Associate Director, Financial Planning

Our business landscape

We're an award-winning global communications company operating in nine countries across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Our strategy is to become the region's leading digital infrastructure provider. Ooredoo Group's strategic vision is guided by five key pillars:

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Value-Focused Portfolio**: Boosting asset returns by focusing on telco operations, towers, data centres, the sea
cable business and fintech.
- ** Strengthen the Core**: Optimally using deployed capital and maintain an appropriate cost structure.
- ** Evolve the Core**: Monetising opportunities to generate new revenue streams via programmes focusing on analytics, digitalisation of operations, and partnerships with digital service providers.
- ** People**: Building an engaged and empowered workforce through integrated learning programs and coaching and mentoring.
- ** Excellence in Customer Experience**: Creating superior customer experiences.

From day one, every employee who joins our team becomes an integral part of our success journey. We offer you the chance to enhance your skills, advance your career, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Empowering you to catapult your personal and professional growth. If you're looking to challenge your growth potential, Ooredoo is the employer for you.

Job overview

The role holder is responsible for providing support to Ooredoo Group senior management in monitoring and performance evaluation of the company's investments in order to optimise their performance, identify and minimise information gaps and investment risks, and maximise financial returns.

Your impact on our goals
- Compiles reports and provides narrative reports on a monthly/quarterly and annual basis for the Operating Companies (OPCO) performance for Monthly OPCO review meetings and Quarterly Review meeting with respective OPCO CFO's and also necessary Presentation to OG Management & Board
- Initiates and supports the performance of the OPCO Business with competition analysis in order to understand the OPCO performance in a relevant context through benchmarking
- Undertake regular OPCO performance reviews with analysis for financial and non-financial performance in order to come up with recommendations and improvements develop reports and make recommendations as appropriate and overall review of the OPCO's forward looking financial statements, analyses and presents the same to the management.
- Coordinate and Review of the Business Cases / New Business Initiatives including Purchase orders submitted by the OPCOs in order to facilitate their approval process by OG where such an approval is needed by the Group Governance
- Liaises with the OPCO Finance Management team in all finance/operation matters and helps channelling any issues to the right OG finance team
- Liaises with the Strategy department for the Business Planning process for setting the targets and for their outlook strategy and co-ordinate and complete the OPCO KPIs / targets following the completion of Business planning cycle.
- Lead & Co-ordinate for all the Group Business Planning process which includes OPCO's planning submissions reviews with analysis. This includes all the long term valuations for the investments made in order to check and provide comfort to GCFO through Senior Director for the financial outlook submitted by OPCO's. This includes preparation and communication of the entire budget process to the OPCOs along various analysis on the information received.
- Assisting the accounting and other teams in performance of the OPCO with respect of the Investments made and checking for the necessary Goodwill Impairments and all the necessary deliverables and co-ordinate with the Auditors on justifying the assumptions and completing and finalising the process.
- Critically review OPCO's business plan and forecast in conjunction with OPCO's historical performance, market performance, and group and market expectations and provide meaningful conclusions on which decisions can be made.
- Lead and prepare the necessary financial / operations analysis to support GCFO for performing the monthly, quarterly reviews including the necessary supporting for the analyst / investors calls and all investors presentation materials.
- Capex Business Cases and PIR (Post implementation review):

- Coordinate with OPCO / Group cross functional team to review and validate the capex requirements and the business cases supporting the AOP/3Year Business Plan for Capex requirements.
- Lead / coordinate for the Capex PIR (post implementation review) process for previously approved Capex Business cases along with cross functional teams.
- Prepare all the necessary analysis for PIR and summarise the analysis for Capex Squad for further action required on their performance.
- Global Cost Benchmarking exercise - Lead, drive and own the process for internal Group Cost Optimization program to fulfil and implement the cost gap identified in the GCB Projec