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Practical notes on building finance and reporting functions in the local market.

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Senior-led by design

The person who scopes your engagement is the person who delivers it.

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Management consultancy · Doha, Qatar

The discipline of global practice, sized to your business.

A Doha-based advisory firm formed by professionals who trained and built their careers within the Big 4.

Systems your people actually use.

Accounting procedures, cost frameworks and budgetary controls designed around how your business really runs.

Senior practitioners, start to finish.

The person who scopes the engagement is the person who delivers it. No handover to a junior bench.

Based inZone 26, Doha
Engagements led bySenior practitioners only
ClientsCorporates, family groups, public sector
What we cover

Four quadrants, one team

Strategy & organisation

Corporate strategy, feasibility and business cases, governance and risk, organisational design, transformation and PMO.

Finance & control

Accounting methods and costing, budgeting and forecasting, FP&A, internal control, compliance and management reporting.

People & markets

HR strategy, workforce planning, grading and reward, performance management, marketing, brand, pricing and communication.

Operations & technology

Production and supply chain, quality and procurement, MIS and dashboards, IT strategy, ERP selection and readiness.

Advisory team reviewing findings around a boardroom table
Working sessions, not status calls
Consultants working through documents and analysis together
Documented method
The Doha skyline at dusk
Based in Qatar
Who we work with

Four kinds of client

Family-owned businesses

Second and third generation groups formalising how the business is run and reported.

Government entities

Public bodies improving planning, efficiency, control and management information.

Large corporates

Established organisations restructuring finance, operations or reporting functions.

Growing companies

Businesses that have outgrown informal processes and need proper systems in place.

About us

Big 4 training,
independent practice

Senior practitioner in the office

We are a Doha-based advisory firm formed by professionals who trained and built their careers within the Big 4. Our team has delivered engagements across strategy, finance, human capital, operations and technology for clients ranging from family-owned businesses to government entities and large corporates.

That background shapes how we work. We bring structured methodologies, rigorous documentation and a standard of deliverable our clients recognise immediately. What we leave behind is the layered hierarchy, the long ramp-up and the pricing that often puts serious advisory work out of reach for growing organisations.

Our services cover management consultancy in its full sense: corporate and business strategy, organisational design and restructuring, business process improvement, financial planning and management reporting, cost and budgetary control frameworks, human resource policy and workforce planning, performance management, governance and internal controls, procurement and supply chain advisory, and ERP selection, readiness and implementation support.

Every engagement is led by a senior practitioner — the person who scopes the work is the person who delivers it. We size teams to the problem rather than to a billing target, and we define success in terms of what changes in your organisation after we leave. How we work
Our services

Defined scope, documented method

Ten service lines across management consultancy, each delivered as a defined scope of work with agreed outputs at every stage.

  • 1.1Corporate and business strategy formulation
  • 1.2Strategic planning, vision/mission and objective setting
  • 1.3Market entry, growth and diversification strategy
  • 1.4Business model design and value proposition development
  • 1.5Feasibility studies and business case development
  • 1.6Mergers, acquisitions and post-merger integration advisory (non-financial-audit)
  • 1.7Corporate governance frameworks, board advisory, delegation of authority design
  • 1.8Risk management frameworks and enterprise risk assessment
  • 1.9Policy and procedure manual development

  • 2.1Organisational structure review and redesign
  • 2.2Operating model design and functional restructuring
  • 2.3Business process reengineering, mapping and documentation
  • 2.4Change management planning and implementation support
  • 2.5Programme and project management office (PMO) setup and support
  • 2.6Business transformation roadmaps and benefit realisation tracking
  • 2.7Shared services and outsourcing advisory

  • 3.1Design of accounting methods, procedures and chart-of-accounts structures
  • 3.2Cost accounting programme design and costing model development
  • 3.3Budgeting, budgetary control and forecasting frameworks
  • 3.4Financial planning and analysis process design
  • 3.5Working capital, cash flow and capital allocation advisory
  • 3.6Financial performance reporting and KPI design
  • 3.7Investment appraisal and business valuation support for management decisions

  • 4.1Marketing strategy, objectives and policy development
  • 4.2Brand strategy and positioning
  • 4.3Pricing strategy and commercial policy design
  • 4.4Sales force structure, channel and distribution strategy
  • 4.5Customer experience and customer relationship management advisory
  • 4.6Product portfolio and go-to-market planning

  • 5.1HR strategy, policy and procedure development
  • 5.2Workforce planning, manpower studies and organisational charts
  • 5.3Job analysis, job descriptions, grading and job evaluation
  • 5.4Compensation and benefits structure design, salary benchmarking
  • 5.5Performance management system design
  • 5.6Competency frameworks, succession planning and talent management
  • 5.7Employee engagement, culture and satisfaction assessments
  • 5.8Qatarisation / nationalisation planning and localisation strategy
  • 5.9HR operating model and HR service delivery design

  • 6.1Production planning, scheduling and capacity control
  • 6.2Operational efficiency, productivity and process improvement (Lean, Six Sigma)
  • 6.3Quality management system design and implementation support
  • 6.4Supply chain, procurement and inventory management advisory
  • 6.5Procurement strategy, category management and sourcing policy design
  • 6.6Vendor management and contract administration frameworks
  • 6.7Facilities and asset management advisory

  • 7.1Management information system requirements definition (advisory, not software development)
  • 7.2Performance measurement frameworks, balanced scorecard, KPI cascades
  • 7.3Management reporting and dashboard design specifications
  • 7.4Internal control framework design and control self-assessment
  • 7.5Compliance framework and policy development
  • 7.6Benchmarking studies and maturity assessments

  • 8.1Advice to government entities on planning, organisation and efficiency
  • 8.2Public service delivery models and service level frameworks
  • 8.3Institutional capacity building and reform programme support
  • 8.4Regulatory impact and policy implementation advisory

  • 9.1Public relations strategy and corporate communication planning
  • 9.2Internal communication frameworks
  • 9.3Stakeholder engagement and management plans
  • 9.4Crisis and reputation management advisory
  • 9.5Lobbying and government relations activities

  • 10.1IT strategy and digital transformation roadmaps
  • 10.2ERP and enterprise systems selection advisory, requirements definition, readiness assessment
  • 10.3Business process alignment for system implementations
  • 10.4Data governance and information management strategy
  • 10.5Technology sourcing and vendor evaluation support
Insights

Notes from the work

Practical writing on finance functions, controls and operating models in the Qatar market.

Our method

Diagnose, design, embed

Every engagement follows the same three movements, whether the subject is a chart of accounts or an operating model.

Phase one

Diagnose

Review the systems, records and processes as they actually run — not as the manual describes them — and set out the gaps in writing.

Phase two

Design

Build the framework: procedures, controls, cost and budget structures, reporting lines and the measures that will show whether it works.

Phase three

Embed

Train the people who will run it, document it in a manual, and stay through rollout to refine what the first cycle exposes.

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Careers

Work on the file,
not on the org chart

We hire people who want to do the work rather than manage layers of it. If you have trained in audit, advisory, finance, human capital or technology and you want engagements where your name is on the deliverable, send us your details. Every application is reviewed by a partner and answered either way.

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