IFS – Tech Advisory – Business Partner – Dubai
Line of Service: Internal Firm Services
Specialism: IFS – Information Technology (IT)
Management Level: Manager
Job Description & Summary
A career in Information Technology, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to support our core business functions by deploying applications that enable our people to work more efficiently and deliver the highest levels of service to our clients. You’ll focus on managing the design and implementation of technology infrastructure within PwC, developing and enhancing both client and internal facing applications within PwC, and providing technology tools that help create a competitive advantage for the Firm to drive strategic business growth.
Our Business Analysis – Practice Support team oversees Information Technology project lifecycles to help align our Information Technology solutions with our business needs by identifying and addressing gaps. As a part of the team, you’ll help optimize opportunity cost, document the right requirements to create solutions that meet user needs, improve efficiency by reducing rework, and shortening project timelines.
Responsibilities:
• Ability to build and maintain relationship with the business, other technology functions and global teams.
• Communicating with business users/stakeholders to gather requirement specs, and scoping the project.
• Understand, analyze and document business requirements.
• Play the role of main liaison between the business and technology, with the ability to translate and effectively communicate the both side’s requirements, progress, results…etc.
• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Analyze and design solutions address business requests.
• Manage the Technology Project Pathway (Assess, budgeting, select, define, execute, operate and support), ensuring coordination and timely input from all local, regional, business and technology stakeholders.
• Perform a timely risk assessment mitigation, escalation and management, in addition, providing technical and process level support to the project and technology teams.
• Build and enhance technology processes.
• Manage and supervise developer / implementer team activities, including applications support and report to the Technology management when required.
• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Staying up-to-date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Performing requirements analysis.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.
• Managing competing resources and priorities.
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.
Requirements:
• Achievement oriented with the ability to be flexible and adaptive.
• Work independently and as part of a team with a fast pace and a high energy that translates into a high quality output.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant subject areas such as computer Science, Information Technology, additionally Master’s degree in Business Administration is preferred
• Years of Experience: 8+ years of relevant experience, Solutions Analysis and design, Solutions Development, Implementation and support with direct interaction with business users.
• Preferable qualifications: The following qualification(s) are preferable and beneficial for the candidate to perform the role:
• Project Management Certificates.
• ERP, CRM, Oracle …etc., implementation certificates.
• SharePoint Development certificates.
• Microsoft Development certificates.
• iOS or other mobile technologies development certificates.
• RDBMS development and implementation certificates.
• Requires leadership, negotiation skills and experience/in-depth knowledge of the business, business requirements analysis and IT technologies across specific area of responsibility.
• Solid experience of (Development and Implementation techniques and best practices, requirement gathering and analysis, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), solutions testing especially UAT, solutions support and maintenance).
• Experience in (Business intelligence solutions, Artificial Intelligence technologies, Data Warehousing and Cloud development).
• Excellent organizational skills, having the ability to prioritize workload whilst being resilient and being able to cope well under pressure and meeting tight deadlines.
• Proven IT skills in the following programmes (Microsoft Office, G Suite)
• Language Skills: Excellent communication skills (verbal and written). Fluent in English but multilingual Arabic speaker preferable.
• The ability and willingness to re-locate within the Middle East where the role dictates.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Advanced technical skills.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.
• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Experience leading and developing top performing teams.
Travel Requirements: 0%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship? Yes
Government Clearance Required? Yes
PwC firms help organizations and individuals to create the value they’re looking for.
We’re a network of firms in 158 countries with close to 169,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. PwC is the brand under which member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL) operate and provide services. Together, these firms form the global PwC network.
In our 3 key areas of business or Lines of Service Assurance, Tax, and Advisory we work with our clients from business start ups to the worlds leading organizations to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
We help our own people to learn, discover, develop and make a real difference all the way through their working lives. And we have big ambitions to grow.
PwC Middle East Region is part of what we call the Central Cluster and includes the UK, Europe and Africa as well as the Middle East. The region consists of 12 markets – UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Palestine.
PwC has been established in the region for over 40 years, we already employ over 4500 people and we are on course to become the Middle East number one professional service firm.
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