Job Purpose:
To govern and oversee business planning processes across all business units & corporate departments to ensure accuracy, transparency, and compliance at a group finance level.
To support consolidated planning, forecasting, and reporting processes ensuring process alignment across business units and delivery of strategic plans for Maaden.
To act as a central champion for Oracle planning systems, driving automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement across Ma’aden.
To enable forward-looking insights through enhanced forecasting and analysis, scenario planning, and driving foundational enhancements in planning for medium-term adoption of AI-driven capabilities.
Key Accountabilities:
- Oversee and govern planning and reporting across the Group Finance function, ensuring consistency and alignment across all business units.
- Support and enhance group-wide consolidation processes for the budget, forecasts and five year plan
- Ensure accuracy, integrity, and reconciliation of consolidated financial planning outputs across the group
- Act as Oracle Planning system champion, supported by technical experts, driving enhancements, automation, and adoption across the group.
- Drive best-in-class forecasting and budgeting processes including clear timetables, communication, and delivery discipline.
- Engage and influence Finance and budget owner stakeholders across the business to ensure adherence to planning cycle timelines, quality and requirements.
- Support the development and implementation of advanced scenario planning and support future AI-enabled planning capability.
- Provide robust challenge on assumptions, KPIs, and key financial drivers.
- Deliver insightful analysis, translating complex financial data into clear business insights and storytelling.
- Preparation of reporting material and forecast storytelling, including the preparation of the annual five year plan presentation for Management and Board approval
- Partner with audit, risk, and compliance to ensure governance and reporting integrity.
- Support corporate department budget preparation, reporting & analysis, cost control and business partnering
- Support budget control process across Maaden in line with approved DoA
Minimum Qualifications, Experience and Competencies
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Commerce, Business Administration, MBA from a reputable university
Minimum Experience:
8 years' experience
