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Raya Holding for Financial Investments is hiring Specialist (Financial Planning & Analysis).

What will you do?

• Develop and manage the annual budgeting process and rolling forecasts in coordination with various business lines.
• Prepare budget templates and consolidate submissions from departments and subsidiaries.
• Ensure timely and accurate forecasting of revenues, expenses, and cash flows.
• Conduct comprehensive variance analysis (actual vs. budget vs. forecast) and explain key drivers.
• Analyze financial performance trends and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Present financial reports, dashboards, and KPIs to executive leadership.
• Leverage Power BI and Excel (Power Query, Pivot Tables, etc.) to build automated financial models and dashboards.
• Streamline data collection and reporting processes using Oracle Cloud EPM and Discoverer tools.
• Continuously enhance the reporting infrastructure to support dynamic business needs.
• Collaborate with business units and cost center owners to provide actionable financial insights.
• Support long-term strategic planning, investment evaluations, and scenario analysis.
• Assist in internal audit reviews and ensure financial processes comply with internal controls and IFRS.
• Recommend and implement enhancements to existing FP&A processes, models, and systems.
• Document standard operating procedures and support knowledge sharing within the finance team.

Skills What will you need?

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in financial analysis, budgeting, or accounting, ideally in a group/holding structure.
• Proficiency in Power BI and Microsoft Excel is a must (Power Query, dashboards, and financial modeling).
• Experience with Oracle Cloud EPM and Oracle Discoverer is a strong advantage.
• Professional certifications such as CMA, C-FP&A, or IFRS diploma are considered a plus.
• Strong analytical and numerical reasoning skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• High attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Collaborative mindset with the drive to continuously learn and improve.

What is unique about Raya?

• Are you an eager learner? Raya believes in its employees, so we aim to continuously provide learning & development plans for all of our employees to ensure their personal and career development.
• Are you looking for career progression? Raya is an entity where you can grow whether horizontally or vertically as we offer internal transfer opportunities.
• Are you looking for a rewarding environment? Raya's top achievers are awarded annually with an international 5 days trip.
• Are you looking for an opportunity to give back to the community? Raya encourages their employees to give back to the community through different ongoing CSR programs and initiatives.
• Are you a foodie? Exclusive discounts for Raya employees at Raya's restaurants.

Requirements About the company Raya Holding for Financial Investments, a leading investment conglomerate, established in 1999 in Egypt with a vision to be a market leader and to grow into a solid financial conglomerate with multifaceted operations. Headquarter located in Cairo, Egypt; Raya Holding is managing a diversified investment portfolio of 13 lines of business in the various industries of e-payment, information technology, contact center, smart buildings, consumer electronics, food and beverage, land transport, PET remanufacturing, automotive, FMCG and home appliances Raya Holding is listed in the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) since 2005, while the company empowers more than 12,000 proficient employees, accommodating to a wide international customer base from offices based in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Poland, Nigeria and Tanzania. Raya's Lines of Business include; Aman for e-payments, Aman for Financial Services, BariQ, Ostool, Raya Contact Center, Raya Foods, Raya Information Technology, Raya Food Trading, Raya Restaurants, Raya Smart Buildings, Raya Trade, Raya Auto and Haier - Raya Electric.

**Job Profile Summary**
- We recognise that there is a need for organisations like ours to think about sustainability holistically, encompassing climate and environmental concerns as well as a broader set of issues that impact society. There is also the need to follow through on our commitments and aims with timely efforts and transparency on progress. In 2020 we launched a new sustainability frame that helps us to do that.
- The frame includes our net zero ambition and aims and our wider approach to environmental and social issues. It also helps to concentrate our efforts and resources where we believe we can make the most difference. It has three focus areas: get to net zero, improve people’s lives, care for our planet. These include prioritised themes linked to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- This position will play a key role in operationalising this sustainability frame in bp Egypt-
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**Would you like to discover how our diverse, hardworking people are leading the way in making energy cleaner and better - and how you can play your part in our world-class team?**

Join our team and advance your career as an**Environmental & Social Advisor**
Egyptian nationalities only!**In this role you will**:

- Participate in development of ESIAs according to Egyptian regulations and best practices.
- Assist the region progress the Sustainability and Carbon agenda.
- Manage social accountabilities and associated programs and risk/impact reduction measures and coordination of all related activities in various bp sites.
- Contribute to the activities necessary to Manage Environmental and Social Performance
- Manage regulatory inspections and relationships with key external stakeholders.
- Proactively promote environmental best practice to site through operational guidance
- Lead site and system self-verification activities and environmental risk assessments as required.
- Support ongoing environmental monitoring and reporting requirements.
- Manage regulatory, environmental, and social requirements.
- Identify and manage the risks arising from a regulatory, environmental and social perspective.
- Support engineering with the identification and evaluation of low carbon options
- Provide environmental and social support as required in bp’s group defined practices, group guides, HSE&C guidelines and local regulations.
- Utilize bp’s tools such as screening, ENVID, AIRO to identify and manage Environmental and social risks in the region.
- Maintain a compliance management system in the region
- Identify regulatory applicability to the various bp activities in the region.
- Work with regulators and concerned stakeholders to support bp’s activities in the region

**What you will need to be successful?**
- 10+ years of environmental and social management experience.
- Bachelor of Science or equivalent in engineering, geosciences, environmental or related degree.
- Broad understanding and experience of Egypt’s regulatory system and detailed knowledge of regulatory systems and reporting requirements.
- Hands-on experience in ESIA development for different ESIA types.
- Track record of influencing teams and building and maintaining productive internal and external relationships with key stakeholders
- Proven experience in implementing environmental performance improvement; willingness to challenge status quo where appropriate to make change happen.
- Ability to effectively prioritize work on a continual basis.
- Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills across all levels of the organisation
- Relevant experience in operations or projects HSE roles.
- Technical knowledge and experience in environmental and social risks identification and management.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Knowledge of subsea, drilling and/or exploration operations.
- IEMA or equivalent chartership

**Entity**
- Production & Operations

**Job Family Group**
- HSSE Group

**Relocation available**
- No

**Travel required**
- Yes - up to 25%

**Time Type**
- Full time

**Country**
- Egypt

**About BP**

**PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS**

This is the place to truly drive change. Our people develop hydrocarbon resources, deliver projects, operate refineries as well as oil and gas production assets.
- Join us and make a difference by:
- making our production and operations safer and more standardised
- driving quicker reduction of our carbon emissions
- growing cash returns and delivering improved reliability and optimisation
- maximising efficiency through sharing resources
- accelerating the digital transformation of our operating assets
- developing our people faster, leveraging the scale of P&O
- building greater integration and collaboration in service of our purpose

**Experience Level**
- Intermediate

**Legal disclaimer

**Responsibilities**:

- Prepare the detailed SBP/AOP/Rolling/LE Forecasts related to P&L, Balance sheet accounts, cash flow and taxes.
- Full ownership on the P&L for the assigned business.
- Review and challenge the planned assumptions with the budget owners and ensure they are in line with the company’s direction and targets.
- Track & analyze the actuals volume, revenues & spending & identify the reason of deviation vs. AOP/ PY
- Partner with the commercial planning & supply chain planning to be able to justify the variances across P&L line and to be able to provide the full story to internal management & sector teams.
- Provide full support to the business leaders in evaluating the productivity initiatives and assess the impact on the financials.
- Identify and assess the risks and opportunities to the business and provide early alerts on the potential deviation from the plans; Coordinate with the functions in defining the mitigation actions and align the management.
- Coordinate with Control to ensure completeness of all accruals (un-recorded liability)
- Monthly review and analyze with control all BS accounts prior to submission and present the analysis to the finance management in the monthly review.
- Track and analyze the BS KPIs versus plan and trends and provide recommendation on how to improve the working capital and achieve KPIs
- Track and analyze the x-charges accruals and amortization with the functions, control & tax.
- Review tax related transactions (WHT, Sales, Income, Add-on taxes, Deferred, Property )
- Review inter-company movements and aging.
- Identify opportunity to improve our KPIs and ensure monitoring the performance by month.
- Ensure the integrity of the internal controls whenever applied
- Provide the planning and analysis of the major MU project I,e restructuring, smart spending
- Responsible for submissions and reporting for MU.

Qualifications:

- Finance / Economics degree from an accredited school
- Preferably CMA/MBA Holder.
- Minimum 5 years of experience preferably in FMCG.
- Ability to work on own initiative and within a pressurized environment.
- Possess leadership abilities and the capability to deal with people at all levels of responsibility.
- Excellent customer service, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent command of Arabic and English language.
- Problem solving skills.
- Planning and analytical skills.

**Responsibilities**
- Prepare the detailed SBP/AOP/Rolling/LE Forecasts related to P&L, Balance sheet accounts, cash flow and taxes.
- Full ownership on the P&L for the assigned business.
- Review and challenge the planned assumptions with the budget owners and ensure they are in line with the company’s direction and targets.
- Track & analyze the actuals volume, revenues & spending & identify the reason of deviation vs. AOP/ PY
- Partner with the commercial planning & supply chain planning to be able to justify the variances across P&L line and to be able to provide the full story to internal management & sector teams.
- Provide full support to the business leaders in evaluating the productivity initiatives and assess the impact on the financials.
- Identify and assess the risks and opportunities to the business and provide early alerts on the potential deviation from the plans; Coordinate with the functions in defining the mitigation actions and align the management.
- Coordinate with Control to ensure completeness of all accruals (un-recorded liability)
- Monthly review and analyze with control all BS accounts prior to submission and present the analysis to the finance management in the monthly review.
- Track and analyze the BS KPIs versus plan and trends and provide recommendation on how to improve the working capital and achieve KPIs
- Track and analyze the x-charges accruals and amortization with the functions, control & tax.
- Review tax related transactions (WHT, Sales, Income, Add-on taxes, Deferred, Property )
- Review inter-company movements and aging.
- Identify opportunity to improve our KPIs and ensure monitoring the performance by month.
- Ensure the integrity of the internal controls whenever applied
- Provide the planning and analysis of the major MU project I,e restructuring, smart spending
- Responsible for submissions and reporting for MU.

**Qualifications**
- Finance / Economics degree from an accredited school
- Preferably CMA/MBA Holder.
- Minimum 5 years of experience preferably in FMCG.
- Ability to work on own initiative and within a pressurized environment.
- Possess leadership abilities and the capability to deal with people at all levels of responsibility.
- Excellent customer service, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Excellent command of Arabic and English language.
- Problem solving skills.
- Planning and analytical skills.