About Salla

At Salla, we're building the future of commerce in the region. As Saudi Arabia's leading e-commerce platform, we empower our merchants with the technology, tools, and insights they need to launch, operate, and grow successful online businesses.

As part of our commitment to developing Saudi talent and supporting early-career professionals, we are excited to offer an opportunity through the Tamheer Program to join our Finance team. This program provides Saudi nationals with hands-on experience, professional development, and meaningful exposure to a fast-paced technology environment.

Role Overview

The Junior FP&A Specialist supports the company's financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and management reporting processes that enable executive and board-level decision-making. This is a hands-on analytical role designed for someone at the beginning of their FP&A career who is eager to develop expertise in financial planning, financial modeling, and business performance analysis.

Working closely with the Senior FP&A team, you will help maintain accurate forecasts, prepare insightful financial reports, analyze business performance, and support data-driven decision-making across the organization. This role offers an excellent opportunity to build a strong foundation in Financial Planning & Analysis within a high-growth technology company.

What You’ll Do?

• Support the monthly rolling forecast and annual budget: gather input, update driver-based models, and reconcile actuals to forecast.
• Prepare monthly variance analysis (actual vs. budget vs. prior year) across revenue, gross margin, and OPEX, and draft plain-language commentary on the drivers.
• Maintain and improve recurring reporting packs and KPI dashboards.
• Pull and validate data from source systems and BI tools; flag data-quality issues before they reach the numbers.
• Help build financial models, and ensuring formula integrity, consistent logic across periods, and clean structure.
• Assist in month-end close from the FP&A side (accruals review, cost allocations, segment tagging).
• Partners with stakeholders across finance and the wider business — department heads, budget owners, and data teams — to gather inputs, resolve discrepancies, and align on assumptions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or another quantitative discipline.

• Internship, cooperative training, capstone project, or university project experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), Financial Analysis, Accounting, Audit, Corporate Finance, or a related analytical function is considered an advantage.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, with the ability to build and maintain accurate financial models and reports.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) fundamentals, including:

1. Financial Statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement)
2. Budgeting and Financial Planning
3. Financial Forecasting
4. Variance Analysis (Actual vs. Budget, Forecast, and Prior Year)

• Ability to analyze financial and operational data, identify trends and variances, and communicate key insights to support business decision-making.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present financial information clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.