Finance Business Partner Qatar
The role involves financial governance, compliance, and reporting, requiring strong analytical skills and experience in international finance and team leadership.
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Overview
- The role holder serves as the primary and sole finance lead for the Qatar programme, acting as a trusted business partner to the Vice President Qatar and a key contributor to the Senior Leadership Team.
- This position plays a critical role in driving financial insight, supporting strategic decision-making, and ensuring alignment between in-country operations and wider organisational objectives, working closely with finance and cross-functional teams across both Qatar and the UK.
- Responsible for overseeing all in-country financial governance, the role ensures full compliance with local tax regulations and statutory reporting requirements.
- This includes close collaboration with UK-based entity teams, as well as effective engagement with external auditors, tax authorities, and Group finance functions to maintain robust financial integrity and transparency.
- Additionally, the role holder is accountable for establishing, maintaining, and continuously improving financial controls within Qatar, providing assurance to leadership that these controls are both effective and consistently applied in a complex, high-value programme environment.
- Core duties:
- To make timely and appropriate decisions to impact Qatar Programme financials providing the shop window to internal & external parties on Qatar financial performance
- Providing financial analysis, insight and influence in SLT decision making to drive margin expansion, cash conversion and value creation
- Providing robust and timely financial reporting of the Qatar business into UK&I/Air/Group Finance and relevant external bodies
- Be accountable and responsible for driving financial performance of the programme. Along with providing leadership, key insights and assumptions into the supporting project finance teams
- Responsible for managing all in-country tax and entity reporting requirements, working closely with UK entity teams and liaising with auditors, tax authorities, and Group finance. Accountable for establishing and maintaining robust financial controls in Qatar, providing assurance of their effectiveness
Essential Skills
- Demonstrated success working across international markets, effectively navigating diverse cultures and business environments
- Proven ability to operate within large, complex matrix organisations, influencing across multiple stakeholders
- Considerable experience contributing to and leading multi-functional project teams, with team management capability
- Established track record as a Finance Business Partner, delivering insight to support strategic decision-making
- Holds an internationally recognised finance qualification, underpinning good technical expertise
The Finance Team
You will lead a small, high-impact team, with direct line management responsibility for one team member, alongside broader coordination of the Qatar finance team.
In this role, you will provide informal leadership and direction across in-country finance activities, ensuring alignment, collaboration, and consistent delivery.
You will also play a key role in setting priorities, driving performance, and acting as the central point of leadership within the Qatar finance function.
Why BAE Systems?
Here you ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities.
With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best.
You ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle.
In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a good sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.
A place where everyone can thrive:
We re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions.
These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.
All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.
Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
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