Senior Business Analyst

Position:  Senior Business Analyst

Reports to: Senior Manager – Strategic Finance Hotel Development

Sector: Hotel

Job Location: NEOM

Role Purpose:

The person in this role is responsible for long and short term financial planning (budgeting/forecasting), controllership of monthly financial reporting, developing and reporting on financial and operational performance metrics, and providing analytical support to senior management. This position will be a key risk/controllership gateway for Hotels division of NEOM and requires a candidate with strong communication and interpersonal skills. A portion of the time will be spent on ad hoc analysis to support the growing business needs.

Key Accountabilities:

• Assist in working with senior management to develop the annual budget and monthly/quarterly forecasts for NEOM Hotel Division.
• Ensure the compliance with and population of, the annual PIF Budgeting Template
• Assist senior management in continuously enhancing and improvising the budgeting/forecasting process.
• Assist in working with senior management to design and develop NEOM’s budgeting and forecasting procedures and policies
• Assist in the production of monthly management accounts for NEOM Hotels Division and its departments;
  • Identify and explain variances from budget/forecast
  • Identify actions to optimize performance, minimize risk or capture new opportunities
• Assist in the development, design and validation of appropriate operational dashboards for NEOM Hotels Division and its departments

• Assist department managers to provide adhoc financial insights.

• Work with management to design and develop NEOM’s management reporting procedures and policies
• Lead and coordinate the month end close process in coordination with the GL accounting and capital accounting team.

• Collate, verify and reconcile data points from the department managers necessary for month end closing with underlying supporting documentation.
• Develop methodologies to improve the overall accuracy of financial accounting and reporting.
• Assist with various tasks in the operation of the SAP accounting system including any housekeeping to ensure the accuracy of data.
• Assist management as required in decision making by providing analytical support.

• Assist senior management with other adhoc projects. 
• Partner with all internal/external stakeholders and senior decision makers closely, by providing financial insight and commercial analysis on a rolling basis.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

• Atleast 5 years FP&A experience including budgeting, forecasting and management reporting.
• Prior experience working in either large scale construction projects or with large multi-nationals is preferred.
• Individual needs to be able to demonstrate commercial basis and a desire to understand businesses.
• Individual should be curious, analytical in nature and naturally seeks insights as a means to measure and improve business performance.
• Individual needs to be highly proactive and can demonstrate high levels of initiative.
• Strong written and oral communication skills combined with the ability to meet tight deadlines and prioritize workloads.
• Solid business judgment and controllership focus.
• Proficient in SAP, Ms Excel, Powerpoint, Power BI, Power Query etc.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree, accounting qualification eg ACA, ACMA, ACCA, CPA