Assistant Manager, Strategy & Analytics

Dubai Holding; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Dubai Holding Entertainment is seeking an Assistant Manager, Strategic Planning & Analysis to transform business and operational data into meaningful insights that inform planning, performance improvement and decision‑making across our diverse portfolio.

You will collaborate with Finance, Commercial, Operations, Revenue Management, Marketing, Sales, Technology, Data Analytics and business leadership to support performance reporting, budgeting, forecasting and the digitalisation of reporting.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Between three and seven years of experience in financial planning and analysis, strategic planning, business performance, commercial finance, reporting or analytics.
• Strong experience in budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis and management reporting.
• Advanced Excel skills and proven experience building financial and operational models.
• Strong Power BI user capability, including experience using published datasets to create or enhance reports and analytical views.
• The ability to understand and work with an approved business data model. Experience developing data models is not required.
• Strong data validation and reconciliation skills, with a commitment to producing accurate and timely reporting.
• The ability to interpret business performance and communicate insights through clear data storytelling and presentation materials.
• Strong PowerPoint skills and the ability to prepare concise, decision‑focused management presentations.
• Excellent problem‑solving, planning and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage recurring deliverables alongside ad hoc requests.
• Effective communication and stakeholder‑management skills, supported by a collaborative and customer‑focused approach.
• A proactive mindset and an interest in continuous improvement, reporting automation and digitalisation.
• An MBA or relevant professional qualification would be advantageous. Working knowledge of DAX and Power Query would also be beneficial for interpreting calculations and communicating reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly and ad hoc performance reports, management packs, variance commentary and executive insight materials.
• Analysing revenue, attendance, spend per head, food and beverage, retail, ancillary revenue and other key operating indicators to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Supporting annual budgets, forecasts and long-range plans, while maintaining driver-based assumptions and investigating deviations from plan.
• Building financial and operational models that connect attendance, revenue, customer spend and other commercial drivers.
• Conducting scenario modelling, sensitivity analysis, feasibility assessments and business case analysis.
• Using Power BI to develop and enhance business reports, visualisations, filters and analytical views through approved published datasets.
• Understanding approved business data models and applying their measures, dimensions, relationships, filters and reporting logic accurately.
• Translating business needs into clear requirements for dashboard and reporting enhancements, in partnership with the Data Analytics team.
• Identifying opportunities to digitalise manual reports, supporting business validation and user acceptance testing, and encouraging adoption of approved reporting solutions.
• Reconciling financial, operational, management information and source‑system outputs to maintain the accuracy and integrity of reporting.
• Supporting the assessment of commercial campaigns, events and peak trading periods, and capturing insights to strengthen future budgets and forecasts.
• Translating analysis into clear, practical recommendations for stakeholder review and business discussions.
• Maintaining KPI definitions, process documentation, reconciliation evidence, user guidance and audit‑ready procedures.
• Identifying opportunities to automate, simplify and standardise reporting and analytical processes.

Job description

Dubai Holding Entertainment is seeking an Assistant Manager, Strategic Planning & Analysis to transform business and operational data into meaningful insights that inform planning, performance improvement and decision‑making across our diverse portfolio.

You will collaborate with Finance, Commercial, Operations, Revenue Management, Marketing, Sales, Technology, Data Analytics and business leadership to support performance reporting, budgeting, forecasting and the digitalisation of reporting.