Landmark Group

Manager - Finance (Shared Services)

Landmark Group  •  United Arab Emirates (Onsite)  •  1 day ago
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Job Description

Management Financials & Performance Reporting:

  • Lead the month-end, quarter-end, and year-end financial close process within the R2R framework, ensuring strict adherence to global timelines.
  • Review and finalize monthly management accounts (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) prior to leadership distribution.
  • Conduct deep-dive variance analysis (Actuals vs. Budget/Forecast) and provide actionable financial insights to executive management.
  • Ensure management reporting accurately reflects business operations and aligns with corporate financial strategies.
  • Ensure and Govern balance sheet across all legal entities and ensure continues risk assessment.
  • Manage internal and external audits
  • Define and track KPIs and SLAs for Shared Services performance.
  • Strengthen internal controls, compliance, and governance across Shared Services.

Finance Transformation & Strategy

  • Lead end-to-end finance transformation initiatives across Record-to-Report (R2R) & VAT
  • Support the design and execution of the Shared Services transformation roadmap.
  • Identify opportunities for process standardization, simplification, and automation.
  • Partner with Finance leadership to align transformation initiatives with business strategy.
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, or similar methodologies.
  • Drive adoption of automation solutions including RPA, AI, and analytics.
  • Partner with IT and vendors to deliver scalable and sustainable solutions.

Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Act as a key liaison between Shared Services, Corporate Finance, and business stakeholders.
  • Lead change management activities including communication, training, and adoption tracking.
  • Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure successful transition to new ways of working.
  • Candidate should be either MBA/CA, should have done Lean Six sigma – Minimum Green Belt
  • 8 years of experience +
  • Shared service exposure
  • Minimum one shared service transition should have managed by candidate
  • Should have done process transformation
Landmark Group

About Landmark Group

Founded in 1973 in Bahrain, Landmark Group has grown to become one of the largest and most successful omnichannel retail and hospitality conglomerates, with presence across 17 countries in the Middle East, Africa, India and Southeast Asia. Based in the UAE since 1990, the Group owns and operates 21 established homegrown and 4 franchise brands across an extensive network of more than 2,200 outlets, encompassing a gross leasable area of 30 million square feet.

Landmark Group's success is driven by its diverse portfolio of established brands, across multiple retail categories, offering a comprehensive range of products across fashion, home, groceries and electronics. These include Centrepoint, Max Fashion, Home Centre, Babyshop, Splash, Shoemart, Lifestyle, Viva, Emax, Home Box, Styli, Shoexpress, Spar and Easybuy.

Beyond retail, Landmark Group has diversified into the leisure, fitness and hospitality sectors with brands like Fitness First, Citymax, Fun City, Fun Ville, Zafran and Carluccio’s. The Group boasts unparalleled logistics capabilities, owning the MENA region's largest privately-owned distribution hub - Omega Logistics and Logistiq, which offers state-of-the-art third-party logistics services.

Landmark Group places a strong emphasis on delivering exceptional value and achieving customer satisfaction throughout its comprehensive product range. Across its loyalty programmes, the Group enjoys a loyal customer base with more than 35 million active users.

The company has a dedicated workforce of more than 53,000 employees and continues to be certified as a Great Place to Work (GPTW) since 2017.

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Dubai, AE
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
landmarkgroup.com
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