Manage the finance, reporting, planning, and governance activities for UAE LRIL Common and UAE Shoexpress, ensuring accurate financial reporting, strong business controls, and compliance with corporate and statutory requirements. Partner with business and support functions to drive profitability, optimize costs, evaluate new store investments, and assess lease proposals through financial analysis and feasibility studies. Provide actionable insights to support business decision-making while coordinating with LRIL Common departments and shared services to ensure smooth operations. Additionally, serve as finance backup for UAE Shoemart Finance to support business continuity and operational effectiveness.
ResponsibilitiesLead finance business partnering, planning, reporting, and governance activities for UAE Shoexpress and UAE LRIL Common, ensuring strong financial performance, compliance, and effective decision support. Key responsibilities include:
• FP&A: Lead budgeting, forecasting, feasibility studies, lease renewals, and financial analysis to support strategic decision-making and profitability improvement.
• Business Partnering: Collaborate with business, brand, and corporate teams to monitor financial performance, identify opportunities, and drive corrective actions.
• Governance: Manage legal agreements and commercial proposals by coordinating with business, legal, and relevant stakeholders to ensure timely reviews and approvals.
• Reporting: Oversee monthly financial closing and reporting processes to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with accounting standards and company policies.
• Performance: Review key business KPIs including sales, markdowns, productivity, and overheads, providing insights and recommendations to management.
• Compliance: Ensure adherence to Corporate Tax, VAT, FAR, COC, CFO Scorecard requirements, and other statutory and internal compliance guidelines.
• Controls: Support the implementation and maintenance of strong financial controls, policies, and risk management practices.
• 5–8 years of relevant finance experience, including UAE retail/FMCG exposure
• Chartered Accountant (CA), ACCA, CPA, or equivalent professional qualification is a must.
• Proven experience in FP&A, business partnering, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial closing.
• Working knowledge of UAE VAT and Corporate Tax regulations is a Plus
• Experience in evaluating business cases, store feasibility studies, and lease proposals.
• Familiarity with Cognos, Power BI, ERP systems, and advanced Excel.
• Analytical mind (Understanding revenue, cost, profit drivers)
• Strong communication & Co-ordination skills
• FP&A, Budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
• Cost control and profitability analysis
• Problem-solving mindset
• Ability to work under deadlines and pressure
• R2R Experience is a plus
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Commercial and business acumen.
• Financial modelling and scenario analysis.
• Presentation and management reporting skills.
• Process improvement and automation mindset.
• Attention to detail with strong control orientation.
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.
Skills Required
- 5-8 years of relevant finance experience, including UAE retail/FMCG exposure
- Chartered Accountant (CA), ACCA, CPA, or equivalent professional qualification
- Proven experience in FP&A, business partnering, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and financial closing
- Working knowledge of UAE VAT and Corporate Tax regulations
- Experience in evaluating business cases, store feasibility studies, and lease proposals
- Familiarity with Cognos, Power BI, ERP systems, and advanced Excel
- Analytical mindset with understanding of revenue, cost, and profit drivers
- Strong communication and coordination skills
- FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis skills
- Cost control and profitability analysis experience
- Problem-solving mindset
- Ability to work under deadlines and pressure
- R2R (Record to Report) experience
- Stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Commercial and business acumen
- Financial modelling and scenario analysis
- Presentation and management reporting skills
- Process improvement and automation mindset
- Attention to detail with strong control orientation
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.
