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    Accounting Specialist | A Leading Financial Organization in Qatar

    The Role
    Roles & Responsibilities • Supports the strategy and incentives department with monitoring and analysis of financial and operational KPIs relevant to projects executed under the incentives program, including proactive oversight and analysis of incentives recipients commitments (expenditures, headcount, and… More

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    Technical Engineer – Infrastructure | Air Arabia

    Employment: Full Time

    – Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in Linux any flavor- Strong knowledge of Bash, Python, and Perl scripting- Experience in major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Oracle, and Google.- Experience in monitoring tools such as ELK Stack, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.- Experience in automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform- Experience in maintaining production environments- Experience in SCM tools such as Git, Bitbucket, GitHub, Gitlab, etc.- Exposure to private cloud technology such as OpenStack- Review metrics and quality control.- Technical expertise and advice to development teams- Knowledge of development programming languages- Orchestration of Severs and Applications (Apache, JBoss, NodeJS, etc..)- Adaptation to dynamic business requirements- Preferred if RHCE certified

    – Bachelor Degree in IT Engineering/Computer Science/Information Technology.- ITIL Certified.- CCNP/ CCIE/ MCSE/ RHEL/RHCE Certification.- Fluent in English Language.- Experience in automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform- Knowledge of cloud providers like AWS, Azure,Oracle

    Air Arabia (PJSC), listed on the Dubai Financial Market, is the Middle East and North Africa’s first and leading low-cost carrier flying to over 100 destinations across the world. Air Arabia was the first airline to introduce the low-cost carrier concept in the region and is on a mission to serve all Arab countries and beyond, constantly undergoing aggressive route expansion, taking advantage of its ideally located hubs in the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Egypt and Jordan. Over the past thirteen years, Air Arabia, through continuous market research and customer feedback, provides a range of value added services to millions of passengers who chose to fly with Air Arabia’s fleet of A320 aircraft. The airline commenced operations in October 2003 and achieved financial break-even from its very first year of services and has been profitable ever since. More

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    BoardVantage Consultant – Permanent Position | Michael Page

    Employment: Full Time

    The selected candidate will lead all BoardVantage related projects across this organisation.Client DetailsTop Tier Semi Government EntityDescriptionCore Responsibilities:· Ability to work with business users and troubleshoot processes for BoardVantage application by analyzing workflows; building, testing, and deploying Board Vantage changes including Administration.· Updating and maintaining Developer Standards around IT application best practices.Job OfferCompetitive Package with an excellent bonus structure

    · 3+ years experience in programming (including scripting / coding), Flex, and application development and administration.· Experience with one or more Board management tools (BoardVantage)· Experience architecting and developing workflow based solutions or functionality· Experience with web development technologies preferential· Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

    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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    Service Transition Manager – Shared Services | Michael Page

    Employment: Full Time

    Service Transition Manager – Shared Services (Not only IT)Accountable for Services Transition across full spectrum of services (Operational / BPO, Technology & Digital Business Services) for Newly incorporated Portfolio Companies & mature Brownfield Portfolio Companies. The role will be expected to also lead and manage Transformation and Integration projects.Client DetailsA large asset manager with a growing portfolio of companies that will be serviced from this department.Description- Design, Implement & lead service migration programs, providing oversight and accountability to internal and external stakeholders including (not limited to), Shared Services Centre, Service providers, Operational Towers & Portfolio Companies.- Lead transformation and integration programs for the Strategic Capabilities section.- Provide domain expertise across Shared Services, Digital Business Services, Technology and Integration.- Help drive change management and assure key demand stakeholders of stability during program execution.- Provide newly established and brownfield Portfolio Companies with strategic advice on adoption of Shared Services.- Provide Shared Services Operating Model guidance taking into account the Portfolio Company industry, scale and organizational strategy.Job Offer- Join an ambitious organization with significant growth plans over the next five years.Tax free salary.

    – At least 10 years of experience cutting across Shared Services, Services transitions, Program delivery within large, enterprise companies.

    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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    Senior Business Analyst (Credit Approval Systems) | Saudi Networkers Services (SNS Group)

    Employment: Full Time

    We are looking for 1 Credit Risk Approval systems, Credit Scoring and General Clearing Member Business Analysts, to join our team in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) to join our project team. You will work alongside other business analysts, PMO, IT and the selected vendor and will report directly to the IT project manager.• The role holder will be expected to work closely with stakeholders to define and agree the necessary scope, deliver clear and concise requirements, document as-is business processes, perform gap analysis, define to-be processes, ultimately ensuring all changes required to deliver a new project for credit risk and financial institutions area under IT.• In addition to their day-to-day involvement in identification of business issues and helping business to fix those issues permanently to close all system gaps and ensure a smooth business activity.

