Sr Business Finance Analyst

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About the Company

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 70 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 Company

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 70 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 Role

As a Business Finance Analyst, you will play a critical role within the Finance team, providing key support to the relevant stakeholders. This position involves spend management activities, building insightful reports, and developing essential strategies. You'll be instrumental in planning and forecasting, identifying and addressing financial performance variances & supporting month-end closing activities.

What You'll Do

• Build & maintain annual/quarterly/monthly budgets and forecasts.
• Act as the primary point of contact for cost optimization initiatives, actively contributing to strategic financial planning.
• Develop and implement initiatives to control expenditures against the budgets allocated for different functions.
• Create systems and dashboards to enhance visibility and control over financial spends, aiding in decision-making processes for various stakeholders.
• Identify and communicate any discrepancies or anomalies in spend tracking to Business Leaders and the FP&A function.
• Collaborate with internal teams to refine and enhance financial systems and processes, ensuring they meet the evolving needs of the business.
• Collaborate with the accounting team to ensure accurate month-end book closure and financial reporting.
  
  

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
• Advanced degrees like MBA, ACCA, or CFA strongly preferred.
• 5 to 6 years of relevant experience in financial analysis, budgeting, and strategic planning.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a proactive approach to gathering insights and data for impactful decision-making.
• Excellent quantitative skills with the ability to solve complex problems.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, demanding environment, with a hands-on and ownership-driven mindset.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, capable of conveying complex financial information in a clear and persuasive manner.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, PowerBI, Redash and SQL.
  
  

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionFinance and Sales
• IndustriesTechnology, Information and Internet and IT Services and IT Consulting

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