Sr. Financial Analyst
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About the Role
Valvoline Global Operations seeks a Senior Financial Analyst to support the Commercial Controller in KSA with business control tasks. The role involves financial performance tracking, budgeting, forecasting, and providing analytical support to commercial teams.
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Responsibilities
- Track and evaluate financial performance by different dimensions (channel/product/customer), including sales, costs, and profitability
- Work closely with commercial and pricing teams to provide financial support in decision making related to pricing, promotions and sales deductions
- Participate in the development and evaluation of business cases for new projects and initiatives
- Conduct in depth financial analysis, including budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis
- Partner with marketing team to manage advertising/sales promotion budget
- Support financial control processes and ensure compliance with international accounting standards and Valvoline guidelines
- Support Order to cash activities and monitor customer collections
- Conduct comprehensive product profitability analysis
- Prepare and post monthly accruals related to sales incentives, rebates and promotions
Requirements
- Professional qualification or Master degree in finance, economics or business administration
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience in an international environment
- Strong and proven knowledge of Accounting (Big 4 experience is a plus)
- Fluency in English language, both verbal and written
- Strong knowledge in Microsoft Office especially Excel, financial modeling, reporting/financial systems (SAP preferred)
- Project management skills
- Excellent analytical skills and conceptual capabilities
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Purpose of the role
- Support the Commercial Controller in KSA with business control tasks.
- Provide routine financial reports for performance review & analysis and deliver business finance support to commercial team.
- Use strong analytical tools to integrate financial data and business outlook/market dynamics to generate meaningful reports & highlights.
Key Tasks And Responsibilities
- Track and evaluate financial performance by different dimensions (channel/product/customer), including sales, costs, and profitability.
- Work closely with commercial and pricing teams to provide financial support in decision making related to pricing, promotions and sales deductions.
- Participate in the development and evaluation of business cases for new projects and initiatives.
- Customer profitability review with commercial to drive performance improvement and monitor execution of rebates, CAPEX and OPEX investments.
- Conduct in depth financial analysis, including budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
- Performing monthly variance and trend analysis to find reasons for deviations in results relative to budget and forecast.
- Partner with marketing team to manage the overall advertising/sales promotion budget.
- Support the financial control processes and ensure compliance with international accounting standards and Valvoline guidelines.
- Support the Order to cash activities and monitor customer collections.
- Conduct comprehensive product profitability analysis, including volume, rate, mix analysis, cost trends and macro environment impacts.
- Review manufacturing analyses and variances and initiate appropriate actions by partnering with manufacturing process owners.
- Prepare and post monthly accruals related to sales incentives, rebates and promotions.
Education And Competencies
- Professional qualification or Master degree in finance, economics or business administration.
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience in an international environment.
- Strong and proven knowledge of Accounting. (Big 4 experience would be a plus)
- Fluency in English language, both verbal and written. (Arabic language experience is a plus)
- IT skills Strong knowledge in Microsoft Office especially Excel, financial modeling, reporting/financial systems (SAP preferred).
- Project management skills.
- Excellent communicative skills in different cultures and a flexible and service minded attitude.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational and planning skills in a fast paced environment.
- Excellent analytical skills and conceptual capabilities.
- Hands on, proactive and problem solving mentality.
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