Junior Financial Analyst

Job Purpose: The Junior Financial Analyst plays a key role in analyzing pricing structures and sales data to support profitable growth. This position is responsible for monitoring price positioning, evaluating promotional effectiveness, maintaining master price lists, and identifying opportunities to optimize margins across various product lines and channels. Key Responsibilities: • Price & Margin Monitoring: Track baseline product pricing, discount structures, and gross margins across categories and distribution channels to ensure alignment with commercial guidelines. • Promotional Effectiveness: Support post-promotional reviews by evaluating volume lift, trade spend efficiency, and incremental margin impact. • Data & System Maintenance: Maintain price books, promotional discount tables, and ERP commercial master data. • Financial Modeling & Analytics: Build routine financial and scenario models (e.g., volume-price trade-offs, cost-pass-through impacts, margin bridge analyses) using Excel or reporting tools. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Key Account Management, and Supply Chain teams to review non-standard quote requests, promotional approvals, and product launches. Qualifications & Skills: • Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Analytics, or a related field. • Experience: 3–5 years of experience in financial analysis, commercial control, or revenue management (internships or FMCG/retail experience preferred). • Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, logical formulas); familiarity with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) is a strong plus. • Analytical Mindset: Strong quantitative skills with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail when working with complex datasets. • Communication: Ability to distill data insights into clear business summaries for commercial and leadership teams. • Language Skills: Need to be able to communicate fluently in both English and Arabic. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): • Accuracy and timeliness of pricing master data updates. • Accuracy and timeliness of ERP data updates. • Quality and turnaround speed of promotional evaluation. • Identification of price variance or discount leakage across sales channels.

Bachelor’s degree in finance, Economics, Accounting, Business Analytics, or a related field. 3–5 years of experience in financial analysis, commercial control, or revenue management (internships or FMCG/retail experience preferred). Technical skills: Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, logical formulas); familiarity with ERP systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle) and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) is a strong plus. Must be able to communicate fluently in English and Arabic.

Price & Margin Monitoring: Track baseline product pricing, discount structures, and gross margins across categories and distribution channels to ensure alignment with commercial guidelines. Promotional Effectiveness: Support post-promotional reviews by evaluating volume lift, trade spend efficiency, and incremental margin impact. Data & System Maintenance: Maintain price books, promotional discount tables, and ERP commercial master data. Financial Modeling & Analytics: Build routine financial and scenario models (e.g., volume-price trade-offs, cost-pass-through impacts, margin bridge analyses) using Excel or reporting tools. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Sales, Key Account Management, and Supply Chain teams to review non-standard quote requests, promotional approvals, and product launches.