Economic Analyst Jobs - Beirut Lebanon

Overview: We are seeking a detail-oriented and commercially savvy FP&A Specialist to support our budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and in-depth financial analysis. As an FP&A specialist, you will translate complex data into actionable insights, assist leadership in strategic decision-making, and help drive improvements and automation in financial processes. <br> <br> <br> <br>Job duties: <br> <br>Support the annual budget, quarterly/monthly rolling forecasts, and long-range strategic planning processes, ensuring data accuracy and timeliness. <br>Monitor closely with managers to gather and validate budget assumptions, ensuring financial plans reflect the latest business trends and operational plans. <br>Maintain and update financial models to support scenario analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and evaluation of strategic initiatives. <br>Perform monthly and quarterly variance analysis of actual results versus budget, forecast, and prior year, explaining key drivers, risks, and opportunities. <br>Monitor key financial metrics (KPIs) and cost drivers, conducting period-over-period analysis and internal/external benchmarking. <br>Conduct ad-hoc analysis on business performance, margins, and cost structure to provide fact-based decision support to management. <br>Prepare regular management reporting packages, including financial summaries, dashboards, and presentations that clearly communicate financial performance and insights. <br>Maintain the integrity and consistency of financial data, ensure traceability of data sources, and help optimize data collection and validation processes. <br>Support month-end close activities, coordinating with the accounting team on accruals, reclassifications, and financial reporting. <br> <br>Requirements: <br> <br>Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field. <br>3–5 years of experience in FP&A, financial analysis, or a related analytical role. <br>Hands-on experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and variance analysis. <br>Data & Analytics Tools: Advanced Excel skills (complex formulas, pivot tables, Power Query); <br>Strong understanding of financial statements (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow) and management accounting principles. <br>Strong analytical skills and business judgment, with the ability to translate data into business insights. <br>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with all levels of management and cross-functional teams. <br>Self-motivated with a high level of ownership and autonomy; able to multitask and meet tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment

Duties and Responsibilities <br> <br>• Lead the finance function and set clear accountability for the Chief Accountant, Treasury, and other finance contributors, ensuring strong governance, segregation of duties, capability development, and deadline ownership. <br>• Lead the annual budget and periodic forecast process, translating sales, margin, inventory, operating-cost, payroll, capital, and cash assumptions into integrated financial plans. <br>• Prepare and present monthly management reports to the CEO, including profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, budget variance, and key commercial and operational insights. <br>• Analyze revenue, gross margin, markdowns, channel and store performance, payroll, operating expenses, inventory, and profitability and recommend actions to improve financial results. <br>• Maintain rolling cash-flow and liquidity forecasts, prioritize funding needs, oversee payment planning, and recommend transfers, financing, or other actions to meet approved obligations. <br>• Oversee banking and treasury relationships, account structure, FX requirements, bank charges, facilities, payment controls, and cash-risk management and negotiate improved terms where appropriate. <br>• Lead working-capital management by monitoring receivables, payables, inventory, consignment, branch balances, and cash-conversion drivers and assigning corrective actions. <br>• Review capital-expenditure and major-spend proposals, validate assumptions and returns, monitor approved budgets, and report significant cost, timing, or benefit variances. <br>• Partner with Buying, Retail, Logistics, E-commerce, Marketing, HR, and other departments on pricing, margin, promotions, inventory, staffing, contracts, and investment decisions. <br> <br>Qualifications <br>Education <br>• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field. A professional qualification such as CPA, CMA, ACCA, CFA, or equivalent, or a relevant postgraduate degree, is strongly preferred. <br>Experience <br>• 8-12 years of progressive finance, accounting, audit, FP&A, or financial-control experience, including at least 4 years in a finance-management or broad senior-leadership role. <br>• Demonstrated ownership of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, cash flow, working capital, financial analysis, controls, statutory governance, and executive decision support. <br>• Experience reviewing financial close and statutory compliance, managing auditors and banks, and translating financial results into clear business recommendations. <br>• Experience in retail, distribution, multi-branch, e-commerce, inventory-intensive, multi-entity, or multi-currency operations is strongly preferred. <br>• Proven experience leading finance teams, partnering with operational executives, and delivering ERP, reporting, control, or process-transformation initiatives

