Business Intelligence Engineer III, Strategic Initiatives

About the role

The strategic initiatives team of the MENA region (UAE, KSA and Egypt) is looking for a Business Intelligence Engineer to shape and drive its data analytics stream. The role develops the analytics framework, defines business metrics, mines data for consumer insights and business opportunities, and works with Finance, product and program teams, business units, marketing, operations and global stakeholders to turn business and financial goals into actionable analytics.

Key responsibilities

• Identify sustainable business growth opportunities, engage teams to set up the right mechanisms and own business performance.
• Analyze business performance metrics deeply, identify changes and present insights and recommendations to leadership.
• Build the capabilities needed to integrate science and analytics models for evaluating and implementing new strategies.
• Improve ongoing reporting and analysis, automate or simplify self-service support for secondary datasets, update and create new metrics.
• Educate and drive business decisions by connecting analysis to financial performance, reporting results rigorously and clearly.
• Own the design, development and maintenance of metrics, reports and dashboards.
• Adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, validation and documentation.
• Tune complex query performance using profiling tools and SQL.

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in tax, finance or a related analytical field.
• Bachelor's degree; preferred: MBA or advanced degree in statistics, analytics, operational research, business or a related discipline.
• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights.
• Self-driven, detail-oriented, able to deliver on ambiguous projects with incomplete data, and able to build collaborative relationships with data engineering, BI, software development, finance, modeling and product teams.

Required skills

• 3+ years of writing SQL queries and creating BI reports with Tableau and Power BI.
• Experience with Excel; preferred: experience building scalable reporting.
• Preferred: proficiency in R, Python or other statistics and machine learning tools, and experience in machine learning, recommendations and/or personalization.