Director - Finance Transformation

Qiddiya Investment Company, the visionary project aimed at creating the largest entertainment city in Saudi Arabia, is seeking a strategic and transformative leader for the position of Director - Finance Transformation. This role is pivotal in driving the modernization and efficiency of our finance operations, ensuring that they align with the company's dynamic growth and ambitious objectives.

As the Director of Finance Transformation, you will lead initiatives to optimize finance processes, integrate innovative technology solutions, and enhance overall financial performance. Your leadership will be crucial in fostering a change-oriented culture within the finance team, ensuring that we adapt to industry best practices while supporting our long-term strategic goals.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with finance leadership to define and execute financial transformation strategies and initiatives that align with Qiddiya's vision and objectives.
• Collaborate with senior executives and key stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into actionable finance transformation initiatives.
• Lead and manage cross-functional teams to implement changes in finance processes, systems, and operations to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Support optimum automation of finance processes within the organization for Qiddiya and its subsidiaries, and assets.
• Support the finance technology team towards the development of overall financial systems landscape (system architecture) and implementation roadmap to achieve requisite financial systems backbone.
• Perform fit-gap analysis of the existing system functionalities, identify areas of improvement and guide on recommendations action plan.
• Identify areas for process improvement within the finance department and develop action plans to streamline workflows, optimize resource allocation, and enhance overall efficiency, including Lead the implementation of DOAs for Qiddiya Group/Entities/Assets and ensure proper execution and embedment of approvals in the system.
• Identify the optimization and standardization opportunities for processes across the finance department and enhance organization design, processes, systems to reflect best practices processes.
• Design documents, workflows, KPIs to ensure adherence and effectiveness of processes.
• Plan and implement ramp up of finance functions for the new group entities and assets from the legacy operations and implementation of specific and niche processes and systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's degree preferred)
• A minimum of 12-15 years of experience in finance transformation, process improvement, or finance operations
• Strong understanding of financial processes and systems, with experience in implementing financial technologies (e.g., ERP systems)
• Proven track record of leading finance transformation initiatives in a large organization
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to drive results through data-driven decision-making
• Outstanding communication and leadership abilities, with experience in managing cross-functional teams
• Change management experience and the ability to foster a growth mindset within teams