FP&A Manager

Grade Level: L3
Location: Islamabad
Application Deadline: 14th October 2026

This role serves as the lead finance business partner for VEON’s Payments & Digital Assets division, providing critical financial planning, analysis, and commercial insights. The position supports strategic decision-making, resource allocation, and performance management across wallets, remittances, payments, and digital assets. It requires bringing financial discipline to a fast-growing, entrepreneurial environment by translating complex commercial and operational activities into clear financial narratives and actionable recommendations for senior leadership.

Key Responsibilities:
Financial Planning & Analysis: Lead the annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and long-range planning processes for the Payments & Digital Assets business. Build and maintain comprehensive financial models covering revenue, unit economics, cost base, and profitability across wallet, remittance, and digital asset product lines. Monitor actual performance against budgets and forecasts, explaining variances and recommending corrective actions.

Commercial Finance & Business Partnering: Act as a finance business partner to product, commercial, and operating teams, embedding financial rigor into daily decision-making. Evaluate pricing strategies, corridor economics, and partner commercial terms to ensure sustainable margins and healthy unit economics. Provide financial input for new market entries, product launches, and partnership negotiations.

Investment & Business Case Support: Develop and rigorously test business cases for new products, markets, and strategic initiatives, including ROI, payback periods, and sensitivity analyses. Support capital allocation decisions by evaluating competing investment opportunities across the portfolio. Collaborate with corporate development and treasury teams on funding requirements and financing structures as needed.

Reporting & Performance Management: Prepare monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc financial reports for senior leadership and Board discussions. Develop and maintain KPI and unit economics dashboards to monitor performance across markets and product lines. Ensure financial reporting is accurate, timely, and compliant with Group finance standards and controls.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Coordinate with Group finance, treasury, tax, and controllership functions to ensure alignment and compliance. Work closely with local operating company finance teams to maintain consistent reporting and data quality. Provide support for ad hoc strategic and financial analyses requested by senior leadership.

Required Qualifications:
- Over 10 years of experience in Finance, with a strong focus on Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and/or Commercial Finance.
- Proven expertise in advanced financial modeling, capable of building and stress-testing complex, multi-market models.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate financial data into clear, actionable business recommendations.
- Experience partnering with product, commercial, and operating teams in fast-paced, entrepreneurial settings.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline. Professional qualifications such as CFA, CPA, ACCA, or equivalent are preferred.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders across multiple markets.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits:
Experience in FinTech, payments, digital wallets, or financial services industries is highly desirable. VEON is a Nasdaq-listed global digital operator serving nearly 150 million customers with connectivity and digital services across five countries, impacting over 528 million people. The company’s Digital Operator 1440 vision aims to redefine customer engagement by delivering the best digital experience, leveraging AI, big data, and cloud technologies to support both consumer and enterprise growth.

The VEON Digital Finance Group drives the expansion and transformation of digital financial services across VEON’s markets, collaborating with local fintech teams to accelerate growth and implement strategic initiatives in payments, financial services, and emerging digital assets. The international leadership team is composed of seasoned executives, led by CEO Kaan Terzioğlu since July 2021, committed to innovation and sustainable growth.