Senior Financial Analyst

Job Purpose

Provide timely and accurate financial information to senior management including technical and functional support with SAP ERP system administration related to Finance activities. Assist in the development Financial Operation functions. Perform all duties regularly including financial business intelligent (BI), aging reports, ensuring compliance with Finance Procedure and provides Accounts Payable services to clients such as invoice verification, payment authorization and processing. Reconciliation of accounts payable ledgers to identify improper charges,  validate transactions and ensure accurate and timely payment of amounts due.

Major Accountabilities

• Provide financial trend analysis, reporting and advice to senior management; 
• Consolidate and report comprehensive aging analysis on selected accounts; 
• Provide control account reconciliations for designated accounts; 
• Prepare management presentation reports to senior management on relevant financial issues as appropriate;
•  Ensure that proper financial reporting system and accounting records are maintained in accordance with a sound internal control and governance framework; 

• Facilitate the successful system implementation and support ERP system in the finance operation;
•  Collect business requirements on the account payable activities. Identify creative ways to eliminate non value added steps and streamlining the process;  

• Prepare and be responsible for prepayment accounting, communicating with business managers as appropriate to ensure accurate reporting each period;
• Assist in working with the line manager to develop the business intelligence report to ensure that all types of account payable reports are available upon requests; 
• Perform payment processes for all KAUST payments, maintain the rejections and weekly bank reconciliation; 
• Administer claim and P-cards payment processes and reconciliation; 
• Maintain the Rejection, Advances and Retention payments, process and clearance; 
• Generate monthly reports for aged liabilities, outstanding exceptions, GRIR, and vendor's statement of accounts; 
• Respond to all vendor inquiries;
• Provides consistent, high-quality service, complying with Service Level Agreements (SLA's) and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), escalating to Management as appropriate; 
• Fulfill operational needs, execute urgent requests, and handle multi-tasks upon request.  

Competencies

• Strong interpersonal skills including written and oral communication skills; 
• Comfort dealing with ambiguity and the ability to work independently
• Excellent communication and presentation skills for communicating with University proponents and management; 
• Good planning and organizational skills to balance and prioritize work 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance. 
• Studying towards or membership of a recognized international professional accounting body  recommended (SOCPA, ACCA, VAT Cert.)

Experience

• A minimum experience of 5 years in accounting role in a complex environment.  
• A minimum of 5 years using SAP ERP experience 
• Experience with CONCUR preferable