alfanar
Financial Controller
Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaPosted yesterday
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- Salary
- AED 10k–15k a month· est.
- Job type
- Full time
- Level
- Lead
- Field
- Finance & Accounting
- Work mode
- On site
About the role
. Job Purpose Responsible for overseeing financial planning, analysis, and management within a specific division, ensuring alignment with the organization's overall financial strategy. Involves providing financial insights, budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation guidance to support strategic decision-making and operational efficiency within the division. Key Accountability Areas Strategic Financial Planning: Develop financial strategies that support business growth and sustainability. Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes. Performance & Profitability Management: Monitor key financial metrics and business performance. Analyze variances and recommend actions to improve margins and cost efficiency. Decision Support & Business Analysis: Provide financial insights for pricing, investments, and operational decisions. Build business cases and conduct scenario modeling to guide strategic choices. Cost Control & Resource Optimization: Identify and implement cost-saving initiatives. Ensure optimal allocation of financial resources across business units. Governance, Risk & Compliance: Maintain strong internal controls and ensure regulatory compliance. Coordinate with audit, tax, and legal teams to manage financial risks. Reporting & Financial Insights: Deliver accurate and timely financial reports to leadership. Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for decision-makers. Role Accountability HR Proficiency: Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management. Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them. Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination. Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results. Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy. Responsibility: Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines. Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions. Delivery: Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost. Making a Tangible Difference: Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations. Business Planning and Performance: Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans. Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans. Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly. Provide periodic work progress reports. Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency. Organizational Development: Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans. Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment. Business Process Improvements: Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible. Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business. Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture. Quality: Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly. Adaptation: Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models. Health, Safety and Environment: Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations. Academic Qualification Bachelor Degree in Accounting and Finance or Any relevant field Work Experience 6 to 10 Years Technical / Functional Competencies Accounting Best Practices Accounting Methods Accounting Principles Accounting Rules/Guidelines Accounting Systems Accounting Theory/Concepts Financial Analysis Financial Forecasting Financial Modeling Financial Planning Financial Reporting Financial Statement Preparation Mergers and Acquisitions
Requirements
Bachelor Degree in Accounting and Finance or Any relevant field. 6 to 10 Years Experience. Proficiency in Accounting Best Practices, Accounting Methods, Accounting Principles, Accounting Rules/Guidelines, Accounting Systems, Accounting Theory/Concepts, Financial Analysis, Financial Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Preparation, Mergers and Acquisitions.
Responsibilities
Oversee financial planning, analysis, and management within the division; lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning; monitor financial metrics and performance; provide financial insights for pricing, investments, and operational decisions; build business cases and scenario modeling; identify and implement cost-saving initiatives; ensure internal controls and regulatory compliance; deliver accurate and timely financial reports; translate data into actionable insights; manage HR-related accountability and governance, risk, and compliance; ensure deployment of budgeting controls and resource optimization; monitor budgets and expenses to achieve cost efficiency; drive organizational development and process improvements; promote automation and IT solutions relevant to job and business; uphold quality and safety standards.
Skills
- Financial Planning
- Financial Forecasting
- Financial Modeling
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Analysis
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Budgeting
- Variance Analysis
- Cost Control
- Internal Controls
- Regulatory Compliance
- Scenario Modeling
- Business Case Development
- Accounting Principles
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