Omantel ICT
Senior Proficient Strategy Development (Financial Planning & Strategy)
- Permanent
- Muscat, Oman
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 17/01/2026
Job overview
Date posted
03/12/2025
Location
Muscat, Oman
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
17/01/2026
Job description
The Senior Proficient Strategy Development role at Omantel provides advanced financial planning, forecasting, and strategic analytics to guide corporate strategy across existing and emerging business domains. Operating within the Strategy & Innovation unit under Corporate Strategy, the role validates business plans, assesses investment proposals, performs financial modeling, and conducts long-term forecasting to support portfolio management and strategic decision-making. The position requires deep expertise in financial projections, scenario modeling, variance and sensitivity analysis, enterprise valuation, ROI and payback assessments, and alignment of financial assumptions with corporate strategy. Responsibilities include reviewing business cases for subsidiaries and new ventures, monitoring financial performance through P&L, balance sheet and cash flow analysis, preparing dashboards and analytical reports for executive and board-level consumption, and ensuring compliance with Omantelās financial governance, group policies, and regulatory requirements. The role acts as a strategic partner to senior management, providing risk assessments, opportunity identification, and optimization levers to support investment prioritization, M&A evaluation, divestitures, and new market entry decisions, while institutionalizing financial discipline across strategic initiatives.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Develop and maintain comprehensive financial models supporting strategic planning, portfolio management, and new business initiatives.
- Prepare long-term financial forecasts and scenario analyses aligned with corporate strategy and market outlook.
- Conduct variance and sensitivity analysis to assess performance under changing economic, competitive, and regulatory conditions.
- Collaborate with departments and subsidiaries to consolidate corporate financial projections and ensure alignment.
- Review and validate financial assumptions and projections for business plans, investment cases, and new ventures.
- Assess feasibility, ROI, payback period, and capital efficiency of strategic initiatives.
- Perform comparative benchmarking against industry peers and historical performance to ensure realistic assumptions.
- Provide strategic financial recommendations highlighting risks, opportunities, and optimization levers.
- Evaluate financial performance of business domains, subsidiaries, and strategic projects via periodic P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow analysis.
- Identify deviations from plan and coordinate corrective actions with relevant teams.
- Prepare analytical reports and dashboards for GM Corporate Strategy summarizing insights and strategic implications.
- Support board and executive reporting requirements with validated financial data and projections.
- Provide data-driven insights for investment prioritization, resource allocation, and corporate strategy decisions.
- Develop scenario models to evaluate M&A, divestitures, restructuring, and new market entry.
- Contribute to enterprise valuation analyses and sensitivity assessments.
- Support alignment between corporate strategy, budgeting, and capital planning cycles.
- Contribute to financial governance frameworks and policies to strengthen investment decision processes.
- Ensure compliance with Omantelās corporate finance standards, group policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate with Finance, Treasury, and Audit to ensure accuracy and reliability of forecasts and reports.
- Promote financial discipline and transparency across strategic initiatives.
Experience & skills
- Hold a bachelorās degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Possess a professional certification such as CFA, ACCA, CPA, or CIMA (preferred).
- Masterās degree (MBA in Finance or Strategy) is an advantage.
- Have 8ā10 years of progressive experience in financial planning, corporate finance, investment analysis, or strategy.
- Demonstrate a proven track record in financial modeling, forecasting, and business plan validation.
- Bring experience within telecom, technology, or investment sectors (preferred).
- Show capability in conducting ROI assessments, sensitivity analysis, scenario modeling, and valuation work.
- Exhibit strong analytical, strategic thinking, and reporting skills.
- Ensure understanding of corporate finance governance, regulatory requirements, and financial compliance frameworks.
