Manager - Finance Process Excellence
About the company:
Almosafer Saudi Arabia’s Leading Travel Company
Elevating the journey for travelers from Saudi Arabia, the region & beyond, while harnessing Seera Group’s 40+ years of expertise, Almosafer supports Saudi Arabia’s vision as a national champion for tourism. Almosafer creates opportunities for outbound, leisure, and religious travel, whilst serving B2C and B2B customers, partners, and suppliers with state-of-the-art travel solutions, a digital-first mindset, and travel advisory.
About the job:
As a Process Excellence Manager you will own the design, control, and performance of finance processes. Deliver a continuous improvement and automation portfolio with measurable benefits for overall finance.
Responsibilities:
- Process design & Continuous Improvement - Maintain versioned process flows; identify and implement improvements; co-design changes with operations and end users; scope and hand off automation with Finance Automation. Actively redesign our current workflows, many of which were built around manual processes to better leverage AI capabilities.
- Policies & controls - Design preventive-first, risk-mapped controls (automated where possible); co-author policies and maintain the repository; run compliance monitoring; classify/escalate breaches; drive Corrective /Preventive Actions to verified closure.
- Operational performance management - Design the operations performance management framework; define KPIs and KPI charters with division heads; agree metrics and internal SLAs; monitor performance. Identify skill gaps, improvement areas, training and L&D requirements.
- Performance & Control reporting - Produce the monthly Finance Operations review pack (scorecard, commentary, decisions); report on the improvement portfolio, benefits register, realization tracker, and delivery verification; maintain the deliverables calendar and report control health, breaches, and corrective actions to leadership.
- Team leadership - Lead and develop the team, expand process support to other finance divisions in addition to finance operations. Recruit and onboard as the function grows; set objectives, give regular feedback, and hold structured 1:1s and development conversations; model evidence-based analysis, respectful engagement, and disciplined documentation; represent finance process excellence in cross-functional forums.
Profile Requirements:
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5-7 years of total professional experience, with at least 1-2 years in process excellence, automation or transformation roles.
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Experience in leading process design, control design, or continuous improvement initiatives end-to-end - from diagnosis through implementation to verified outcome.
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Experience partnering with automation teams (RPA, workflow tools, or ERP-native automation) to scope and deliver process automation.
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Experience in working with operational finance experience (accounts payable, accounts receivable, reporting , treasury,) is strongly preferred - the ability to speak the language of finance is a significant advantage.
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At least 1-2 years of people management experience, or clear evidence of team leadership through matrixed / project-based roles.
Personal capabilities
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Diagnostic mindset - able to hold judgement, ask why five times, and validate hypotheses with data before proposing solutions.
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Comfortable with ambiguity and cross-functional friction - able to hold a position when the data supports it, and change position when it doesn't.
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Coach and challenger - brings out the best in the team and the process owners they work with, without softening the standard.
Being you @ Almosafer:
At Almosafer we strongly believe in diversity and equal opportunities for all candidates. We do not discriminate based on any characteristic and follow fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. Join our inclusive work environment.