Risk Analytics Supervisor

Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority in Saudi Arabia seeks an experienced professional to lead risk analytics initiatives, develop risk dashboards, and generate insights that inform policy and compliance actions.

The role oversees reporting, monitoring, and governance activities, collaborating across units to ensure accuracy and timely delivery of risk-related information.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or equivalent is required.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or equivalent is preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Prepare periodical reports for internal ZATCA units and external governmental entities to communicate risk evaluation.
• Develop customized reports highlighting potentially risky taxpayers, passengers, importers, exporters, brokers, etc. and communicate findings with internal stakeholders.
• Develop and share reports with relevant stakeholders to detect risk behaviour of taxpayers, passengers, importers, exporters and brokers.
• Develop reports and insights dashboards to facilitate future oversight and follow-up.
• Study risk and compliance to related KPIs and suggest additional metrics to secure effective support in risk performance assessment.
• Evaluate risk assessment approaches and techniques to secure effective evaluation of detected risks and minimize risk.
• Develop appropriate KPIs to support the detection of discrepancies.
• Facilitate risk detection providing needed support, reports and help to related risk teams.
• Follow-up on customer compliance performance assessing reports and interactive dashboard to recommend improvement actions when needed.
• Conduct assessment on developed systems and models’ performance to ensure achievement of risk targets and safeguard continuous update to reflect changes in the business and regulatory environment.
• Collect and integrate recipients’ feedback, mathematical and statistical techniques to ensure continuous enhancement and improvement of risk reports.
• Follow all relevant policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
• Help in solving escalated problems and provide needed support for junior team to ensure work is carried out in an efficient manner.
• Escalate complex problems to the relevant person to ensure cases/issues are closed properly.
• Perform other duties as requested.
• Train junior staff on the different job activities to ensure transfer of know-how, when applicable.
• Provide clear direction, prioritize tasks, assign and delegate responsibility, and monitor the workflow of subordinates/ junior staff.
• Support junior staff or direct reports in order to execute their duties according to set policies and processes.

Skills

Policy Making

Data Analytics

Collaboration

Fact Based Recommendations

Professionalism

Results Oriented

Governance & Compliance

Risk Management

Customer Focus

Change Enablement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Job description

Purpose of Job

Jobholders at this level are responsible for leading work activities and working autonomously with minor direction towards predetermined long-term objectives. Jobholders oversee the implementation of operational plans and the provision of significant improvements to set policies, procedures, standards and reports. Their main operational role includes managing integration with other ZATCAâs systems, directing the resolution of SAS issues guiding the development of needed architecture documentations and monitoring architectures activities to recommend needed modification and improvement actions.

Reporting

• Prepare periodical reports for both internal ZATCA units and external governmental entities to communicate risk evaluation
• Develop customized reports highlighting potentially risky taxpayers, passengers, importers, exporters, brokers, etc. and communicate findings with internal stakeholders
• Develop and share reports with relevant stakeholders to detect risk behaviour of taxpayers, passengers, importers, exporters and brokers

Monitoring

• Develop reports and insights dashboards to facilitate future oversight and follow-up
• Study risk and compliance to related KPIs and suggest accordingly additional metrics to secure effective support in risk performance assessment
• Evaluate risk assessment approaches and techniques to secure effective evaluation of detected risks and minimize risk facing through recommending control measures
• Develop appropriate KPIs to support the detection of discrepancies
• Facilitate risk detection providing needed support, reports and help to related risk teams
• Follow-up on customer compliance performance assessing reports and interactive dashboard to recommend improvement actions when needed
• Conduct assessment on developed systems and models’ performance to ensure achievement of risk targets and safeguard continuous update to reflect changes in the business and regulatory environment
• Collect and integrate recipients’ feedback, mathematical and statistical techniques to ensure continuous enhancement and improvement of risk reports

Organization and Operations

• Follow all relevant policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner
• Help in solving escalated problems and provide needed support for junior team to ensure work is carried out in an efficient manner
• Escalate complex problems to the relevant person to ensure cases/issues are closed properly
• Perform other duties as requested

People Management

• Train junior staff on the different job activities to ensure transfer of know-how, when applicable
• Provide clear direction, prioritize tasks, assign and delegate responsibility, and monitor the workflow of subordinates/ junior staff
• Support junior staff or direct reports in order to execute their duties according to set policies and processes

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or equivalent is required
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or equivalent is preferred

Experience

A minimum of 5 years of relevant experience

Competencies

• Policy Making - Proficient
• Data Analytics - Advanced
• Collaboration and Communication - Developing
• Fact Based Recommendations - Proficient
• Professionalism - Proficient
• Results Oriented - Proficient
• Corporate Governance and Compliance - Proficient
• Risk Assessment and Management - Advanced
• Customer Focus - Proficient
• Enablement of Change and Innovation - Developing