Decision support Supervisor

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

1. Receives budget input from the technology planning team.

2. Review, validate and challenge the budget input.

3. Meets with technology department to discuss assumptions.

4. Identifies key risks and opportunities in the technology cost lines.

5. Submits cost templates to the budgeting and analysis team.

6. Reviews and validate accruals with Finance Operations team.

7. Performs analysis on the different technology cost lines, identifies key variances from budget.

8. Meets with technology team on monthly basis to discuss variances and reasons behind the variance.

9. Provides technology cost variance analysis in the Flash Call, CBC and the monthly Finance pack.

10. Track CAPEX projects and identify risks and opportunities in the budget.

11. Validate purchase committee documents and business cases.

12. Discuss with owner key risks and opportunities.

13. Performs sensitivity and what if analysis.

14. Track savings to budget.

Job specification

Education

1. Bachelor Degree in Economics, Business, or Finance.

Experience

• Minimum 4 Years, 2 of which in telecom budgeting / decision support.

Skills and abilities

1. Very good English and Arabic both spoken and written.

2. Very good computer skills.

3. Good knowledge of budgeting processes

4. Good analytical and presentation skills

5. Good communications and interpersonal skills