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    Senior Recruiter – Recruiter manager | A Leading Manufacturing Company In The UAE

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Recruiters are responsible for meet hiring goals by filling open positions with talented and qualified candidates. … This entails sourcing and screening candidates, coordinating the interview process, and facilitating offers and employment negotiations, all while ensuring candidates have a pleasant experience.

    – Designing and implementing the overall recruiting strategy- Sourcing and attracting candidates by using headhunting, databases, etc- Conducting interviews and filtering candidates for open positions

    A leading manufacturing company in the UAE. More

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    Deals, Financial Crime – Senior Consultant – Financial Services | PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Line of ServiceAdvisoryIndustry/SectorSpecialismManagement LevelSenior AssociateJob Description & SummaryFinancial Crime – Senior Consultant – Financial Services – Amman, JordanPwC Middle East OverviewEstablished in the region for over 40 years, PwC Middle East employs over 6,000 people across 12 countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and the United Arab Emirates. Complementing our depth of industry expertise and breadth of skills is our sound knowledge of local business environments across the Middle East region. Our tailored solutions help our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market, and beyond.Business Unit Overview The Financial Crime team provides a range of services to our Banking & Financial Services clients, including AML/CFT/Sanctions compliance, FinCrime technology and Fraud prevention helping our clients in fincrime risk appetite definition, framework development, AML reviews, and systems alignment and improvement. We are a growing team and looking for dynamic, flexible, proactive, and hardworking experienced consultants who have a passion for shaping financial services positively in the GCC over the coming years. We have a strong pipeline of large, transformational opportunities with our clients which will provide great opportunities for all our people to step up and play significant and rewarding roles. Responsibilities: – Supporting the engagement teams on projects relating to anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, sanctions and fraud risk management. – Advising clients on appropriate financial crime risk, compliance against regulatory requirements and governance frameworks. – Delivering crucial business insights to clients through written reports and data visualisations. – Developing strategies to assist our clients in adapting to legal, regulatory and industry changes. – Delivery of proposals and presentations to prospective and current clients. Developing relationships built upon trust with senior stakeholders and executives.  

    Requirements:- Willingness to be based in Amman, Jordan. – Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, and Economics, Technology, or other related major required. ACAMS certification or equivalent is a plus. – Years of Experience: 3 – 6 years of experience in the Financial Services field and preferably in Compliance or Financial Crime.  – Previous experience within the Middle East is a plus, particularly towards the latter part of the career. – Excellent organizational skills, and able to cope well under pressure and meet tight deadlines. – Proven IT skills in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. – Language Skills: Excellent English and Arabic communication skills (verbal and written), particularly ability to articulate concepts and recommendations in written form (PowerPoint reports, charts, etc.).  – The ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East and worldwide where the project dictates. – Have a mindset to anticipate client needs, as well as identify new opportunities to support our clients in executing their strategies. – You’re collaborative and enjoy working in an innovative environment. – You’re a problem solver by nature and want to join a firm that values the kind of people who reimagine the possible for their clients and stakeholders. – Most importantly, you act with integrity and show care for the people you work with.  

    At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

    We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

    PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

    We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

    If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer. More

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    Tax & Legal Services – Tax – Indirect Tax – VAT Manager | PricewaterhouseCoopers

