Financial Analyst - Saudi National

Mackenzie Jones

Saudi Arabia

Ref: HP279-2623

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our candidate, a leading FMCG company, is looking for a professional and young Saudi National Finance Analyst to join their team.

Responsible for budget planning and control the Financial Analyst will be a integral part of the Finance team.

Financial Analyst:

- Budget planning and control:
This role performs a crucial quality- control stewardship function compiling, communicating and analyzing the selling and administration expenses of the company
- The role is high in profile, autonomy and exposure, involving direct ownership for a significant component of budget and with senior management as direct customers
- Far from a purely mechanical process, the analyst must ensure accurate and timely information is provided direct to department senior management.
- The ability to hit deadlines and work under pressure is essential as is the business insight to ensure that forecast is met

Key responsibilities:
- Deliver Forecasts: you will be responsible for the delivery of complete and accurate forecast for your areas working directly with cross functional terms. Crucially the analyst is expected to thoroughly understand the building blocks and be able to review these directly with management
- Preform monthly actual reports & proofing: monthly actual reports must be prepared, analysed and compared to the forecast to check forecast integrity and understand deviations. This is the single most important forecast control mechanism
- Forecast process improvement: the analyst must be able to react to an ever changing environment by identification of forecast or actual process improvement
- Networking: in order to preform the role effectively the analysts should be regularly working with their respective category and cross functional contacts to continually build their knowledge of their business its objectives, challenges, dynamics and plans
- Ad-hoc project work and training: you will be inevitably get involved in a variety of project work such as business integration, system upgrade and business sourcing change efforts support

Requirements

- The ability to sort through large quantities of data, break down problems, work systemically and with the end in mind are key to delivering the required results.
- Being able and knowing when to balance data and judgment is also essential
In touch/communication - the analyst must be to effectively and succinctly communicate key messages to a variety of different audiences verbally, written and in numerical tabular forms
- Saudi National
- Finance Graduate
- 2-3 years experience

About the Company

Mackenzie Jones Middle East has decades of recruitment expertise in various industry sectors. Along with a deep understanding of key market sectors and regions, we never forget to treat clients, companies and candidates as individuals who have unique needs.

So we always listen, constantly learn, occasionally challenge and frequently advise. Its all part of a service renowned for its courtesy, consideration and dedication. Based in Dubai since 2006, our office covers the GCC and Levant countries and with the right regional expertise, we are the leading specialists.

Were growing rapidly because people appreciate our honesty, commitment and results.

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