Role Summary
The role sits at the center of decision making, enabling leadership to make informed, data driven decisions by analyzing financial and operational information. We are looking for an experienced Finance Business Partner / FP&A professional to partner with business and functional leaders, providing financial insights and analysis to support business growth, profitability, and strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate will have experience in consulting, professional services, or other project/resource-driven environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Reporting on Monthly performance, analyzing actuals vs. budget/forecast, identifying key variances, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Perform monthly profit and cost center reviews for accurate revenues and cost reporting.
- Partner with business leaders to analyze revenue, profitability, OPEX, headcount, analyze staff costs, utilization, and resource capacity.
- Support the annual budgeting and forecasting, financial planning, and monthly rolling forecast processes, aligning financial targets with business strategy.
- Develop financial models, scenario analysis, and business cases to support strategic initiatives, investments, pricing, and resource allocation.
- Partner with commercial and delivery teams on opportunity pricing, evaluating resource mix, delivery costs, risks, and expected margins.
- Support resource/capacity planning and grade-level cost rate reviews, ensuring competitive and profitable resource pricing.
- Provide senior management with data-driven insights, dashboards, and executive presentations to support business decisions.
- Drive automation and continuous improvement of MIS, KPI reporting, dashboards, forecasting, and FP&A processes.
- Ad-hoc support on strategic initiatives in the firm. Required Experience & Qualifications
- 10–12 years of experience in FP&A, Finance Business Partnering, Commercial Finance, or Management Accounting.
- Experience in Consulting, Professional Services, Big 4 Advisory, IT/Technology Services, or project-based businesses is highly preferred.
- Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, hands on financial modelling skills, profitability analysis, and management reporting.
- Good understanding of project economics, resource planning, pricing, margins, utilization, and cost management.
- Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with Power BI or other BI tools is an advantage.
- ERP experience in SAP/Oracle is preferred.
- Professional qualification CA/ACCA/CMA/CIMA/ CPA or equivalent is preferred.
- Strong commercial acumen, analytical skills, stakeholder management, and ability to communicate financial insights to senior leadership.
- Location: we are looking for people in KSA, Jordan and Lebanon
