About the Role

An exciting opportunity to join the Qatar Airways Continuous Improvement and Transformation Department as Head of FBI. This role is responsible for supporting the development, planning and implementation of the financial strategy, providing business analytics to deliver sustainable profit by maximizing revenue and profit generation while minimizing costs and inefficiencies across all regions and subsidiaries. Lead and manage a team to provide data intelligence, analysis and forecasting to key stakeholders to support decision making for all finance functions across the business.

Your duties would include:

• Work with Finance leadership team to develop a common financial strategy, and feedback business insights to head office to support strategic target setting and decision making.
• Collaborate with QR Leadership teams to address global opportunities and threats.
• Collaborate with all relevant department of QR Finance to proliferate data, tools and techniques across the business to facilitate data driven decision making.
• Identify, plan and support the implementation of business process improvement projects by defining improvement targets and measuring the results.
• Support delivery of strategic innovation including new solutions, products and analytics with the purpose of increasing profit and minimizing cost. Drive development of best practices approach for analytics and metrics through selection of the right people and tools alongside definition of effective processes.
• Define long-term business objectives and KPIs and validate these with department Heads / Executives.
• Keep abreast of industry and regional best practice and development and ensure information and best practices are shared and adopted to the benefit of the company and the Group.
• Lead initiatives to identify and provide detailed analysis of new business venture opportunities.
• Lead long term vision to have one single source of truth for Financial data cross all departments.
• Manage business intelligence projects across the business relating to the achievement of revenue results.
• Provide input into revenue objectives and KPIs in conjunction with key stakeholders. Offer data insights and analytics to support business decision making.
• Train, coach and mentor colleagues (from Executive to any roles, as needed) in Business Intelligence tools and implementation.
• Identify and facilitate opportunities for dashboards, process mapping, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), baselines and challenging targets, automation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Identify and deliver Robotic Process Automation (RPA) opportunities to support the Transformation Strategy.
  Provide regular revenue and cost updates to all key stakeholders to support their operations.
• Conduct frequent revenue performance reviews with key stakeholders in order to produce detail data driven insights.
• Identify areas of revenue leakage, and develop and implement solutions to eliminate leakage.
• Support achievement of best return on investment by ensuring measurement of performance of all relevant business decisions across finance function.
• Coordinate and execute any ad-hoc tasks, as required by senior executives, within the team and ensure an effective production of deliverables.
• Foster a culture of innovation by encouraging team members to produce creative solutions. Create a strong team spirit by demonstrating a can-do attitude to problem solving.
• Build and sustain relationships with senior management within Qatar Airways and create strong ties to external stakeholders where required and appropriate.

Be part of an extraordinary story

Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. Here, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community. Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. Together, everything is possible.

We are looking for a passionate and experienced professional to join our Continuous Improvement and Transformation team. The ideal candidate should possess the following:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with Minimum 10 years of job-related experience
• MBA or Master’s Degree preferred
• Essential experience - Aviation Management, Travel & Tourism, Business Administration, Engineering, Physics, Finance or any other relevant field with substantial quantitative exposure.
• Should have Strong Presentation skills.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, MS Access and Power Point, Data Analytics Software, (i.e., Tableau, PowerBI).
• Proficiency with Oracle Financials is essential.
• Ability to present complicated financial concepts to non-finance individuals is required.
• Managerial skills - Ability to delegate work, set clear direction and manage workflow. Strong mentoring and coaching skills. Ability to train and develop subordinates skills. Ability to foster teamwork among team members.
• Project Management Qualifications.
• Experience in Management role within Airline Industry would be an advantage.
• Experience in multi country responsibility and team leadership will be a plus.

About Qatar Airways Group:

Our story started with four aircraft. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before. So, whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.

How to Apply

If you are interested to submit your application and feel you are a good fit for this role, please complete our application form and upload your CV for our review and consideration.