Regional Controller MENA📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Oliver Wyman Saudi is seeking a Regional Controller – MENA to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time senior finance position is focused on financial controllership for consulting businesses across the MENA region, specifically supporting Oliver Wyman and Mercer. The role offers a senior finance professional the opportunity to shape and strengthen the financial control framework within a rapidly growing portfolio, acting as a key finance partner to senior leadership. Based in Riyadh, this position will provide close partnership to KSA leadership while supporting continued expansion across the Gulf and wider MENA region.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the regional controllership function for Oliver Wyman and Mercer across MENA, managing monthly close, financial consolidation, and group reporting in line with global timelines and standards.
• Oversee statutory reporting, budgeting, and forecasting across multiple entities and jurisdictions, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of financial reporting.
• Lead revenue recognition for consulting and project-based engagements, including work-in-progress management, percentage-of-completion accounting, and IFRS 15 compliance.
• Oversee regional tax compliance, with a particular focus on applicable Saudi corporate income tax and Zakat requirements, and ensure compliance with VAT requirements in KSA and across the GCC.
• Maintain and strengthen internal controls and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with local regulations, IFRS, and group policies.
• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior leaders, partners, and business heads, communicating financial performance, risks, and opportunities clearly to stakeholders.
• Support acquisitions, integrations, and new-country setups as the consulting businesses expand, helping to build the financial infrastructure required for regional growth.

Qualifications and Experience

• This vacancy is open exclusively to citizens of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Applicants must hold Saudi Arabian citizenship and be eligible to work in Riyadh.
• Professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA, CA, or an equivalent recognized designation.
• Approximately 10–16 years of progressive finance experience, with a strong focus on financial controllership.

Required Expertise

• Proven controllership experience within a large multinational and matrixed organization.
• Strong revenue-recognition expertise, ideally gained in consulting, professional services, or another project-based business.
• Practical knowledge of IFRS, particularly IFRS 15.
• Strong understanding of work-in-progress, percentage-of-completion accounting, and project profitability.
• Middle East tax knowledge, particularly Saudi VAT, corporate income tax, and Zakat requirements, as well as GCC VAT regimes.
• Experience managing finance operations across multiple countries and legal entities.
• Strong understanding of statutory reporting, financial consolidation, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with and influence senior stakeholders, including partners and business leaders.

Personal Attributes

• Commercially minded, with the ability to translate financial data into actionable business insight.
• Credible and confident communicator who can build trust with senior leadership.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Collaborative, with a track record of working effectively across functions, countries, and reporting lines.
• Comfortable balancing technical controllership requirements with broader commercial priorities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in management consulting or professional services.
• Big Four experience in an advisory, accounting-consulting, or finance-transformation capacity (rather than exclusively external audit).
• Experience with Oracle, SAP, HFM/Hyperion, or comparable ERP and consolidation systems.
• Multi-entity finance experience across MENA.
• Previous professional experience in Saudi Arabia.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, finance integrations, regional-headquarters structures, or new-country setups.
• Familiarity with KSA payroll, labor requirements, and Saudization or localization programs.