Job description

Job Description

1. JOB DETAILS:

Job Title: FP&A Analyst

Reports to: Finance Director 

Location: Muscat

Division: Finance

Department: Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Prepared / Revision: Sep 2026

2. JOB PURPOSE: 

The FP&A Analyst supports financial planning, performance management, and decision-making across the parent company, subsidiaries, and portfolio companies through budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, consolidation, performance analysis, and management reporting.

The role analyses consolidated financial and operational performance, prepares forecasts and management reports, monitors budgets and KPIs, and identifies key trends, variances, risks, and opportunities. This analysis encompasses the principal value drivers across food investments, including sales volumes, pricing, product mix, gross margins, commodity and input costs, inventory, working capital, capacity utilisation, and cash flow.

The Analyst works closely with the FP&A team, business functions, and subsidiary finance teams to standardise planning and reporting processes, validate submissions, challenge assumptions, and provide accurate and timely insights to support management decision-making.

3. JOB DIMENSIONS: 

Revenues/ Budget: 0

Direct Reports: 0

Indirect Reports: 0

4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: 

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Coordinate the annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-term financial planning processes across the parent company and subsidiaries.

• Prepare and maintain financial models, forecasts, and financial planning schedules.

• Support scenario and sensitivity analyses and assist in preparing financial projections by evaluating different business assumptions and scenarios, to inform financial planning and management decision-making.

• Support cash flow forecasting, working capital analysis, and liquidity planning.

Consolidation & Reporting

• Collect, consolidate, and validate financial and operational submissions from departments, subsidiaries, and portfolio companies, ensuring consistent assumptions, templates, definitions, and reporting timelines across the Group.

• Prepare management reports, financial dashboards, presentations, and performance summaries, and maintain and update the underlying financial planning models, databases, and reports.

• Coordinate with Accounting and Finance teams to ensure consistency between actual results, budgets, forecasts, and management reports.

Performance Analysis & Monitoring

• Monitor actual financial performance against budgets, forecasts, and approved targets, performing monthly and quarterly variance analysis against budget, forecast, and prior year to identify the financial and operational drivers of performance and prepare clear explanations for management review.

• Analyze revenues, costs, profitability, cash flows, and other key financial indicators, including departmental and business unit performance, under the guidance of the FP&A Lead.

• Monitor the financial and operational performance of subsidiaries and portfolio companies against approved budgets, forecasts, strategic plans, and performance targets, highlighting underperformance, emerging risks, and value-creation opportunities.

• Identify and summarize financial trends, variances, risks, opportunities, and areas for performance improvement for management review.

• Support the development and monitoring of financial KPIs and performance targets.

Business Partnering & Advisory

• Work with business functions to understand financial performance and key operational drivers, and support periodic business and financial performance reviews.

• Assist in evaluating business plans, strategic initiatives, projects, and investment proposals by preparing the required financial analysis.

Data Integrity & Process Improvement

• Ensure the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and traceability of financial and operational data by reconciling management information with accounting records and resolving discrepancies with the relevant finance teams.

• Support improvement and automation initiatives for budgeting, forecasting, analysis, and reporting processes.

Other

• Prepare ad-hoc financial analyses and reports as requested by management.

• Maintain confidentiality and integrity of financial and commercially sensitive information.

• Prepare any related reports required by management and perform any other related tasks as instructed from time to time.

5. COMMUNICATIONS & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS: 

Internal:

• Chief Financial Officer

• Finance Director 

• Finance Team

• Accounting Team

• Investment

• Portfolio Management

• Strategy, Planning and Performance

• Business Support

• Supply Chain

• People & Technology

• Subsidiaries and Portfolio Companies

• Other Departments External:

• External Auditors

• Financial Advisors

• Consultants

• Subsidiaries and Portfolio Companies

• Other relevant external stakeholders

6. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

• CFA, CMA, ACCA, CPA, or other relevant professional qualification is advantageous.

Experience:

• 0 - 2 years of relevant experience in FP&A, finance, management accounting, financial analysis, or a related field.

• Experience in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, variance analysis, and management reporting is preferred.

• Experience using ERP, financial planning, or reporting systems is advantageous.

Technical Competencies Leadership/Behavioral Competencies 

• Financial Planning & Analysis

• Budgeting & Forecasting

• Financial Modelling

• Variance Analysis

• Management Reporting

• Financial Performance Analysis

• Financial Forecasting

• Scenario & Sensitivity Analysis

• KPI & Performance Monitoring

• Cash Flow Forecasting

• Cost & Profitability Analysis

• Data Analysis

• Financial Reporting

• Advanced Microsoft Excel

• ERP / Financial Systems

• Reporting & Dashboard Tools

• Analytical Thinking

• Critical Thinking

• Attention to Detail

• Problem Solving

• Commercial Awareness

• Fostering Communication

• Stakeholder Engagement

• Outcome Driven

• Quality Focus

• Operational Excellence

• Agility

• Initiative

• Teamwork & Collaboration

• Accountability

• Integrity

• Time Management

• Solidarity