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Saudi Arabia

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USD 90,000 - 120,000

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Job summary

A leading global company is seeking an experienced financial advisor to join their Downstream Finance team in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. This role focuses on financial controlling and advisory activities, ensuring high-quality financial performance and compliance with IFRS. The successful candidate will leverage their expertise to manage financial reports and contribute to strategic financial decision-making.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package
Professional development programs
Challenging and rewarding work environment

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of experience in Finance and reporting activities, preferably in Oil and Gas Downstream.
  • Solid understanding of IFRS related to Oil & Gas.
  • In-depth knowledge in areas like trade accounting, revenue accounting and financial consolidation.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare financial and management reports.
  • Manage the global financial planning and quarterly forecasts.
  • Assess and evaluate financial performance, providing insights and recommendations.

Skills

Financial Analysis
Budgeting
Accounting Principles
Financial Reporting
IFRS Knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting or Finance
ACC, CPA, CMA, CIMA, CA, CFA or equivalent

Tools

SAP Finance Modules
Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Aramco energizes the world economy.

Aramco occupies a special position in the global energy industry. We are one of the world’s largest producers of hydrocarbon energy and chemicals, with among the lowest Upstream carbon intensities of any major producer.

With our significant investment in technology and infrastructure, we strive to maximize the value of the energy we produce for the world along with a commitment to enhance Aramco’s value to society.

Headquartered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and with offices around the world, we combine market discipline with a ’ spanning view of the future, born of our nine decades experience as responsible stewards of the Kingdom’s vast hydrocarbon resources. This responsibility has driven us to deliver significant societal and economic benefits to not just the Kingdom, but also to a vast number of communities, economies, and countries that rely on the vital and reliable energy that we supply.

We are one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization.

Job Purpose

We are seeking an experienced financial advisor to join Downstream Finance, and Performance Management Department (DSF&PMD) focusing on Segment Financial Controlling & Financial Advisory activities for the Downstream Segment based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

The DS Finance Planning & Performance Management (FP&PM) department plays a critical role in shaping the financial deliverables, discipline and decision-making that underpin the success of Aramco’s Downstream business. As a central pillar of the organization, DS FP&PM ensures end-to end visibility and control over financial performance, resource allocation, governance, compliance, business partnering and strategic outcomes. This department is structured across four integrated teams – Planning & Performance (P&P), Financial & Reporting (F&R), Compliance & Governance (C&G), and Business Partnering & Insights – each contributing distinct capabilities that collectively drive the financial strength and agility of the business.

The successful candidate will be part of the segment level team that handles financial reporting and controlling, financial consolidation, compliance (IFRS) and assurance over segment financials reported both internally and externally. It is a critical team within Downstream Finance, responsible for ensuring that segment results are prepared in a timely, accurately and world-class manner, as can be expected from one of the largest companies in the world.

You will be accountable for preparation and submission of segment level financial reports, insights, review of all the overall segments’ and business units financials statements, while ensuring robust controls over financial reporting processes.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will perform the following:

  • Prepare financial and management report
  • Manage the global financial planning and quarterly forecasts process
  • Participate in the consolidation and reconciliation of financial figures reported to executive management to finalize the business line financial reports at both actual and planning events
  • Prepare monthly and quarterly financial statement analytical review at business unit level
  • Assess and evaluate financial performance of the organization and provide insight and recommendations with regard to short term operational goals and long-term strategy, budgets and forecasts
  • Responsible for carrying out cash flow analysis and as per the financial needs of the company, determine the required financial tools (i.e. Loans (Short or Long term), Hedge, LC, Leasing and etc.) and prepare a business plan to allocate the resources accordingly
  • Develop product and regional segment financial statements.
  • Establish and maintain reconciliation controls on balance sheet accounts
  • Assists in budget development cycles. Set, monitor and allocate budgets in coordination with the business and Finance.
  • Coordinate, maintain, and resolve outstanding audit exceptions for both internal and external auditing

Minimum Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s degree in a Business, Accounting or Finance discipline
  • Accounting / Finance professional designation (ACCA, CPA, CMA, CIMA, CA, CFA, or equivalent).
  • 12+ years of experience in the Finance and reporting related activities. Preferably, 5+ years of this experience will be in the Oil and Gas Downstream
  • Solid understanding of IFRS in relation to Oil & Gas
  • Strong knowledge of accounting principles, practices, standards, laws, and regulations
  • Working knowledge of SAP Finance Modules
  • Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
  • In depth knowledge in one or more of the following areas: trade accounting, impairment, asset accounting, cost reallocations, revenue accounting, transfer pricing, financial consolidation and group reporting requirements

Job Post Duration

Job posting start date: 07/01/2025

Job posting end date: 12/31/2025

Working environment

Our high-performing employees are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities we offer, and are remunerated accordingly.

At Aramco, our people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none. And because, as a global energy company, we are faced with addressing some of the world’s biggest technical, logistical and environmental challenges, we invest heavily in talent development.

We have a proud history of educating and training our workforce over many decades. Employees at all levels are encouraged to improve their sector-specific knowledge and competencies through our workforce development programs – one of the largest in the world.

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