Operations Director

Job description / Role

With a fast paced expansion plan set for the year 2015, we are currently looking for Operations Director for our Corporate Office in Qatar. Primary responsibility is ensuring organizational effectiveness by providing leadership for the organization's financial functions and contributing to the development and implementation of organizational strategies, policies and practices.

The candidate would be mainly responsible for leading the following three areas:

- Financial Management - Direct fiscal budgeting and planning process for the organization's fiscal budget; develop and manage fiscal budget; oversee monthly and quarterly assessments and forecasts of organization's financial performance against budget, financial and operational goals; oversee short and long-term financial and managerial reporting; managing day to day processing of accounts receivable and payable, producing reports as requested; reconciling monthly activity, generating year-end reports, and fulfilling tax related requirements. Assisting Country Director in creating fiscal organizational budget and monitoring cash flow; ensuring Finance Department requests are resolved and communicated in a timely manner to internal and external parties; develop long-range forecasts and maintaining long-range financial plans.

- Organizational Effectiveness - Manage the overall office functions. Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of Support Services through improvements to each function (HR, PRO Services, Finance, Proposals & Marketing, and IT) as well as coordination and communication between functions. Drive initiatives in the management team and organizationally that contribute to long-term operational excellence. Drive initiatives in the management team and organizationally that contribute to long-term operational excellence.

- Organizational Leadership - Contribute to short and long-term organizational planning and strategy as a member of the management team.

Requirements

- Minimum qualification of a Bachelors degree in the field of Engineering.
- Minimum period of 20 years work experience.

Preferred criteria:
- Strong operational skills, preferred business management or projects controls experience.
- Self-innovated, a leader, and able to work under no supervision in a heavy workload environment. This will be beside a quality sense of defining management and administrative problems, collecting appropriate and related data to establish solutions.
- Qatar market experience preferred.
- Ability to develop and roll out systems, procedures and work flow processes, and contributes to their improvement.
- Multinational Consultancy Firm background.
- Fluency in Arabic is preferred.
- Ability to define problems collects data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret extensive variety instructions and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

About the Company

The Louis Berger Group is an internationally recognized consulting firm that provides engineering, architecture, program and construction management, environmental planning and science, and economic development services. For nearly 60 years, we have been a devoted and trusted partner to U.S. federal, state, and local government agencies; national, provincial, and local governments; multilateral institutions; and commercial industry. To this diverse client base we bring strategic vision and an entrepreneurial spirit, developing innovative solutions to the worlds most challenging problems.

Around the world, we operate with a commitment to integrity and hold ourselves to the highest standards of ethics, quality, and accountability. From our president to our teams in the field, we share a genuine sense of respect and stewardship for the places where we work and the people whose lives we impact.

The Louis Berger Group is one of 10 firms that make up Berger Group Holdings. With a resource base of 6,000 dedicated employees and affiliate employees in more than 50 countries, we are able to respond to local conditions while providing clients with the technical resources and rapid response capabilities of a leading global organization.