Job Details
Finance Business Partner
Job Purpose
- The Finance Business Partner will act as a commercial and financial advisor to the business, partnering closely with Operations, Business Development, and Senior Management to drive profitability, cost discipline, and informed decision-making.
- This role combines hands-on financial control with forward-looking commercial insight, with clear accountability for gross margin tracking, budget adherence, forecasting accuracy, and bid profitability
Roles, Responsibilities, Duties
- Project Financial Management & Gross Margin Control
- Own and monitor project financial performance, including revenue recognition, cost tracking, and gross margin.
- Analyze GM at bid, budget, and actual, and clearly explain variances.
- Conduct post-project margin reviews and recommend improvement actions.
- Partner with Project Managers to implement corrective measures where margins are at risk.
- Proactively identify margin leakage, cost overruns, and revenue risks.
- Budgeting, Forecasting & Financial Planning
- Lead project budgeting in collaboration with Operations and Business Development.
- Maintain and control budgets within SAP with proper version management.
- Monitor actual performance against budgets and flag deviations early.
- Prepare and update annual forecasts incorporating pipeline and execution risks.
- Challenge financial assumptions to enhance forecast accuracy and credibility.
- Revenue, Billing & Orderbook Management
- Review and validate sales invoices for accuracy and contractual compliance.
- Ensure timely invoicing to prevent revenue leakage and cash flow delays.
- Prepare weekly revenue and variance analysis reports.
- Maintain monthly orderbook and backlog trackers linked to forecasts.
- Support revenue visibility and performance tracking.
- Business Development & Bid Commercial Support
- Support BD review meetings with financial and commercial insights.
- Evaluate bid profitability, cash flow impact, and risk exposure.
- Compare forecasts against targets and pipeline performance.
- Establish minimum margin thresholds and pricing guardrails.
- Conduct bid-versus-actual post-mortems to strengthen future pricing.
- Working Capital & Cash Flow Management
- Coordinate vendor payments in line with approval controls.
- Support Operations in accelerating billing and collections.
- Monitor receivables and resolve collection issues.
- Oversee petty cash controls and compliance.
- Drive working capital optimization initiatives.
- Bonds, Guarantees & Treasury Coordination
- Prepare documentation for bonds and bank guarantees.
- Coordinate with Treasury on issuance, amendments, and renewals.
- Track bond exposure, utilization, and expiry.
- Ensure no operational or financial risk from guaranteed lapses.
- Financial Reporting & Month-End Close
- Manage month-end closing activities, including accruals and reconciliations.
- Ensure financial data accuracy and completeness.
- Produce management reports linking financial results to operational drivers.
- Support leadership with actionable financial insights.
- Audit, Controls & Governance
- Support external and internal audits.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards and company policies.
- Identify control gaps and recommend process improvements.
- Strengthen financial governance across projects.
- Occupational and workplace Health and Safety responsibilities:
- In addition to all job specific responsibilities, all employees are required to adhere to all Khidmah health, safety and environmental (HSE) policies, procedures, practices, and relevant legal and statutory health, safety and environmental requirements and obligations. All employees are personally responsible to familiarize themselves with these policies, procedures, practices, updates, etc. Khidmah HSE department regularly updates existing and introduce new policies, procedures and practices and each employee is personally responsible to ensure they stay updated and compliant with all such updates and new additions.
- Information Security responsibilities:
- Comply with Khidmah Information Security Policies
- Be aware of and fulfil their information security responsibilities
- Ensure whoever handles sensitive company information have taken the Security Awareness Training
- Know how to report a security incident (to IT ServiceDesk or InfoSec).
- Not Disable his/her OS firewall and/or Antivirus
- Restrict use to authorized purposes, Protect access accounts, privileges and associated passwords.
- Accept accountability of his/her individual user accounts, and maintain confidentiality
Qualification:
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
Professional certification (ACCA, CPA, CA) preferred.
Advanced proficiency in SAP and Microsoft Excel.
Strong financial modelling and analytical capabilities.
Experience and Skills:
Industry Experience (No. of years):
78 years in finance roles within project-based environments.
Position/functional experience (No. of years):
Minimum 35 years in Finance Business Partner, Commercial Finance, or Project Finance roles.
Experience in contracting, infrastructure, or services sectors is highly preferred.
Exposure to bids, tenders, and contract-driven revenue models is advantageous
Competencies and Skills:
- Strong commercial acumen and business partnering capability
- Advanced project accounting and gross margin expertise
- Financial planning and forecasting excellence
- close attention to detail and an ownership mindset
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to challenge assumptions constructively
- Advanced SAP and Excel proficiency
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, multi-project environments
