Senior Business Analyst

Amazon.ae

Dubai, UAE

Ref: RP971-678

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Amazon’s Middle East Product Team, located across Seattle, Dubai, and Jordan is looking for a Senior Business Analyst with strong technical skills, outstanding business acumen, and an insatiable desire to learn and be curious. This is a key role that will contribute to the evolution and success of Amazon's most recent e-commerce acquisition, Souq.com, and will help shape experiences for millions of current and new customers in the Middle East. If you’re inspired to solve new problems and by the thought of contributing to a new business in a significant way, then this is the role for you.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will play a critical role in driving insights on various parts of the business. You will create visibility through building and maintaining insightful reporting and will participate in special projects aimed at disrupting the industry and driving growth.

The ideal candidate will not only raise the bar on retrieving and analyzing data but is a person who wants to be an active participant with a strong curiosity to understand the business end-to-end, proactively deep dive into issues as they arise, and has a track record of applying good judgment and using data to influence decision makers.

You will partner with Product Managers and work with teams all across Amazon to answer hard business questions. You are expected to excel in an ambiguous, fast paced environment. You will not be limited by the present and will constantly look ahead to the future. Our goal is to improve key product metrics and accelerate the rate of experimentation.

This is a senior role and the successful candidate will enjoy diving deep into data, have outstanding analytical skills, excellent communication strategies and confident with executive level reviews. You will work in a matrix organization, influence people, and negotiate timelines with stakeholders.

Responsibilities include:
• Conduct deep dive analyses of business problems and formulate conclusions and recommendations to be presented to senior leadership.
• Produce written recommendations and insights for key stakeholders
• Simplify and automate reporting, audits, and other data-driven activities
• Build solutions to have maximum scale and self-service ability by stakeholders
• Adopt best practices in reporting and analysis: data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation
• Support business with time-critical data analysis
• Understand a broad range of Amazon’s data sources and know how, when, and which to use and which not to use
• Understanding drivers, impacts, and key influences on business P&L dynamics.
• Mentor other Business Analysts

Requirements

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s degree in math, finance, engineering, statistics, or related discipline is required
• 5+ years professional experience in web analytics, business analysis, or comparable analytics position
• Proficient in multiple flavors of SQL, (e.g. Redshift, MySQL, PostgreSQL) and expertise with MS Excel
• Experience in data visualization platforms (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Quicksight)
• Solid written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize workload and roadmaps
• Data-driven decision making and quantitative analysis skills, including deep knowledge of statistical analysis
• Strong ability to interact, communicate, present and influence within multiple levels of the organization
• High degree of ownership

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Experience in big-data using hadoop, hive, and other open-source tools/technologies
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Experience in deploying machine learning, statistics and/or econometrics in a production setting
• Experience analyzing cost/benefit of feature selection.
• Demonstrated ability to dive deep in understanding the product, our business, and the competitive landscape
• Strong understanding of software architecture and AWS Cloud
• Familiarity with AWS solutions such as RDS, DynamoDB, S3, and Redshift
• Master’s degree, MBA or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related business field.
• Able to travel up to 20% of the time

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.

Get personalised updates on latest vacancies
Job Alerts by Email
  • Personalised updates on latest career opportunities
  • Insights on hiring and employment activity in your industry
  • Typically sent twice a month
Senior Business Analyst salaries in UAE

Average monthly compensation
AED 22,000

Breakdown available for industries, cities and years of experience