Finance & Revenue Analyst

Finance & Revenue Analyst - Saudi Operations Excellence Programme. Location: Kochi, India. Duration: 6-Month Fixed Term Programme. Reporting To: Project Lead / Senior Business Analyst – Saudi Operations Excellence Programme. Timings: 1pm to 10 pm. Arabic language proficiency is mandatory. About Linnk Group: Linnk Group is a global consulting and operations support organisation partnering with leading businesses to deliver operational excellence, process optimisation, and technology-enabled solutions. As part of the Saudi Operations Excellence Programme, we are establishing a dedicated programme team to review, optimise, and strengthen operational processes across finance, commercial operations, reporting, and technology requirements. We are seeking a Finance & Revenue Analyst to support the review of the complete Sales to Cash lifecycle, improving financial visibility, strengthening controls, and identifying opportunities for process improvement and automation. Role Overview: The Finance & Revenue Analyst will be responsible for analysing and documenting the end-to-end commercial and financial processes supporting the Saudi operation. The role will focus on understanding how customer contracts, purchase orders, billing, collections, revenue forecasting, and financial reporting are currently managed, identifying risks, control gaps, and improvement opportunities. The successful candidate will work closely with Finance, Operations, Commercial, and Customer teams to establish stronger financial controls, improve reporting visibility, and capture requirements for future Linnk IQ development. Key Responsibilities: 1. Commercial Process Review: Review and document the commercial lifecycle including contract management, contract creation, approval, storage and monitoring processes, identify gaps in contract visibility and ownership, recommend improvements to contract governance, review purchase order creation, approval and tracking processes, assess controls around PO utilisation and expiry, identify risks related to unbilled revenue or PO limitations, develop recommendations for improved PO visibility, review customer commercial processes and approval workflows, analyse pricing, billing terms and commercial agreements, identify opportunities to strengthen commercial governance, review customer renewal processes, assess tracking mechanisms for contract and PO expiry dates, recommend renewal management controls. 2. Finance Process Review: Review key financial processes across the Sales to Cash lifecycle including billing process review, document invoicing processes, review billing triggers and approval workflows, identify delays and manual activities, recommend improvements to invoice accuracy and timeliness, review customer collections processes, analyse follow-up and escalation procedures, identify opportunities to improve cash collection cycles, review overdue debt management processes, analyse ageing reports and collection controls, recommend improved monitoring and escalation frameworks, assess current revenue forecasting methodology, review forecasting inputs, assumptions and reporting frequency, identify opportunities to improve forecast accuracy, review existing margin reporting processes, analyse visibility of revenue, costs and profitability, identify reporting gaps and improvement opportunities. 3. Operational Controls Development: Support creation of stronger financial and commercial controls including PO expiry tracking framework, contract renewal tracking framework, invoice status tracking, collection tracking mechanisms, revenue assurance controls and financial KPI reporting requirements. 4. Linnk IQ Requirements Gathering: Gather finance and commercial system requirements, identify workflow automation opportunities, document reporting and dashboard requirements, capture finance-related pain points and improvement opportunities, support creation of the Linnk IQ finance requirements backlog. 5. Reporting & Analysis: Develop improved visibility across commercial and financial activities through KPI identification, dashboard requirement definition, financial reporting analysis, data quality reviews and management reporting recommendations. Key Deliverables: Sales to Cash Process Map, Commercial Controls Framework, Revenue Assurance Framework, Contract & PO Register Framework, Finance Requirements Register. Required Experience & Skills: 3+ years of experience in finance analysis, revenue operations, commercial finance or business analysis, strong understanding of Sales to Cash processes, experience with contracts, purchase orders, invoicing and collections, strong Excel and financial analysis skills, experience creating reports and analysing financial data, strong attention to detail and documentation skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams. Preferred: Experience working within international operations, supporting process improvement or transformation projects, ERP, finance systems, CRM platforms or workflow tools, staffing, consulting, professional services or project-based organisations, understanding of revenue recognition and commercial controls. Technical Skills: Microsoft Excel (advanced formulas, reporting, data analysis), financial reporting tools, process documentation tools, dashboard preparation, ERP/finance systems, CRM systems, business intelligence tools and automation workflows. Personal Attributes: Commercial awareness, analytical mindset, detail-focused, ability to review processes and identify improvements, strong documentation and communication skills. Programme Success Measures: Clear understanding of Sales to Cash lifecycle, improved visibility of contracts, POs, billing and collections, identification of revenue leakage risks, stronger commercial and financial controls, defined reporting requirements, high-quality finance requirements for Linnk IQ development. Application Requirements: Updated CV, examples of finance process improvement or reporting projects, experience with revenue analysis, commercial controls or operational transformation, experience supporting international teams if applicable.