noon
Job description
About noon
noon, the region’s leading consumer commerce platform. On December 12th, 2017, noon launched its consumer platform in Saudi Arabia and the UAE, expanding to Egypt in February 2019. The noon ecosystem of services now marketplaces for food delivery, quick commerce, fintech, and fashion. noon is a work in progress; we’re six years in, but only 5% done.
noon’s mission: Ring every doorbell, every day.
About noon Food
Noon Food is a restaurant-first platform on the noon app, offering fair commissions, a sustainable program, and operating flexibility for the food and beverage industry in the Middle East. The most recent addition to the noon ecosystem, the noon Food mission is to revolutionize the F&B delivery landscape, firmly putting the control and success back in the hands of retailers.
What you’ll do:
Team noon has some of the fastest, smartest, and hardest-working people we’ve encountered. With a young, aggressive, and talented team, we’re driving major missions forward.
You’ll be required to undertake the responsibility of effectively influencing the decisions of senior business leaders through financial analysis, logical reasoning, and presentation of alternatives.
The role operates in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment, and will provide decision support and advice for key business leaders. You will be working closely with the senior leadership team and expected to interact with Finance and business teams world-wide.
• Control all financial aspects of the business.
• Manage, lead and develop exceptional talent.
• Lead and participate as the key finance stakeholder in cross functional teams.
• Implement and drive the core financial processes and reporting for the business including Annual Operating Plans, Long Term Plans, and Monthly/Quarterly Business Reviews.
• Identify operational improvements, deep dive on cost structures, and analyze business opportunities/investments.
• Lead ad hoc financial analysis and root cause investigations through audit business inputs and processes to ensure that strong financial controls remain fit for purpose.
• Focus on every aspect of the business, drive improvement and use strong business judgment to drive the right long term decisions
What you’ll need:
• Bachelor’s degree/MBA/ Professional certification (CPA/CMA/Qualified Accounting certificate)
• 3 – 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience in Excel (macros, index, conditional list, arrays, pivots, lookups
• Strong financial acumen and/or analytical experience by delivering forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and data interpretation of results
• Proven familiarity with concepts of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
• Advanced experience in demonstrating problem solving and root cause analysis
• Experience working with large-scale data mining and reporting tools (i.e. SQL, Tableau, and/or Cognos) or other financial systems (i.e. Oracle, SAP, Lawson, JD Edwards), providing solutions based on results of ad hoc analysis to senior management for strategic decision-making will be added advantage.
Who will excel?
• We’re looking for people with high standards, who understand that hard work matters.
• You need to be relentlessly resourceful and operate with a deep bias for action.
• We need people with the courage to be fiercely original.
• noon is not for everyone; readiness to adapt, pivot, and learn is essential.
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