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    Full Time

    Line of ServiceTaxSpecialismVAT/GSTManagement LevelManagerJob Description & SummaryA career in our Indirect Tax practice, within Tax services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients meet and manage their tax obligations across unique but ever changing tax specialties. You’ll advise clients on their local and overseas tax affairs, while acting as a strategic consultant related to business analysis, managing indirect taxes, dispute resolution, and global enterprise tax solutions.Our team helps our clients optimise cash flow and reduce risk by managing challenges related to indirect taxes. You’ll support our clients with all aspects of indirect taxation related to global, regional and domestic projects as well as comprehensive restructuring and reporting value added tax projects.Responsibilities: As a VAT Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:• Responsible for driving the Technology, Media and Telecom (“TMT”) and e-commerce sectors with a focus on clients operating in both the UAE and the GCC from both an advisory and compliance perspective.• A thorough understanding of the electronically supplied service rules, preferably with EU experience, and keeping abreast of the constant evolving legislative changes to electronically supplied services globally.• UAE representative for the monthly PwC Digital business development calls highlighting changes to electronic services in the GCC and identifying new opportunities based on the changes being implemented globally.• Driving business development to identify opportunities, both independently and across other lines of services, to have conversations and win work with new and existing clients operating in the TMT space.• Be the UAE point of contact for inbound referrals from overseas PwC offices, building your network within the PwC firm.• Proactively assist in the management of a portfolio of clients, while reporting to Directors and Partners.• Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients.• Develop project strategies to solve complex technical challenges for our clients.• Manage and deliver large projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team.• Shape and deliver projects to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria.• Train, coach, and supervise team members.• TMT and e-commerce specialist / EU experience required

    • 4-5 years experience in VAT with a reputable tax consultancy firm (preferably Big4)• Specialized with VAT consultation and compliance related to TMT and e-commerce sectors• EU VAT experience is a must

    At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

    We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

    PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

    We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

    If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer. More

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    Corporate Application Senior System Analyst | Michael Page

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Responsible for the complete life cycle of new/modified IT systems, from analyzing existing processes and gathering requirements to implementing systems, testing and providing training.Responsible for managing the lifecycle of all problems. Identifying the root cause of a problem, preventing Incidents from happening, and minimizing the impact of Incidents that cannot be prevented.Client DetailsLeading Pharmaceutical Retail organisation rapidly expanding in the MENA regionDescriptionIT Application Projects:* Lead the team in implementing systems, analysis, design, development, delivery, support and communication of the in-house or standard IT Application projects.* Lead the consulting efforts with users/business analysts and other functional teams to gather and interpret their documented requirements for various IT Application projects.Assigned Business Department:* Train the key/power users in the assigned business departments on the usage of the retail applications to achieve the best utilization of the system and to meet the business needs.* Examine and analyze the current processes of the business departments and optimize them through the automation and removing of the non-adding value steps.* Participate and manage the retail application projects through the communication of the business requirements with the vendors, following-up on the tasks’ status with the vendors and the assigned business departments.* Provide enhancements to existing applications. Define systems requirements, priorities, and viable alternatives. Coordinates conversions and upgrades to vendor systems.* Ensure the implementation of the project plan and schedule to ensure the proper and on time implementation of the projects.* Performs a variety of complex programming tasks, such as designing, documenting, and coding program logic* Review solution design documents and conduct User Acceptance Test (UAT) sessions to satisfy the business requirements.* Provide Applications Support and Ensure smooth operations of the retail systems through the daily checks and system reports and proper monitoring. Manage migrations, upgrades and patches to ensure systems stability and reliability.* Assist in developing end user documentation and departmental policies and procedures that impact the use of application systems* Liaise with concerned parties to build, test, release, and deploy changesInformation Services:* Participate in the planning and testing of the Contingency and Disaster Recovery activities to maintain service levels and ensure the continuous operation of the information services.Security & Backups:* Define security, backup and recovery procedures for each system implemented.* Work with Internal/ External auditors to ensure the quality, security and integrity of the application systems.* Perform Risk Assessment for Application systems and escalate to Section Head with mitigation plan.Collaboration:* Collaborate with the other functions of the IT division to ensure the integration of the system different modules.Job Offer* Attractive salary and overall package* Opportunity to join a household name organisation* Fast growing team

    * Experience in the management of Oracle Fusion HCM after implementation * Experience in Business Analytics* Strong support experience in a similar corporate retail function

    Michael Page is one of the world’s leading professional recruitment consultancies, specializing in the placement of candidates in permanent, contract, temporary and interim positions with clients around the world.

