Senior Associate / Manager - Financial Planning & Reporting, Riyadh, KSA

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Purpose

This role is a key asset to support KSA FP&A and the Finance team by providing financial guidance, while playing a key business partner role and driving productivity to achieve business results. This individual will support the key Hub level activities include financial planning & forecasting, reporting, control, data, business case analysis and ad-hoc projects.

The position requires a strong knowledge of finance and accounting. It requires excellent communication skills as the candidate will be working closely with Senior Management, global and regional groups, as well as internal and external partners.

The role reports to Associate Director - Finance.

Responsibilities

Planning Cycle

• Instrumental in supporting in the forecast and budget processes, including Strategic and Business plan exercises, and annual Business Review with internal Lilly and external stakeholders (where needed).
• Correlate key data with cyclical trends and global / regional economic data points to help drive effective business decisions.
• Consolidate and help support analysis of monthly regional financial results including the interpretation of current month performance information as a predictive tool for attainment of full year performance expectations.
  
  
  

Strategic Financial Support & Business Partnership

• Support in Ad hoc or ongoing projects, strategic initiatives at the Hub level
• Support in effective OPEX monitoring report to have better OPEX governance
• Support the monthly close process through monthly revenue and G2N adjustments, partnering with internal BUs and external Alliance partners.
• Working closely with cross functional team (Marketing/Medical/KAMs) to ensure accurate & quality monthly reporting analysis and quality forecasting exercise for both revenue & opex.
• Working closely with distributor for the operational activities.
  
  
  

Planning SME

• Serve as SME for affiliate planning & reporting systems and tools (SAP/Tableau/BOXI).
• Identify and drive best practices and implement business process improvements.
  
  
  

Basic Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economy.
• At Least 5 years’ experience in FP&A
• English fluency is mandatory, with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent teamwork, Proactive, and engaging with a sense of urgency
• Leadership skills (particularly in cross functional collaboration and leading without authority)
• Strong Learning Agility – ability to thrive in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
• Ability to engage, conduct diagnosis, analyse findings, generate options and build commitment to solutions.
• Strong technical skills of business modelling & Power BI.
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and results-focused.
• Strong ownership and committed to high standards and continuous improvement.
• Must be able to inspire, engage diverse group of people across multiple stakeholders
  
  
  

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