Director of Financial Planning and Analysis📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Experts Group International is seeking a Director – Financial Planning & Analysis to lead the FP&A function in Riyadh. This full-time position requires over 10 years of experience and focuses on strategic financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, and business decision support across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

The Director – Financial Planning & Analysis will be responsible for developing and implementing the organization's financial planning and analysis strategy, aligning it with corporate objectives. This includes leading the annual budgeting process, rolling forecasts, long-range financial planning, and scenario modeling. The role involves advising executive leadership on financial performance, profitability improvement opportunities, investment priorities, and business risks, while developing financial planning frameworks to support sustainable growth and capital allocation decisions.

Key duties also encompass leading the preparation, consolidation, review, and governance of annual operating budgets and periodic forecasts, coordinating budget submissions across business functions, and monitoring forecast accuracy with corrective actions as needed. The role requires developing financial assumptions, sensitivity analyses, and scenario planning models to support decision-making.

Financial Performance and Business Partnering

This position involves monitoring financial performance against budgets, forecasts, and strategic targets, and preparing regular management reports that highlight key financial and operational performance indicators. Analysis of revenue, gross margin, operating expenses, profitability, cash flow, working capital, and return on investment will be crucial, along with providing variance analysis and actionable recommendations. The role requires partnering closely with Operations, Sales, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Human Resources, and Commercial teams to provide financial insights for operational and strategic decisions. This includes evaluating new business opportunities, pricing strategies, capital investments, cost-saving initiatives, and operational improvement projects, as well as supporting strategic evaluations for mergers, acquisitions, and business expansions.

Financial Modeling, Analytics, and Governance

Developing financial models for investment analysis, profitability assessment, pricing strategies, capital expenditure, and strategic initiatives is a core function. The role will involve analyzing financial trends, business drivers, market conditions, and operational performance using advanced analytical techniques, and enhancing reporting capabilities through business intelligence tools, automation, and predictive analytics. Ensuring financial planning processes comply with internal policies, financial governance requirements, and accounting standards, while supporting Finance leadership during audits and board reporting activities, is also essential. Maintaining strong financial controls over planning assumptions and reporting accuracy, and coordinating planning activities with Treasury, Accounting, Tax, and Internal Audit functions are key governance responsibilities.

Digital Finance and Team Leadership

Leading digital transformation initiatives within FP&A, including ERP optimization, financial planning systems, business intelligence platforms, automation, and AI-enabled analytics, is a significant aspect of this role. Promoting data governance and improving the quality, accessibility, and consistency of financial information are also priorities. The Director will lead, develop, and mentor the FP&A team, fostering collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and high performance. Promoting a culture of analytical thinking, financial discipline, continuous improvement, and business partnership across the organization is expected.

Qualifications and Experience

Essential qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline, with strong knowledge of financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and financial analysis. A Master's degree (MBA or equivalent) and professional qualifications such as CPA, CMA, ACCA, or CFA are desirable.

Required experience includes 10+ years in Financial Planning & Analysis, corporate finance, management accounting, or business finance, with at least 5 years in a leadership position managing FP&A functions. Demonstrated experience in developing financial models, management reports, business cases, investment analysis, and strategic planning processes is necessary. Experience supporting executive leadership with financial insights and commercial decision-making is essential. Experience within manufacturing, industrial, engineering, construction, infrastructure, energy, or large multinational organizations, as well as experience with ERP systems and business intelligence platforms, is desirable.

Fluency in both written and spoken Arabic and English is required.