Financial Analyst

Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting, business planning, and rolling forecasts.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial forecasts and performance outlooks.
• Analyze actual results against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods and explain variances.
• Prepare reporting packs for management, executive leadership, the Board, and the Audit Committee.
• Develop and monitor financial and operational KPIs and performance dashboards.
• Analyze revenue, margins, expenses, EBITDA, net profit, and cash flow.
• Conduct profitability analysis across business units, channels, products, brands, customers, and stores.
• Support CMA, Tadawul, investor relations, and other listed-company reporting requirements.
• Prepare financial models, scenarios, sensitivity analyses, and strategic business cases.
• Evaluate investments, CAPEX, projects, and expansion opportunities using ROI, IRR, NPV, and payback analysis.
• Monitor working capital, liquidity, inventory, receivables, and payables.
• Partner with business functions to control costs, improve margins, and identify profitability opportunities.

Additional Responsibilities

• Monitor departmental spending and compliance with approved budgets and financial targets.
• Support external audits, regulatory reviews, and management financial analyses.
• Drive automation and continuous improvement of FP&A reporting, planning, dashboards, and financial systems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• 7–10 years of relevant experience in FP&A, budgeting, forecasting, or financial analysis.
• Strong knowledge of financial modeling, IFRS, ERP systems, Excel, and Power BI.
• Strong communication, analytical, and presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional qualification such as CMA, CPA, ACCA, CFA, or SOCPA is preferred.
• Experience in a listed company or large corporate group is preferred.