Vice President of Planning, Analysis and Investor Relations

Job description

About the employer: Founded in 2014, the employer is a leading restaurant management and payment technology provider, headquartered with offices in five countries. The company operates at the intersection of SaaS, fintech, and payments. Role Overview the employer is seeking a commercially minded, analytical, and technically advanced Finance Leader for the role of Vice President of FP&A and Investor Relations. This full-time position, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, serves as a strategic partner to the CFO, CEO, Board of Directors, and leadership team. The role focuses on translating performance into decisions, challenging assumptions, improving forecast quality, managing investor relations, and building a scalable, AI-powered FP&A function. Key Responsibilities Manage annual budget, long-range planning, rolling forecasts and re-forecast cycles, ensuring clear full-year views and disciplined forecast accuracy. Lead monthly performance reviews covering revenue, ARR, gross profit, margins, EBITDA, operating expenses, cash flow, headcount, and key operating metrics. Translate findings into concise operational insights, identifying changes, their causes and impacts and recommended management actions. Develop driver-based financial models and fundamental/upside/downside scenarios to support strategic and operational decisions. Serve as a senior financial partner to business, product, technology, operational and people teams, challenging assumptions and improving resource allocation. Strengthening the governance of operating expenses, and a number employees, capital expenditures, strategic investments, and establishing clear ownership and accountability. Evaluate pricing, new products, geographic expansion, partnerships, major business initiatives, and M&A opportunities through robust business studies and post-investment reviews. Upgrade your FP&A, reporting and automation systems to ensure you scale functionality with the employer and reduce reliance on manual processes. Serve as primary contact for current and potential investors, lenders and other external financial stakeholders. Prepare board decks, investor updates, quarterly/annual reporting packages and custom materials outlining company performance, strategy and outlook. Manage capital raising narrative and supporting materials (data rooms, financial models, KPI packages) in collaboration with CFO/CEO during fundraising or strategic transactions. Oversee the investor reporting calendar, ensuring accurate and consistent communication of financial and operational results in a timely manner. Track investor sentiment, market trends, comparative company performance and industry benchmarks relevant to SaaS/fintech/payments. Coordinate due diligence processes with investors, auditors and advisors, ensuring data integrity and consistency across all external materials. Uses AI tools like Claude to analyze performance, model scenarios, business cases, and management feedback. Analyze large financial/operational data sets to identify drivers, anomalies, trends, risks and opportunities. Create a message Repeatable AI workflows or agents for repetitive FP&A tasks and ad hoc executive analysis. Integrating AI tools with Excel/Google Sheets, BI and SQL tools, planning systems and other financial technologies. Define the scope of AI automation, areas that require human judgment, and processes for validating AI output. Qualifications and Experience 12-15+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, Trade Finance, Business Finance or Strategic Finance, with significant leadership responsibility. Mandatory professional qualification: Active CMA certification or CFA charter. Demonstrate a strong understanding of both the SaaS and Fintech industries, including recurring revenue economics, retention, churn, unit economics, payments economics, margins, and key operating drivers of technology-enabled financial services. Demonstrate the current and evolving use of AI tools like CLOUD in everyday financial work; Basic exposure to AI is not enough. Direct partnership experience with SE

Requirements

• Qualifications and Experience 12-15+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, Trade Finance, Business Finance or Strategic Finance, with significant leadership responsibility.
• Mandatory professional qualification: Active CMA certification or CFA charter.

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