Specialist, Financial Planning

• Assists the Sr. Specialist, Financial Planning in the preparation of Group financial planning and budgeting guidelines.
• Assist in reviewing the Financial planning policy and procedures, and provide recommendation to superior for the optimisation thereof.
• Assist in reviewing and monitoring Group Company business plans, and coordinate with the Group Companies’ budget & planning focal points to submit the data within the deadline.
• Support in the preparation of a regular consolidated report to superior for Group Companies' key Business plan activities, including Financial, Production, Human capital, HSE and other activities with variance analyses.
• Review ADNOC HQ and Group Companies’ business plan submissions, and provide analysis and reports to superior.
• Create models and planning scenarios upon request.
• Assist in the preparation of a detailed business plan and long-range planning forecast for the ADNOC Group, in line with the corporate strategy.
• Work closely with the concerned users (Planning focal points) to prepare ADNOC Business plan analysis, presentation, and Business plan reports.
• Participate in preparing planning presentations to the planning council committee, CEO and SPC, and document minutes from meetings.
• Follow up and proceed with the actions forwarded by superior related to the planning activities, such as Planning scenarios and reports.
• Participate in preparing the group business plan and budgeting booklets.
• Participate in the quarterly/annually review session, provide a regular feedback, and report outcomes to superior.
• Provide regular reports to superior, to enable accurate and timely monitoring and control of planning initiatives, milestones and expenditures.
• Prepare other ad-hoc reports, based on management request.
• Assist in financial planning related systems development or optimisations (e.g. One ERP, BPC, Dashboards), based on own expertise and experience.
• Participate in preparing reports for internal and external stakeholders, related to the ADNOC business plan.
• Participate in preparing the Group Companies’ recharges, and align the charges between the concerned users in ADNOC and the Group Companies.
• Coordinate with the Assets team to prepare the close out project list, to enable the Assets team to calculate ADNOC HQ depreciation amount.
• Participate in all planning activities initiated internally within the department, or externally within the Group/ADNOC Directorates.
• Perform
• other similar or related duties assigned by supervisor.

• Plan, supervise and coordinate all activities in the assigned area to meet functional objectives.
• Train and develop the assigned staff on relevant skills to enable them to become proficient on the job and deliver the respective business objectives.

• Provide input for preparation of the Function / Division / Department / Section budgets, assist in the implementation of the approved Budget, and work plans to deliver business objectives.
• Investigate and highlight any significant variances to support effective performance and cost control.

• Implement approved Function / Division / Department / Section policies, processes, systems, standards and procedures in order to support execution of the work programs in line with Company and International standards.
• Comply with all applicable legislation and legal regulations.

• Contribute to the achievement of the approved Performance Objectives for the Function / Division / Department / Section in line with the Company Performance framework.

• Design and implement new tools and techniques to improve the quality and efficiency of operational processes.
• Identify improvements in internal processes against best practices in pursuit of greater efficiency in line with best industry standards in order to define intelligent solutions for issues confronting the function.

• Comply with relevant HSE policies, procedures & controls and applicable legislation and sustainability guidelines in line with international standards, best practices and ADNOC Code of Practices

• Provide inputs to prepare MIS and progress reports for Company Management

• Manager, Financial Planning
• ADNOC HQ, Directorate and Group Company staff, related to budget and financial plan preparation, recharges, allocation, presentation and comparisons of budgets, actual performance and the explanation of variances.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or equivalent.

• 6 years of experience in accounting, budget and cost/analysis work, with experience in recharges/ allocation.
• Good knowledge of English and Arabic.
• Strong experience in Microsoft applications (PowerPoint/Excel/Word)
• Good knowledge of the ERP system and other budget and modelling systems.

• N/A

• As per the approved competency dictionary

• As per the approved competency dictionary

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