Director - Development Finance Business Partner
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About the Role
Qiddiya seeks a Director - Development Finance Business Partner to provide financial leadership and decision support for development portfolios. The role involves financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and investment decision-making.
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Responsibilities
- Support preparation and consolidation of annual budgets, periodic forecasts, and long term business plans
- Conduct detailed financial analysis to assess business performance, trends, risks, and opportunities
- Monitor actual performance against budgets and forecasts, providing variance analysis and recommendations for corrective action
- Develop management reports, dashboards, and KPI reporting for executive leadership
- Partner with project and development teams to assess project economics, funding requirements, and financial viability
- Review commercial contracts, procurement strategies, and major commitments from a financial perspective
- Support month end and quarter end reporting processes through financial analysis and performance commentary
- Collaborate with accounting, treasury, tax, procurement, and other finance functions to ensure consistency and accuracy of financial information
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in reporting, planning processes, data quality, and financial systems
- Support internal and external stakeholder requests, including Board, PIF, auditors, and advisors where required
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive finance experience
- Minimum 5 years in a finance business partnering, FP&A, corporate finance, or commercial finance leadership role
- Experience within large scale development, construction, infrastructure, real estate, asset management
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- Master's degree (MBA or Finance related discipline) preferred
- CFA, CA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent professional qualification
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Role Overview
- The Director Development Finance Business Partner plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the organization's operational and strategic objectives by providing financial leadership, business insight, and decision support to assigned business units and development portfolios.
- The role serves as a trusted advisor to business leadership, driving financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and investment decision making.
- Reporting to the Senior Executive Director Finance Business Partner (or CFO), the Director will lead a team responsible for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, business case evaluations, and performance analysis across assigned projects, assets, or subsidiaries.
Core Responsibilities
- Support preparation and consolidation of annual budgets, periodic forecasts, and long term business plans.
- Conduct detailed financial analysis to assess business performance, trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Monitor actual performance against budgets and forecasts, providing variance analysis and recommendations for corrective action.
- Develop management reports, dashboards, and KPI reporting for executive leadership.
- Partner with project and development teams to assess project economics, funding requirements, and financial viability
- Review commercial contracts, procurement strategies, and major commitments from a financial perspective.
- Support month end and quarter end reporting processes through financial analysis and performance commentary.
- Collaborate with accounting, treasury, tax, procurement, and other finance functions to ensure consistency and accuracy of financial information.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives in reporting, planning processes, data quality, and financial systems.
- Support internal and external stakeholder requests, including Board, PIF, auditors, and advisors where required.
People Management Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of finance professionals.
- Establish performance objectives and monitor achievement against agreed KPIs.
- Foster a high performance culture focused on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Build finance business partnering capabilities across the team.
- Support talent development, succession planning, and knowledge sharing initiatives
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive finance experience.
- Minimum 5 years in a finance business partnering, FP&A, corporate finance, or commercial finance leadership role
- Experience within large scale development, construction, infrastructure, real estate, asset management
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field.
- Master's degree (MBA or Finance related discipline) preferred.
- CFA, CA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent professional qualification.
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