Goal

Provide professional advice and services to the daily activities of a Finance Unit in order to resolve complex finance issues, develop, recommend and implement changes to Finance policies and to successfully prepare financial forecasts, reports and other analyses ultimately aiming for providing the best possible business environment for AOC and its affiliates.

General Profile

• Recognized as an expert within the company
• Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues; recommend process, product or service improvements
• Solves unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business
• Contributes to the development of functional strategy
• Leads project teams to achieve milestones and objectives
• Progression to this level is typically restricted on the basis of business requirements

Key Responsibilities

Functional Specific Responsibilities

Business Control

• Review Business Plan, Operating Plan, Accountability Reports
• Preparations of budgets, forecasts and variance reports for the business including Management Reports
• Implement Governance, Risk & Control (GRC) framework for AOe's Group
• Coordinate manual of approval authorities
• Monitor accesscontrols in SAP POH and SAP PRC
• Set up and execute a system of Continuous Monitoring to ensure controlled business activities within AOC Group
• Set up, coordinate and monitor Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) activities
• Prepare reports and presentations on the aforementioned subjects (ERM, GRC) Monitor and report followup on Internal Audit findings for AOC Group
• Review detailed procedures and guidelines, including incorporation into AOe's office manual excluding Finance and Accounting guidelines
• Support ad-hoc requests

Accounting, Treasury & Tax

• Coordinate preparation of financial and management reporting to Saudi Aramco and the AOC Management team on a monthly basis
• Coordinate preparation of AOC statutory Financial Statements in conformity with EU-IFRS
• Manage Tax compliance in AOe's area of operation
• Manage and maintain AOC Tax Control Framework
• Ensure external compliance Tax reporting
• Manage hedging currency exchange risks with regards to AOe's standalone operations

Contacts

External

• Periodically with Public Accountants
• Periodically with affiliate company personnel regarding financial matters of mutual concern
• Periodically with service organizations, vendors, banks and Saudi Aramco Finance Business Lines regarding finance issues

Internal

• Daily with other Finance personnel at all levels regarding financial data and procedures
• Frequently with Contracting Unit on matters related to proponents to contracts
• Frequently with all levels of AOC professional personnel to improve finance operations and to exchange value added advisory services
• Regularly with President & CEO

Requirements

Functional Specific Requirements

Required Competency Levels

Initiative
Addressing Gaps in Work

• Influences and coaches others across the business unit/function to work independently and identify areas for improvement in work processes.

Motivating and Energizing Self and Others

• Encourages and motivates people to achieve high standards of excellence by consistently raising the bar and coaching others to achieve results .

• Self-Starting
Sets challenging and realistic goals for others; proactively considers the business unit/function's
goals to prevent conflicts of interests and communicates goals to teams.


Quality Orientation
Understanding Quality Standards/Knowledge of Standards of Excellence

• Coaches others to consider factors outside of own work area that may affect quality of work products .

Applying and Maintaining Quality Standards

• Holds teams accountable for maintaining quality standards and implementing corrective actions when necessary .

Measuring and Tracking Quality

• Gathers a variety of data to evaluate quality standards; measures and tracks performance of teams against quality standards and goals.

Customer Focus
Identifying and Anticipating Customer Needs

• Exceeds customers' expectations by transforming the customer's needs into relevant service offerings .

Customer Care/Service

• Asks for feedback on customer satisfaction from multiple sources and incorporates feedback into action plans; leverages understanding of the synergies between functions to serve customer needs.

Following Customer Service Trends

• Ensures that others are always up to date about external customer service trends, as well as internal product/service offerings.

Accountability
Taking Responsibility and Ownership

• Holds team members accountable for accomplishing their objectives, lending support when needed.

Driving and Delivering Results

• Generates motivation and drive toward achieving performance goals by emphasizing responsibility and communicating results standards; is accountable for achieving departmental goals and initiatives .

Managing Expectations and Working Through Setbacks

• Minimizes impact of delays by anticipating problems and implications and taking action to work through setbacks.

Networking/Relationship Management
Seeking and Developing Relationships

• Encourages others to participate in networking events and develop or broaden their own network.

Maintaining Relationships

• Maintains a network of strategic relationships externally, across customers, and internally, across business units to accomplish goals within the department .

Use of Networks

• Leverages existing relationships to uncover deficits and drive performance results with the department.

Required Competency Levels (cont)