    • End to end involvement in process of implementing new Credit Risk Projects and General Clearing Member role as a bank.• Involvement in all project lifecycle activities from concept, Implementation by facilitating tracking, coordinating and reporting project activities to meet business deadlines and complying to IT governance policies and processes• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing Credit Risk solutions• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes gaps• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings• Performing requirements analysis• Documenting all business findings• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports• Working closely with vendor IT, project manager and managerial staff• Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements and escalating any issues or concerns on a timely manner• Performing/assisting system integration and user acceptance testing• Updating, implementing and maintaining procedures• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements• Serving as a liaison between vendors and stakeholders/ other businesses and users• Determine operational objectives by studying business functions; gathering information; evaluating output requirements and formats• Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications• Recommend controls by identifying problems; writing improved procedures• Maintain user confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential• Prepare technical reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed• Create informative, actionable and repeatable reporting that highlights relevant business trends and opportunities for improvement• Conduct insightful, ad hoc analyses to investigate ongoing operational issues• Review understanding document and functional specification document and provide feedback to vendors• Ensure UAT’s are conducted in a through manner and the same translates to quality deliverables• Prepare/assist in test planning to ensure complete system functionality is tested• Document the test data along with the test results to ensure resolution of the error and its impact on any other related functionality

    Saudi Networkers is one of the largest consultancies providing services to ICT, Oil & Energy, Technology, Engineering, Banking, Finance and Healthcare arena across Middle East & Africa, covered by teams, specialized in their assigned industry sector.
    Saudi Networkers founded in 2001 and has excelled ever since in providing cost effective solutions to the biggest multinational companies in MEA region with very high standards of quality whilst adhering business ethics and meeting our clients expectations.
    Today, SNS Group is one of the leading consultancies, with more than 1700+ employees worldwide, ISO 9001:2008 certified and is highly regarded. More

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    Government Affairs Manager – Saudi National | Irwin & Dow

    Employment: Full Time

    This role is currently open to Saudi Nationals based in the Riyadh area and will be fully responsible for the day to day management and operations of all government relationships in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The role will also support the Operations Manager with effective leadership of the team to encourage strong connections across all government sectors and enable a seamless process for the organisation’s clients when wishing to set up or further develop a company within the Kingdom itself.Liaising with a vast number of ministries including the Ministry of Labour, Human Resource and Social Development, Foreign Embassies, Commerce & Investment and the Ministry of Interior amongst others, it will be the responsibility of the Government Affairs Manager to conduct research and maintain a high level of knowledge. You should be able to communicate the necessary requirements to the team and clients with regards to company incorporation, onboarding of ex-pat labour and associated visas, family affairs, Iqama, social insurance (GOSI), TAQAT virtual labour market portal and all relevant documentation and compliance. You will be seen as the expertise within the company and therefore it is essential that you have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar government liaison role and possess strong communication skills in both Arabic and English. On a daily basis you will interact with subordinates, peers, seniors, ministerial employees and clients with professionalism at all times.The role is also heavily administrative as you will be expected to maintain all documents and information via the internal CRM and ensure that renewals and documents related to Saudization, Tax, Zakat and Commercial registers are well documented.

    To apply for this vacancy, you will require 3 years’ of exposure to all aspects of the KSA company formation processes. You will be accustomed to working in a very busy and fast paced environment and possess a commitment for achieving excellent and timely results, actively developing you reputation in a highly competitive market.

    Irwin & Dow was established by two highly experienced recruitment professionals, Tracey Irwin and Jocelyn Dow. We provide a refreshing approach by working in close partnership with clients and candidates within the Business Support, Secretarial, HR & Finance sectors.
    Good staff are key to every business. We recognise and appreciate this, having over thirty years combined recruitment and executive search experience within the region.
    Our main aim is to provide a specialist service to clients preferring to work with a bespoke consultancy.
    Our values of discretion and diplomacy are paramount and our ultimate goal is to become a partner of choice for all our clients and candidates. More

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    FTC Senior Online Trading Manager – Immediate Start | Quest Search & Selection

    Employment: Full Time

    The CompanyThis is a great opportunity for a Senior eCommerce/Online Trading Professional to work on a 5 month contract with a leading womenswear retail brand within the UAE. This role is an immediate start for someone already based in the UAE.The RoleThe Senior Online Trading Manager will be responsible for:* Owning the Digital P&L of the eCommerce website, taking responsibilities for all digital trading and online promotional activities* Overseeing a team of Category Managers and working closely with the Merchandise Managers* Use of web analytics and data insights to opstimise website merchandising decisions and look for areas of improvement to increase AOV and drive greater Conversions* Assess and propose functionality improvements like payment methods, content localization, and use of technology to improve digital customer experience and maximize online sales* Driving Customer Retention and Acquisition opportunities and looking for ways to properly cross-sell and up-sell relevant productsThe Skills and Experience RequiredTo be successful for you application for the Senior Online Trading Manager you will have:* 8+ years relevant experience within Digital Trading and have previous womenswear experience* Managed P&L’s and teams in previous roles* Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand how to quickly translate data into actions* Proven experience increasing online revenue with a leading RetailerYou must be immediately available and have previous Womenswear experience to be considered for this opportunity – salary range 20,000 – 25,000 AED per monthWe request that candidates send their CV as a Microsoft Word document where possible.Quest Search and Selection is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

