Business Analyst, MENA Finance

Job Description

We are looking for an outstanding Business Analyst with broad technical skills to build analytic and reporting capabilities delivering strategic analytical/reporting projects, define/produce end-to-end metrics that inform Finance and business teams with data-driven insights.
The ideal candidate relishes working with large volumes of data, enjoys the challenge of highly complex business contexts, and, above all else, is passionate about data and analytics. The candidate is an expert with business intelligence tools and passionately partners with the business to identify strategic opportunities where data-backed insights drive value creation. An effective communicator, the candidate crisply translates analysis result into executive-facing business terms. The candidate works aptly with internal and external teams to push the projects across the finishing line. The candidate is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big (while paying careful attention to detail), and enjoys working in a fast-paced and global team
Key job responsibilities
Core Responsibilities includes but not restricted to:
1. Interfacing with business customers, gathering requirements and delivering complete BI solutions to drive insights and decision making across stakeholder teams.
2. Interfacing with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL (Redshift, Oracle) and ability to use a programming and/or scripting language to process data for modeling
3. Evolve organization wide Self-Service platforms
4. Building metrics to analyze key inputs to forecasting systems
5. Leading complex analytical deep dives (Segmentation, A/B testing)
6. Recognizing and adopting best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dubai, ARE
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
- 5+ years of business analyst, data analyst or similar role experience
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quicksight, or similar tools
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent