Senior Accounting Analyst-Relocate to Saudi Arabia, Permanent Expat Relocation

aramco; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global energy company is seeking a Senior Accounting Analyst to join its Medical Services & Affiliates Management Department in Saudi Arabia. The role requires advanced financial analysis, compliance assurance with accounting standards, and detailed reporting. Candidates should possess a relevant Bachelor's degree and at least 7 years of experience in accounting or financial advisory roles. Strong analytical and communication skills are essential, and proficiency in English is required. The position includes a full relocation package.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in accounting and financial analysis.
• Professional certifications such as CPA, CIA, ACCA, or CMA preferred.
• Full professional proficiency in English; Arabic preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced financial and accounting analyses to support transactions and decision-making.
• Analyze and ensure compliance with accounting policies and IFRS requirements.
• Prepare and review confidential financial reports and budgets.
• Assess financial feasibility and impact of proposed transactions including purchases and disbursements.
• Develop and review financial reports, forecasts, budgets, and cash flow analyses.
• Provide advisory support on agreements, governance, risks, and procurement matters.
• Coordinate with finance, legal, procurement and compliance teams for compliant outcomes.
• Mentor junior analysts and review their work.

Skills

Accounting policies knowledge

Financial analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Accounting, Engineering or related

Professional certifications (CPA, CIA, ACCA, SOCPA, CMA, CFA)

Job description

Job Overview

This position requires full relocation to Saudi Arabia. It is a permanent full time Expat Relocation Package.

We are seeking a Senior Accounting Analyst to join the Medical Services & Affiliates Management Department (MS&AMD). The Medical Services & Affiliates Management Department is responsible for overseeing and supporting Saudi Aramco’s healthcare-related services and affiliate entities, ensuring effective financial governance, compliance, and sustainability across medical operations, insurance arrangements, and affiliated healthcare organizations.

Your primary role is to provide advanced financial and accounting analytical support to MS&AMD by serving as a trusted subject matter expert on complex accounting, financial reporting, and healthcare-related financial matters. This role plays a key part in supporting management decision-making, strengthening financial governance, ensuring compliance with Saudi Aramco accounting policies, internal controls, and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), and providing professional advisory input across financial, accounting, contractual, and procurement-related areas, with particular emphasis on healthcare financials and insurance-related analytics.

Duties and Responsibilities

As the successful candidate you will perform the following:

• Perform advanced financial and accounting analyses to support complex transactions, reporting requirements, and management decision-making.
• Analyze and evaluate accounting systems, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with Saudi Aramco standards, internal controls, and IFRS requirements.
• Address complex accounting, financial reporting, reconciliation, and tax-related issues in coordination with internal stakeholders.
• Assess the financial feasibility and impact of proposed transactions, including production, sales, purchases, employee and vendor disbursements.
• Perform financial modelling, investment and divestiture analysis, asset valuation, and financial due diligence activities, as required.
• Prepare and review confidential financial reports, forecasts, cash flow analyses, budgets, and funding-related documentation.
• Provide financial, accounting, economic, and commercial advisory support on agreements, governance structures, risks, and mitigation measures.
• Perform complex operational accounting activities, including account reconciliation, cost analysis, compliance assessments, and statutory reporting.
• Provide ad hoc financial expertise and advisory support to subsidiaries, joint ventures, affiliates, and internal stakeholders on accounting, contract, and procurement matters.
• Coordinate with finance, legal, procurement, compliance, and other internal functions to ensure accurate, timely, and compliant financial outcomes.
• Review or guide the work of less-experienced analysts to support assigned projects and deliverables.
• As the successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, Accounting, Engineering, or a related discipline from a recognized institution.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience in accounting, financial analysis, reporting, or advisory roles within large or regulated organizations.
• Strong knowledge of accounting policies, procedures, and financial reporting standards in accordance with IFRS.
• Demonstrated experience in financial analysis, modelling, and interpretation of complex financial data.
• Professional certifications such as CPA, CIA, ACCA, SOCPA, CMA, or CFA are preferred.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to operate independently with sound professional judgment and discretion.
• Full professional proficiency in English; Arabic is preferred.

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.

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.