    To be successful for you application for the Senior Online Trading Manager you will have:* 8+ years relevant experience within Digital Trading and have previous womenswear experience* Managed P&L’s and teams in previous roles* Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand how to quickly translate data into actions* Proven experience increasing online revenue with a leading Retailer

    Quest Search & Selection is a specialist recruitment consultancy with over 20 years’ experience in sourcing the world’s best candidates for the global Retail, FMCG and Hospitality sectors.
    With offices in the UK & Dubai, we have an international presence and a global reach. Our recruiters place candidates locally and internationally for a wide variety of roles focusing on the following areas:
    Retail Buying & Merchandising, E-commerce & Digital, Food & Beverage, Hotels, Hospitality & Operations, Retail Stores & Operations, HR & Recruitment, Procurement, Supply Chain & Logistics, Sales & Marketing, Technical and New Product Development.
    We work in partnership with our clients who range from famous international brands within the Retail, Restaurant, Hotel and Consumer products space. Our reputation is built on our in-depth understanding of the industry and our consultants’ skill, knowledge and passion for their sectors. More

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    Finance Analyst – 6 Month Contract | Manpower Middle East

    Employment: Full Time

    Responsibilities include:• Work closely with Business departments and Finance function to ensure that all Client policies and procedures are adhered to.• Manage end-to-end billing process using excel, tools and other channels including coordination with all involved stakeholder for Product and Marketing.• Accurate accounting of transactions – Leading to minimum accounting adjustments/errors and no repeat-audit points.• Implement projects (full cycle of transactions includes: initiations, approvals, contracting, invoicing, payment, closing and reconciliation) in compliance with policies & procedures• Drive projects as directed by line management.• Serve as local subject matter expert on testing of internal controls over higher risk processes.• Complete ongoing risk monitoring, assessment and suggest/complete remediation.• Explore and come up with suggested solutions for all the noted / identified issues on improvements to existing queries and suggestions for new.• Act as a driver of continuous improvement and innovation of the controls environment.• Use direct experience, external benchmarking and knowledge of regulatory expectations to support the management has stated goal of developing a strong industry leading controls function.• Handle ad-hoc projects as assigned by the Management• Manage task tracker for the team including updates and periodical reporting• Execute, reconcile and close low and high risk transactions:• Monitor all transactions.• Ensure transactions are captured, recorded, summarized and reported in compliance with policies & procedures• Report all incidents of non-compliance; participate in remediation of internal audit or other compliance issues.• Coordinate with policy owners to schedule training sessions.• Streamline internal processes to help business functions in doing their projects.• Participate in detective controls and projects/programs monitoring under guidance received.

    Qualifications:• Strong Excel & Tool knowledge and skill.• Proficiency with Microsoft office applications – Excel, Word, Access.• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related quantitative field• Excellent business acumen• At least 5 years of relevant financial analysis work experience• Excellent communication, written and interpersonal skills and ability to clearly communicate results with senior level executives• Outstanding analytical and quantitative skills; able to resolve tough business problems with well-structured analyses• Exceptional report modeling and data management skills with the ability to work with large amounts of data and organize in a logical and efficient manner• Ability to work effectively with cross functional teams and produce and coordinate time sensitive deliverables• Attention to detail and keen sense for accuracy are extremely critical• Ability to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment with changing priorities• Excellent organization, prioritization, and multi-tasking skills• Accounting and analytical/analysis skills• Knowledge of financial operations system B2B• Advanced skills in MS Excel, and Hyperion, and strong skills in PowerPoint

    We lead in the creation and delivery of innovative workforce solutions and services that enable our clients to win in the changing world of work.
    ManpowerGroup powers the success of many of the world’s most dynamic organizations. We deliver innovative workforce solutions that enhance competitiveness, increase efficiency and spur productivity. Combining global reach with local expertise – 3600 offices in over 80 countries – we know the changing world of work and bring a deep understanding of the companies we work for and the industries we service.
    ManpowerGroup entered the Middle East in December 2007 after acquiring local company Clarendon Parker, thus bringing 15 years in-depth local knowledge combined with a global footprint and industry shaping expertise and thought leadership. Manpower Middle East supports clients in the Middle East and North Africa regions. Our business is aligned to key skill specializations to ensure our clients requirements are met by expert and knowledgeable consultants that understand your industry and role requirement.
    Our consultants are experts in finding the right talent across all industries in a broad-range of occupations including:
    IT & Telecommunications
    Engineering & Construction, Oil & Gas
    Banking, Finance & Legal
    Sales & Business Development
    Marketing, Public Relations & Communications
    Human Resources & Training
    Customer & Support Services (Secretarial and Administrative)
    Operational, Supply Chain & Logistics
    Executive Recruitment
    Emiratization Solutions
    Recruitment Program Outsourcing Solutions
    Managed Service Provider Solutions
    Talent Based Outsourcing Solutions
    Outsourced Staffing Solutions More