Data Strategy Governance Manager - #16505

Data Strategy Governance Manager

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

About Accenture

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Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today’s world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That’s where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client’s unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Be in charge of a workstream related to platform design, operating models design, data strategy development, and business cases for telecom and media clients, and deliver together with a team of analysts under the supervision of a project manager

• Address critical business issues and generate insights about client and industry business performance improvement.

• Contribute to the design business and / or technology strategy solutions that will be presented to C-Levels

• Apply deep financial acumen and propose innovative value creation opportunities for sustained growth and profitability.

• Work together with the manager to understand leading edge technology capabilities and the transformational impact they may have on their business.

• Coach and mentor analysts on the team.

• Support the production of proposals around topics such as Big Data.

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Skills and Qualifications:

• Overall, 7 years of experience with at least 4 of relevant industry, functional and/or data strategy experience.

• At least 3-4 years working in a management consulting firm

• Good knowledge of SQL and reporting tools, such as Power BI, Tableau.

• Good knowledge of Cloud based infrastructure, API, Integrations, ETL, data pipelines.

• Arabic Speakers Preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• Engineering and technical background

• A high degree of comfort with strategic decision-making and strong quantitative skills to develop financial or operational models and conduct data analysis.

• Strong analytical skills, understands complex issues, quickly absorbs information, excels in conceptual and creative problem solving.

• Digitally savvy; curious and passionate about technology, understands its impact on business and society.

• Cloud, Big Data, Data Science certification will be welcomed but not required

• Driven; enjoys a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determined and optimistic.

• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements.

Why join us?

• We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues

• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools

• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards

• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends

• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

Next Steps

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