Position Title:  Finance Business Partner Jordan & PAA

Do you have a passion for challenging analytical assignments? Are you an excellent communicator with exceptional diplomatic skills, achievement oriented, and curious to broaden your professional perspective? Do you want to make a difference in our organization and contribute to building something new?  If the answer is yes to all these questions, then we would like to hear from you.

We are looking for a Business Partner based in Amman with a Bachelor's degree and at least 5-7 years of professional experience in finance / strategy / commercial planning role. Fluency in English and Arabic are required.

RISE TO THE CHALLENGE

Driving and supporting the development of strategies and scenario planning to pave the way for sustainable business models / growth algorithms and support in delivery of all key management presentations and business cases to ensure timely alignment with PMI / MEA Region, transparency, and rapid and fact-based decision-making.

More specifically you will:

• Be a “Co-Pilot” to the Commercial team: Balance a commercial and consumer focused mindset to advise, guide and support commercial heads or enabling functions from strategic reviews, IBP, budget cycles, and other key business plans.
• Data-driven Mindset: Lead and participate in developing strategies and scenario planning based on well-researched and fact-based economic, political, and industry, data and insights. The same applies to competitive intelligence from industry profitability analysis to portfolio / SOM strategies with a global, regional and market lens. Integrate these data points in business plans and propose / build strategies to address threats and or seize new opportunities.
• Revenue management: Design pricing plans to maximize operational revenues with a balanced portfolio and price gap management approach.
• Create New Opportunities: Lead or support ad-hoc business cases / scenario planning for new business development opportunities such as new product launches, new JV models, introduction of banded offers etc.
• Business Development: Hands-on leading role of new Business Development projects as we widen our multi-category product portfolio range for both CC and SFP and enhance our Route to Market Journey. This includes sizing of the opportunity, financials, scenario planning, etc.
• Externally focused: (i)Support external affairs on fiscal affairs, specifically government revenues analysis and corresponding excise tax scenario planning, including building financial and other argumentations to support company strategies. (ii) Ensure effective corporate governance across the markets through accurate, complete, and timely preparation of key business reports, highlights, strategy papers, earning calls updates, quarterly business updates, etc.
• The mid-to-long term view of the business: Provide strategic guidance, insights, data and advisory to the Cluster Management Team and Country Managers to facilitate informed decision making that enables delivering sustainable business and financial growth. Specifically, this means both driving and supporting the development of strategies and scenario planning to pave the way for sustainable business models / growth algorithms both in CC and SFP across the Cluster markets and business. partners.
• Presentations and Story Telling: Lead / support the design, build strategic content, and coordinate delivery of key management presentations and business cases in the market to ensure timely alignment with regional team, and fact-based decision-making process.
• Strategic management: Analyze and present relevant data to help pricing decisions, e.g. retail price evolution, trade margins, SOM, competitors’ strategies and profitability, etc. Lead, advise and work closely with commercial and enabling functions to prepare strategic reviews, budget cycles, RF cycles and other key business plans.

Key Requirements:

• University degree in Business / Finance; Masters in Business / Finance is a plus
• Minimum working experience in finance / strategy / commercial planning 6 years
• Excellent financial modelling skills combined with an ability to link moving parts together for effective and holistic scenario planning.
• Ability to think several steps ahead and anticipate potential challenges and opportunities, as well as develop a plan that aligns with PMI’s overall goals.
• Strategic reasoning and coinciding project management capability
• Outstanding analytical skills and strong business acumen.
• Effective time management to ensure productivity.
• Curiosity and creativity; ability to think outside the box.

FIND A NEW PATH

Our organization offers you a fresh perspective. Here, you will never stop exploring and discovering. We take the concept of on-the-job learning to another level, giving you every opportunity to develop your career and reach your full potential. With innovative technologies, services, and processes, together with a competitive salary and compensation package, you will have the opportunity to interact with some of the best minds in the business, learn from them and add value.