management purposes, manage performance, empower staff, and provide formal and informal feedback to support professional development and maximize performance

What you’ll need to succeed  

• Educational background in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field 

• CPA or CFA designation is  preferred.

Proven experience 10 years  in a similar role, preferably in retail.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Proficiency in financial software and ERP systems 

Excellent communication and leadership abilities.

What we can offer you  

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality.  We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.  

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.  

We Invite All Applicants to Apply

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.