Financial Controller

Job Purpose

Responsible for overseeing financial planning, analysis, and management within a specific division, ensuring alignment with the organization's overall financial strategy. Involves providing financial insights, budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation guidance to support strategic decision-making and operational efficiency within the division.

Key Accountability Areas

Strategic Financial Planning:

• Develop financial strategies that support business growth and sustainability.
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes.

Performance & Profitability Management:

• Monitor key financial metrics and business performance.
• Analyze variances and recommend actions to improve margins and cost efficiency.

Decision Support & Business Analysis:

• Provide financial insights for pricing, investments, and operational decisions.
• Build business cases and conduct scenario modeling to guide strategic choices.

Cost Control & Resource Optimization:

• Identify and implement cost-saving initiatives.
• Ensure optimal allocation of financial resources across business units.

Governance, Risk & Compliance:

• Maintain strong internal controls and ensure regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate with audit, tax, and legal teams to manage financial risks.

Reporting & Financial Insights:

• Deliver accurate and timely financial reports to leadership.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for decision-makers.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.

Making a Tangible Difference:

• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies