Analytics Assurance - Experienced Associate - JRC

Jordan | Posted on 07-Oct-2024

Position Summary

Location
Amman

Position: EA/Senior – Analytics Assurance

Team: Technology and Data Assurance

Sub-service Line: Assurance

Service Line: Audit & Assurance

Location: Jordan (JRC) or Riyadh

Expected years of experience: 4 yrs (EA) and min 5 years (Senior)

Other expectations: Female bi-lingual preferred

Details of the role

  • Technical and functional contribution towards delivering bespoke analytics/analytics-based professional services to solve real-life client problems.
  • Analyze large data volumes and have a meaningful comparison, trends and provide insights for better Interpretation, decision making and recommendations.
  • Analyze both financial and non-financial data and develop insights and/or factual results that is to be understood and contextualized by finance/accounting users.
  • Build various kinds of data models, to independently validate complex client scenarios.
  • Present information effectively using data visualization tools.
  • Ideate and build solutions to automate finance related tasks, activities and processes to ultimately help improve accuracy and efficiency.
  • Collaborate with other specialists in developing analytics driven solutions.

Skills expected from the candidate

  • Business acumen with a problem-solving mindset.
  • Practical experience in the application of data science concepts to real-life client problems in an advisory/consulting capacity.
  • Analytical mindset, paired with an affinity for BI technologies, used for analysis, visualization and reporting of data-based business topics.
  • Exposure to finance/accounting business processes and datasets related to financial cycles, e.g. order to cash, procure to pay, fixed assets, etc.
  • Analyze large data volumes and have a meaningful comparison, trends and provide insights for better Interpretation, decision making and recommendations.
  • Proven experience as a Data analyst. Data scientist skills are an added bonus.  
  • Experience in performing analytics for either internal audit or external audit purposes is an added bonus.
  • Experience in working with large and complex data sets, with coding skills for analytics and data manipulation (SQL, R, Python) and related data modelling.
  • Experience in using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI)
  • Experience in process automation using RPA tools (UIPath preferred)
  • Practical knowledge in Excel VBA and advanced excel is an added advantage.
  • Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written in English), with proven ability to convey complex messages clearly and with conviction
  • Appetite for growth through continuous self-learning.