Senior Financial Analyst - Assistant Manager
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About the Role
MDLBEAST seeks a commercially minded Senior Financial Analyst / Assistant Manager for its FP&A team. You will own deal-level P&Ls for festivals, events, and partnerships, providing decision-support analytics to senior leadership.
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Responsibilities
- Build and maintain detailed event level P&Ls covering ticketing, sponsorship, F&B, merchandise, production, talent, marketing, and overhead allocations
- Lead pre event budgeting in partnership with event producers, marketing, and commercial teams; track actuals against budget through the event lifecycle
- Conduct post event reconciliation and variance analysis; produce post mortem reports identifying margin drivers, cost overruns, and revenue realization gaps
- Model scenarios for ticket pricing, capacity, sponsorship tiers, and cost structures to support commercial decision making
- Build business cases for new events, venues, partnerships, and capital investments using NPV, IRR, payback period, and sensitivity analysis
- Evaluate sponsorship and partnership deals including telecom, FMCG, and media partners quantifying value in kind, cash, and activation costs
- Analyze artist booking economics, including guarantees, backend splits, production riders, and break even attendance thresholds
- Support label and publishing deal analysis: recoupment modeling, advance economics, royalty waterfalls, and rights valuations
- Act as embedded finance partner to commercial, marketing, and event production leads; translate financial analysis into clear recommendations
- Produce monthly commercial performance dashboards covering event portfolio P&L, deal pipeline, and ROI tracking
- Prepare board and executive level decks summarizing event performance, deal economics, and forward looking commercial bets
- Standardize event P&L templates, deal evaluation frameworks, and ROI methodologies across the business
Requirements
- 5–8 years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, investment banking, transaction services, or corporate development
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related quantitative field
- Strong financial modeling skills building event/deal P&Ls, NPV/IRR analysis, scenario and sensitivity modeling from scratch in Excel
- Demonstrated commercial judgment and ability to articulate trade offs to business stakeholders
- Advanced Excel proficiency (complex modeling, lookups, dynamic arrays, pivot tables) and strong PowerPoint storytelling
- Excellent written and verbal English
- Experience in entertainment, live events, media, hospitality, sports, or event driven industries (preferred)
- CFA, CMA, ACCA, CPA, or MBA fully or partially completed (preferred)
- Experience with deal structuring, contract economics, or sponsorship valuation (preferred)
- Exposure to BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and SQL (preferred)
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- We are looking for an Assistant Manager / Senior Financial Analyst to join our FP&A team.
- This role sits at the intersection of finance and the business, providing decision support analytics for festivals, events, label deals, partnerships, and new ventures.
- The right candidate is commercially minded, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to translate complex financial analysis into clear recommendations for non finance stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain detailed event level P&Ls covering ticketing, sponsorship, F&B, merchandise, production, talent, marketing, and overhead allocations.
- Lead pre event budgeting in partnership with event producers, marketing, and commercial teams; track actuals against budget through the event lifecycle.
- Conduct post event reconciliation and variance analysis; produce post mortem reports identifying margin drivers, cost overruns, and revenue realization gaps.
- Model scenarios for ticket pricing, capacity, sponsorship tiers, and cost structures to support commercial decision making.
- Build business cases for new events, venues, partnerships, and capital investments using NPV, IRR, payback period, and sensitivity analysis.
- Evaluate sponsorship and partnership deals including telecom, FMCG, and media partners quantifying value in kind, cash, and activation costs.
- Analyze artist booking economics, including guarantees, backend splits, production riders, and break even attendance thresholds.
- Support label and publishing deal analysis: recoupment modeling, advance economics, royalty waterfalls, and rights valuations.
- Act as the embedded finance partner to commercial, marketing, and event production leads.
- Translate financial analysis into clear recommendations and trade offs for non finance stakeholders.
- Challenge assumptions in business cases and pricing proposals; provide an independent commercial view.
- Support contract negotiations with vendors, partners, and talent providing financial framing on deal terms.
Qualifications
- 5–8 years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, investment banking, transaction services, or corporate development.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field.
- Strong financial modeling skills building event/deal P&Ls, NPV/IRR analysis, scenario and sensitivity modeling from scratch in Excel.
- Demonstrated commercial judgment ability to identify what drives value in a deal and articulate trade offs to business stakeholders.
- Advanced Excel proficiency (complex modeling, lookups, dynamic arrays, pivot tables) and strong PowerPoint storytelling.
- Excellent written and verbal English comfortable presenting to senior leadership and producing executive grade output.
Strongly Preferred
- Experience in entertainment, live events, media, hospitality, sports, or other event driven industries.
- CFA, CMA, ACCA, CPA, or MBA fully or partially completed.
- Experience with deal structuring, contract economics, or sponsorship valuation.
- Exposure to BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and SQL for self serve data analysis.
What We Look For
- A genuinely commercial mindset you think like a deal maker, not just an analyst.
- Comfort with ambiguity and incomplete data; able to make defensible assumptions and move fast.
- Intellectual honesty willing to flag bad deals and unfavorable economics, even when it is unpopular.
- Strong stakeholder management; able to influence without authority across functions.
- Curiosity about the entertainment business and a genuine interest in what we do.
What We Offer
- A front row seat to one of the most ambitious entertainment businesses in the region.
- High impact work with direct exposure to executive leadership.
- Competitive tax free compensation, comprehensive benefits, and relocation support where applicable.
- A fast paced, creative environment where finance is treated as a strategic partner, not a back office function.
Additional Information
- Saudi Nationals Only
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