Senior Analyst - CFO Excellence

Boston Consulting Group (BCG); Riyadh; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Senior Analyst in Riyadh. This role focuses on driving finance transformation and delivering insights across client engagements. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in areas such as financial management, consulting, or corporate finance, and hold a Master’s degree or equivalent. Arabic fluency is necessary. This position offers the opportunity to work with core consulting teams and enhance organisational performance through tailored financial strategies.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years relevant work experience in management consulting or corporate finance.
• Master’s degree or equivalent with strong academic achievements.
• Fluency in Arabic is required.

Responsibilities

• Define the role of finance organization and transform finance function efficiencies.
• Deliver analyses and insights during client engagements.
• Collaborate across teams to develop knowledge materials.

Skills

Finance organization knowledge

Financial benchmarking analyses

Analytical skills

Client relationship skills

Education

Master’s degree in business administration or related field

Job description

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Analyst within BCG’s Corporate Finance & Strategy practice (CFS) and its Center for CFO Excellence (CFOx) team, you will work in a growing global team, delivering value to clients in all aspects of CFO related products and opportunities, from value creation strategy to performance management, digital finance and lean/agile working culture in finance.

This would entail issues such as defining the role of the finance organization, transforming the finance function to be efficient & effective, control finance costs, ability to steer and make relevant decisions, enablement of value creation and the facilitation of corporate planning decisions, including measures to align corporate, financial and investor strategies

You are good at

• Candidate should have experience and/or knowledge related to at least one of the following areas: finance organization (including shared services), finance transformation, external and internal reporting, corporate governance, performance management, planning, budgeting and target setting, corporate risk management or similar.
• The Senior Analyst is expected to be familiar with financial and non-financial benchmarking analyses, including analyses regarding profitability, capital structure, liquidity, and cash flow performance. The candidate should have deep end to end expertise in at least 2 finance process towers such as Record to Report, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Financial Planning & Analysis, Cash & Banking / Treasury, Payroll, Fixed Assets, etc.

As a Senior Analyst on the Client-Focused track, the candidate will be deployed in client engagements with core consulting teams to identify and analyze client challenges, provide customized knowledge of best-in-class practices as domain expert, develop solutions to address critical client issues, and chart a path for the client to constantly enhance performance. The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellent communication, high-quality analytical skills, and ability to deliver client ready analyses and insights.

The candidate will work also with topic team to collaborate, develop and maintain new knowledge materials related to CFOx topic based on emerging trends and gaps identified by consulting teams. The candidate will collaborate across the topic to build tools, analyses and insights to drive new ways of thinking and problem-solving.

What You'll Bring

• Minimum of 5 years of years relevant work experience in at least one of the following areas: management consulting, financial management, controlling & reporting, treasury, accounting & audit, corporate development, corporate finance or other equivalent areas
• Master’s degree in business administration, corporate finance, accounting, mathematics etc. with very good academic achievements and / or CPA with a management consulting background
• Confident client presence and relationship-building skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong work ethic & service-oriented mind-set
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and credibility
• Collaborative team player and pro-active self-starter
• Ability to maintain discretion when needed
• Fluency in Arabic

Who You'll Work With

Core Consulting Teams

• Staffed as topic champion along with core consulting teams in client engagements by bringing in core domain expertise
• Own and drive successful completion of a module in client projects
• Provide insight generation expertise during team discussions to frame and structure client issues
• Provide problem solving and solutioning to drive improvements across client organization
• Enhance client deliverables by conducting high-quality analyses and applying business judgement
• Suggests alternative or additional analyses to expand original scope and provide new insight
• Demonstrate good slide-writing and story-lining skills to generate client ready materials
• Concise, synthesized and confident during discussions with project teams, running workshops with client teams and presenting analysis & findings to clients
• Develop effective relationships with senior project leadership to build strong demand as a topic champion for repeat staffing
• Support proposal development by guiding consulting teams on transformation approach, BCG capabilities, past case credentials and experts

Topic Teams

• Build and update new topic-related customized knowledge products
• Control the consistency of knowledge management databases
• Reviews knowledge products and ensures they are current and relevant and updates when appropriate
• Writes abstracts and indexes for projects and practice documents
• Assisting in Practice Area intellectual capital development projects (studies, articles and other publications.

Additional info

The Vantage Team is a group of functional and/or industry experts leveraging deep domain knowledge to enable insight for case teams and clients. Vantage members are affiliated to BCG Practice Areas, plugged into the strategic agenda and building and deploying leading edge IP data tools/assets to deliver insight.

BCG's Vantage Team members have the opportunity to be staffed on cases and help co-create insights with case teams and clients through expert perspectives on industry trends, delivery of proprietary data or tools in a particular function and complex research and analysis of market information. Vantage members also support the PA’s business development and proposals and help to organize and codify the knowledge that enables BCG to deliver superior business value for its clients.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

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