Ref: RP971-533

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

DESCRIPTION

Souq.com is the largest ecommerce site in the Arab world. Every month, Souq.com attracts more than 50 million visits to its catalogue of more than million unique products in 20 different categories, including consumer electronics, household goods, fashion, watches, perfumes, toys, and baby products. Established in 2005, Souq.com today operates both as an award-winning retail business and an online marketplace that allows SMEs, merchants, brands and distributors to distribute their products online.

With more than 3,000 employees, we operate with the scale and ambition of a big corporation, but we cultivate a strong entrepreneurial and nimble mindset to ensure we execute with speed and efficiency. We have offices and local operations in UAE, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India. We offer competitive salaries and benefits, and a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.

KSA Finance Analyst will assist the country Business finance manager in managing consumer finance for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This position will support and partner with senior leadership to provide financial oversight and decision support in this rapidly evolving space. The successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity and be able to create and maintain efficient & automated processes. The ideal candidate must thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a strong sense of curiosity and initiative, focus on generating results, and maintain a high standard of personal and professional integrity and ethics. The successful candidate will be a thought leader, with the ability to deep dive while thinking big. We are looking for a team-player to play a significant part in defining our team efforts. The position will be based in Riyadh KSA.

PRIMARY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY INCLUDE
· Partnering with KSA consumer team as well as other Finance teams to drive improvement activities, efficiency gains and decision support.
· Support Business initiatives and expansions, support business new initiatives and process design and improvement.
· Participate in preparation of Weekly, Monthly & Quarterly business reviews, as well as planning and forecasting cycles.
· Perform and regular variance analysis to identify business drivers and support ongoing decision making. Translating data into actionable insights for the business development team
· Thinks critically and creates analyses to identify key priorities for new country launches
· Support the consumer team to identify and own opportunities to grow KSA profitability, maintain tracker of such initiatives to ensure the successful implementation.
· Translating data into actionable insights for the business development team
· Automate reporting for weekly business metrics, identify areas of opportunity to automate and scale adhoc analysis

Requirements

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technology or related field
· Minimum three (3) years of relevant experience in a business analyst/data analyst/statistical analyst role
· Advanced working knowledge of Excel
· Ability to build scalable models
· Ability to apply basic statistical techniques (i.e. hypothesis testing, control groups)
· Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively communicate with both business and technical teams.
· Proven problem-solving skills, project management skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Understanding of the e-Commerce business model
· Experience of Oracle / finance ERP is preferred. Hands on experience on accounting & reconciliation process is also value added.
· Certification of accounting professional or MBA preferred. (CPA, ACCA)
· Arabic Speaking is a plus.

About the Company

Amazon.ae, formerly Souq.com, is an English-Arabic language e-commerce platform, owned by Amazon, Inc. It is the largest e-commerce platform in the Arab world. On March 28, 2017, Amazon.com Inc. confirmed it would be acquiring Souq.com for $580 million. On May 1, 2019, Souq.com became known as Amazon.ae.

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