Deals, Data Analytics - Senior Associate

Job description / Role

Deals, Data Analytics - Senior Associate - Riyadh

Management Level
Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary
In an increasingly digitised world, we use data and analytics to help executives, employees, customers and suppliers make the right decisions. This could mean driving new growth opportunities, operating more efficiently or identifying and managing risks & critical issues.

Much of our work requires analysing vast quantities of electronic data using cutting-edge technology to extract meaningful and actionable insights. We use a wide variety of data mining techniques such as social network analysis, machine learning, predictive modelling and data visualisation.

As Deals Analytics senior associate, you'll lead technical delivery on projects and develop deep sector and industry specific expertise. This position in Deals will provide you with an opportunity to work across a range of business units from Deals Advisory, Forensics, Business Restructuring and Capital Projects, and gain access from an early stage to top level management and play a critical part in our project teams.

Opportunities to grow as an individual, to work flexibly, to build lasting relationships and make an impact in a place where people, quality, and value are a priority. At PwC, whether you're an accomplished professional or a promising new talent, you'll have opportunities to continuously learn and advance in your career.

Responsibilities:
- Define a data driven approach and identify use cases for analytics application in projects. Capable of taking responsibility for defined areas of a scope, to include development of analysis, preparation of questions for target management, and participation in meetings with management.
- Show an awareness of materiality in developing analysis and preparing questions.
- Demonstrate an awareness of the attributes of good report writing, dashboarding skills and is capable of communicating simple, practical explanations of your analysis and what it means for the business. Can clearly articulate why a particular piece of analysis is of importance
- Take responsibility for managing their own time and outputs based on the broader engagement timeline.
- Consult with senior team members where necessary, but is willing to offer an opinion or proposed solution where practical.
- Identify the needed data and data sources including both client and external datasets.
- Extract, analysis, cleansing, optimize and manipulate the data.
- Discover hidden and meaningful patterns within data, either to measure historic events or to predict the likelihood of future ones.
- Mentor associates on data handling skills, and upskill the wider digital community.
- Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites.

Requirements

We're looking for enthusiastic, driven individuals,with 2-5 years experience in data analytics with a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Statistics or Computer Science (or other similar quantitative disciplines). You will be required to demonstrate following knowledge and skills:

- Ability to lead yourself and others so you can deliver results in a responsible, authentic, resilient, inclusive and passionate way.
- Willingness to learn about business, and can bring innovation, and fresh thinking, to create distinctive value for our clients and PwC.
- Skilled at building and maintain strong and authentic relationships, within your business network and develop new ones outside of it.
- Team player and knowledge sharing.
- Knowledge of statistical techniques and analysis (such as regression, clustering, sampling, social network analysis).
- Excellent organisational skills, having the ability to prioritise workload whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
- Working knowledge of Finance and Accounting principles.
- Knowledge in data extraction, analysis, cleansing, quality and manipulation.
- Expertise in data analysis and transformation skills with any of the following software: Alteryx, SQL, R, SAS, Python etc.
- Demonstrated ability to visualise data and command over at least on visualisation including Tableau, PowerBI, Qlik, etc.
- Desirable Certifications: Alteryx, Tableau, PowerBI.
- Strong storytelling ability with proficiency in technical communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Language Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) in English and Arabic.
- The ability and willingness to travel.

Travel Requirements
Not Specified

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Yes

Government Clearance Required?
Yes

About the Company

At PwC Middle East, we've set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

We're a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

We're striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we're proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone's uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

If you're looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you're a future PwCer.