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As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will be supporting the business to influence performance through financial analysis and insights, budgeting/forecasting, KPI and variance analysis, management reporting, and financial appraisal. A key aspect of this role is the DSP (Delivering of Sustainable Profitability) programme, where you will identify savings and revenue opportunities, build cases for them, and drive them through to banked benefit. This is a business partnering position for someone eager to create a positive impact on the financial performance of the business.
Job Responsibilities
- Own a defined section of the P&L: analyze actual revenue and cost performance, identify the root causes of variances, and recommend corrective actions to improve performance.
- Drive the DSP agenda: identify and appraise cost-saving and revenue initiatives, build business cases, embed benefits into forecasts, and track realization against targets while escalating slippage early to ensure committed savings are delivered.
- Act as a trusted business partner for Commercial, Technical, Flight Operations, and Inflight Services areas, proactively influencing decisions.
- Define and own impactful KPIs and use them to steer performance.
- Challenge annual budget and forecast submissions against management strategy and targets by testing assumptions and challenging targets.
- Protect margin by challenging spending against targets, quantifying gaps, and recommending actions to close them.
- Build and challenge investment appraisals and business cases (NPV, IRR, payback, break-even and sensitivity) with attention to detail, making clear, defendable recommendations to senior management.
- Review contracts and commercial agreements for financial impact and flag risks.
- Prepare monthly and annual performance reporting for Executive, providing commentary that explains the driving factors and necessary corrective actions.
- Present financial performance and initiative delivery to senior leadership, and support ad hoc analysis that shapes divisional decisions.
Be part of an extraordinary story
Your skills, imagination, and ambition matter. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You will find infinite opportunities to grow and work on rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. Join us as we dare to achieve what has never been done before. Together, everything is possible.
About you
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent with a minimum of 4 years of job-related experience.
- Experience as a financial analyst.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential, along with the ability to effectively interact with employees at all levels across the organization.
- Strong attention to detail and analytical skills to review variances, analyze and interpret data, and understand business cycles and their impact on the profit and loss account.
- Excellent command of the English language.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, MS Access, PowerPoint, and PowerBI.
- Exceptional organizational ability to set priorities, handle multiple responsibilities, and meet deadlines.
- Self-starter with the capability to work independently with minimal instruction.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality of records and information and add value to internal customers.
- Innovative thinking with high motivation and problem-solving skills.
- Good knowledge of internal finance systems.
- Knowledge of cost center accounting, preparing budgets, and forecasts.
General Information
- Ref # 236861
- Location: Qatar-Doha
- Job family: Corporate & Commercial
- Closing Date: 2026-10-22
