Finance Manager – Business Finance

About the role

The Finance Manager – Business Finance is responsible for preparing financial and strategic information, monitoring budget variances, and evaluating risks and opportunities. The role supports middle‑management business units with financial business cases, dashboards, and insightful analyses, while ensuring compliance with Qatar accounting policies.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, monitor and review internal accounting policies and SOPs, focusing on process improvement and internal control.
• Facilitate risk‑management activities through trend analysis, impact modelling, and mitigation planning.
• Oversee month‑end and year‑end closing activities and enforce proper accounting methods.
• Create advanced financial models and conduct quantitative analyses such as trend, root‑cause, profitability, scenario, and unit‑cost benchmarking.
• Participate in annual strategic planning, including market analysis, SWOT, budgeting, forecasting, and sensitivity analysis.
• Build business‑partner relationships with leaders of assigned areas and promote a value‑risk‑priority mindset for project proposals.
• Prepare, analyse and present monthly KPI performance, revenue/expenditure variance, and quarterly rolling forecasts to stakeholders.
• Review commercial contracts and business proposals to ensure alignment with policies and procedures.

Required profile

• Proven experience in preparing financial and strategic information for senior management.
• Strong knowledge of internal accounting policies, SOPs and financial closing processes.
• Demonstrated ability to lead risk‑management and cost‑control initiatives.
• Experience in developing financial models and conducting quantitative analyses.
• Excellent communication skills for presenting analyses to senior and middle management.

Required skills

• Financial modeling and quantitative analysis.
• Budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Knowledge of internal accounting policies and standard operating procedures.