Cover the operating entities, providing board-level financial oversight, automated performance analytics, and management accountability tracking. This role is the Investment Division’s analytical interface with entity management teams.
Key responsibilities
- Analyse monthly management accounts from all entities: revenue, margin, working capital, and cash flow trends.
- Produce automated DuPont decomposition for all entities quarterly (using AI Lab tools), comparing against prior periods and peer benchmarks.
- Monitor working capital cycle (receivable days, payable days, inventory days) and flag deterioration requiring management intervention.
- Track covenant compliance across all entities with bank facilities: compute DSCR, leverage ratios, and headroom, flagging facilities approaching breach.
- Prepare quarterly scorecard for ExCom: entity-level performance summary with traffic-light indicators and trend arrows.
- Analyse budget vs actual variances and investigate material deviations, coordinating with entity management for explanations.
- Support projects: DuPont deep dives (as done for NMS, GMC, BRC), shareholder analysis (as done for MVPI), and strategic reviews.
- Maintain the knowledge base: all management accounts, board packs, audit reports, and correspondence ingested into the Document Intelligence Engine.
Qualifications and experience
- 3–5 years of experience in financial analysis, management consulting, or corporate finance covering diversified operating companies.
- Strong financial statement analysis skills: DuPont decomposition, working capital analysis, cash flow analysis, covenant compliance.
- Experience with management reporting and performance dashboards for multi-entity groups.
- Understanding of manufacturing and services business models.
- Proficiency in Excel and willingness to adopt AI Lab automated analytics tools.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or business administration.
- Ability to work with Arabic-language financial statements and management reports is an advantage.