Forensic Data Analytics Consultant

Job description / Role

Forensic Data Analytics Consultant - Dubai

Morgan McKinley is partnering with a high profile global consultancy firm to recruit a number of Forensic Data Analytics Consultants. Forensic Data Analytics consists of a team of specialists dedicated to the prevention, detection and investigation of economic crime and providing assistance in the resolution of disputes.

Their Forensics Data Analytics team has a unique expertise by combining accounting, technology and investigative skills to analyse and interpret business and financial evidence visually. The team is responsible to build cognitive and perceptual data models, develop continuous monitoring solutions and perform a wide-range of data analytics to help our clients to identify irregularities and uncover fraudulent scenarios.

Responsibilities:
* Deliver projects such as searching for evidence of fraud and abuse within a company's finance system, or looking for hidden patterns within the global payments of a bank accused of money laundering.
* Much of their work centres on the analysis of large volumes of electronic data. Speed of response is often critical to clients, so they are constantly innovating and drawing on the very latest technologies.
* Consulting with clients on business issues, often explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical people;
* Building relationships with clients and senior members of the team;
* Drafting reports and presentations to explain our findings to clients;

Requirements

A high profile global consultancy firm are looking for experienced Forensic Data Analytics consultants at senior, assistant manager and manager level in Dubai. You will be working as part of an international team in a corporate setting with a structured career path available.

* Minimum of Graduation/ Post Graduation in a technical or analytical based subject (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics);
* Demonstrable strong data analysis experience using either SQL or SAS/ R to an advanced level in a work environment;
* Demonstrable experience of using a statistical software package, with an understanding of common data quality problems;
* Demonstrable experience of identifying data requirements, ETL process, data cleansing, manipulation, clustering and text mining techniques;
* Extraction and analysis of ERP data from vendors such (e.g. SAP, Oracle Financials, Microsoft Dynamics, FOCUS);
* Ability to handle large volumes of complex data sets;
* Working experience of Business Intelligence and Data Visualisation tools such as Tableau/ Qlik View or any other similar tools;
* Demonstrate Forensic thought process while designing data analysis steps
* An understanding of basic accounting principles.
* Concise and clear communication when presenting and explaining results and findings;
* Arabic speakers are preferred (spoken and ability to read/write Arabic)

This position is based in Dubai, however candidates should also be prepared to travel as some opportunities can require team members to work at client site from Sunday to Thursday.

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.