Senior Downstream Planning & Performance Management Analyst

Saudi Aramco; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 420,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Saudi Aramco is seeking a Senior Downstream Planning & Performance Management Analyst to join the Downstream Finance, Planning & Performance Management Department. The role focuses on complex performance reporting, external disclosures, and transfer pricing governance across value chains.

The successful candidate will provide governance, robust analysis for management reviews, and clear appraisal reports highlighting financial outcomes, risks, and recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline (MBA or professional certification such as CFA, CMA, CPA preferred).
• 10+ years of relevant experience, preferably in big 4, large public accounting firm, listed entities or regulated environments.
• Strong financial planning, performance analysis, and reporting skills.
• Experience in Downstream or value-chain-based businesses; understanding of transfer pricing concepts and value flows.
• Strong analytical capability with ability to communicate insights clearly; experience with investment appraisals or post-transaction reviews.

Responsibilities

• External Reporting and Investor Relations: support external reporting requirements and liaise with finance and accounting teams to reflect performance in disclosures.
• Transfer Pricing: develop, implement, and monitor transfer pricing mechanisms; analyze margins and value flows; support documentation and governance.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Governance: partner with commercial, operations, tax, finance and strategy teams to ensure financial analysis reflects business realities; analyze deviations between forecast and actual results.

Skills

Financial analysis

Performance reporting

Transfer pricing

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/Business

MBA or CFA/CMA/CPA preferred

Tools

Excel

ERP systems

Job description

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 generations' 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.

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Downstream Planning & Performance Management Analyst to join our Downstream Finance, Planning & Performance Management Department (DS P&PMD) with a background in complex performance reports and assessments, external reporting requirements, and support the development, implementation, and monitoring of transfer pricing mechanisms across value chains.

The Downstream Planning and Performance team are the gatekeepers of Downstream's planning, performance reporting and business accountability, turning financial, operational and market intelligence data into action-oriented insights. Partners closely with the business to influence decisions, identify performance opportunities, and drive timely corrective actions while continuously improving planning and report processes.

Your primary role is to provide supporting governance processes by providing robust analysis for management reviews, and performance dialogues, ensuring alignment with policies, regulatory, and commercial objectives that requires close collaboration with business, senior leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders, as well as a strong ability to develop clear appraisal reports for management, and highlight financial outcomes, risks, and recommendations. The role is ideal for experts in management performance reporting, and translating financial and operational data into highlights and insights for management and investors.

Duties and Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will be required to perform the following:

• External Reporting and Investor Relations:
  • Support external reporting requirements for the Downstream business, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and compliance with applicable accounting and reporting standards.
  • Liaise with finance and technical accounting teams to ensure business performance, transactions, and judgments are appropriately reflected in external disclosures.
  • Provide analytical support for significant accounting estimates, judgments, and performance related disclosures.
• Transfer Pricing:
  • Support the development, implementation, and monitoring of transfer pricing mechanisms
  • Analyze margins, profitability, and value flows.
  • Support transfer pricing documentation and internal governance.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Governance:
  • Partner with commercial, operations, tax, finance, and strategy teams to ensure financial analysis reflects business realities.
  • Analyze deviations between forecast and actual results, identifying root causes, lessons learned, and implications for future decision-making.

Minimum Requirements

As the successful candidate you will have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline from a recognized and approved program (MBA or professional certification such as CFA, CMA, CPA preferred).
• A minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience, preferably big 4, large public accounting firm, listed entities or regulated environments.
• Strong financial planning, performance analysis, and reporting skills
• Experience in Downstream or value-chain-based businesses. Understanding of transfer pricing concepts and value flows.
• Strong analytical capability with ability to communicate insights clearly. Experience with supporting investment appraisals or post-transaction reviews.

Work Location and Work Schedule

Work Location: Within Saudi Arabia - To be specified in Job offer

Work Schedule: Full Time - To be specified in Job offer

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.