    The Group has operations in the UK, Continental Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. In the Middle East we focus on the areas of:

    Finance & Accounting
    Banking & Financial Services
    Procurement
    Property & Construction
    Engineering & Supply Chain
    Oil & Gas Technical and Engineering
    Human Resources
    Sales
    Marketing
    Technology
    Secretarial
    Executive Search
    Legal

    The Group operates through 161 offices in 33 countries and employs over 5,000 employees worldwide. More

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    Reporting Specialist – Senior Associate (3 Months Fixed Term) | PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Line of ServiceInternal Firm ServicesSpecialismIFS – FinanceManagement LevelSenior AssociateJob Description & SummaryReporting Requirements: Experience in collating reporting requirements and developing optimal reporting solutions for SAGE X3 clients, Strong functional knowledge on business intelligence and analytic tools/ features of Sage X3.The eligible candidate would bring in SAGE X3 best practices, utilizing the system modules, reviewing, modifying and finalizing reporting requirements to deliver optimum results. Technical Support: – The potential candidate would require deep Technical knowledge of Sage X3 software along with the Database experience (PL/SQL, SQL Server) – Experience in developing new Sage APIs and fixing the existing APIs integrated with various other financial systems. – Expertise in development of custom code to meet the internal finance requirements. This includes the integrations between Sage X3 and other systems, imports, new forms, tables, and fields, custom modifications and enhancements for specific customer requirements, custom reports and scripting. Testing Requirements: – Perform testing on reporting solutions including managing communications with Business, defects root cause analysis and defects resolution. – Risk monitoring and development of mitigation plans. – Ability to meet deadlines and support SLAs independently. – Participate in system and process enhancement of SAGE X3 based solutions through business requirement analysis, blue printing, design, specification, configuration, testing, documentation and training, data migration and transition to support. – Have excellent communication skills, verbal as well as written to convey system functionality with business process understanding. – Analytical and creative thinking to provide holistic solutions. – Good documentation skills in building Requirement Specs and Functional Specs.

    Technical Requirements: – Expertise with Microsoft Business Intelligence Stack having Power BI, SSAS, SSRS, SSIS. – Good knowledge or experience in deployment and administration of SSRS Reports and SQL Report Server / Power BI Report Server. – Understanding of database schema design, query optimization, and SQL Server troubleshooting. – Strong knowledge of relational databases, stored procedures, views, functions, triggers and advanced logical methods. – Ability to troubleshoot existing BI solutions including ETL, cube processing and reporting errors. – Relevant degree or equivalent in computer science or other relevant discipline. SAGE X3 Certification is plus. – 5+ years’ experience in customer support or consulting in SAGE X3. – Proven track record in successful big to medium project implementations. Business acumen and experience gained (ideally) in a service company environment in a relevant discipline. – Effective communication and leadership qualities.

    At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.

    We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.

    PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.

    We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.

    If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer. More

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    Want to Run Better Interviews? You Need a Pre-Brief Meeting (Free Template)

    A seamless interview includes more than candidate experience and playing calendar Wordle. It’s important your team is ready to make the most comprehensive, fair, and scaleable assessment possible. How? A pre-brief meeting ensures great candidate experience, comprehensive evaluation, and a standardized and repeatable interview process. We began conducting a pre-brief meeting before interviews at Hired […] More

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    Data Scientist | A Government Entity in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah

    Employment:

