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Australia

Australia

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

As analytics specialist, I support OfficeMax product, sales, leadership and marketing teams with insights gained from analysing company’s data• Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.• Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of Sales, product development, marketing and business strategies.• Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.• Develop custom data models and algorithms to apply to data sets.• Coordinate with different functional teams to implement models and monitor outcomes.• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy.• Act as point of contact for the assigned projects to ensure communication, collaboration, and teamwork. by • Understand business users needs and manage expectations. • Providing general systems consulting, analysis and task management.• Lead other project team members to ensure proper solution design, build, and implementation.• Responsible for providing advice to data and database personnel regarding application/business intelligence design specifications.

New Zealand

• Collaborate with stakeholders and business users to develop functional requirements.• Lead testing and deployment of the solution to ensure it meets business requirements.• Take ownership of cross team issues and delivery issues including pro-actively communicating across teams to coordinate activities.• Utilize specific business / system expertise and competence gained by active engagement in understanding client’s business environment to o determine or analyze needs for client solutions.o simplify or eliminate low value-added work processes.o recommend creative and innovative solutions.• Act as point of contact for the assigned projects to ensure communication, collaboration, and teamwork. by o understand client needs and manage client expectations. o providing general systems consulting, analysis and task management.o Lead other project team members to ensure proper solution design, build, and implementation.• Responsible for providing advice to data and database personnel regarding application/business intelligence design specifications.• Extract, classify, and analyze data stored in multiple systems for use in the decision-making process pertaining to one or more areas of interest to the customer.• Provide advice and input to senior management regarding project-related decisions. • Participate in the project proposal process relative to solution design and project estimation.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

• Provides technical leadership and guidance and coordinate technical and operational requirements for projects.• Track and report progress against the plan, managing expectations on project status, risks and issues.• Work with other vendors, virtual teams and partners to ensure that the projects’ business and technical aspects are successfully delivered and deployed.• Work closely with stakeholders and delivery teams to define/refine requirements.• Work with the project delivery teams and stakeholders to produce plans/delivery schedules.• Ensure budget and resources are appropriately allocated and controlled.• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of projects.• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of projects.• Produce project status reports for stakeholders.

Dubai

Build and utilize knowledge in the following technical areas: -SQL - multi-pass ROLAP, analytical functions, nested set, and hierarchies; ability to understand and leverage the differences between various database implementations, specifically Oracle, DB2, SQL Server and MS Access.-OLAP cubes structure and data (in PowerPlay models) and build the multidimensional analysis models for different organization departments.-Disseminate information regarding tools, reports, or metadata enhancements.-Data Warehouse :-Maintain data history, even if the source transaction systems do not integrate data from multiple source systems, enabling a central view across the enterprise. -Improve data, by providing consistent codes and descriptions, flagging or fixing bad data.-Provide a single common data model for all data of interest regardless of the data's source.-Restructure the data so that it makes sense to the business users.-Restructure the data so that it delivers excellent query performance, even for complex analytic queries, without impacting the operational systems.-Add value to operational business applications, notably customer relationship management (CRM) systems.-Collect data from multiple sources including sales, inventory, product, and customer databases to create integrated views that can be used to drive decision making-Design, develop, and own standard dashboards/reports that provide overarching view across business units, using data gathered from multiple sources-Perform extensive analyses to find answers to complex business problems

1. Create and develop reports using IBM Cognos reporting tools (Report Studio, Analysis Studio, and Query Studio) across all business units for TECOM INVESTMENTS subsidiaries.2. Document specific proposals for modification / replacement in existing Business Intelligence systems.3. Produce project feasibility reports and share it with managers.4. Translate TECOM INVESTMENTS business requirements into specific project briefs and detailed specifications, including technical details in preparation for coding.5. Develop and maintain documents for :• Requirements.• Design.• Implementation.• Maintenance.6. Work with the TECOM INVESTMENTS team in support of development or enhancement the current BI / MIS systems solutions as needed.7. Identify and propose multiple options for potential solutions and assess them for both technical and business suitability obtaining sign-off from appropriate TECOM INVESTMENTS subsidiary.8. Present BI solution proposals to TECOM INVESTMENTS senior managers in a clear and concise manner.9. Work closely with TECOM INVESTMENTS end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.10. Oversee the implementation of any new BI / MIS systems, provide direct user training and support departments in implementing training of users for new and existing systems.11. Work with Business Intelligence team in support of simplifying, enhancing and engineering or re-engineer business processes.12. Evaluates business requirements and prepares detailed specifications that follow project guidelines required to develop written programs.13. Generates innovative ideas to resolve TECOM INVESTMENTS business problems.14. Serve as primary IT resource for all related BI projects.15. Work with business segments (TECOM INVESTMENTS subsidiaries) 16. Work with vendors/subcontractors to get projects developed and implemented as expected within time and budget.

Dubai

1. Work closely with key stakeholders to understand the business requirements, developing effective working relationships and ongoing management processes for BI project. 2. Review and assesses the business functional requirements. 3. Get an understanding of the current Cognos reporting models. 4. Act as a solution architect for BI project, providing a High level and detailed technical design. 5. Define the deliverables, resource requirements and work plan for Cognos reporting Changes, and manage their development and delivery. 6. Ensure BI project meet industry leading quality standards. 7. Plan, manage and lead software upgrade projects. 8. Create, maintain and FM models and BI applications using Cognos tools. 9. Populate date from external sources to Cognos BI, maintain drivers and mappings. 10. Provide a full support for BI and forecasting exercise and working directly with business representatives. 11. Create and publish packages/multidimensional models using Framework Manager from multiple data sources. 12. Develop Report Studio reports involving drill up, drill down and master/detail queries. 13. Develop and maintain ETL processes to load the BI reporting data mart using Cognos data manager. 14. Perform data modeling and Performance tuning to achieve maximum performance of the BI reports.

Master Of Computer, Computer And Information Sciences, General

Bachelor Of Computer And Information Sciences, Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services

Master'S Degree, Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services