Reporting and Budgeting Senior Specialist

Role Synopsis:

The role focuses on delivering high-quality management reporting, budgeting, and financial control activities while ensuring effective coordination with accounting and other business functions to support informed decision-making.

The ideal candidate is a proactive finance professional with strong analytical capabilities, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders in a dynamic business environment.

The candidate will be responsible for supporting reporting, budgeting, and financial analysis activities for the headquarters of PASHA Real Estate Group and selected group companies.

Key Accountabilities:

Budgeting and Financial Control:

• Support the annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes in collaboration with key business stakeholders.
• Monitor headquarter cost centers and operating expenses against approved budgets, highlighting variances and key cost drivers.
• Prepare and deliver timely, accurate, and insightful monthly management reports for internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate with development, commercial, accounting, treasury, and project teams to ensure completeness, accuracy, and consistency of cash flow assumptions.
• Perform budget-to-actual and forecast variance analyses, providing clear explanations of key movements and business drivers.

Construction Finance

• Support the application of cost allocation methodologies for centralized and indirect costs across development and construction projects, ensuring consistency with internal policies.
• Monitor the financial performance of development and construction projects, including budget utilization, cost-to-complete analysis, and identification of potential cost overruns.
• Assist in the preparation of project financial reports, analyses, and presentations for management.

ERP projects & automation:

• Participate in ERP, budgeting, and management reporting improvement initiatives.
• Identify opportunities for automation, process enhancement, and reporting efficiency improvements, and support implementation efforts.
• Contribute to the development of reporting databases, templates, and analytical tools.

Desired background:

• Higher education in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field, or/and accounting qualifications such as ACCA, ACA and CIMA
• 5+ years of experience in management reporting, budgeting, or financial control roles.
• Proven experience in leading financial planning and reporting activities
• Fluent in Azerbaijani and English; Russian is a plus
• Experience with different ERPs
• Prior experience in Big4 or similar professional environment in a large organization.

Required skills:

• Strong understanding of reporting structures, budget control, and cost allocation principles
• Understanding of construction/development financial processes and project cost structures
• Strong stakeholder management and business partnering capabilities
• Continuous improvement mindset with focus on process efficiency and automation.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, especially in cross-functional coordination.