Key roles and responsibilities:
- Contracts & Pricing
- Review and approve client budgets across multiple departments
- Facilitate contract negotiations between clients, vendors, internal teams, and legal
- Ensure projects align with business terms and develop summary sheets for account teams
- Client Reporting & Audits
- Deliver monthly budget-to-actual reporting to account teams
- Coordinate and compile data for client audits
- Financial Analysis & Planning
- Review client fee phasing and expense detail with senior finance and client leads
- Manage accounts receivable across client portals (Etimad, GFS, and others)
- Analyze client budgets, explain variances, and support forecasting
- Assist in annual revenue and staffing budgets
- Prepare monthly financial packages and provide insights on trends and projections
- Identify opportunities to improve client profitability, utilization, and revenue health
- Revenue Recognition & Project Reconciliation
- Review monthly fees for compliance with revenue recognition policies
- Oversee project reconciliation to ensure financial integrity
- Billing & Cash Flow Management
- Liaise between account teams and billing
- Review WIP, write-offs, and ensure timely service order processing
- Monitor AR health and support credit risk mitigation
- Project & Resource Management
- Lead project setup processes and manage large or complex initiatives
- Support profitability through better client and resource management
- Collaborate with HR and leadership on resourcing needs and budget alignment
Knowledge & Skills
- 7+ years of finance and accounting experience
- Bilingual, reading and writing Arabic at professional level.
- Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting and CPA, MBA, or public accounting experience is a plus.
- Knowledge infinancial systems (e.g., PeopleSoft, Workday or any other ERP system) and strong Microsoft Excel skills isa must.
- Team player with proven ability to work cross-functionally and across multiple stakeholders to achieve goals and objectives.
- Capacity to manage a busy workload and tight deadlines.
Job Location and Benefits:
- Riyadh, The Business District Airport Road
- Working hours 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Career development opportunities.
- Hydride working module
Edelman Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Edelman and has not been reviewed or approved by Edelman.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as comprehensive, with health plans commonly framed as a strong part of the overall package. Mental and physical well-being programs are also emphasized as meaningful support.
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Flexible Benefits — Work flexibility is positioned as a standout, including hybrid routines and a “Work From Anywhere” option for part of the year. Flexible public holidays are also highlighted as adding practical choice to how time is used.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings such as a 401(k) match (and pension-style contributions in some markets) are consistently presented as a solid component of total rewards. This tends to improve overall package value even when base pay feels less competitive.
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