Financial Analyst

Syarah is on a mission to change how people buy their cars in Saudi and the Middle East. We offer buyers an end-to-end digital car buying experience where they can buy their next car from the comfort of their living rooms. Under the hood, we build systems to manage sourcing of cars, inspection, photography, merchandising, reconditioning, financing, insurance, shipping and many more. Our goal is to turn car buying into an experience of delight, comfort and peace of mind.

We are on the lookout for ambitious, competitive, growth-minded professionals to help us continue to harness technology to delight our customers and achieve our ambitious growth objectives in the auto sector.

All Syarah employees are expected to work in accordance with Syarah core values: Tolerance, Transparency, Respect, Integrity and Positivity.

Financial analyst is responsible to maintain adequate control over the core areas of budgeting, planning and analysis. He must be highly accomplished with structured thinking and organization of his work. He should also work with cross-functional teams and provide business partnering to create deeper understanding

Responsibilities:

• Prepare budgets on an annual basis using budgeting techniques, incl. zero-based budgeting, incremental budgeting.
• Prepare business units-wise budgets/forecasts and consolidate the same to develop the overall consolidated budget/forecast.
• Monitor, track, and compare the financial performance against budgeted figures and industry average.
• Prepare analysis and scenarios based on management requests
• Prepare documentation and analysis as request by related parties
• Prepare dashboards and presentations as required by the management
• Prepare trends, appraisals, analysis and dashboards as requested by the management.
• Provide required analysis and documentations to complete requirements.
• Monthly reporting, dashboards and analysis on deadline.
• Develop ad-hoc financial models as required to support business unit management in decision-making.
• Prepare infromation packs and communicate to investors periodically.
• Monitor manpower budget and liaise with HR on new hirings.
• Prepare scenarios, presentations and analysis to support long/med/short term plans

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance is required.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience is required.
• CPA, CMA, ACCA, FMVA, along with proficiency in Power BI, Power Query, and Power Automate.