Company Description - Software Solutions is a leading provider of software and IT solutions with over 35 years of experience, serving clients in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and across the MENA region. Supported by a team of more than 200 professionals, the company delivers high-quality, integrated solutions that streamline business processes and enable digital transformation. The company offers a wide range of products, including ERP systems with HR and payroll modules, specialized payroll and school systems, POS, e-commerce platforms, mobile sales automation, and warehouse management solutions. The company maintains strong partnerships with global technology leaders such as SAP, Microsoft, LS Retail, Odoo, and others, ensuring access to advanced tools and best practices. With a robust project management approach, the company focuses on seamless implementation and tailored solutions that help organizations grow and operate more efficiently. <br> <br>Role Description The Senior Full Stack Developer is a full-time, on-site role based in Ras Beirut. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining robust web and mobile applications that power the company's software solutions. Day-to-day tasks include architecting scalable backend systems, developing responsive frontend interfaces, integrating third-party APIs, optimizing database performance, and collaborating with product managers and business analysts to translate requirements into technical solutions. The developer works on the complete software development lifecycle, from initial design and development through testing, deployment, and maintenance. The role also involves mentoring junior developers, conducting code reviews, identifying and implementing performance improvements, and contributing to the continuous evolution of the company's technology stack and development practices. <br> <br>Qualifications <br> <br> <br> <br> Candidates should possess strong expertise in full stack web development, including proficiency in both frontend and backend technologies. <br> Candidates should possess advanced knowledge of backend frameworks and languages such as Python, Node.js, Java, or similar, with experience building scalable APIs and microservices. <br> Candidates should possess advanced knowledge of frontend technologies including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and modern frameworks such as React, Vue.js, or Angular. <br> Candidates should possess robust database design and optimization skills, with hands-on experience in relational databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, and NoSQL solutions. <br> Candidates should possess solid understanding of software architecture patterns, design principles, and best practices for building maintainable and scalable applications. <br> Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field. <br> Minimum 5 years of professional experience in full stack web development or similar roles. <br> Experience with version control systems such as Git and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. <br> Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to debug complex technical issues efficiently. <br> Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure is an advantage. <br> Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts effectively to non-technical stakeholders. <br> Demonstrated ability to mentor junior developers and contribute to team knowledge sharing and professional growth

<p>Aspire Software is looking for a AI Developer to join our team in Lebanon. Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.</p><p>About the job: This role sits at the center of that buildout. You ll ship near-term product features while helping us make the right architectural decisions for what s coming. We need someone who can execute and see around corners someone who understands both the product experience and the platform mechanics underneath it.</p><p>Key Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Build and ship AI features using our PHP/MySQL/React/Node stack with OpenAI API integration.</li><li>Extend Astro Core chatbot capabilities new read/write actions, graph generation, analysis outputs.</li><li>Help improve the external MCP connector schema, authentication, capability surface.</li><li>Own prompt engineering for product features: design, test, iterate, and document prompts as first-class product artifacts.</li><li>Build the token metering and usage tracking layer per-feature, per-customer, per-tier.</li><li>Design and implement guardrails, access controls, and rate limiting across the Astro AI platform layer.