Analyst jobs in United Arab Emirates

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OIA Global Since its founding in 1988, OIA Global has grown into a $1 billionworld-class logistics and packaging company that employs over 1,200 professionals in 28 countries. Our knowledge, solution design experience, and installed infrastructure give our customers the confidence and capability to extend their supply chains from emerging production areas to key commercial markets.

The Cost Analyst is responsible for gathering, evaluating, and applying appropriate costs associated with new or existing projects for one or more packaging products, with a focus on global data gathering and analysis. The cost analyst will also be responsible for developing approaches for direct procurement, negotiating with suppliers, and assessing supplier performance across contract terms. Furthermore, as the analyst integrates into the organization, they will be expected to handle a variety of financial, pricing, procurement, category support, and implementation activities to assist sales and product managers as needed, often in flux, and prioritizing multiple, competing, demands. The ideal cost analyst becomes a product, network, and visionary consultant, essential to the continued success of OIA, and a desired voice of strategic input.

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• Gathering, compiling, and preparing project cost analysis while exercising strong attention to detail, accuracy, and providing prompt delivery to stakeholders within tight timelines
• Identifying, documenting, and enacting process improvements to better align procurement activities with corporate strategy or improve costing timelines
• Collaborating with Project Managers, Sales, and International Staff on complex projects for large multinational brands, including the management of the RFQ process with suppliers
• Ongoing analysis of supplier costs and structures, using cost references, historical data, proprietary understanding of production processes, or product features
• Collecting, Confirming, and Final Review of supplier selection, terms, and conditions, buy price, and sales price for all projects to meet client or strategic objectives.
• Working with regional costing and support staff to provide project context and overall corporate direction to ensure quotation accuracy and usefulness
• Ad hoc supplier reviews – performance tracking, margin analysis, program performance and purchase reviews, QBR administration, balanced scorecard implementation, and metadata management
• Cadence based project volume and allocation analysis
• Assisting finance manager with ad hoc financial or project-based costing and pricing assignments
• Creating, updating, and maintaining documentation related to costing processes, analysis methods, or standard engagement procedures

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to manage multiple projects, competing priorities, and coordinate with counterparts in disparate time zones, including flexible working times
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong skills in Microsoft Excel

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or related field, or four years of supply chain work experience.
• At least one year of relevant work experience, preferably in a role with financial emphasis or exposure
• Corrugated paper industry experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with or coursework in financial, sourcing, and cost accounting principles is a plus.

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

OIA Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability. We offer an exciting and growth-oriented work environment, and OIA employees enjoy competitive salaries and excellent benefits.