Associate Manager - FP&R

Emirates Global Aluminium is the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry. EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations on four continents from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium and recycling. EGA employs over 7,000 of these people including more than 1,200 UAE Nationals.

EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.

Job Title: Associate Manager - FP&R

Function: Finance & Corporate Development / Group Finance, Planning, Reporting & Accounting

Job Purpose: To manage consolidation and reporting of financials for the assigned area in order to support the effective decision making for achievement of objectives and to ensure financial statements and transactions are in compliance with EGA’s policies and procedures, regulatory requirements, and international financial and accounting reporting standards

• Supervise the implementation of functional policies, systems, processes, procedures and internal controls covering the assigned areas of the financial planning and reporting function so that all relevant procedural/legislative requirements are fulfilled while delivering a quality, cost‑effective service in a consistent manner
• Contribute towards the continuous improvement of existing policies, processes and procedures by collating inputs from team, identifying and recommending improvements

• Ensure all reportees have clear objectives and regular performance monitoring and feedback sessions in order to enable the effective achievement of goals
• Provide on‑the‑job training and constructive feedback to all subordinates in order to contribute in the development of a workforce with the required skills and capabilities

• Supervise the day‑to‑day function of financial planning & reporting sections to ensure that work processes are implemented as designed and comply with established policies, processes and procedures
• Oversee the development and administration of Business Planning and Controlling (BPC) system to ensure accuracy of collection of data and reporting

• Review plant’s annual plans and budgets produced by departments and area analysts and provide recommendations to ensure they meet cost and profitability targets, whilst being realistic and achievable
• Evaluate business requirements and manage the consolidation of the assigned area’s budget in‑line with business plans to ensure timely submission of budgets to the group reporting and accounting function, while ensuring accuracy of methodology, projections and calculations

• In conjunction with the FP&A teams, monitor / control expenditure to facilitate operations of the area by controlling costs and exercise in order to achieve a financial performance over the budgeted figure
• Monitor and report the financial performance versus budgets so that areas of unsatisfactory performance are identified and rectified promptly, and potential performance improvement opportunities are capitalised upon
• Manage the consolidation of financial plans and financial forecasts for the assigned area in line with the corporate financial strategy and the overall objectives
• Manage the development of quarterly forecasts (P&L, Balance Sheets & Cash flow) in liaison with the area analysts to facilitate effective financial planning in line with the assigned area’s business plan
• Liaise with key area FP&A teams to ensure provision of regular information relating to key financial performance indicators to the finance team
• Supervise team for the consolidation and reporting of the key performance results to ensure regular performance monitoring, identify any major variances and to generate comprehensive supporting analysis
• Review and consolidate the performance analysis and reports…