    Full Time

    • The Data Scientist is responsible for modeling business processes and problems and for discovering actionable insights through descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics. • The Data Scientist will use Statistical, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Visualization, and other analytics and AI techniques to gain understanding of the business processes and problems, and develop analytics solutions. • The Data Scientist will contribute to building and developing data infrastructure for company and its portfolio companies and will support data exploration, preparation, collection, integration, and operationalization of data architectures and pipelines. • The Data Scientist will be a data and analytics evangelist and an expert, and will promote the use of data and analytics capabilities and benefits to leaders of company portfolio companies and educate them in leveraging these capabilities in achieving their business goals.• The Data Scientist will support the leadership with insights gained from data analyses and analytics, management reports, and analyses for decision-making processesCORE RESPONSIBILITIES:Program Analysis:• Understand the decision-making process, workflows, and business and information needs of the users in company portfolio companies. • Translates business needs into analytics requirements to support decision processes and workflows with required information. • Works with the users to identify data-driven ML/AI/BI business opportunities and investigate solutions. • Prioritize, scope, and manage Data Science projects and develop the corresponding KPIs to ensure project tracking and progress. Data Integration and Exploratory Data Analysis:• Develop access to databases and other data sources for exploratory data analysis. • Work with domain experts to understand the business mechanics that generates the data.• Identify data pipelines for efficient and repeatable data science projects that may span multiple divisions within a company or multiple companies under the Organization. • Use data analysis and visualization techniques for studying data sets and develop insights while working with the business users • Generate hypotheses about the underlying mechanics of the business process and test the hypotheses using quantitative methods. • Perform large-scale data exploration to identify hidden or unknown relationships between variables in datasets, and validate or invalidate the new or existing hypotheses.Analytics: • Implement ML and other AI techniques to perform regression, classification, prediction, etc. as appropriate. This includes setting up, trialing, and testing hypotheses till a solution is identified while ensuring that the domain knowledge is effectively used and the business users are involved. • Perform model testing in a structured manner ensuring validation of biases/fairness in the model. • Research and implement state-of-the-art techniques and tools in machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence to ensure that systems created are efficient and effective. • Ensure that the data sources have sufficient data while selecting a model for production • Determine and ensure availability and feasibility of data and data infrastructure requirements that will be needed to train, evolve, and operationalize models and algorithms. • Visualize information and develop reports on the results of data analysis using data visualization tools and develop dashboards where a BI/descriptive analytics solution is appropriate.Substantive Expertise: • Be ready to continue to change course if hypotheses during model development are not supported by data analysis while keeping the objectives of the initiative in perspective. • Make sure that common biases including confirmation bias, loss aversion, and anchoring bias, are kept in check during model selection and development. • Use judgement to form conclusions that may challenge existing and conventional judgement and established ideas and thought, and focus on the goals of the initiative to identify high-leverage intervention points and strategies. • Seek to understand business needs and get results that have a clear, positive, and direct impact on business performance.• Apply multiple strategies including social and data-driven methods to convince others to change their opinions or plans and ensure that proposals or arguments are supported by effective logic and a business case while relevant factors are comprehensively addressed.• Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one for selection, and operationalization of the proposed model. • Be ready to learn, re-learn, and unlearn the problems while working simultaneously on multiple business units and portfolio companies. • Rapidly acquire new knowledge and learn new skills as needed.Data Pipeline Operationalization:• Work with Data Engineering and IT to evaluate, select, and implement analytics deployment. • Develop and help integrate model performance assessment and validation tools, and continuous monitoring in the deployed solution. • Collaborate with Data Engineering to establish best practices for analytics production pipelines. Miscellaneous:• Train peers in company and portfolio companies on Data Science principles and techniques. • Help inspire the organizations about the business potential of Artificial Intelligence and other Data Science techniques • Develop network of Data Science enthusiasts and professionals in the Organization Universe• Keep abreast of evolving tools, technologies, and skills through self-learning, conferences, publications, courses, local academia and meetups.

