Senior Financial Analyst

Role overview

Budgeting and cost control

• Contribute to annual budgets and projections aligned with company strategy; prepare detailed budget guidelines, standards, schedules, assumptions, and models.
• Clarify departmental assumptions, consolidate budgets, present them to management, and seek approvals.
• Prepare quarterly performance reports covering KPIs, trends, actual-versus-budget variances, risks, and issues requiring management attention.
• Analyze costs, provide trends and forecasts, explain processes and techniques, and recommend actions.

Financial planning and analysis

• Prepare feasibility studies for proposed projects, capital expenditure, and acquisitions.
• Analyze liquidity and financial stability using financial ratios and comparative figures.
• Assist with monthly balance sheets and income statements and report variances; analyze data to check accounting procedures.
• Keep financial information confidential.

Accounting operations

• Review all financial transactions and ensure accuracy of data and postings.
• Manage month- and year-end accounting, accounts payable and receivable, cash receipts, payroll, treasury, budgeting, cash forecasting, and revenue and expenditure variance analysis.
• Manage capital asset reconciliations, account statement reconciliation, fixed asset activity, debit activity, joint-venture accounting, billing, and financial reporting in line with company policy.
• Oversee daily accounting department operations and ensure transactions are completed accurately and on time.
• Provide monthly and quarterly reports of actual-versus-budget variances to management and perform other accounting work required by management.

Essential requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance.
• At least three to four years of financial analyst experience; real estate field experience is preferred.
• CFA professional certification is a plus.
• Applicants must already be based in Saudi Arabia; the posting says applicants of all nationalities are welcome.

Benefits

• Salary is open, reflects experience and interview performance, and will be discussed later.
• Benefits include 30 vacation days per year, medical insurance, yearly salary increments, an annual bonus, 9–15 additional paid national holidays, and two days off per week.