</li><li>Contribute to agent architecture decisions: tool access, memory design, token pool isolation, training data boundaries.</li><li>Monitor AI feature performance in production latency, cost, output quality, failure modes and drive improvements.</li><li>Stay current on the AI tooling landscape and bring concrete recommendations to the team.</li></ul><p>AI Product Development</p><ul><li>Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) into production applications used by real customers.</li><li>Prompt engineering fluency: system prompts, few-shot examples, structured outputs, tool/function calling, chain-of-thought patterns.</li><li>Understanding of token economics: cost per call, context management, model selection tradeoffs across feature types.</li><li>Experience building quality evaluation and output validation frameworks around AI features.</li><li>Awareness of AI-specific risks: hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage, output inconsistency.</li></ul><p>Platform &amp; Architecture Thinking</p><ul><li>Experience designing or contributing to metered usage systems API rate limiting, consumption tracking, billing integration.</li><li>Familiarity with designing MCP (Model Context Protocol) understanding of how LLM-native integrations differ from traditional REST.</li><li>Ability to reason about multi-tenant access controls: how AI features should behave differently across customer tiers.</li><li>Understanding of agent architecture patterns: tool registries, memory types, token pool management, task delegation.</li></ul><p>Core Stack</p><ul><li>React and Node: able to build frontend components that surface AI features, including data visualizations.</li><li>Solid PHP development experience comfortable extending a production codebase, not just greenfield.</li><li>MySQL: schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for AI feature state and usage tracking.</li><li>Typescript: used on the backend of the MCP layer</li></ul><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field.</li><li>3+ years of experience in consulting, digital transformation, enterprise software implementation, or AI-related projects.</li><li>Strong understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI, and automation concepts.</li><li>Strong presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.</li><li>Experience working directly with customers and senior business stakeholders.</li><li>Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.</li></ul>

<section><p class="heading jdMain">Job Description</p><p class="heading">Roles &amp; Responsibilities</p><div class="paragraph"><p>Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.</p><p>This role sits at the center of that buildout. You'll ship near-term product features while helping us make the right architectural decisions for what's coming. We need someone who can execute and see around corners someone who understands both the product experience and the platform mechanics underneath it.</p><p>Key Responsibilities</p><ul><li>Build and ship AI features within the Ad Orbit product using our PHP/MySQL/React/Node stack with OpenAI API integration.</li><li>Extend Astro Core chatbot capabilities new read/write actions, graph generation, analysis outputs.</li><li>Help improve the external MCP connector schema, authentication, capability surface.</li><li>Own prompt engineering for product features: design, test, iterate, and document prompts as first-class product artifacts.</li><li>Build the token metering and usage tracking layer per-feature, per-customer, per-tier.</li><li>Design and implement guardrails, access controls, and rate limiting across the Astro AI platform layer.</li><li>Contribute to agent architecture decisions: tool access, memory design, token pool isolation, training data boundaries.</li><li>Monitor AI feature performance in production latency, cost, output quality, failure modes and drive improvements.</li><li>Stay current on the AI tooling landscape and bring concrete recommendations to the team.</li></ul><p>AI Product Development</p><ul><li>Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) into production applications used by real customers.</li><li>Prompt engineering fluency: system prompts, few-shot examples, structured outputs, tool/function calling, chain-of-thought patterns.</li><li>Understanding of token economics: cost per call, context management, model selection tradeoffs across feature types.</li><li>Experience building quality evaluation and output validation frameworks around AI features.</li><li>Awareness of AI-specific risks: hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage, output inconsistency.</li></ul><p>Platform &amp; Architecture Thinking</p><ul><li>Experience designing or contributing to metered usage systems API rate limiting, consumption tracking, billing integration.</li><li>Familiarity with designing MCP (Model Context Protocol) understanding of how LLM-native integrations differ from traditional REST.