Senior Financial Analyst - Assistant Manager

Apply for Senior Financial Analyst - Assistant Manager at MDLBEAST in جدة, S02, SA. This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth. We are looking for a Assistant Manager / Senior Financial Analyst to join our FP&A team. This role sits at the intersection of finance and the business, providing decision‑support analytics for festivals, events, label deals, partnerships, and new ventures.

They will be the financial brain behind go/no‑go decisions on events, sponsorship deals, artist contracts, and capital investments – owning deal‑level P&Ls from pitch to post‑event reconciliation. This is a high‑visibility role with direct exposure to senior leadership. The right candidate is commercially minded, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to translate complex financial analysis into clear recommendations for non‑finance stakeholders.

Build and maintain detailed event‑level P&Ls covering ticketing, sponsorship, F&B, merchandise, production, talent, marketing, and overhead allocations. Lead pre‑event budgeting in partnership with event producers, marketing, and commercial teams; track actuals against budget through the event lifecycle. Conduct post‑event reconciliation and variance analysis; produce post‑mortem reports identifying margin drivers, cost overruns, and revenue realization gaps. Model scenarios for ticket pricing, capacity, sponsorship tiers, and cost structures to support commercial decision‑making.

Build business cases for new events, venues, partnerships, and capital investments using NPV, IRR, payback period, and sensitivity analysis. Evaluate sponsorship and partnership deals –including telecom, FMCG, and media partners—quantifying value‑in‑kind, cash, and activation costs. Analyze artist booking economics, including guarantees, backend splits, production riders, and break‑even attendance thresholds. Support label and publishing deal analysis: recoupment modeling, advance economics, royalty waterfalls, and rights valuations.

Act as the embedded finance partner to commercial, marketing, and event production leads. Translate financial analysis into clear recommendations and trade‑offs for non‑finance stakeholders. Challenge assumptions in business cases and pricing proposals; provide an independent commercial view. Support contract negotiations with vendors, partners, and talent –providing financial framing on deal terms.

Produce monthly commercial performance dashboards covering event portfolio P&L, deal pipeline, and ROI tracking. Prepare board‑ and executive‑level decks summarizing event performance, deal economics, and forward‑looking commercial bets. Identify trends across the event portfolio: cost benchmarks, revenue per attendee, sponsorship yield, and margin patterns.

Standardize event P&L templates, deal evaluation frameworks, and ROI methodologies across the business. Partner with accounting and FP&A peers to ensure clean data flow from operational systems into commercial reporting. Build repeatable models and tools that scale as the event portfolio grows.

5–8 years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, investment banking, transaction services, or corporate development. Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field. Strong financial modeling skills –building event/deal P&Ls, NPV/IRR analysis, scenario and sensitivity modeling from scratch in Excel. Demonstrated commercial judgment –ability to identify what drives value in a deal and articulate trade‑offs to business stakeholders.

Advanced Excel proficiency (complex modeling, lookups, dynamic arrays, pivot tables) and strong PowerPoint storytelling. Excellent written and verbal English –comfortable presenting to senior leadership and producing executive‑grade output. Strongly Preferred Experience in entertainment, live events, media, hospitality, sports, or other event‑driven industries. CFA, CMA, ACCA, CPA, or MBA –fully or partially completed. Experience with deal structuring,…