Business Systems Analyst (Digital)

Job description / Role

Role

Delivering and successfully implementing the regional digital transformation strategy for Faithful+Gould (part of SNCL EDPM) across Middle East.

- Shared responsibility for leading, developing and implementing regional business systems solutions and modern management technologies for internal and external users.
- Driving standardisation and consistency, ensuring best practice is collected and disseminated across the business.
- Identifying and introducing business efficiencies and streamlining processes using innovative digital technologies.
- Responsible for providing expert, hands-on support from bid phase through to project start-up, defining and leading all implementation activities, gathering requirements and advising on processes and methodologies.
- Capturing and communicating lessons learned to ensure continuous improvement across all core services and systems.

Responsibilities

- Provide system development support to all projects and programmes across the Middle East. Travel is a given.
- Develop and implement methods to standardise and automate business and project management processes and procedures.
- Develop and enhance the supply chain management system in support of developing business requirements.
- Continue to develop and nurture relationships with key software vendors, ensuring we are up to date with developments and improvements and ensuring we share and receive client opportunities.

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.

Requirements

Qualifications Required

- Degree or equivalent in Engineering, IT, Mathematics, Science or Technology related subject.
- RICS, PMI or APM qualifications preferred.

Experience Required

- Advance Excel, SharePoint, Database, SQL, System Integration, PowerBI, Tableau, etc.
- Developing and implementing business systems or tools.
- Developing technical delivery processes.
- Understanding of project management, planning and project controls processes and methodologies.
- Capable of being customer facing in technical sales support role.
- Able to build relationships with software vendors / partner organisations and leverage these relationships for business benefit.
- Proficient in providing creative and technical vision and direction to development teams, interfacing with technical programming personnel.
- Knowledge of AGILE practices when used to sequentially develop and deliver systems and software in usable packages of functionality with clearly defined business benefits.
- Ability to deliver technical training.
- Ability to carry our quality control verification and compliance checks on various service and process areas.
- Ability to engage with end users, encouraging and managing changes in deliver work areas in relation to changing the way we deliver to our clients.
- Experience in managing and implementing large change programmes and projects.
- Ability to problem solve working alone and as part of a systems and process improvement team.
- Experience in developing collateral and contributing during bid submissions to drive and secure future opportunities across the region.
- Experience of working on major projects during start up, delivery and close out - understanding of potential pain points during project lifecycle.
- Experience and knowledge of internal governance and delivery requirements in relation to Business Management Systems and associated standards including risk, change, quality and strategic business review processes.
- Ability to organise, interrogate, analyse and identify trends across large volumes of data.

Rewards & Benefits
We offer an excellent package which includes:

- A competitive salary
- Transportation allowance
- Medical and life insurance cover
- 22 calendar days annual leave
- Medical and life insurance cover
- Company gratuity scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual flight allowance to point of origin
- Employee Assistance 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

Atkins is one of the leading providers of professional, technology based consultancy and support services to the industry, commerce and governments in all of the worlds major economies. With over 17,000 staff operating in Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and the Americas, Atkins has a broad range of skills and resources and provides Clients with a comprehensive service throughout the entire life cycle of the projects in the built environment.

We aim to be the international first choice supplier of technical and integrated services. Shaped by our customers' needs, our vision is to:

• focus on quality
• seek world class design and excellence
• strive to add value
• be flexible to the evolving needs of a changing society

Atkins first carried out design and supervision commissions in the Gulf area in 1967. From its regional head office in Dubai, U.A.E. Atkins Middle East now employs over 2000 staff located in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Oman (Muscat ), Qatar (Doha) Bahrain (Manama), Kuwait (Kuwait City) and India (Bangalore).