Commercial Financial Controller

alfanar; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

alfanar is seeking a Finance professional to oversee budgeting, costing and reporting for its factory operations in Saudi Arabia. You will drive cost accuracy, capital budgeting and performance analysis to improve profitability and efficiency.

The role focuses on planning, variance analysis and ensuring compliance with accounting standards within a manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial planning, budgeting and cost management.
• Proficiency in variance analysis and management reporting.
• Ability to ensure regulatory compliance and internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Oversee budgeting, cost management and reporting across production units.
• Coordinate annual and long-term operating and capital budgets aligned with production plans.
• Manage cost allocations, overhead distribution and inventory valuation.

Skills

Budgeting

Costing

Forecasting

Financial analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance

Tools

ERP Systems

Costing Software

Job description

To oversee and contribute to the factory’s financial planning, budgeting, cost management, and reporting activities, ensuring accurate cost allocation, optimal use of resources, and adherence to accounting standards to support profitability and improve operational performance.

Key Accountability Areas

Budgetary Control System:

• Manage budgets, accounts, and financial operations across production units to meet internal reporting needs and external requirements from regulatory and statutory bodies.
• Coordinate the development of annual and long-term operating and capital budgets for the factory, ensuring alignment with production plans and resource optimization.

Costing & Inventory Control:

• Oversee product costing, bill of materials (BOM), and work with production and procurement teams to analyze cost variances and improve cost accuracy.
• Ensure accurate valuation of raw materials, work-in-progress (WIP), and finished goods inventories.
• Set and monitor cost center allocations, overhead distribution, and internal transfer pricing.

Fixed Assets & Capital Expenditure Analysis:

• Manage fixed asset records including asset tagging, depreciation, and capital expenditure (CAPEX) tracking across factory operations.
• Ensure correct classification of capital vs. operational expenses and apply appropriate depreciation methods based on asset types and usage.

Forecasting & Profitability Analysis:

• Contribute to financial forecasting processes by analyzing production capacity, demand trends, and material costs.
• Conduct profitability analysis of product lines, departments, or processes and recommend adjustments to improve margins.
• Perform variance analysis between budgeted and actual figures to assess performance and identify trends.

Cost Control:

• Monitor production cost efficiency against set budgets and KPIs, highlighting deviations and recommending corrective measures.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings in materials, labor, and overhead through collaboration with production and procurement teams.

Reporting & Compliance:

• Prepare and review periodic financial and management reports tailored to factory operations, including cost reports, inventory movement, and production efficiency metrics.
• Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards and internal control procedures.
• Supervise the year-end closing process, including preparation of final accounts and variance reports.

Role Accountability

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.

Making a Tangible Difference:

• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Bachelor Degree in Accounting and Finance or Any relevant field