Senior Specialist - FP&A

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

About the team

Careem finance function operates as a business partner for various verticals of Careem whereby Senior Specialist - FP&A is a critical part of the Strategic Finance team and is responsible for the P&L management of the Verticals. 

What you'll do

• Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term financial and strategic plans
• Work with Business teams to build their annual budgets and forecasts
• Producing models to project long term growth and determine the impacting business factors
• Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team
• Analyzing financial and operational results to better understand company performance
• Utilizing BI (Tableau, Redash & SQL) tools to delivery meaningful insights into business performance
• Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results
• Reviewing operations and recommending new productivity or cost saving initiatives
• Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions
• Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts
• Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost reduction, revenue generation and streamlining operations

What you'll need

• Qualified CA/ ACCA or CFA preferred

• 4+ years of related experience creating financial reports and analyzing the results to provide strategic

• Strong grip on SQL is preferrable

• Strong financial modeling skills and experience with budgeting & forecasting

• Strong analytical skills, ability to work independently and part of a team

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Results oriented, strong organizational and time management skills with ability to multitask

 

 

 

 

What we’ll provide you

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a full time Careem colleague, you will be able to:

• Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
• Put your passion to work in a purposeful organisation dedicated to creating impact in a region with a lot of untapped potential.
• Explore new opportunities to learn and grow every day.
• Work 4 days a week in office & 1 day from home, and remotely from any country in the world for 30 days a year with unlimited vacation days per year. (If you are in an individual contributor role in tech, you will have 2 office days a week and 3 to work from home.)
• Access to healthcare benefits and fitness reimbursements for health activities including gym, health club, and training classes.