Business Analyst / Business Information Specialist

Job description / Role

Business Analyst / Business Information Specialist

General Responsibilities:

To achieve the client's objectives for the CDC Township Program, a Program Management Office is to set up the required delivery tools, systems, processes, and procedures. The PMO will plan, coordinate and guide the townships, while continuously improving organizational performance across the program. Working within the CDC PMO, the overall responsibilities and duties under this role are to support the Program Controls unit in business analysis, dashboarding, database tasks for ongoing and foretasted projects.

Specific Responsibilities:

- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details.
- Designing, developing and maintaining business intelligence solutions
- Crafting and executing queries upon request for data
- Presenting information through reports and visualization
- Design, build and deploy BI solutions (e.g. reporting tools)
- Debugging, monitoring and troubleshooting BI solutions
- Create tools to store data
- Evaluate and improve existing BI systems
- Collaborate with teams to integrate systems
- Develop and execute database queries and conduct analyses
- Create visualizations and reports for requested projects

Requirements

Required Skills:

- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Mathematics, Management Information System
- At least 8 year of experience in relevant field.
- Effective IT and communication skills in report writing, presentations and effective conversations.
- Advanced Competence in using Excel, VBA, SharePoint, Power BI, PowerApps.
- Excellent communication skills in English language (Arabic also would be advantageous but not essential), both written and verbal, and can communicate with colleagues and clients at all levels
- Ability to work effectively both individually, and as part of a team
- Able to take instruction and work through assigned tasks to completion
- Naturally have a strong work ethic and level of professionalism
- Organised and self-motivated
- Can manage their own stress levels when working under deadlines
- High attention to detail and accuracy

SNC Lavalin's Faithful+Gould business is one of the world's leading integrated project and programme management consultancies; with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximise our clients' interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include : Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focussed our digital transformation around platform modernisation and product development and through standardisation and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Rewards and Benefits:

We offer an excellent package which includes:

- A competitive salary
- Accommodation allowance
- Transportation allowance
- 22 working days annual leave
- Medical and life insurance cover
- Company gratuity scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin
- Employee Well-Being Programme - 24 hour free advice on financial, legal and family care specialists and also access to personal health, fitness and nutrition consultants

About the Company

SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.

Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning.

Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service. We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.