Regional Controller – MENA (Saudi Nationals Only)

About the role
We are looking for a Regional Controller – MENA to join our finance leadership team in Riyadh. This role is central to the controllership function supporting our consulting businesses across the MENA region. The consulting business has expanded significantly in the region through acquisitions, organic growth, and entry into new country markets. This creates a high-impact opportunity for a senior finance professional to shape and strengthen the financial control framework across a rapidly growing portfolio. You will act as a key finance partner to senior leadership, working closely with partners, business heads, and regional stakeholders to ensure financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and commercial insight across a complex, multi-entity and multi-country operation. Based in Riyadh, the role will provide close partnership to KSA leadership while supporting continued expansion across the Gulf and wider MENA region.

Key responsibilities
Financial controllership and reporting

• Lead the regional controllership function for the consulting businesses across MENA.
• Manage monthly close, financial consolidation, and group reporting in line with global timelines and standards.
• Oversee statutory reporting, budgeting, and forecasting across multiple entities and jurisdictions.
• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of financial reporting across the regional portfolio.

Revenue recognition

• Lead revenue recognition for consulting and project-based engagements, including work-in-progress management, percentage-of-completion accounting, and IFRS 15 compliance.
• Ensure consistent and accurate revenue reporting across the consulting businesses.
• Partner with commercial and operational stakeholders to address complex engagement-accounting matters.

Tax compliance and advisory

• Oversee regional tax compliance, with a particular focus on applicable Saudi corporate income tax and Zakat requirements.
• Ensure compliance with VAT requirements in KSA and across the GCC.
• Monitor corporate tax developments and local filing requirements across MENA.
• Support transfer-pricing requirements and coordinate with group tax specialists.
• Liaise with ZATCA and other local tax authorities as required.

Governance, controls and compliance

• Maintain and strengthen internal controls and governance frameworks appropriate for a large global organization.
• Ensure compliance with local regulations, IFRS, and group policies.
• Oversee local statutory and payroll compliance in KSA.
• Support compliance with Saudi labor requirements and applicable Saudization and localization programs.
• Identify financial and operational risks and ensure that appropriate mitigating controls are implemented.

Stakeholder engagement

• Act as a trusted finance partner to senior leaders, partners, and business heads at the consulting businesses.
• Communicate financial performance, risks, and opportunities clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• Translate complex financial information into practical and commercially relevant recommendations.
• Build effective relationships across local, regional, and global finance teams.

Business growth and expansion

• Support acquisitions, integrations, and new-country setups as the consulting businesses continue to expand.
• Help build the financial infrastructure required to support regional growth.
• Support KSA market expansion, regional-headquarters requirements, and local entity setup.
• Ensure that new businesses and entities are integrated into appropriate reporting, governance, and control frameworks.

What we are looking for
Mandatory eligibility and qualifications

• Saudi national – this vacancy is open exclusively to citizens of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Professional accounting qualification such as ACCA, ACA, CIMA, CPA, CA, or an equivalent recognized designation.
• Approximately 10–16 years of progressive finance experience, with a strong focus on financial controllership.
• Ability to work from Riyadh and partner closely with KSA-based leadership.

Experience and expertise

• Proven controllership experience within a large multinational and matrixed organization.
• Strong revenue-recognition expertise, ideally gained in consulting, professional services, or another project-based business.
• Practical knowledge of IFRS, particularly IFRS 15.
• Strong understanding of work-in-progress, percentage-of-completion accounting, and project profitability.
• Middle East tax knowledge, particularly Saudi VAT, corporate income tax, and Zakat requirements, as well as GCC VAT regimes.
• Experience managing finance operations across multiple countries and legal entities.
• Strong understanding of statutory reporting, financial consolidation, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with and influence senior stakeholders, including partners and business leaders.

Personal attributes

• Commercially minded, with the ability to translate financial data into actionable business insight.
• Credible and confident communicator who can build trust with senior leadership.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Collaborative, with a track record of working effectively across functions, countries, and reporting lines.
• Comfortable balancing technical controllership requirements with broader commercial priorities.

Nice to have

• Previous experience in management consulting or professional services.
• Big Four experience in an advisory, accounting-consulting, or finance-transformation capacity, rather than exclusively external audit.
• Experience with Oracle, SAP, HFM/Hyperion, or comparable ERP and consolidation systems.
• Multi-entity finance experience across MENA.
• Previous professional experience in Saudi Arabia.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, finance integrations, regional-headquarters structures, or new-country setups.
• Familiarity with KSA payroll, labor requirements, and Saudization or localization programs.

What we offer

• A senior finance role at the heart of one of the world’s largest and most respected professional-services organizations.
• Exposure to two of the highest-growth businesses in the region.
• The opportunity to shape regional financial operations during a period of significant expansion.
• Close partnership with senior business and finance leaders across KSA and MENA.
• A collaborative, high-caliber, and internationally connected working environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Long-term career development within a global organization.