IFS - Tech Advisory - Business Partner

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Dubai, UAE

Ref: HP639-1385

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

IFS - Tech Advisory - Business Partner - Dubai

Line of Service: Internal Firm Services
Specialism: IFS - Information Technology (IT)
Management Level: Manager

Job Description & Summary
A career in Information Technology, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our core business functions by deploying applications that enable our people to work more efficiently and deliver the highest levels of service to our clients. You'll focus on managing the design and implementation of technology infrastructure within PwC, developing and enhancing both client and internal facing applications within PwC, and providing technology tools that help create a competitive advantage for the Firm to drive strategic business growth.

Our Business Analysis - Practice Support team oversees Information Technology project lifecycles to help align our Information Technology solutions with our business needs by identifying and addressing gaps. As a part of the team, you'll help optimize opportunity cost, document the right requirements to create solutions that meet user needs, improve efficiency by reducing rework, and shortening project timelines.

Responsibilities:
• Ability to build and maintain relationship with the business, other technology functions and global teams.
• Communicating with business users/stakeholders to gather requirement specs, and scoping the project.
• Understand, analyze and document business requirements.
• Play the role of main liaison between the business and technology, with the ability to translate and effectively communicate the both side's requirements, progress, results…etc.
• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Analyze and design solutions address business requests.
• Manage the Technology Project Pathway (Assess, budgeting, select, define, execute, operate and support), ensuring coordination and timely input from all local, regional, business and technology stakeholders.
• Perform a timely risk assessment mitigation, escalation and management, in addition, providing technical and process level support to the project and technology teams.
• Build and enhance technology processes.
• Manage and supervise developer / implementer team activities, including applications support and report to the Technology management when required.
• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Staying up-to-date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Performing requirements analysis.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.
• Managing competing resources and priorities.
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

Requirements

Requirements:
• Achievement oriented with the ability to be flexible and adaptive.
• Work independently and as part of a team with a fast pace and a high energy that translates into a high quality output.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant subject areas such as computer Science, Information Technology, additionally Master's degree in Business Administration is preferred
• Years of Experience: 8+ years of relevant experience, Solutions Analysis and design, Solutions Development, Implementation and support with direct interaction with business users.
• Preferable qualifications: The following qualification(s) are preferable and beneficial for the candidate to perform the role:
• Project Management Certificates.
• ERP, CRM, Oracle …etc., implementation certificates.
• SharePoint Development certificates.
• Microsoft Development certificates.
• iOS or other mobile technologies development certificates.
• RDBMS development and implementation certificates.
• Requires leadership, negotiation skills and experience/in-depth knowledge of the business, business requirements analysis and IT technologies across specific area of responsibility.
• Solid experience of (Development and Implementation techniques and best practices, requirement gathering and analysis, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), solutions testing especially UAT, solutions support and maintenance).
• Experience in (Business intelligence solutions, Artificial Intelligence technologies, Data Warehousing and Cloud development).
• Excellent organizational skills, having the ability to prioritize workload whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
• Proven IT skills in the following programmes (Microsoft Office, G Suite)
• Language Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). Fluent in English but multilingual Arabic speaker preferable.
• The ability and willingness to re-locate within the Middle East where the role dictates.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Advanced technical skills.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Experience leading and developing top performing teams.

Travel Requirements: 0%
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.

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