Business Analyst - MENA, Strategic Initiatives

Amazon; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce company in Dubai seeks a Business Analyst to drive data analytics within the strategic initiatives team for the MENA region. Responsibilities include developing metrics, analyzing business performance, and providing actionable insights to stakeholders. The ideal candidate should have a Bachelor's degree and expertise in Excel, SQL, and data analysis. This role offers the opportunity to collaborate closely with various teams to enhance business intelligence and decision-making processes.

Qualifications

• 1 year of tax, finance, or related analytical field experience.
• 2 years of experience writing complex Excel VBA macros.
• Experience defining requirements and using data to draw business insights.
• Experience using very large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to grow the business sustainably.
• Analyze business performance metrics and present insights.
• Build capabilities for integrating science models for strategy.
• Improve reporting and analysis processes.
• Report results statistically rigorously.
• Own design and maintenance of metrics reports.

Skills

Analytical skills

Complex Excel VBA macros

SQL

Experience with Tableau

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Excel

SQL

Tableau

Job description

Are you customer obsessed flexible analytical strategic yet execution focused hungry and passionate about e-commerce with a strong work ethic? If yes, this opportunity will appeal to you.

We are looking for a Business Analyst who will play a critical role in shaping and driving the data analytics stream within the strategic initiatives team of the MENA region - UAE KSA and Egypt.

The Business Analyst will be responsible for developing the Analytics framework, defining business metrics, mining data to uncover consumer insights and business opportunity, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to drive the business. The ideal candidate will be highly analytical and possess expertise in both qualitative and quantitative analysis with a passion for delivering actionable insights to key stakeholders. The right candidate will blend advanced reporting with strong project management skills.

In this role you will get an opportunity to closely work with Finance MENA Tech team Ops team and WW F3 stakeholders to improve the way we manage business at scale. You will make the best of your skillset in business finance simulation and business intelligence to explain quantify predict and prescribe. You will know how to translate business and financial goals into agile insightful analytics. You will also seek to create value for both stakeholders and sellers and will convey findings in a clear actionable way to managers and senior leaders.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Identifying opportunities to grow the business in a sustainable way engaging with teams to set up the right mechanisms as well as owning the business performance.
• Analyzing and diving deep on our business performance metrics identifying possible changes and presenting insights and recommendations to the leadership team.
• Build the capabilities for how we integrate science/analytics models necessary for evaluation and implementation of new strategies to support growth.
• Continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes automating or simplifying self-service support for secondary datasets updating existing metrics as well as create new metrics.
• Educate inform and drive business decisions by connecting your analysis through the lens of financial performance.
• Report results in a manner which is both statistically rigorous and compellingly relevant.
• Own the design development and maintenance of ongoing metrics reports dashboards etc. to drive key business decisions.
• Recognize and adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity test design analysis validation and documentation.
• Tune complex query performance using profiling tools and SQ.

Qualifications

• 1 years of tax finance or a related analytical field experience.
• 2 years of complex Excel VBA macros writing experience.
• Bachelors degree or equivalent.
• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights.
• Experience with SQL or ETL.
• Experience working with Tableau.
• Experience using very large datasets.

Required Experience

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