</li><li>Ability to reason about multi-tenant access controls: how AI features should behave differently across customer tiers.</li><li>Understanding of agent architecture patterns: tool registries, memory types, token pool management, task delegation.</li></ul><p>Core Stack</p><ul><li>React and Node: able to build frontend components that surface AI features, including data visualizations.</li><li>Solid PHP development experience comfortable extending a production codebase, not just greenfield.</li><li>MySQL: schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for AI feature state and usage tracking.</li><li>Typescript: used on the backend of the MCP layer</li></ul></div></section><section><p class="heading">Desired Candidate Profile</p><p class="paragraph"></p><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field.</li><li>3+ years of experience in consulting, digital transformation, enterprise software implementation, or AI-related projects.</li><li>Strong understanding of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Generative AI, and automation concepts.</li><li>Strong presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.</li><li>Experience working directly with customers and senior business stakeholders.</li><li>Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.</li></ul><p></p></section>

<p><h4>Description</h4> <p>Aspire Software is looking for an AI developer to join our team in Lebanon.</p> <p>Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.</p> <h4>About the job</h4> <p>This role sits at the center of that buildout. You’ll ship near-term product features while helping us make the right architectural decisions for what’s coming. We need someone who can execute and see around corners, someone who understands both the product experience and the platform mechanics underneath it.</p> <h4>Key responsibilities</h4> <ul> <li>Build and ship AI features within the Ad Orbit product using our PHP/MySQL/React/Node stack with OpenAI API integration.</li> <li>Extend Astro Core chatbot capabilities with new read/write actions, graph generation, and analysis outputs.</li> <li>Help improve the external MCP connector schema, authentication, and capability surface.</li> <li>Own prompt engineering for product features: design, test, iterate, and document prompts as first-class product artifacts.</li> <li>Build the token metering and usage tracking layer per feature, per customer, per tier.</li> <li>Design and implement guardrails, access controls, and rate limiting across the Astro AI platform layer.</li> <li>Contribute to agent architecture decisions: tool access, memory design, token pool isolation, training data boundaries.</li> <li>Monitor AI feature performance in production latency, cost, output quality, failure modes and drive improvements.</li> <li>Stay current on the AI tooling landscape and bring concrete recommendations to the team.</li> </ul> <h4>Requirements</h4> <h4>AI product development</h4> <ul> <li>Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) into production applications used by real customers.</li> <li>Prompt engineering fluency: system prompts, few-shot examples, structured outputs, tool/function calling, chain-of-thought patterns.</li> <li>Understanding of token economics: cost per call, context management, model selection tradeoffs across feature types.</li> <li>Experience building quality evaluation and output validation frameworks around AI features.</li> <li>Awareness of AI-specific risks: hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage, output inconsistency.</li> </ul> <h4>Platform & architecture thinking</h4> <ul> <li>Experience designing or contributing to metered usage systems — API rate limiting, consumption tracking, billing integration.</li> <li>Familiarity with designing MCP (Model Context Protocol) — understanding of how LLM-native integrations differ from traditional REST.</li> <li>Ability to reason about multi-tenant access controls: how AI features should behave differently across customer tiers.</li> <li>Understanding of agent architecture patterns: tool registries, memory types, token pool management, task delegation.</li> </ul> <h4>Core stack</h4> <ul> <li>React and Node: able to build frontend components that surface AI features, including data visualizations.</li> <li>Solid PHP development experience — comfortable extending a production codebase, not just greenfield.</li> <li>MySQL: schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for AI feature state and usage tracking.</li> <li>Typescript: used on the backend of the MCP layer.</li> </ul> <p>Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or a related field.</p> <p>3+ years of experience in consulting, digital transformation, enterprise software implementation, or AI-related projects.</p> <p>Strong understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and automation concepts.</p> <p>Strong presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.</p> <p>Experience working directly with customers and senior business stakeholders.</p> <p>Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.</p></p><p></p>

