Financial Analyst

Job Brief: Finance Analyst Al Jazira Sports & Cultural Club is looking for a Finance Analyst to join our Finance team. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you’ll support budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting across the Club, including financial analysis for first-team operations. Key responsibilities • Coordinate departmental budget submissions and consolidate annual budgets and rolling forecasts. • Compare actual results with budgets and forecasts, explain key variances, and assess their financial impact. • Prepare monthly management reports and dashboards covering revenue, costs, and financial KPIs. • Build financial models and run scenario analyses for business cases, proposed spending, player transfers, and contract renewals. • Work with department leads to validate assumptions, monitor spending and open commitments by cost centre, update forecasts, and flag risks to forecast targets. • Reconcile reporting data to the general ledger and improve reporting processes and data quality. • Summarise financial risks and opportunities for management and track agreed actions. • Maintain the player cost database, tracking wages, transfer fees, agent fees, and signing-on fees by player and season. • Prepare monthly cash requirements forecasts covering player costs and other outgoings. • Serve as the Finance point of contact for Sports Affairs on first-team player and agent payments. • Track squad cost KPIs, including the wage-to-revenue ratio and player registration amortisation trends. • Prepare forecast financial information for club licensing submissions. • Work with departmental budget owners to set up SAP Budget Management. Qualifications and experience • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. • At least 3 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, or management reporting. • CPA, ACCA, ACA, CMA, CIMA, or an equivalent professional qualification is required. • Practical experience in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis. • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modelling and scenario analysis. • Experience with Power BI or a comparable reporting tool. • Experience with SAP S/4HANA or a comparable ERP system is an advantage. • Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to explain financial results clearly to non-finance stakeholders. #Hiring #FinanceAnalyst #FPandA #AbuDhabiJobs #SportsFinance