Join a leading Saudi holding company driving large-scale EPC telecom infrastructure projects across the Kingdom.
The FP&A Manager will lead the company's financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, and commercial finance activities. The role will act as a strategic business partner to executive management, providing financial insights, profitability analysis, and decision support across telecom infrastructure, EPC projects, and investment initiatives.
Key Accountabilities:
- Lead the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts, and long-term financial planning across all business units.
- Prepare monthly management reports, executive dashboards, and Board presentations highlighting financial and operational performance.
- Perform detailed variance analysis against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods, providing actionable recommendations to management.
- Develop financial models, business cases, investment evaluations, and scenario analysis to support strategic decision-making.
- Partner with Operations, Projects, Commercial, Procurement, and Executive Management to provide financial insights and improve business performance.
- Monitor project financial performance including project profitability, margins, revenue, cost analysis, WIP, backlog, and CAPEX utilization.
- Analyze revenue trends, gross margins, EBITDA, operating expenses, working capital, and overall business profitability.
- Support pricing strategies, commercial proposals, and investment evaluations through financial analysis.
- Drive continuous improvement of planning, forecasting, and reporting processes to increase forecasting accuracy and operational efficiency.
- Lead reporting automation initiatives and optimize ERP reporting capabilities, ensuring full utilization of Microsoft Dynamics or equivalent ERP systems.
- Build and standardize financial dashboards, KPIs, and performance reporting frameworks across the organization.
- Support executive leadership in strategic planning, business expansion, and operational improvement initiatives.
- Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, and Treasury teams to ensure consistency between financial reporting and planning activities.
- Support due diligence exercises, banking requirements, investment activities, and strategic projects as required.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the FP&A team while fostering a high-performance, analytical, and business-partnering culture
Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business Administration.
- Professional certification preferred: CFA, CMA, CPA, ACCA, SOCPA, or equivalent.
- Minimum 8–10 years of progressive experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, Corporate Finance.
- Strong experience within telecom, EPC, infrastructure, construction, engineering, or project-driven environments.
- Proven expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, business partnering, and management reporting.
- Strong understanding of project financial analysis, profitability analysis, CAPEX planning, and performance management.
- Experience working in high-growth organizations, investment-backed companies, or rapidly expanding businesses.
- Strong hands-on experience with ERP systems, preferably Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, or similar platforms.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills with strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities.
- Experience building FP&A functions, reporting frameworks, dashboards, and planning processes.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to translate financial information into strategic recommendations.
- Excellent presentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- High level of accountability, ownership, and execution discipline.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work under pressure, and support executive decision-making in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving ability, and attention to detail.