<p><h4>Description</h4> <p>Aspire Software is looking for an AI developer to join our team in Lebanon.</p> <p>Here is a little window into our company: Aspire Software operates and manages wholly owned software companies, providing mission-critical solutions across multiple verticals. By implementing industry best practices, Aspire delivers a time sensitive integration process, and the operation of a decentralized model has allowed it to become a hub for creating rapid growth by reinvesting in its portfolio.</p> <h4>About the job</h4> <p>This role sits at the center of that buildout. You’ll ship near-term product features while helping us make the right architectural decisions for what’s coming. We need someone who can execute and see around corners, someone who understands both the product experience and the platform mechanics underneath it.</p> <h4>Key responsibilities</h4> <ul> <li>Build and ship AI features within the Ad Orbit product using our PHP/MySQL/React/Node stack with OpenAI API integration.</li> <li>Extend Astro Core chatbot capabilities with new read/write actions, graph generation, and analysis outputs.</li> <li>Help improve the external MCP connector schema, authentication, and capability surface.</li> <li>Own prompt engineering for product features: design, test, iterate, and document prompts as first-class product artifacts.</li> <li>Build the token metering and usage tracking layer per feature, per customer, per tier.</li> <li>Design and implement guardrails, access controls, and rate limiting across the Astro AI platform layer.</li> <li>Contribute to agent architecture decisions: tool access, memory design, token pool isolation, training data boundaries.</li> <li>Monitor AI feature performance in production latency, cost, output quality, failure modes and drive improvements.</li> <li>Stay current on the AI tooling landscape and bring concrete recommendations to the team.</li> </ul> <h4>Requirements</h4> <h4>AI product development</h4> <ul> <li>Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) into production applications used by real customers.</li> <li>Prompt engineering fluency: system prompts, few-shot examples, structured outputs, tool/function calling, chain-of-thought patterns.</li> <li>Understanding of token economics: cost per call, context management, model selection tradeoffs across feature types.</li> <li>Experience building quality evaluation and output validation frameworks around AI features.</li> <li>Awareness of AI-specific risks: hallucination, prompt injection, data leakage, output inconsistency.</li> </ul> <h4>Platform & architecture thinking</h4> <ul> <li>Experience designing or contributing to metered usage systems — API rate limiting, consumption tracking, billing integration.</li> <li>Familiarity with designing MCP (Model Context Protocol) — understanding of how LLM-native integrations differ from traditional REST.</li> <li>Ability to reason about multi-tenant access controls: how AI features should behave differently across customer tiers.</li> <li>Understanding of agent architecture patterns: tool registries, memory types, token pool management, task delegation.</li> </ul> <h4>Core stack</h4> <ul> <li>React and Node: able to build frontend components that surface AI features, including data visualizations.</li> <li>Solid PHP development experience — comfortable extending a production codebase, not just greenfield.</li> <li>MySQL: schema design, query optimization, and data modeling for AI feature state and usage tracking.</li> <li>Typescript: used on the backend of the MCP layer.</li> </ul> <p>Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering or a related field.</p> <p>3+ years of experience in consulting, digital transformation, enterprise software implementation, or AI-related projects.</p> <p>Strong understanding of artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and automation concepts.</p> <p>Strong presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.</p> <p>Experience working directly with customers and senior business stakeholders.</p> <p>Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.</p></p><p></p>

<p><strong>Job Description Role Overview:</strong> The Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer is responsible for designing, building, optimizing, and operating enterprise-scale data platforms on Microsoft Fabric. This role focuses on data ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, automation, and platform reliability using OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Data Pipelines, and Spark technologies. The position is heavily focused on Data Engineering and Platform Engineering rather than reporting and dashboard development. The successful candidate will build scalable, governed, and high-performance data solutions that support analytics, AI, operational reporting, and business intelligence initiatives across the organization. This role is primarily focused on Data Engineering, Data Platform Development, and Microsoft Fabric architecture. Candidates whose experience is primarily centered around Power BI report development, dashboard creation, or data visualization without substantial Data Engineering experience may not be a fit for this position.