
OQ
Manager Corporate Planning & Budgeting
- Permanent
- Muscat, Oman
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 05/06/2026
Job overview
Date posted
21/04/2026
Location
Muscat, Oman
Salary
Undisclosed
Compensation
Job description
The Manager Corporate Planning & Budgeting role based in Muscat, Oman within OQ Exploration and Production is responsible for managing corporate planning and budget consolidation processes across operated assets, non-operated assets, and corporate functions. The position ensures all budgets, forecasts, and latest estimates are accurate, complete, and aligned with approved planning assumptions, methodologies, and governance requirements. The role supports finance readiness by ensuring planning structures, data, and processes remain robust, compliant, and prepared for organizational or system changes. The position is accountable for delivery and integrity of consolidated corporate planning outputs, ensuring timely submission of budgets, forecasts, and latest estimates for management review and governance under the direction of the Head of Corporate Planning & Performance. The role operates in alignment with OQEP Mission, Vision, Values, policies, guidelines, international standards, IT technology platform, QHSE and Energy Management System requirements, Omani government legal requirements, and best international practices aligned with national objectives. The position leads annual budget, rolling forecast, and latest estimate cycles, coordinates planning inputs from operated and non-operated assets, prepares consolidated financial schedules, and drives integration of financial, operational, and strategic planning elements into corporate plan submissions. The role serves as primary interface between Corporate Planning & Performance and Business Finance teams, ensuring data integrity, governance compliance, and standardized reporting structures. The position leads planning governance, maintains audit trails, supports assurance activities, and ensures readiness for governance milestones. The role also leads Business Intelligence and analytics frameworks, integrates operational, financial, and economic data, and oversees enterprise-wide economic evaluations supporting portfolio management, business cases, and capital investments. The Manager Corporate Planning & Budgeting leads scenario and sensitivity analysis, forward-looking financial insights, finance readiness frameworks, change management initiatives, and readiness for audits, plan submissions, and portfolio changes. The role also includes leadership responsibilities including team development, performance management, KPI setting, succession planning, and stakeholder coordination across Business Finance, Financial Control, Treasury, Strategy, Enterprise Risk Management, vendors, system partners, and external advisors.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead annual corporate planning, budgeting, rolling forecast, and latest estimate cycles across operated assets, non-operated assets, and corporate functions while ensuring compliance with governance frameworks, approved calendars, planning assumptions, and methodologies
- Coordinate, challenge, validate, and consolidate planning inputs from Business Finance, Financial Control, and corporate stakeholders, ensuring accuracy, completeness, data integrity, and governance compliance across enterprise-wide planning submissions
- Drive corporate planning ownership by consolidating financial, operational, and strategic planning elements into Annual Corporate Plan submissions, reconciling outputs with budgets, forecasts, latest estimates, and prior submissions
- Serve as primary interface between Corporate Planning & Performance and Business Finance teams, addressing planning data issues, structural changes, accounting updates, and portfolio adjustments affecting planning cycles
- Maintain planning governance, data integrity, audit trails, documentation, and assurance readiness across budgeting, forecasting, and corporate planning processes
- Lead Business Intelligence dashboard development, analytics frameworks, and integration of operational, financial, and economic data to support management decision-making
- Oversee enterprise-wide economic evaluations, portfolio management analysis, capital investment business cases, and value assessments using consistent assumptions and methodologies
- Lead finance readiness frameworks, change management initiatives, planning process improvements, and team leadership including performance management, capability development, and stakeholder engagement
Experience & skills
- Possess minimum 8+ years progressive experience in corporate planning, budgeting, forecasting, or Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) within large and complex organizations
- Demonstrate experience managing enterprise-wide planning cycles including annual corporate plans, budgets, rolling forecasts, and latest estimates
- Demonstrate strong capability in coordinating, consolidating, reconciling, and validating planning inputs across operated assets, non-operated assets, and corporate functions
- Demonstrate hands-on experience supporting management review cycles including preparation, validation, and coordination of planning materials for executive governance forums
- Possess experience with CAPEX planning, long-term planning, portfolio assumptions, and economic linkages with preference for Oil & Gas or Energy sector experience
- Demonstrate familiarity with finance readiness frameworks including planning governance, data integrity, audit and assurance requirements, and system/process changes
- Demonstrate expertise in corporate planning, consolidation, reconciliation, governance controls, planning systems, data structures, and reporting linkages
- Hold Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline with strong English communication skills and ability to operate within governance timelines and complex stakeholder environments