Financial Planning and Analysis Specialist

SANAD is seeking a highly analytical and results-driven FP&A Specialist to support the company's financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance analysis activities. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering valuable business insights, supporting strategic decision-making, and ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and reliability of financial information. The role also contributes to ERP/BI system enhancements, process optimization initiatives, and audit readiness across the Finance function. Key Responsibilities: - Support the preparation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts, consolidate departmental inputs, validate assumptions, and identify key variances. - Analyze key drivers of business performance, including revenue, costs, profitability, and margins, and conduct variance, trend, and sensitivity analyses. - Prepare accurate and timely management reports, dashboards, and financial presentations ensuring compliance with IFRS and GAAP. - Maintain the accuracy and integrity of financial planning and reporting data within ERP and BI platforms, supporting system enhancements, testing, and automation. - Identify opportunities to enhance budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes, and support automation initiatives. Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field. - Professional certification such as CPA, ACCA, CFA, or CMA is preferred or currently in progress. - 5-7 years of experience in Financial Planning & Analysis, budgeting, forecasting, or management reporting. - Hands-on experience with ERP and BI systems such as Oracle, SAP, Hyperion, or Power BI. - Strong financial modeling and analytical skills.