Analyst, Finance I

**1. JOB DETAILS**:
**Position Title**:Analyst: Financial**

**Broad Band**:M09: Professional**

**Talent Pipeline Layer**:Managing Self Principal Expert Consultant (MS)**

**2. OVERALL JOB PURPOSE**:
**Influence and grow Ma'aden's financial performance through analysis of financial results, forecasts, variances, and trends**

**3. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS**:
**Qualification**:
**B Degree (Finance/Accounting/Business Administration/Economics)**
**Chartered Financial Analyst**

**Experience**:
**4 Years relevant experience**
**International experience preferred**
**Mergers and acquisitions preferred**

**Skills:
- **Sound working knowledge and understanding of Ma’aden codes, regulation, rules, procedures**:

- **Effective analytical and problem solving skills**:

- **Good writing and reporting skills**:

- **Following rules, regulations, procedures and instructions**:

- **Effective self time management, planning and organising skills**:

- **Coping with pressures and setbacks**:

- **Sound finance data processing and reporting**:

- **Critical thinking**:

- **Advanced ability to gather information and accumulate data**:

- **Advanced knowledge of finance principles**:

- **Results driven**:

- **Proficient attention to detail**:

- **Curios and innovative**:

- **Ability to adapt and respond to change**:

- **Competent in using applicable software and/or systems**
- **Business English**

**4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**:
**Focus Area**

**Get results through individual expertise (broader than own)**

**Operational / Functional**

**1. Consistently deliver business solutions which contribute to business results and improved competitiveness (consulting advice, business options)**
**2. Deliver quality solutions/ service cost effectively on time and within risk parameters**
**3. Provide advice that are generally accepted and implemented on programmes and systems, creating a competitive advantage for organization, leading to quality results**
**4. Deliver Cost effective results**
**5. Risk results**
**6. HSE targets**
- **Responsible for monitoring, evaluating and reporting business and affiliate performance on a broad base of metrics**
- **Collect data, perform analyses, evaluate returns and risks on different investments and present recommendations to Senior Stakeholders**
- **Maintain a strong financial analysis foundation creating and evaluating forecasts and financial models in order to guide the business in tactical and strategic decision making**
- **Perform market research, data mining, business intelligence, and valuation comps**
- **Analyse past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements**
- **Active input regarding investment management strategy and ensuring optimal return on investments**
- **Active input regarding risk management and development of risk mitigation strategies**
- **Track the performance of stocks and collect and prepare the data (in spreadsheets) so that it can be interpreted by clients and stockbrokers**
- **Develop, implement and maintain internal control systems and business practices**
- **Prepare management and board reports (trend analysis and economic indicators)**
- **Meet with investors to explain company decisions**
- **Work closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting**
- **Report on financial performance and prepare for regular leadership reviews**
- **Evaluate financial performance by comparing and analysing actual results with plans and forecasts**
- **Guide the cost analysis process by establishing and enforcing policies and procedures**
- **Recommend actions by analysing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; study proposed changes in methods and materials**
- **Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and Excel dashboards**
- **Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools; drive digitalisation**
- **Recommend and participate in think tanks/special projects**

**Leadership**

**1. Understand, support and live the Ma'aden vision, values and goals**
**2. Expert utilization & direction through selling and obtaining support for value adding ideas leading to business improvement**
**3. Takes accountability for personal improvement, personal development, skills development and effectiveness**
**4. Expertise transfer, sharing and development**
**6. Expertise integration, sharing and developing expertise in others**
**8. Deliver expert solutions as a thought leader, to meet changing business & work requirements through Trends, analysis, problem solving and quality decision making**
**9. Minimise Corporate risk through applied expertise, understanding Process and risk impact, reporting risks in the workplace and taking corrective action**
**10. Statutory & professional practice development**
**11. Extract, benchmark, enrich, capture and disseminate knowledge within knowledge management