Senior Specialist - Financial Planning and Analysis - أخصائي أول - التخطيط والتحليل المالي

Job Purpose :
To lead and support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and performance analysis activities, providing timely financial insights to support decision-making, cost control and achievement of the company’s strategic and operational objectives.
Responsibilites :
• Own and coordinate the company’s budgeting and financial planning process, including preparation of budget guidelines, templates, timelines, assumptions and consolidation of departmental submissions.
• Lead the development of short, medium and long-term financial plans, forecasts and rolling updates in coordination with business units and departments, ensuring alignment with strategic and operational objectives.
• Review, challenge and validate budget and forecast inputs received from departments, including key assumptions, cost drivers, activity levels and supporting justifications.
• Prepare periodic management reports, dashboards and financial performance packs covering actual results, budgets, forecasts, key financial indicators and management commentary.
• Conduct regular variance analysis and analytical reviews of financial and operational performance, ensuring robust budget control and highlighting key movements, risks, opportunities and performance management insights for management decision-making.
• Perform financial evaluation of business cases, projects, initiatives, service proposals and investment decisions, including assessment of financial feasibility, cost implications and value-for-money considerations.
• Develop, maintain and enhance financial models, planning tools and templates to support budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, financial evaluation and long-term planning activities.
• Prepare, maintain and monitor cash flow forecasts, analyzing actual cash movements against forecasts, identifying liquidity risks or funding gaps, and recommending appropriate measures to support effective and optimal cash management.
• Support management accounting activities, including activity-based costing, cost allocation, cost driver analysis, productivity analysis and departmental performance reporting.
• Work closely with departments as a finance business partner to provide financial advice, clarify planning requirements, improve data quality and support effective cost control.
• Adhere to all relevant quality, health, safety and environmental procedures, instructions, controls and role-specific OHSE KPIs to support employee safety, service quality and environmental compliance.