Business Performance & Strategy Manager

Your mission

Turn numbers into decisions. You will sit within Finance and partner closely with C-level Executives Trading Treasury Finance Risk and other key functions to distil complex commercial and financial data into sharp actionable insights that move the P&L and/or materially mitigate key risks. You also change processes and/or implement new IT systems to drive results.

What youll do

• Drive performance analytics: Build from a blank sheet in Excel to explain P&L drivers margins exposures and working capital; deliver variance bridges sensitivities and stress tests that withstand challenge.
• Create decision frameworks: Structure ambiguous problems design hypotheses and build modular models to evaluate scenarios risk-reward and expected value for new products/markets.
• Executive storytelling: Produce crisp board-ready narratives and 1-pagers that cut through complexity; recommend clear go/no-go calls and next actions.
• Management reporting: Define KPIs and design live dashboards capable of providing instant high-level strategic insight and detailed granularity when needed.
• Strategy reviews: Lead periodic desk and regional reviews; identify value levers and drive next steps.
• New business analysis: Size opportunities assess risks design operating models for entries in new markets.
• Change leadership: Pilot iterate and land new reporting/processes; track adoption and measurable impact.

Qualifications :

• Proven top performance: 2 years at a top-tier strategy or M&A role (MBB strongly preferred) or an equivalently rigorous strategy/finance role in markets. Top-decile performer.
• Academics: Top-tier University degree in Economics Finance Engineering Mathematics Physics or related field.
• Elite Excel: Fast precise creative. Dynamic arrays nested logic model structuring scenario/sensitivity analysis large-data pivots; Power Query/Power Pivot.
• Quantitative edge: Youre fearless with numbers and ambiguity; strong intuition for economics statistics risk and value drivers; can zoom from cell-level detail to first-principles theory.
• Executive-grade communication: Clear logic concise writing clean visuals and presence with senior stakeholders.
• Ownership and pace: Bias to action high standards sound judgment.
• High EQ you are humble understand the importance of relationships and human connections and act accordingly.

Additional Information :

Nice to have (not required)

• Python for analysis/data shaping (e.g. pandas).
• Power BI/Automate for executive dashboards.
• Prior exposure to commodities/energy or derivatives; familiarity with trading/risk data.

What success looks like in 12 months

• Measurable uplifts in desk profitability or capital efficiency tied to your analyses.
• Process change and/or system design that improves forecast accuracy and cuts cycle time materially for a key business process.

Interview process

• Expect 5 interviews (usually grouped in 2 steps) including brain teasers mental math a business case and an Excel-based working session. Final interview and hiring decision will be made by Group CIO.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Key Skills
Arabic Speaking,Access Control System,B2C,Account Management,Legal Operations,Broadcast
Department / Functional Area: Accounting
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1