# FP&A Manager > Arabic.AI · Amman, Jordan · Full-time · Posted 2026-11-15 **Workplace:** on_site **Department:** Finance ## Description **Job Purpose**  As the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager at Arabic.AI, you will play a key role in planning, budgeting, forecasting, analysis and performance reporting across a multi-entity organization within the Corporate Finance team. You will own the monthly management reporting package across all legal entities and on a consolidated basis, deliver the annual budget, rolling forecasts and reforecasts with clear full-year landing views, and lead monthly performance reviews across revenue, ARR, gross profit, margins, EBITDA, OPEX, cash flow, headcount and key operating metrics. Acting as a finance business partner to Commercial, Product, Technology, Operations and People teams, you will challenge assumptions, improve resource allocation and provide decision support on investments, pricing and costs. The role combines hands-on analysis with leadership and the use of AI, building repeatable AI workflows and agents that automate recurring FP&A work under proper review and confidentiality controls. You will make sure the numbers are accurate and governed by consistent standards, and turn them into clear insights, Board decks and investor updates for the Budgeting, Reporting and Planning Senior Manager, the executive team and the Board, helping the business make better decisions.  **Duties & Responsibilities**  **Reporting & Performance Analysis**  - Own and review the monthly management reporting package across all legal entities and on a consolidated basis, including the P&L, balance sheet highlights, cash and KPIs.  - Perform actuals vs. budget and actuals vs. forecast variance analysis, and write clear commentary on the key drivers.  - Lead monthly performance reviews covering revenue, ARR, gross profit, margins, EBITDA, OPEX, cash flow, headcount and key operating metrics.  - Reconcile reporting outputs to the general ledger and ensure figures are consistent across entities.  - Analyze revenue and ARR by client, segment and entity (including new, expansion and churn movements), and costs by department and cost center.  - Turn financial results into business narratives and present them to the Budgeting, Reporting and Planning Senior Manager, the executive team and the Board.  - Prepare Board decks, investor updates, quarterly and annual reporting packages and ad hoc materials that clearly articulate company performance, strategy and outlook.  **Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning**  - Run the annual budget process, including calendar, templates, assumptions, consolidation and version control.  - Build revenue, headcount, operating expense and capex budgets with business owners.  - Deliver rolling forecasts and quarterly and monthly reforecasts, with clear full-year landing views and bridges vs. budget.  - Track forecast accuracy, explain deviations and drive improvements in forecasting discipline.  - Maintain the assumptions book and document every change between versions.  - Develop driver-based models and scenario analysis covering upside, downside and stress cases.  **Working Capital & Cash**  - Analyze AR and AP aging, and track DSO and DPO trends.  - Prepare and maintain the weekly cash flow forecast.  **Business Partnering & Decision Support**  - Act as the finance business partner to Commercial, Product, Technology, Operations and People teams, challenging assumptions and improving resource allocation.  - Work with cost center owners on variance explanations, accruals and budget inputs.  - Provide decision support on investments, pricing, costs and resource allocation, including evaluating business cases, investment proposals and new client or market opportunities.  - Respond to ad hoc analysis requests from management.  **AI & Automation**  - Create repeatable AI workflows or agents for recurring FP&A tasks, such as variance commentary drafts, reporting pack preparation, data checks and reconciliations.  - Use AI to support ad hoc executive analysis and shorten turnaround on management requests.  - Apply human review, validation and data confidentiality controls to all AI-generated outputs before they are used in reporting.  - Document, maintain and share AI workflows so they can be reused by the wider finance team.  **Governance, Systems & Process**  - Maintain strong governance over budgets, forecasts and reporting standards, including budget transfers, change control and spend approvals in line with policy.  - Maintain financial models, reporting templates and dashboards in Power BI or similar tools.  - Maintain consistent definitions for KPIs such as ARR, margins and EBITDA across entities and reporting packages.  - Identify opportunities to automate reporting and improve data quality.  - Support external audit, impairment testing and valuation inputs where required.  **Education, Experience & Qualifications**  - Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field.  - Professional certification such as CMA, CFA, ACCA or CPA is preferred.  - 7–10 years of experience in FP&A or corporate finance.  - Has led budgets, rolling forecasts and reforecasts end to end.  - Experience presenting to C-level executives and the Board, and preparing Board-ready decks and investor updates that tell the story behind the numbers.  - Has partnered with Commercial, Product, Technology, Operations or People leaders to challenge assumptions and support decisions.  - Experience with SAP ERP data and multi-entity reporting and consolidation.  - Advanced Excel and strong financial modelling skills.  - Strong understanding of ARR, gross profit, margin, EBITDA, OPEX, cash flow and headcount metrics, and what drives them.  - Hands-on AI skills, with a track record of designing and deploying repeatable AI workflows or agents that automate recurring finance and reporting tasks with appropriate review and controls.  - Working knowledge of IFRS.  - Experience with Power BI; planning tools such as Anaplan or Adaptive are a plus.  - Strong attention to detail and structured thinking, with the ability to challenge assumptions constructively and influence stakeholders.  - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain numbers simply.  - Fluent in English and Arabic, both written and spoken.  **Behavioral Competencies**  **Technical Competencies**  - Team Building & Management  - Conflict Management  - Time Management  - Results Orientation  - Influencing Others  - Budgeting, Forecasting & Planning  - Financial Modelling & Scenario Analysis  - Management & Board Reporting  - SaaS & Financial Metrics (ARR, EBITDA)  - AI Workflow Automation  - Multi-entity Consolidation (SAP)  - Power BI & Advanced Excel  - IFRS ## Apply [Apply at Arabic.AI](https://apply.workable.com/arabicai/j/B9CD29B50A/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)