CONTROLLER FINANCIAL📣 Job Ad

About the Financial Controller Role

alfanar Group is seeking a Financial Controller to partner with Sales and Commercial teams. This role is based in Riyadh and operates on a full-time basis. The primary objective is to provide financial insight, performance oversight, and risk management to support profitable growth, strategic decisions, and the protection of cash flow and business value.

Key Responsibilities

The Financial Controller will be responsible for several key areas:

• Commercial Finance & Performance: Review pricing, commercial deals, offers, and partner agreements to ensure profitability. Support deal finalization, set sales targets, incentives, and profitability benchmarks. Analyze seasonality, product performance, and customer profitability. Identify root causes of underperformance and define corrective action plans. Report and explain variances versus budget and forecast.
• Strategic Projects & Business Cases: Lead financial review of business cases for new products, initiatives, and investments. Support digital transformation and strategic projects through financial analysis. Evaluate ROI, risks, and financial sustainability of growth initiatives.
• Credit, Cash Flow & Risk Management: Partner with Credit Control, Sales, Insurance, and Legal to manage customer credit risk. Conduct customer financial health reviews and define appropriate credit limits. Monitor aging, DSO, and cash flow; recommend risk mitigation actions. Ensure compliance with internal credit and risk policies.
• Commercial Risk & Controls: Identify and mitigate financial and operational risks related to contracts and market volatility. Provide financial support during contract negotiations. Design and maintain strong internal controls to protect assets and ensure financial accuracy.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Business Partnering: Act as a trusted advisor to Sales and Commercial leadership. Translate financial data into clear business insights. Align finance and non-finance teams to support strategic decision-making.

Role Accountabilities and Management

This role requires strong leadership and management capabilities:

• HR Proficiency: Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers, and develop a robust second line of management. Identify and guide low performers to improve or release them. Treat subordinates equally without discrimination, with performance leading to planned results as the assessment criterion. Ensure availability of a delegation of authority matrix as per company policy.
• Responsibility: Take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and required deliverables, adhering to general company guidelines. Anticipate problems and take proactive steps to prevent them. Make necessary and proper timely decisions.
• Delivery: Deliver required results in a timely manner with the required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference: Make a tangible difference in the area of operation and exceed business expectations.
• Business Planning and Performance: Transform corporate goals into business plans, and execute these plans. Monitor plan performance, initiate actions to strengthen results, and take corrective actions. Provide periodic work progress reports. Monitor and control budgets and expenses for optimum cost efficiency.
• Organizational Development: Develop the organizational structure according to current requirements, considering future plans. Ensure job descriptions are available and deployed for all roles.
• Business Process Improvements: Develop well-defined written systems, policies, and procedures, and seek automation opportunities. Navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and business. Promote and encourage the full use of automated systems.
• Quality: Uphold quality as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage.
• Adaptation: Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
• Health, Safety and Environment: Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per standard regulations.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess at least 1+ years of relevant experience. Specific educational qualifications are not detailed in the provided information.