Purpose of the job
Analyzing the different technology cost elements, identifies opportunities to improve cost structure and raise flags in case recognizing certain trends that impact the department budget.
Duties and responsibilities
Receives budget input from the technology planning team.
Reviews, validates and challenges the budget input.
Meets with technology department to discuss assumptions.
Identifies key risks and opportunities in the technology cost lines.
Submits cost templates to the budgeting and analysis team.
Reviews and validates accruals with finance operations team.
Performs analysis on the different technology cost lines, identifies key variances from budget.
Meets with technology team on a monthly basis to discuss variances and reasons behind the variance.
Provides technology cost variance analysis in the flash call, CBC and the monthly finance pack.
Tracks CAPEX projects and identifies risks and opportunities in the budget.
Validates purchase committee documents and business cases.
Discusses with owner key risks and opportunities.
Performs sensitivity and what-if analysis.
Tracks savings to budget.
Job specification
Education
Bachelor degree in economics, business, or finance.
Experience
Minimum 4 years, 2 of which in telecom budgeting/decision support.
Skills and abilities
Very good English and Arabic both spoken and written.
Very good computer skills.
Good knowledge of budgeting processes.
Good analytical and presentation skills.
Good communication and interpersonal skills.
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