Sr. Specialist, FP&A – Group
Function: Finance — Group / Corporate FP&A
Grade: Senior Specialist
Location: Amman, Jordan
Job Overview
The candidate will be a senior member of the Group FP&A team, operating as both a hands-on individual leading and supporting the team's reporting quality for outputs going to the FP&A Head and CFO, and utilising available systems and tools to do so. The role combines accounting knowledge, financial statements analysis along with deep analytical work including but not limited to: variance analysis, performance insights, OPEX analysis, and business partnering with the responsibility to coordinate deliverables across regional and segmental FP&A teams, ensure timeliness, and proactively identify risks, opportunities, and cost-savings ideas at Group level. The role supports FP&A leadership in maintaining the integrity, consistency, and analytical quality of Group FP&A outputs across a complex multinational pharmaceutical organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Planning and Forecasting
Lead specific workstreams within the Group's annual budget, quarterly rolling forecasts, and 5-year business plan cycles from planning through consolidation to sign-off.
Coordinate directly with regional and segmental FP&A teams on timeliness and quality of planning submissions; escalate delays and issues to the FP&A Head with recommended next steps.
Review inputs and outputs from more junior team members before they progress to the FP&A Head or CFO.
Support the setting of Group market guidance on expected financial performance in coordination with Investor Relations.
Support the Group's annual going concern and viability exercises by providing data inputs, supporting schedules, and risks/downside considerations identified through ongoing performance analysis.
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Performance Analysis
Own the monthly variance analysis process across all P&L line items (Actuals vs Budget, Forecast, Prior Year, and LRP), ensuring analysis is timely, accurate, and driver-based.
Proactively identify and quantify risks and opportunities across business segments. Not only tracking KPIs and variances but converting them into actionable insights and clear recommendations for management.
Perform deep-dive product profitability and gross margin analysis at segment and SKU level.
Own the Group operating expenses analysis; proactively identify OPEX savings opportunities, cost inefficiencies, and areas for tighter cost control, and work with corporate function heads to size and prioritise them.
Support the generation of variance reports against market consensus in coordination with Investor Relations.
Challenge, review and comprehend the budgets submitted by the business through sanity checks, trends and diving into details.
Separate underlying performance from “one-off” effects, presenting results on both Core and Non-Core basis, and reported and constant-currency basis.
Management Reporting and Presentation
Play a lead role in the preparation of periodical executive performance review packs, board materials, and CEO/CFO reporting, owning end-to-end sections including narrative.
Review reporting and analytical outputs produced by junior team members for accuracy, consistency, formatting, and analytical soundness before they are shared upward.
Identify errors, inconsistencies, and misclassifications in Group financial reports (including data coming out of SAP BPC and Power BI) and drive rectification with Corporate Reporting, regional finance, and system owners.
Build and maintain critical Group Power BI dashboards; own the underlying data models, DAX measures, and quality control.
Apply structured accuracy and completeness checks to every management reporting output before release — reconciling totals across sources, verifying period-on-period and cross-schedule consistency, and confirming figures tie back to the system of record before packs reach the FP&A Head, CFO, or Board.
Lead the continuous enhancement of financial models and reporting tools…