Senior Financial Analyst

Job Purpose

Major Accountabilities

• Provide financial trend analysis, reporting and advice to senior management
• Consolidate and report comprehensive aging analysis on selected accounts.
• Provide control account reconciliations for designated accounts.
• Prepare management presentation reports to senior management on relevant financial issues as appropriate.
• Ensure that proper financial reporting system and accounting records are maintained in accordance with a sound internal control and governance framework.
• Facilitate the successful system implementation and support ERP system in the finance operation.
• Collect business requirements on the account payable activities. Identify creative ways to eliminate non value added steps and streamlining the process.
• Prepare and be responsible for prepayment accounting, communicating with business managers as appropriate to ensure accurate reporting each period.
• Assist in working with the line manager to develop the business intelligence report to ensure that all types of account payable reports are available upon requests.
• Perform payment processes for all KAUST payments, maintain the rejections and weekly bank reconciliation.
• Administer claim and P-cards payment processes and reconciliation.
• Maintain the Rejection, Advances and Retention payments, process and clearance.
• Generate monthly reports for aged liabilities, outstanding exceptions, GRIR, and vendor's statement of accounts.
• Respond to all vendor inquiries.
• Provides consistent, high-quality service, complying with Service Level Agreements (SLA's) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), escalating to Management as appropriate.
• Fulfill operational needs, execute urgent requests, and handle multi-tasks upon request.

Competencies

• Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication skills.
• Comfort dealing with ambiguity and the ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for communicating with University proponents and management.
• Good planning and organizational skills to balance and prioritize work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance.
• Studying towards or membership of a recognized international professional accounting. body recommended (SOCPA, ACCA, VAT Cert.)

Experience

• A minimum experience of 5 years in accounting role in a complex environment.
• A minimum of 5 years using SAP ERP experience.
• Experience with CONCUR preferable.