Manager Business Control & Financial Support

Job title:

Manager Business Control & Financial Support

Reference Number: 227795

Location:

Qatar - Doha

Job Family:
Corporate & Commercial

Closing Date: 26-Feb-2026

An exciting opportunity to join the Business Control & Financial Support – Operations team as Manager Business Control & Financial Support. This role is responsible for the preparation of financial and strategic information, monitoring variance against the budget, evaluating opportunities/risks, and implementation of cost control. Supporting the middle management business with financial business cases, dashboards and analyses. Focus on value-added, meaningful, and insightful reporting and analyses for Senior Management in Finance and middle management Business.

Organize and manage requests from Senior Management Finance, set priorities and manage daily work of team members. Ensuring compliancy with QR accounting policies and procedures.

• Develop, monitor and review, Internal Accounting Policies and Standard Operating Procedures for each area of operation within the business unit, in line with business needs, with focus on process improvement and internal control.
• Facilitate risk management process and mitigation activity through appropriate trend analysis and impact modelling on company business operations, initiatives, projects, strategic goals and objectives.
• Establish and enforce proper accounting methods for financial accounting and oversee month end / year end closing activities.
• Develop advanced financial models and conduct analysis using a broad range of quantitative tools and techniques (trend analyses on past financial and operational performance, root cause analyses, analysis of profitability drivers, scenario modelling for future options, unit-cost benchmarking).
• Responsible to participate in the annual strategic planning process - this may encompass industry and market trends and analysis, SWOT analysis, scenario analysis and planning, budgeting and forecasting, strawman development and sensitivity analysis.
• Develops business partner relationship functionality with leaders of assigned area of responsibility.
• Introduce a way of thinking culture that causes people with the authority to recommend feasible projects to firstly consider the value, risk and relative priority as a fundamental element of submitting the project proposal.
• Prepare, analyse, enhance and present on monthly basis KPI performance to budget holders, analyzing revenue / expenditure variance ensuring that actual income and expenditure remains in line with plan, and analysis are submitted on a timely manner for both the user department and Finance Department.
• Prepare, analyse and present on quarterly basis rolling forecast to business and financial stakeholders.
• Analyse actuals, forecasts, and budgets and prepare analyses for senior management of Cargo and corporate performance against benchmarks.
• Review commercial contracts and business proposals, to be in line with policies and procedures.
• Accountable to present an objective view of the financial situation and provide sound recommendation for the allocation of resources in the most efficient way to achieve business objective.
• Delivering on-going financial analysis and insight driven guidance through a continuous review, analysis, cost reduction initiatives and targets.
• Lead, direct and manage the preparation, execution and analysis of the budgeting process on a timely manner and in accordance with the CFO directives on cost efficiencies for Direct Operational Costs, Manpower and Overheads and challenging budget holders to ensure optimum utilization of resource.
• Enhance the presentation and analysis submitted to Cost Management Committee (CMC) and conduct post CMC analysis for major capital projects and spends.
• Conduct in-depth analysis on a variety of complex strategic and business projects/issue, extracting and analysing data, presenting the findings and making recommendations directly to the business.
• Responsible for monitoring expenditure variances on ongoing basis and ensuring the actual expenditure in line with planned/budget. Lead investigation when variances are significant…