Senior Financial Analyst
Job Description
Job Purpose: Responsible for preparing and analyze the financial data, create financial models, and provide insights to support the decision making. This role involves evaluating financial performance, preparing reports, identify trend, pattern of the financial data and metrics. In addition, prepare the annual budget cycle and effectively use various reporting system.
Key Accountabilities:
- Build financial models using data from financial systems and other sources, to support business decisions and the execution of strategic and tactical initiatives.
- Build a monthly report and do extensive analysis to be able to support the financial decision.
- Evaluate investments opportunity and advice on better opportunity between various investments.
- Partner with management to understand expense and other income drivers and monitor performance against established targets.
- Control the spending and report any gap vs. budget.
- Evaluate the competition performance and benchmark it to Panda.
- Actively participate in the annual budgeting process, quarterly review and estimate year end closing.
- Initiate continual process improvement efforts that enhance timeliness and accuracy.
- Assist in the preparation of business plans/business case analysis for new projects or initiatives.
- Perform ad-hoc reporting and analysis as needed.
- Use Fusion Budgeting Module, General Ledger Module, and understand the Procurement Cycle.
Skills
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or equivalent
Professional Certifications
Preferred, master’s degree, FP&A, CMA, or CFA
Experience:- 4 years of experience in the same role with medium or large size business.
- Excellent computer skills (Microsoft Office, Think Cell, Fusion, Businesses Intelligence, Power BI).
Key Competencies:- Strong communication abilities
- Strong analytical and interpretation skills with strong financial modelling skills
- Proficiency in English Language and Arabic knowledge is essential plus.
Job Location Jeddah , Saudi Arabia Job Role Support Functions
