CONTROLLER FINANCIAL📣 Job Ad

About the Role

alfanar is seeking a full-time CONTROLLER, FINANCIAL to join its team in Riyadh. This role requires 5-10 years of experience and focuses on partnering with Sales and Commercial teams to drive profitable growth, support strategic decisions, and protect business value through financial insight, performance oversight, and risk management.

Key Responsibilities

The Controller, Financial 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, identifying root causes of underperformance and defining 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, recommending 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, translating financial data into clear business insights and aligning finance and non-finance teams to support strategic decision-making.

Role Accountabilities

This role requires significant responsibility and a focus on delivery and development:

• HR Proficiency: Ability to recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers, while also identifying and guiding low performers. Treat subordinates equally and base assessment criteria on performance leading to planned results. Ensure delegation of authority matrices are available and sufficient.
• Responsibility & Delivery: Take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and required deliverables, adhering to company guidelines. Anticipate problems, take proactive steps to prevent them, and make timely, proper decisions. Deliver required results in a timely manner with the required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference: Contribute significantly to the area of operation and exceed business expectations.
• Business Planning and Performance: Transform corporate goals into business plans, execute these plans, monitor performance, and initiate corrective actions. Provide periodic work progress reports and monitor/control budgets and expenses for optimum cost efficiency.
• Organizational Development: Develop organizational structures according to current and future requirements, ensuring job descriptions are available and deployed for all roles.
• Business Process Improvements: Develop and coordinate well-defined systems, policies, and procedures, seeking automation opportunities. Navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and promote the use of automated systems.
• Quality & Adaptation: Uphold quality as a competitive advantage and adapt to new 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

The ideal candidate will possess:

• 5-10 years of relevant experience.
• Proven ability in financial analysis, performance management, and risk assessment.
• Experience in commercial finance, strategic project evaluation, and credit risk management.
• Strong understanding of internal controls and financial reporting.
• Proficiency in IT solutions relevant to financial management and business processes.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh. The role involves close collaboration with various departments, including Sales, Commercial, Credit Control, Legal, and Insurance teams.