Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the financial planning and analysis (FP&A) process, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Partner with business teams to provide actionable insights and support data-driven decision-making across various functions.
- Analyze key performance indicators (KPIs), identifying trends and opportunities to drive business performance and profitability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate business cases for new initiatives, store openings, and marketing campaigns.
- Ensure compliance with financial reporting standards and internal controls, maintaining accuracy and integrity in all financial data.
- Drive cost optimization initiatives and support resource allocation to maximize ROI.
Key Requirements:
- Chartered Accountant (CA) qualification is mandatory.
- 5–10 years of relevant experience in FP&A or business finance roles, preferably in the retail sector.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with expertise in financial modeling and scenario planning.
- Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders and influence strategic decisions.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with proficiency in financial systems and tools.
- Experience with ERP tools like Oracle/SAP is essential.
- Experience with budgeting tools like COGNOS will be an added advantage.
Our journey started in 1973 with a single store in Bahrain. Since then, we have grown into a global retail and hospitality group. The proud creator of 25 plus value led, own-built brands across retail, hospitality, food, and leisure.
Over the years, our UAE - based group has evolved into a comprehensive retail and hospitality entity, with over 2200 retail stores, leisure, and hospitality outlets, panning the GCC, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Today, Landmark Group is one of GCC's largest omnichannel retailers and India's top home and fashion retailer.
We take immense pride in the organic growth of our retail brands, which have blossomed into household names. From Max, Splash, Babyshop, Centrepoint, Shoemart, Homecentre, Emax, Fitness First, to Funcity, to name a few, our brands span across a multitude of categories, enriching the lives of countless families over the past decade.
About the TeamSHOEMART is the largest retailer of footwear and accessories in the Middle East, with over 160 stores to cater to the entire family. With an impressive 34-year history, we have earned our place as one of the most trusted footwear retailers in the region, serving nearly 7 million shoppers annually.
We also manage two additional footwear retail chains: SHOEXPRESS, which has 50 stores and is the leading value footwear brand in the self-service format within the region, and Pablosky with 9 stores, a premium kids' footwear brand known worldwide.
We take immense pride in being the preferred footwear business for more than 150 vendors from around the world, some of whom have been supporting us for over 30 years.
SHOEMART not only offers an extensive range of in-house brands like Celeste, Duchini, Le Confort, Missy, Juniors, and many others but also carries leading international brands such as Adidas, Kappa, Lee Cooper, and Skechers, among others. Our vision is to "Grow Brands that Our Customers Love and Deliver Great Value."
Skills Required
- Chartered Accountant (CA) qualification
- 5-10 years of relevant experience in FP&A or business finance roles
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders and influence decisions
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Proficiency in financial systems and tools
- Experience with ERP tools like Oracle/SAP
- Experience with budgeting tools like COGNOS
What We Do
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.