    Educational and Professional Qualifications:• A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Operations Research, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field. Education in equivalent areas when complemented by suitable experience will be considered. • A specialization in ML, AI, Analytics, or Data Science is a plus. • A doctorate is a plus. • Analytics experience in multiple domains is a plus.• The candidate should have 4 to 6 years of relevant experience

    A government entity in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. More

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    Senior Mobility Specialist for an International Professional Services Firm | RecruitMe FZE

    Employment:

    Full Time

    As part of the ME People Functions, you will be part of the Staffing, CD & Mobility team. You will be the driving force behind Mobility for the Middle East and delivering global mobility programs across the system. You will also be the lead point of contact, representing the Middle East across local, regional and global platforms for Covid Remote Work Arrangement (CRWA) and Mobility. You will also support the Staffing team with their daily operations and projects.Responsibilities:• Collaborate across teams to facilitate the end to end process for transfers in and out of the ME system and will be the key contact for local mobility queries for existing and potential transfers.• Provide guidance and support to transferring employees throughout their transfer experience to ensure that our employees are affiliating successfully to their new office and the transfer is successful• Be the first point of escalation for all transfer and mobility related topics and queries (including Global Mobility programs, secondments, track changes)• Manage the ME Mobility Committee and present all ME inbound / outbound transfer requests to the committee with recommendations. This will involve:• Preparing the candidate application information and reviewing CD information• Completing the full due diligence on each request and situation before presenting it to the committee• Facilitate meaningful assessment and discussion• Update key stakeholders on committee outcomes, pipeline transfer activity and impact on local capacity planning• Be the owner for all Mobility capacity, updating RPT – closely working with the People Strategy and Analytics function• Take an active role in driving localization, working closely with BMD, HR, Recruiting to support on transfers into Priority Locations• Be the main point of contact for Covid Remote Work Arrangements (CRWA), working closely with the Safety and Security Analyst. This will involve• Managing all remote work requests within the CRWA framework and ensuring all requests go through the necessary compliance checks• Liaise with global mobility services and global mobility tax teams to ensure fair and correct outcomes are delivered• Tracking and manage all requests and their dates – updating Pinpoint and local tracker – ensuring reporting is given to region on timely basis• Build strong links with local office People teams and Global Mobility communities to represent systemYou’re Good At:• You have strong written and verbal communication skills and you are experienced in working with multiple dispersed stakeholders of varying seniority. Must have the ability to deliver clear and succinct messages• You have strong attention to detail• You have exemplary judgment with a successful track record of complex problem solving• You have solid analytical skills, the ability to navigate details and a willingness to look at data in different ways.• You have a positive attitude and the ability to maintain absolute confidentiality• You are autonomous, able to tolerate ambiguity and self-motivated. You have strong self-starter skills and like to “get things done”• You like working with virtual teams, and ambiguity and have the ability to multi-task on different projects under tight timeframes• You feel comfortable in both working in detail and understanding the big picture

    Qualifications:• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4-5 years of professional experience in a relevant field• Experience with mobility and / or staffing preferably in a large, complex organisation• Strong verbal and written communication skills, fluency in English, fluency in Arabic is a plus• Advanced level computer skills; Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook• Ability to perform successfully in a fast-paced, intellectually intense and service-oriented environment• Resourcefulness, high attention to detail and strong problem-solving capabilities• You are at ease with digital collaboration tools (Trello, Slack, Egnyte)

    RecruitME are a specialized recruitment consultancy supplying top tier business support staff to Dubais leading multinational organizations. We carefully source, screen and select only the very best candidates to assist our clients in making easier recruitment decisions faster.

    Differentiating ourselves from standard recruitment agencies our consultants have been carefully chosen for their backgrounds in business support for leading multinational organizations. Having been both the client and the candidate previously, we have an insiders understanding of the recruitment process and our clients needs.

    What we do:

    Specializing in business support positions we can assist in introducing a small selection of experienced administration, finance and human resource candidates with the relevant experience to benefit your business. Our careful screening process ensures that we have met with and can give a concise overview of each candidates skills and current situation before you meet them.

    We pride ourselves on sending our clients only the very best available candidates in the market to ensure a simplified, hassle free and timely recruitment experience for all involved. More