Director - Financial Planning

Qiddiya; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Qiddiya Investment Company in Saudi Arabia seeks a senior FP&A leader to drive financial planning across hospitality development, hotel structures, and multi-property portfolios.

You will coordinate with Development Finance, Commercial, Procurement, Project Controls, Asset Management and Investment Management to maintain a single source of truth, strengthen forecasting discipline and proactively identify risks and opportunities.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years in financial management or FP&A with leadership in a complex development environment.
• Experience in portfolio budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and consolidated financial reporting.
• Hospitality or large-scale development experience with hotel structures and multi-asset portfolios.
• Strong commercial judgement and ability to advise senior leaders on funding and portfolio decisions.
• Demonstrated success leading teams, setting financial controls, and improving reporting consistency and forecasting discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range financial planning across the Hospitality Business Unit's development pipeline.
• Own the consolidated financial view of the portfolio ensuring project and business-unit data is complete, consistent and current.
• Direct monthly reporting and provide senior leadership with clear variance commentary and forward-looking financial insights.
• Coordinate financial inputs across projects and corporate functions to align business plans, budgets, forecasts and funding requirements.
• Maintain visibility of capital deployment and portfolio exposure, escalating material risks, opportunities and funding pressures.
• Set financial data definitions, controls and reporting standards that support a reliable single source of truth.
• Lead the Financial Management team and partner with senior stakeholders to strengthen planning discipline and informed decision-making.

Skills

Financial planning

Forecasting

Portfolio management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA preferred

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Financial modeling

BI tools

Job description

The successful candidate will combine strong financial planning and analysis expertise with practical knowledge of large-scale hospitality development including hotel financial structures hotel management agreements multi-property and multi-category portfolios hospitality market analysis FF amp E and OS amp E budgeting and pre-opening cost planning They will work across Development Finance Commercial Procurement Project Controls Asset Management Investment Management and Hospitality Strategy to maintain a consistent financial source of truth strengthen forecasting discipline and proactively identify risks opportunities and performance trends.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead annual budgeting periodic forecasting and long-range financial planning across the Hospitality Business Unit s development pipeline
• Own the consolidated financial view of the portfolio ensuring project and business-unit data is complete consistent and current
• Direct monthly reporting and provide senior leadership with clear variance commentary and forward-looking financial insights
• Coordinate financial inputs across projects and corporate functions to align business plans budgets forecasts and funding requirements
• Maintain visibility of capital deployment and portfolio exposure escalating material risks opportunities and funding pressures
• Set financial data definitions controls and reporting standards that support a reliable single source of truth
• Lead the Financial Management team and partner with senior stakeholders to strengthen planning discipline and informed decision-making

Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field; a relevant master s degree or MBA is preferred.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in financial management or FP&A, including leadership responsibility in a complex development environment.
• Proven experience leading portfolio-wide budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and consolidated financial reporting.
• Strong record of coordinating financial inputs across projects and functions while maintaining a reliable central financial data resource.
• Hospitality or large-scale development experience, with an understanding of hotel financial structures and multi-asset portfolios.
• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to explain financial performance and advise senior leaders on funding and portfolio decisions.
• Demonstrated success leading teams, setting financial controls, and improving reporting consistency and forecasting discipline.