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Manager – Financial Control & Business Performance Jobs in Doha, Qatar at Confidential
Title: Manager – Financial Control & Business Performance
Company: Confidential
Location: Doha, Qatar
A diversified organization in Qatar is seeking an experienced finance professional to oversee financial reporting, planning, controls, cash-flow management, and business performance across multiple operations.
This position requires a commercially minded finance leader who can strengthen financial governance, deliver reliable management information, improve processes, and support senior leadership with data-driven insights.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee monthly and annual financial closing, reporting, and account reconciliations.
- Prepare management reports, financial analysis, forecasts, and performance dashboards.
- Coordinate budgeting and monitor actual results against approved plans.
- Manage cash-flow forecasting, working capital, receivables, and payables.
- Strengthen financial controls, approval processes, and accounting procedures.
- Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards and regulatory requirements.
- Coordinate external audits, tax submissions, and statutory reporting.
- Review business proposals, pricing, contracts, and investment opportunities from a financial perspective.
- Monitor the financial performance and profitability of different business activities.
- Identify opportunities for cost optimization, automation, and process improvement.
- Support consistent accounting practices and intercompany reconciliations.
- Lead and develop the finance team while promoting accuracy, accountability, and timely delivery.
- Provide financial recommendations and decision support to senior leadership.
Candidate Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline.
- Professional qualification such as ACCA, CPA, CMA, ACA, or equivalent is strongly preferred.
- Minimum of eight years of progressive finance experience, including three years in a supervisory or management capacity.
- Experience supporting multiple companies, business units, or revenue streams.
- Strong knowledge of financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow management, and internal controls.
- Good understanding of IFRS and applicable Qatar regulatory requirements.
- Experience managing audits and statutory reporting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency in ERP or accounting systems.
- Strong commercial judgment, analytical ability, and stakeholder-management skills.
- High standards of integrity, accuracy, and confidentiality.
- Fluency in English; Arabic is an advantage.
Key Success Measures
- Timely and accurate financial closing and reporting
- Budget and forecast accuracy
- Effective cash-flow and working-capital management
- Audit and regulatory compliance
- Strength of internal financial controls
- Reduction of overdue receivables
- Completion of intercompany reconciliations
- Quality of financial insights provided to management
- Cost savings and process improvements
- Finance team performance and development