About the Role – International, Challenging And Future-Oriented!
Join our Smart Infrastructure Buildings team as the Business Unit Performance Controller and help us re-imagine the world by finding solutions and making it smarter for tomorrow. In this role, you will drive Performance Controlling for the SI B Saudi Arabia, ensuring high-quality financial transparency, reporting, forecasting, and business steering. You will be responsible for:
- Providing in-depth financial analysis, performance forecasting, and management reporting to support data-driven business decisions and strategic initiatives.
- Collaborating closely with different internal departments and regional management teams to identify growth opportunities, productivity improvements, and profitability enhancement measures.
- Leading the budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, and target-setting processes while ensuring a high degree of forecast accuracy and business ownership.
- Acting as a trusted advisor to business management, translating complex financial information into clear business recommendations and actionable insights.
- Driving productivity initiatives and monitoring the achievement of productivity, profitability, cash flow, margin, and growth targets.
- Identifying, evaluating, and escalating business risks and opportunities while defining mitigation and improvement actions with management teams.
- Leading special projects and business transformation initiatives aimed at improving operational efficiency, organizational effectiveness, and financial performance.
- Leading the digital transformation and automation roadmap of the controlling function by implementing advanced analytics, dashboards, self-service reporting, AI-enabled solutions, and standardized processes that enhance transparency, decision-making quality, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Driving data governance, data quality, and process harmonization initiatives while fostering a data-driven culture and promoting innovative automation solutions that increase productivity, reduce manual effort, and continuously improve finance service delivery.
- Ensuring compliance with financial reporting guidelines, internal controls, governance requirements, and risk management processes.
- Acting as the primary finance counterpart to Country Management, Regional Management, and Business Leadership Teams, with full Performance Controlling responsibility for Saudi Arabia.
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Your Qualifications And Skills – Digital And Solid!
- Proven track record of 8+ years in Performance Controlling, Execution/Operations, Finance Business Partnering, FP&A, or Business Controlling roles.
- Thorough understanding of financial planning, forecasting, reporting, performance management, and profitability steering.
- Strong business partnering skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and support strategic decision-making.
- Proficiency in leveraging digital tools and technologies to improve controlling effectiveness and business insights.
- Proven experience in implementing digitalization, automation, and finance transformation initiatives.
- Experience in multinational and matrix organizations and within project, solutions, services, or technology-driven businesses is advantageous.
- Fluent in English; any additional language is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- MBA, CMA, CIMA, ACCA, CPA, or equivalent professional qualification preferred.
Localization Commitment
Localization is a strategic priority and a cornerstone of our growth plans in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. We strongly encourage qualified Saudi national engineering professionals meeting the above qualifications to apply for this role, as we are committed to developing local talent and building long-term engineering capability within the Kingdom as part of our vision-aligned growth strategy.
What else do you need to know?
As a world leader in developing and producing advanced engineering technologies, we strive to improve lives and further human achievements worldwide while protecting the climate. Working with us provides a foundation for personal and professional development, offering the opportunity to make a significant societal impact and create meaningful changes.
Diversity is our source of creativity and innovation at the company. We value candidates who reflect the diversity we enjoy in our company, as having different types of talent and experiences prepares us to successfully meet society's demands.
We are always challenging ourselves to build a better future and need the most innovative and diverse Digital Minds to develop tomorrow's reality.
Job Details:
- Job ID: 521175
- Employment Type: Permanent
- Job Type: Full-time
- Experience Level: Experienced Professional
- Work Mode: Office/Site only
- Location: Riyadh - Ar Riyad - Saudi Arabia
