Expert Performance & Reporting

About the Role
The Expert Performance & Reporting professional will serve as the subject-matter expert for enterprise performance management and reporting within the Corporate Planning & Performance function. The role is pivotal in designing, governing, and continuously improving the company's performance-reporting framework, KPI architecture, and management-information standards. This ensures that the Executive Leadership Team and governance forums receive accurate, timely, consistent, and decision-useful performance information. Responsibilities include leading advanced variance and performance-driver analysis, providing independent challenges on performance results and narratives, and advising leadership on trends, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions. Additionally, the position enhances reporting governance, data integrity, finance readiness, and digital reporting capabilities across the company, aligning with the company’s Mission, Vision, Values & Strategies, as well as relevant policies, guidelines, and international standards.

Main Tasks and Responsibilities

• Act as the company's technical authority on enterprise performance management, management reporting, and KPI governance.
• Design and improve the performance-reporting framework, reporting calendars, standards, templates, and governance processes for monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles.
• Own the corporate KPI architecture, including definitions, calculation logic, weightings, thresholds, scoring rules, data sources, ownership, and evidence requirements.
• Lead KPI change control by assessing proposed changes, recommending decisions, and maintaining updated records.
• Conduct advanced analysis of actual performance against budget, forecast, latest estimate, and prior periods, identifying material variances, trends, and underlying performance drivers.
• Independently challenge variance explanations, assumptions, and narratives to ensure reported results are complete, consistent, and evidence-based.
• Advise the Head of Corporate Planning & Performance and senior management on performance insights, risks, opportunities, and recommended corrective actions.
• Prepare executive performance reports, dashboards, and review materials for the Executive Leadership Team, Board committees, and governance forums.
• Govern performance-review action tracking, ensuring actions are owned, followed up, and closed on time.
• Ensure integrity, traceability, and auditability of reported data, adjustments, and supporting evidence; support internal and external audits and assurance reviews.
• Lead finance-readiness activities for reporting cycles, including data availability, cut-off timing, reconciliations, reporting hierarchies, master data, and system readiness.
• Ensure organizational, portfolio, accounting, and structural changes are accurately reflected in reporting hierarchies and performance reports.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Risk Management, Treasury, and Business Finance to integrate risk, cash-flow, and asset-level performance into enterprise reporting.
• Drive digitalization and automation of performance reporting using BI tools, data analytics, and ERP reporting capabilities.
• Benchmark reporting and performance-management practices against industry peers and recommend improvements.
• Mentor and coach Sr. Specialists, Specialists, and reporting contributors, building capability and supporting Omanization while not taking on formal direct-report responsibility.
• Perform other similar duties as assigned by the Head of Corporate Planning & Performance.

Key Interactions

• Internal: Head of Corporate Planning & Performance, Manager Performance & Reporting, Corporate Planning & Budgeting, Business Finance, Financial Control, Enterprise Risk Management, IDS/SAP support.
• External: External auditors, reporting-system vendors, and approved advisers.

Notable Working Conditions
Office environment with intensive computer use and fixed monthly, quarterly, annual, and governance reporting deadlines. Extended hours may occasionally be needed during reporting, audit, or major governance cycles.

Education Requirements
Minimum qualification is a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or an equivalent relevant discipline. A post-graduate degree is preferred, and a relevant professional finance qualification (e.g., CMA, CPA, ACCA) is an advantage.

Language
Excellent written, read, and spoken English is required.

Background and Experience
Competencies and Skills

• A minimum of 8+ years' relevant experience in enterprise performance reporting, FP&A, management accounting, or a related finance discipline.
• Proven experience designing and governing performance-reporting frameworks and KPI architectures in large or complex organizations.
• Advanced expertise in variance analysis, performance-driver analysis, management commentary, and executive reporting.
• Experience advising senior management and preparing materials for executive and Board-level governance forums.
• Strong knowledge of budgets, forecasts, latest estimates, financial controls, and reporting governance.
• Advanced proficiency in ERP (SAP), BI tools, dashboards, advanced Excel, and data analytics.
• Experience in the oil and gas, energy, or upstream sector is preferred.

Behavioral Competencies

• Accountability and delivery focus.
• Advanced analytical thinking and attention to detail.
• Clear communication and presentation skills.
• Constructive challenge and sound judgment.
• Stakeholder coordination and collaboration.
• Planning, organization, and deadline management.
• Integrity, confidentiality, and ethical conduct.
• Initiative, adaptability, and practical problem solving.
• Continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

Technical Competencies

• Enterprise performance and management reporting.
• Budget, forecast, and latest-estimate comparisons.
• Variance and performance-driver analysis.
• KPI definitions, calculations, scoring, and change control.
• Financial and operational data validation and reconciliation.
• Management commentary, dashboards, and executive presentations.
• Finance readiness, reporting structures, and master data.
• Reporting governance, internal controls, and audit trails.
• ERP, BI tools, advanced Excel, and data analytics.
• Action tracking, assurance support, and records management.