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ol><li><strong>Data Engineering &amp; Platform Development</strong> Design and implement enterprise-scale Lakehouse architectures using OneLake and Delta Lake. Build and maintain robust batch, incremental, CDC, and near real-time data ingestion pipelines. Develop scalable ETL/ELT solutions using Fabric Data Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, PySpark, and SQL. Implement and manage Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold). Develop reusable and metadata-driven ingestion and transformation frameworks. Integrate data from ERP systems, SAP, REST APIs, SQL Server, Dataverse, and other enterprise applications. Design and maintain enterprise data models supporting analytical and operational workloads.</li><li><strong>Fabric Engineering &amp; Optimization</strong> Develop and optimize Fabric Lakehouses and Data Warehouses. Build advanced Notebook-based transformations utilizing PySpark and Spark SQL. Implement Delta Lake capabilities including: Merge/Upsert Change Data Feed (CDF) Time Travel Schema Evolution Optimize Vacuum Design scalable storage, partitioning, and file management strategies within OneLake. Optimize Spark workloads and Data Warehouse performance.</li><li><strong>Performance, Reliability &amp; Monitoring</strong> Tune large-scale Spark and SQL workloads. Implement monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards using Fabric Monitoring Hub and Metrics. Conduct performance testing and scalability assessments. Troubleshoot pipeline failures and platform performance bottlenecks. Define and monitor SLAs for critical data assets and pipelines. Ensure high availability and operational excellence across data workloads.</li><li><strong>DevOps &amp; Platform Automation</strong> Implement CI/CD using Fabric Git Integration and Deployment Pipelines. Build automated deployment processes across Development, Test, and Production environments. Develop automated testing frameworks for data quality, schema validation, and regression testing. Manage environment configurations, secrets, and deployment parameters. Utilize Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions to support release automation and governance. Define rollback, release management, and change control processes.</li><li><strong>Data Quality, Governance &amp; Security</strong> Implement automated data quality validation frameworks. Develop reconciliation, completeness, and consistency checks. Manage data lineage, metadata, and documentation standards. Implement sensitivity labels, access controls, auditing, and compliance requirements. Ensure adherence to organizational standards for governance, security, retention, and PII handling. Manage workspace permissions, Managed Identities, RLS, and CLS where required.</li><li><strong>Technical Leadership &amp; Collaboration</strong> Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Collaborate with Data Architects, Data Analysts, Integration Engineers, and business stakeholders. Lead engineering best practices and platform standards. Mentor junior engineers and support knowledge-sharing initiatives. Produce architecture documentation and technical design specifications. Drive continuous improvement of the data platform and engineering practices.</li></ol><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><h2>Qualifications and Experience:</h2><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.</li><li>Minimum 5 years of experience in Data Engineering.</li><li>Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Engineering, Databricks, or modern Lakehouse platforms.</li><li>Proven experience designing and building enterprise-grade data platforms.</li></ul><h2>Required Technical Skills</h2><ul><li>Microsoft Fabric</li><li>OneLake</li><li>Lakehouse</li><li>Delta Lake</li><li>Fabric Data Warehouse</li><li>Data Pipelines</li><li>Dataflows Gen2</li><li>Notebooks</li><li>Monitoring Hub</li><li>Deployment Pipelines</li><li>Git Integration</li><li>Data Engineering</li><li>PySpark</li><li>Spark SQL</li><li>SQL / T-SQL</li><li>ETL / ELT Development</li><li>Data Modeling</li><li>Incremental Processing</li><li>Change Data Capture (CDC)</li><li>Data Quality Frameworks</li><li>Medallion Architecture</li><li>Performance Optimization</li><li>Delta Lake Optimization</li><li>Partitioning Strategies</li><li>File Management</li><li>Query Optimization</li><li>Spark Performance Tuning</li><li>Workload Management</li><li>Integration</li><li>REST APIs</li><li>SQL Server</li><li>SAP</li><li>Azure Storage</li><li>Dataverse</li><li>Enterprise Application Integration</li><li>DevOps</li><li>Git</li><li>Azure DevOps</li><li>GitHub Actions</li><li>YAML Pipelines</li><li>CI/CD</li><li>Automated Testing</li><li>Security &amp; Governance</li><li>Row-Level Security (RLS)</li><li>Column-Level Security (CLS)</li><li>Sensitivity Labels</li><li>Managed Identities</li><li>Data Lineage</li><li>Audit and Compliance Controls</li></ul>

