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EY is the market leader in the provision of modelling and analytics solutions to support effective decision making, with a business modelling practice of about 500 professionals globally. EY’s TAS Decision Analytics team develops actionable insight from data, supported by advanced skill in Decision analytics and model development. Deploying industry-leading analytics, this practice area provides insight to executives making strategic and operational decisions about their businesses. It forms part of the Valuations & Business Modelling business line. We are seeking a Manager for our MENA region to support our growth plans for the decision analytics business. This professional is likely to come from a range of related backgrounds covering Data Research, Statistics and Business or Decision Analytics.
Your key responsibilities
As a member of the Business modelling team you will participate in numerous engagements, working effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senior team members on progress. You will also help demonstrate commercial awareness and understanding of the client agenda with examples of this reflected in findings and maintaining productive working relationships with client personnel.
Job Requirements
Skills and attributes for success
This professional is likely to come from a range of related backgrounds covering Data Research, Statistics and Business or Decision Analytics. The ideal candidate will have experience on the development of predictive and prescriptive analytics for different sectors. Experience on Transaction Advisory Sectors would be appreciated as well. Our projects often involve managing multiple stakeholders and high degrees of complexity and uncertainty. Decision making in this environment requires strong client management and communication skills, rigorous analytical techniques and excellent data handling skills.
To qualify for the role you must have
- Approximately 7+ years of data analytics and decision analytics
- Experience in delivering decision analytics / Operations Research solutions based on techniques, which could include some of the following:
- Operations Research (simulation, optimisation, scheduling, inventory control, queuing theory, risk analysis, decision analysis, system dynamics, etc)
- Statistics (e.g. price elasticity analysis, forecasting, predictive analytics)
- Data mining, data visualisation and data management
- Database modelling including use of emerging Big Data technologies(Hadoop)
- Experience of analytics packages, including statistics packages such as SPSS or SAS, visualization packages such as Tableau or Spotfire
- Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases, as well as knowledge of predictive modelling technologies such as SAS Enterprise Miner, SQL Server 2005 DMX etc
- Technically competent in the following areas: data collection and load, data quality assessment, data cleansing, complex data
transformation, relationship profiling, sampling and extrapolation, statistical modelling, segmentation, structured data mining, text mining and analytical matching - Has strong IT skills to programmer level, covering a range of different technologies relating to the techniques above
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Client facing experience from a leading organisation
- Experience and understanding of how business operates MENA region
- Proficiency in the Arabic language
