About the Role
We are seeking a highly analytical and commercially minded Finance Strategy Manager to advise CFOs and senior business leaders on improving enterprise performance and delivering measurable enterprise value. The role spans AI-enabled enterprise performance management (EPM) and FP&A, cost transformation, finance operating models and capital efficiency, with specialist expertise in value creation services. The successful candidate will shape the CFO agenda and lead multidisciplinary teams through large-scale transformation programs for leading organizations, translating strategic priorities into improvements in profitability, cash flow and return on invested capital. They will also own engagement delivery and economics, build senior client relationships and contribute to proposals and business growth.
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Key Responsibilities
- Develop finance strategies and transformation roadmaps that connect business priorities with performance improvement, CapEx modelling, WC optimization and measurable value creation.
- Lead the design of enterprise performance management and FP&A capabilities, covering strategic planning, integrated budgeting, driver-based forecasting and scenario analysis.
- Design cost and profitability models, including activity-based costing, product costing and zero-based cost transformation.
- Define value-driver trees, KPI frameworks, management reporting and executive dashboards, with consistent measures and a governance operating model covering performance management, reporting and the wider finance function.
- Excel in at least one of the following areas: treasury transformation, improving cash visibility, liquidity management and financial risk controls; or enterprise-wide post-merger integration, leading integration across strategy, operations, people, technology and finance to realize synergies and ensure business continuity.
- Build business cases, investment assessments and financial scenarios to evaluate returns, risks and cash implications, and support the prioritization of resources and initiatives.
- Facilitate executive workshops, challenge assumptions constructively, resolve competing priorities and secure stakeholder decisions and sign-off on key designs and/or milestones.
- Own engagement delivery across workstreams, managing scope, staffing, milestones, dependencies, risks, delivery standards and engagement economics.
- Lead and coach consultants, coordinate subject-matter experts, and demonstrate the ability to maintain strong client relationships to generate new commercial opportunities and win additional work.
- Contribute to proposals and account development through solution design, scope definition, staffing and commercial assumptions; develop reusable assets and finance points of view to strengthen Finance RP’s thought leadership.
- Identify and assess AI and automation use cases in finance, defining business requirements, data readiness, controls, expected benefits and priorities for adoption.
Preferred Experience
- 7–9 years of relevant experience in Finance Strategy, CFO Advisory, Strategy Consulting or Value Creation Services, including leadership of complex engagements.
- Strong experience in EPM and FP&A design, cost and profitability management and finance operating-model transformation, with exposure to driver-based planning, zero-based cost transformation and AI-enabled finance.
- Experience designing and delivering value creation programs across revenue growth, margin expansion, cost transformation, working capital and capital efficiency, translating quantified opportunities into measurable improvements in EBITDA, cash flow and return on invested capital.
- Demonstrated expertise in at least one of the following areas: treasury transformation or enterprise-wide post-merger integration.
- Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing engagement scope, commercials and delivery risks, alongside the ability to influence senior stakeholders and secure key decisions and sign-off.
- A track record of developing senior client relationships, shaping proposals and winning additional work, with experience in solution design, scope definition and commercial assumptions.
Required Skills
- Finance Strategy and CFO Advisory
- EPM and FP&A
- Value Creation and Capital Allocation
- Cost Transformation and Profitability Management
- Financial Modelling and Business Case Development
- Finance Operating Models and Governance
- Treasury Transformation or Enterprise-Wide Post-Merger Integration Services
- AI-Enabled Finance, Automation and Data Governance
- Executive Communication and Stakeholder Influence
- Engagement Leadership and Commercial Management
- Business Development and Proposal Development
- Team Leadership and Coaching
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or Business, or a quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Physics or Mathematics.
- MBA or relevant master’s degree, including finance, economics or a quantitative discipline, preferred.
- Professional qualifications such as CFA, CPA, ACCA or equivalent are advantageous.
- Experience with large multinational enterprises, diversified groups, sovereign investment organizations, investment funds or clients in regulated industries, preferably in Saudi Arabia or the GCC.
