Manager Corporate Planning & Budgeting
Oman Investment Authority
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Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Lead the annual budget, rolling forecast, and latest estimate cycles in accordance with approved calendars, processes, and governance.
Coordinate and validate planning inputs from operated and non operated assets and corporate functions, ensuring quality, completeness, and compliance.
Prepare consolidated financial schedules and summaries for management review, ensuring alignment of assumptions across all cycles.
Drive coordination, challenge, and integration of functional and asset inputs to deliver the Company s Annual Corporate Plan.
Consolidate all planning elements financial, operational, strategic into a complete corporate submission with clear narratives and assumptions.
Reconcile corporate plan outputs with budget, forecast, latest estimate, and prior submissions, providing robust and defensible explanations.
Validate submissions for consistency, compliance with governance, and escalation of material gaps or risks.
Serve as the primary interface between Corporate Planning & Performance and Business Finance teams across all assets.
Ensure timely, accurate, and standardized planning inputs aligned with control frameworks and reporting structures.
Address and resolve data, structure, or governance issues affecting the integrity of the planning and reporting cycles.
Ensure accurate reflection of organizational, portfolio, accounting, and structural changes in planning submissions.
Maintain strong data integrity, documentation, and audit trails across all planning and forecasting cycles.
Ensure adherence to planning governance, approval protocols, and internal policies.
Proactively identify and address data quality gaps to support evidence based planning.
Contribute to internal/external assurance activities and ensure readiness for management and governance milestones.
Lead the development, governance, and continuous enhancement of BI dashboards, tools, and analytical frameworks.
Ensure accuracy, consistency, and alignment of BI outputs with approved definitions and corporate data models.
Integrate operational, financial, and economic data to support management insights and decision making.
Oversee enterprise wide economic evaluations supporting portfolio management, business cases, and capital investments.
Ensure the use of consistent assumptions, methodologies, and economic parameters across assets and corporate submissions.
Review and validate economics outputs before presentation to senior management.
Lead scenario and sensitivity analysis to assess value drivers, risks, and strategic opportunities.
Ensure alignment with corporate strategy and approved planning assumptions.
Maintain high-quality documentation, transparency, and communication of forward looking insights.
Lead the development, rollout, and continuous improvement of Finance Readiness frameworks, ensuring the organization is equipped for planning, reporting, system, and governance changes.
Coordinate readiness assessments, define gaps, and drive action plans across Business Finance, Financial Control, Corporate Planning, and other stakeholders.
Ensure planning and reporting processes, structures, and data models remain fit-for-purpose during organizational, system, or regulatory transitions.
Support change management related to new governance requirements, financial processes, or system enhancements, ensuring smooth adoption and operational continuity.
Oversee readiness for key strategic events (e.g., audits, plan submissions, portfolio changes), ensuring all inputs, controls, and documentation are aligned and compliant.
Lead, coach, and develop the Corporate Planning and Budgeting team to ensure high performance and capability building.
Set clear objectives, KPIs, and performance expectations aligned with departmental and organizational goals.
Drive a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team.
Ensure effective resource planning and utilization to meet planning and budgeting timelines.
Support talent development, succession planning, and knowledge transfer within the team.
Desired Candidate Profile
Bachelor s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline
Minimum 8+ years of progressive experience in corporate planning, budgeting, forecasting, or FP&A within large and complex organizations.
Demonstrated experience managing enterprise-wide planning cycles, including annual corporate plans, budgets, rolling forecasts, and latest estimates.
Proven capability in coordinating, consolidating, challenging, and approving planning inputs across multiple operated assets, non-operated assets, and corporate functions.
Strong experience in the integration, reconciliation, and quality assurance of planning submissions to ensure completeness, consistency, and governance compliance.
Hands-on experience supporting management review cycles, including preparation, validation, and coordination of planning and budgeting materials for executive and governance forums.
Exposure to CAPEX planning, long-term planning, portfolio assumptions, and economic linkages is an advantage.
Experience working in the Oil & Gas / Energy sector, preferably in an upstream environment, is strongly preferred.
Familiarity with finance readiness, including planning governance, data integrity, system/process changes, and audit/assurance requirements, is an added advantage.
Soft:
- Strong managerial and stakeholder coordination capabilities.
- Ability to challenge assumptions and submissions constructively while maintaining strong working relationships
- High level of judgment and escalation discipline
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple timelines and dependencies
- Clear communication skills to support management discussions and governance processes
- Ability to operate effectively under fixed planning and governance timelines
Technical:
- Corporate planning expertise, including budgets, forecasts, and latest estimates.
- Strong consolidation, reconciliation, and review skills.
- Solid understanding of planning governance, controls, and submission requirements.
- Knowledge of planning systems, data structures, and reporting linkages.
- Experience supporting management review cycles and assurance processes.
- Exposure to CAPEX and long term planning is an advantage
Company Industry
- Banking
- Financial Services
- Broking
Department / Functional Area
- Corporate Planning
- Consulting
- Strategy
- M&A
Keywords
- Manager Corporate Planning & Budgeting
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Oman Investment Authority