Financial Analyst

Al Jazira Sports & Cultural Club is looking for a Finance Analyst to join our Finance team. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you’ll support budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting across the Club, including financial analysis for first-team operations.

• Coordinate departmental budget submissions and consolidate annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
• Compare actual results with budgets and forecasts, explain key variances, and assess their financial impact.
• Prepare monthly management reports and dashboards covering revenue, costs, and financial KPIs.
• Build financial models and run scenario analyses for business cases, proposed spending, player transfers, and contract renewals.
• Work with department leads to validate assumptions, monitor spending and open commitments by cost centre, update forecasts, and flag risks to forecast targets.
• Reconcile reporting data to the general ledger and improve reporting processes and data quality.
• Summarise financial risks and opportunities for management and track agreed actions.
• Maintain the player cost database, tracking wages, transfer fees, agent fees, and signing-on fees by player and season.
• Prepare monthly cash requirements forecasts covering player costs and other outgoings.
• Serve as the Finance point of contact for Sports Affairs on first-team player and agent payments.
• Track squad cost KPIs, including the wage-to-revenue ratio and player registration amortisation trends.
• Prepare forecast financial information for club licensing submissions.
• Work with departmental budget owners to set up SAP Budget Management.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, budgeting, or management reporting.
• CPA, ACCA, ACA, CMA, CIMA, or an equivalent professional qualification is required.
• Practical experience in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including financial modelling and scenario analysis.
• Experience with Power BI or a comparable reporting tool.
• Experience with SAP S/4
  
  HANA or a comparable ERP system is an advantage.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to explain financial results clearly to non-finance stakeholders.