Global Oil Gas Senior Accounting Analyst - SAP BPCBW

This role required candidate to permanently relocateat Dhahran Saudi Arabia.

About the Company

This company engages in the exploration productiontransportation and sale of crude oil and natural gas. It operatesthrough the following segments : Upstream Downstream and Corporate.

The Upstream segment includes crude oil natural gas and natural gasliquids exploration field development and production. TheDownstream segment focuses on refining logistics power generationand the marketing of crude oil petroleum and petrochemical productsand related services to international and domestic customers.

TheCorporate segment offers supporting services including humanresources finance and information technology. The company wasfounded on May 29 1933 and is headquartered in Dhahran SaudiArabia.

Job Summary

We are seeking a seasoned Accounting Analyst to join theDigital F&SD Department to join the team managing the corporateplanning and forecasting solutions and cycles.

The successfulcandidate will be maintaining supporting and optimizing variousfinancial planning and reporting processes in SAPBPC as well asdesigning and developing new ones.

SAP technologies arepredominantly used for this purpose; specifically BPC and BWapplications. The successful candidate will be expected to provideboth functional and technical expertise to the job.

They shouldhave through understanding and proven experience in buildingfinancial models and financial consolidation process.

Thedepartment is primarily responsible for the coordinationdevelopment and management of information systems used for planningand performance activities forecasting financial reporting anddigital solutions supporting finance organizations.

Such systemsinclude those relating to Business Plan development forecastingactivities financial reporting accountability reporting cyclesperformance management fiduciary segmental reporting advancedanalytics and visualizations amongst others.

The departmentpersonnel are multidisciplinary professional with financial andtechnical backgrounds.

Responsibilities :

• Act as a consultant to other team members onfinancial consolidation based on IFRS rules configure consolidationbusiness rules and model appropriate treatment of financialtransactions in planning systems
• Build easy tomanage driverbased financial models in SAPBPC to automate businesstransactions
• Lead or participate as an SME infinancial planning and forecasting solutions development throughprojects and programs collaborating with business and technologygroups
• Design or build forecasting models toenable generation of short and longrange forecasts for cash flowsand budgets
• Implement maintain and updatefinancial planning systems to align with business needs or improvesystem efficiency
• Create scope documents andpresentations to align business expectations with solutiondelivery
• Perform problemsolving through rootcause analysis.

Requirements :

• Willing to permanently relocateat Dhahran Saudi Arabia.
• Bachelors degree in Finance Accounting or a relateddiscipline. Advanced business degree (e.g. MBA) and / or relevantprofessional certification (e.

g. CMA CFA CPA ACCA PMP) is highlypreferred.

• Minimum of 10 years of experiencedesigning implementing and managing Financial Planning &Budgeting Reporting and Financial Consolidationsolutions.
• Experience at one of the IOCs orconsultancy firms such as E&Y Accenture KPMG and BCG inFinancial Planning & Budgeting Reporting and FinancialConsolidation preferred.
• Thoroughunderstanding of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)and their application including the process of generating fullgroup consolidated financial statements for a plannedperiod.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Officeapplications (Excel Access Word) wellexperienced in SAPBPC andSAPBW applications and expert in building driverbased financialmodels and financial consolidation models in SAPBPC.

Experience inSAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is preferred.

• Expertin various financial modeling techniques and building comprehensivemodels that can be driven topdown or bottomup.
• Solid understanding of SAP consolidation engines (BPCS4 / HANA Group Reporting) with the ability to configure and maintainbusiness rules configure master data troubleshootissues.
• Proven track record in leadingprojects from inception to completion including scope definition tosolution delivery. Ability to articulate scope of projectstimelines resources delivery process maps etc.
• Excellent communication presentation and documentationskills in the English language with a mindset of own it all the waythrough to solution delivery.

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