Department: Finance
Position: Financial Planning and Analysis Lead
Location: Karachi- Pakistan
Qualification
- Bachelor of Science or higher in Engineering Accounting Finance Economics or related field.
Experience
- At least 7 years experience working with large projects and/or operations (mining oil and gas or similar).
- Demonstrated software proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite SAP and other relevant applications.
Requirements
- Strong financial acumen and project management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Ability to simplify complex financial data and concepts.
- Sense of urgency and strong analytical/problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated organizational agility and effective stakeholder engagement.
- High integrity business ethics and professionalism.
Responsibilities
- Lead the FP&A function for the project developing and executing annual budgeting and forecasting cycles.
- Oversee financial performance management including monthly management accounting reporting variance analysis and risk identification.
- Collaborate with Project Controls and EPCM to analyze variances between actual costs and capital estimates recommending corrective actions.
- Provide strategic financial guidance to Project Leadership through scenario analysis business case evaluations and performance insights.
- Manage mentor and develop the site finance team fostering a high-performance culture.
- Present financial insights and recommendations to senior management and joint venture partners.
- Drive continuous improvement in financial planning processes systems and tools.
- Promote financial discipline and cost consciousness organization-wide.
- Lead special financial projects including modeling for business cases investment appraisals scenario analysis and long-term planning.
- Monitor project and operational costs including direct/indirect expenses labor materials and overheads.
- Ensure accurate project cost capture in ERP system (SAP).
- Support the regions Journey to Zero initiative.
- Demonstrate high professional standards and ethics aligned with company DNA.
- Undertake additional projects and ad hoc assignments as required by the business.