<p><b>Purpose of the Role</b></p><p><br></p><p>The Financial Controller owns the financial engine of the business: closing the books on time, protecting margin, keeping the banking relationships healthy, and giving management numbers they can act on. This is not a back office role. The person will sit close to Sales, Supply Chain and Procurement, challenge assumptions, and support the ownership on major commercial and investment decisions.</p><p><br></p><p>---</p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>Key Responsibilities</b></p><p><br></p><p>#Financial Control and Reporting</p><p>- Own the monthly, quarterly and annual close, and deliver the full reporting pack within agreed deadlines.</p><p>- Prepare financial statements in line with IFRS, including multi currency accounting and the treatment of USD and LBP exposure.</p><p>- Build and maintain the management reporting suite: P&amp;L by brand, by SKU, by channel and by customer.</p><p>- Lead the annual budget and rolling forecasts, and explain variances with commentary that is useful, not decorative.</p><p>- Handle hyperinflation and currency devaluation accounting matters, including revaluation and translation impacts.</p><p><br></p><p>#Banking and Treasury</p><p>- Act as the main point of contact with local and correspondent banks.</p><p>- Manage credit facilities, overdrafts, term loans, guarantees and letters of credit for imports of raw material, packaging and equipment.</p><p>- Prepare bank submissions: financials, business plans, cash flow projections, covenant tracking.</p><p>- Run cash flow forecasting on a weekly and monthly basis, and manage FX exposure and hedging where instruments are available.</p><p>- Optimise working capital across receivables, payables and inventory.</p><p><br></p><p>#Contracts and Commercial Agreements</p><p>- Review, negotiate and control the financial terms of supplier, distributor, agency, lease, insurance and service contracts.</p><p>- Set up and monitor customer trading terms: credit limits, payment terms, rebates, listing fees and promotional support.</p><p>- Track contract obligations, renewal dates, penalty clauses and price adjustment mechanisms.</p><p>- Coordinate with legal counsel on the financial exposure inside any agreement before signature.</p><p><br></p><p>#FMCG Commercial Finance</p><p>- Control trade spend and promotional investment, and measure return on each activity.</p><p>- Own product costing and standard cost, including landed cost of imported material, customs duties, freight and clearance.</p><p>- Monitor gross margin by product line, and flag erosion early with the reason behind it.</p><p>- Support pricing decisions in a volatile cost and currency environment.</p><p>- Control inventory: valuation, provisioning, shrinkage, expiry, cycle counts and full physical stock takes across warehouses and vans.</p><p>- Review route to market economics, distributor profitability and secondary sales performance.</p><p><br></p><p>#ERP and Systems</p><p>- Lead or co lead the ERP implementation or upgrade, from selection through design, data migration, testing, go live and post go live stabilisation.</p><p>- Design the chart of accounts, cost centre structure and reporting hierarchy.</p><p>- Drive automation of manual processes and improve the quality and speed of data coming out of the system.</p><p>- Work with IT and department heads to make sure the system matches how the business actually operates.</p><p><br></p><p>#Governance, Tax and Audit</p><p>- Design and enforce internal controls across procurement, sales, cash, inventory and payroll.</p><p>- Manage VAT, income tax, payroll tax, NSSF and all filings with Lebanese authorities.</p><p>- Handle external audit, statutory audit and any tax inspection, and close findings.</p><p>- Protect company assets and reduce the risk of fraud, leakage and unrecorded loss.</p><p><br></p><p>#Leadership and Business Partnering</p><p>- Lead, coach and develop the finance team, and build a succession plan for key positions.</p><p>- Sit at the management table as a business partner, not as a scorekeeper.</p><p>- Contribute to strategy: expansion plans, new product launches, capex, make or buy decisions, feasibility studies and market entry.</p><p>- Present clearly to owners, board members and external stakeholders.</p><p><br></p><p>---</p><p><br></p><p><b>Requirements</b></p><p><br></p><p>#Must Have</p><p>- 15+ years of progressive finance experience, with at least 5 years in a Financial Controller, Finance Manager or equivalent senior position.</p><p>- Solid FMCG background. Manufacturing plus distribution is strongly preferred over pure trading.</p><p>- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Business. Professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CMA or an MBA is a strong plus.</p><p>- Strong IFRS knowled</p><p><strong>Desired Candidate Profile</strong></p><p><br></p><ul> </ul>

