Reporting & Analytics Senior Specialist

Purpose of Job

Jobholders at this level are experienced professionals capable of conducting work with general directions. They are primarily concerned with developing solutions to challenges which require some analysis to understand and resolve, and addressing issues escalated from junior levels. They undertake complex operational activities including developing and updating analytical tools, models, and requirements, reviewing and assessing major impacting initiatives to report identified gaps. In addition of planning and prioritizing tasks and related actions, updating related activities through the digital channels, and documenting and archiving all activities based on set standards.

Job Responsibilites

Data Management

• Develop data standards to ensure consistency and efficiency in data processing and safeguard data integrity
• Verify data and information requirements, understand source system platforms, applications and systems in order to define the optimal approach to obtain data from diverse sources
• Extract, transform and load data into developed models and reports and ensure they are adapted to accommodate changes in source systems and new business requirements
• Evaluate the logic used to construct datasets and accordingly develop models covering all needed logical and physical design choices and storage parameters
• Review and analyze feedback from operations functions to update developed analytical/predictive models and provide advanced solutions to assist them in their requests
• Collect related documents and data and handle documentation and archiving activities based on set standards
• Update reporting and analytics related activities through digital channels
  
  
  

Reporting & Analytics

• Build reports to support relevant operations’ functions in specific tax/customs/zakat analysis, conduct relevant studies and report identified gaps and deviations
• Develop different scenario analysis on micro and macro data to test impact on ZATCA’s operations and report findings and observations
• Develop studies to assess system gaps and internal operations evaluations, recommend relevant solutions and communicate with Operation Improvement functions for implementation and follow up
• Design statistical reports on tax and customs operations by type to provide relevant insights for senior management on operations performance, initiatives, targets and progress
• Compile and analyze statistical reports, studies and surveys from local and global entities (MOF, World Bank, IMF, and OECD, GASTAT, MOEP, etc.), ensure mutual collaboration efforts to share findings and observations
• Meet with business units to develop and validate reports/dashboards and provide guidance and support on models and data analysis
  
  
  

Organization and Operations

• Follow all relevant policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner
• Help in solving escalated problems and provide needed support for junior team to ensure work is carried out in an efficient manner
• Escalate complex problems to the relevant person to ensure cases/issues are closed properly
• Perform other duties as requested
  
  
  

People Management

• Train junior staff on the different job activities to ensure transfer of know-how, when applicable
• Provide clear direction, prioritize tasks, assign and delegate responsibility, and monitor the workflow of subordinates/ junior staff
• Support junior staff or direct reports in order to execute their duties according to set policies and processes
  
  
  

Job Details

Communication and Contacs

Eductaion

Bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics or equivalent is required

Experience

A minimum of 2 years of relevant experience

Competencies

Communication - Developing

Policy Making - Developing

Professionalism - Developing

Fact Based Recommendations - Developing

Data Analytics - Proficient

Results Oriented - Developing

Research Methodologies and Principles - Developing

Customer Focus - Developing

Change Enabler - Developing