Assistant Manager - Business Intelligence

Operating in the UAE for over 50 years, CBD manages the financial requirements of some of the largest corporates and businesses operating in the country, driving the UAE economy. Over the years, CBD has transformed into a progressive and modern banking institution winning multiple awards for its digital initiatives, credit cards, bank accounts, mobile app features and services.

CBD has been recognized as the number one bank in the UAE on the Forbes list of The World’s Best Banks 2022.

As we continue to build upon our successes, we are looking for ambitious individuals who are passionate about the banking and finance industry and the markets in which CBD operates. Just as important to us is your ability to demonstrate a talent for dealing with people - your colleagues and our customers - and delivering service that really goes the extra mile.

The jobholder collaborates with stakeholders in Wholesale Banking, Personal Banking, Risk, Finance, and Operations to address business challenges by designing and implementing Business Intelligence reports and dashboards. They perform technical and analytical tasks to support business operations, manage the data warehouse for analytics and reporting, and translate business requirements into actionable specifications.

Responsibilities:

• The jobholder is responsible to collaborate with end users to identify needs and opportunities for improved data management and delivery; Gather business requirements and deliver standard reporting and analysis.
• The Jobholder needs to be able to have an end-to-end vision, and to see how a logical design will translate into one or more data mart, and how the data will flow through the successive stages involved in the journey of report creation.
• Creating the operational and analytical reports/dashboards for business, based on the requirements with an instant access to information to monitor measure and manage performance.
• Support in creation of metadata/business layers by empowering users to enable the adoption of self-service reporting.
• Simplify and automate management reporting process to reduce close cycle time by creating, managing, and providing various daily, monthly, quarterly, annual and reports to the management/departments/branches.
• The jobholder is responsible to design automation processes to control data access transformation and movement and ensures source system data availability.
• The jobholder is responsible for the ongoing development and set-up of an operational reporting data store.
• Improve and streamline processes pertaining to data flow/quality to improve its accuracy, viability, and value.
• Job holder needs to interact with various business operation leaders to collate information, devise processes/timelines and to ensure information is flowing through efficiently.
• This function requires understanding the relevance, source and availability of data as well as ability to effectively distribute, display and drill down the data to drive operational change.
• Build effective relationships with business management, power users, technical staff, and peers across the enterprise
• Establish architecture that allow for reliable, responsive & scalable BI solutions.
  
  

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science/ accounting / finance or Equivalent
• Technically sound in BI development experience and expertise in Business Intelligence tools such as Business Objects/Cognos/Tableau, Click view etc.
• Experience in ETL Tools, Data Modelling, and Data Warehousing.
• Solid understanding of SQL by writing complex SQL queries with exposure and experience of Sybase, MS SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, and Informix.
  
  

• 8+ years’ experience in Business Intelligence, enterprise level Data warehouse/business intelligence projects
• Solid ETL experience—mappings and transformations
• Sound knowledge of Banking procedures, accounting standards
  
  

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, evaluative, and creative thinking.
• Planning and organizing skills.
• Strong Influencing skills and influencing without authority.
• Communications skills and Good Team player
  
  

• Communicating effectively and thinking analytically
• Ability to work independently or in a team environment.
• Excellent time management skills and eye for attention to detail.
• Extensive problem-solving experience and ability to adjust explanations based on audience