Financial Controller <br> <br>Location: Lebanon (on site) <br>Reports to: CFO / General Manager <br>Direct reports: Accounting, Treasury, Costing, Credit Control <br>Industry: FMCG (manufacturing and distribution) <br> <br>--- <br> <br>## About the Company <br> <br>A well established Lebanese FMCG group with more than 35 years in the market. The company manufactures and distributes fast moving consumer products across Lebanon and exports to regional markets, working through a wide retail and wholesale network. Company name is disclosed to shortlisted candidates. <br> <br>--- <br> <br>## Purpose of the Role <br> <br>The Financial Controller owns the financial engine of the business: closing the books on time, protecting margin, keeping the banking relationships healthy, and giving management numbers they can act on. This is not a back office role. The person will sit close to Sales, Supply Chain and Procurement, challenge assumptions, and support the ownership on major commercial and investment decisions. <br> <br>--- <br> <br>## Key Responsibilities <br> <br>### Financial Control and Reporting <br>- Own the monthly, quarterly and annual close, and deliver the full reporting pack within agreed deadlines. <br>- Prepare financial statements in line with IFRS, including multi currency accounting and the treatment of USD and LBP exposure. <br>- Build and maintain the management reporting suite: P&L by brand, by SKU, by channel and by customer. <br>- Lead the annual budget and rolling forecasts, and explain variances with commentary that is useful, not decorative. <br>- Handle hyperinflation and currency devaluation accounting matters, including revaluation and translation impacts. <br> <br>### Banking and Treasury <br>- Act as the main point of contact with local and correspondent banks. <br>- Manage credit facilities, overdrafts, term loans, guarantees and letters of credit for imports of raw material, packaging and equipment. <br>- Prepare bank submissions: financials, business plans, cash flow projections, covenant tracking. <br>- Run cash flow forecasting on a weekly and monthly basis, and manage FX exposure and hedging where instruments are available. <br>- Optimise working capital across receivables, payables and inventory. <br> <br>### Contracts and Commercial Agreements <br>- Review, negotiate and control the financial terms of supplier, distributor, agency, lease, insurance and service contracts. <br>- Set up and monitor customer trading terms: credit limits, payment terms, rebates, listing fees and promotional support. <br>- Track contract obligations, renewal dates, penalty clauses and price adjustment mechanisms. <br>- Coordinate with legal counsel on the financial exposure inside any agreement before signature. <br> <br>### FMCG Commercial Finance <br>- Control trade spend and promotional investment, and measure return on each activity. <br>- Own product costing and standard cost, including landed cost of imported material, customs duties, freight and clearance. <br>- Monitor gross margin by product line, and flag erosion early with the reason behind it. <br>- Support pricing decisions in a volatile cost and currency environment. <br>- Control inventory: valuation, provisioning, shrinkage, expiry, cycle counts and full physical stock takes across warehouses and vans. <br>- Review route to market economics, distributor profitability and secondary sales performance. <br> <br>### ERP and Systems <br>- Lead or co lead the ERP implementation or upgrade, from selection through design, data migration, testing, go live and post go live stabilisation. <br>- Design the chart of accounts, cost centre structure and reporting hierarchy. <br>- Drive automation of manual processes and improve the quality and speed of data coming out of the system. <br>- Work with IT and department heads to make sure the system matches how the business actually operates. <br> <br>### Governance, Tax and Audit <br>- Design and enforce internal controls across procurement, sales, cash, inventory and payroll. <br>- Manage VAT, income tax, payroll tax, NSSF and all filings with Lebanese authorities. <br>- Handle external audit, statutory audit and any tax inspection, and close findings. <br>- Protect company assets and reduce the risk of fraud, leakage and unrecorded loss. <br> <br>### Leadership and Business Partnering <br>- Lead, coach and develop the finance team, and build a succession plan for key positions. <br>- Sit at the management table as a business partner, not as a scorekeeper. <br>- Contribute to strategy: expansion plans, new product launches, capex, make or buy decisions, feasibility studies and market entry. <br>- Present clearly to owners, board members and external stakeholders. <br> <br>--- <br> <br>## Requirements <br> <br>### Must Have <br>- 15+ years of progressive finance experience, with at least 5 years in a Financial Controller, Finance Manager or equivalent senior position. <br>- Solid FMCG background. Manufacturing plus distribution is strongly preferred over pure trading. <br>- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or Business. Professional qualification such as CPA, ACCA, CMA or an MBA is a strong plus. <br>- Strong IFRS knowled