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    Tax – Fiscal Policy Adviser | PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Line of ServiceTaxSpecialismInternational Tax ServicesManagement LevelManagerJob Description & SummaryOur team is a leading fiscal and tax policy adviser to governments, tax administrations and regulatory bodies in the Middle East (ME) . The work is cutting edge; it is technically demanding and creative, and offers opportunities to support these government bodies to strike the balance between revenue diversification and revenue performance improvement, while staying on top of the latest trends and developments in international tax and administrative matters. We are looking for someone who relishes the technical challenges and enjoys the opportunities to support government bodies on their transformative journeys to join a dynamic and experienced team.You will be responsible for building close relationships with iconic clients and working as part of a team to deliver fiscal and tax policy services, including tax policy design, legislative review / drafting, and the end-to-end implementation of legislation. You will have a key role in the delivery of your engagements and interactions with clients and other important stakeholders.  The client work is stimulating and rarely routine. It offers opportunities to help countries achieve their strategic objectives through tax related measures. The work is wide-ranging, including benchmarking, researching and developing policy principles, supporting stakeholder consultations and presentations, reviewing / drafting legislation, designing and implementing new processes and providing operational support to policymakers and administrations.  We will provide you with the opportunity to put into practice your tax technical skills in a stimulating and challenging environment, working alongside a group of talented individuals to support you.  In terms of wider development opportunities, you will have the opportunity to progress your career with us through gaining wide-ranging experience across industries and locations. Being a global organisation, we are able to offer you the opportunity to go on international secondments. There are also options to further develop technically and professionally through varied client secondments.

    Requirements:- You have tax policy advisory or administration experience, ideally pertaining to governments and tax administrations. – You have strong experience in corporate tax and international tax.   – You have strong analytical skills, commercial awareness and a flexible approach, combined with the ability to work as part of a number of client teams simultaneously. – You have experience of developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders.  – You have experience of managing projects and delegating work within a team context, whilst being able to work independently to drive progress. – You have strong business writing and communication skills. – You have at least 4 years of relevant work experience. – You have a professional tax or accounting qualification (e.g. ACA, CTA, ADIT, ACCA or a law degree / masters in tax law. – Strong Arabic reading / writing ability is preferred, but not required / critical.

    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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    Cloud Platform Seller | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.Your Role and Responsibilities * Drive Cloud platform Sales across his/her territory, including pipeline generation, customer workshop, utilization follow up, Partners recruitment and support, * Drive key customer engagement ensuring full understanding for our offering and help customers to utilize it, * Develop strong, productive relationships across peer organization that further our business objectives * Manage complex projects and programs while demonstrating exceptional business judgement * Demonstrated competency in the areas of group collaboration, analytical thinking and strategy * Work with local partners to grow IBM market share * Working with local and global SI to utilize IBM cloud platform in their projects * Increase Redhat openshift awareness and usage as the recommended multicloud development platform * Help to define broader market development themes, strategies and mental models for incubation and innovation.* Help drive enable the team to drive new market development efforts in emerging areas by working with leaders across different line of services and Sales within IBM.

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise * 5 – 10 years of experience in a customer facing sales role, preferably with large Enterprise and commercial customers, with the last 2 years at least as local experience in the same territory * Experience developing GTM plans for new offers and products * Bachelor’s degree in business, Information technology, or related field * 3-5 3 years of Sales management experiences, leading a sales team and report locally/ regionally, Cloud sales experience is a plus, * Proven Knowledge about MS Azure or AWS Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise * Experience working with C-Level Executives including written, presentation and verbal communications * Experience working in a multinational Organization * Experience with technology – cloud computing, SaaS, PaaS, etc – would be a plus

    For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region’s technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

    Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

    Reinvention is a keyword in the company’s history and, today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. More

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    Consulting – Data Engineer | PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Line of ServiceAdvisoryIndustry/SectorSpecialismManagement LevelSenior AssociateJob Description & SummaryNeeds to have the ability to work with business and technical stakeholders to understand the business requirements, extract the analysis needed, study the data available and produce a data product that can support a company’s decision-making process and advanced analysis of information. Able to design, build, operationalize, secure and monitor data processing systems with emphasis on security and compliance; scalability and efficiency; reliability and fidelity; and flexibility and portability.Key Technical Skills:• Collect, manage, analyze and visualize data • Develop, construct, test and maintain architectures (such as databases and large-scale processing systems) • Ability to work with multiple data sources and databases • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (T-SQL, PL/SQL, etc.) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) • Functional and technical design of DW (star schema and snowflakes) • Advanced working experience in data ingestion tools, such as ADF, SSIS, Informatica for ETL pipelines development • Advanced working experience in dimensional data modelling, data model optimization and model performance tuning • Build and verify new data models that aid decision-making • Practical experience with Visualization and Reporting tools such as Qlik, Tableau,   Power BI and Excel (Power Pivot) • Capable of collaborating with Team Leads in understanding and contributing to the technical solution from design through implementation level Leadership, Management and Other Skills:• Partner with Team Leads and Product Owners in understanding all data requirements • Proven ability to suggest and implement creative, innovative solutions which are aligned to the business requirements • Work with technical teams to build/improve data analytics and business intelligence techniques • Excellent spoken and written English skills, with ability to communicate clearly and concisely with QA, other developers and Team Lead • Interpersonal skills to interact with team members • Follow defined methodology and standards including preparation and maintenance of documentation for all stages of an Analytics project execution • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills • Positive attitude with ability to see through to completion

    Technologies and Tools:• Relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including some of the following: Azure Synapse/SQL DW and SQL Database, SQL Server and Oracle • Data pipeline and workflow management tools: Data Factory, Informatica Data Engineering, Databricks, etc. • Core cloud services from at least one of the major providers in the market (Azure, AWS, Google) • Data visualization tools, mainly Power BI • Agile Methodologies, such as SCRUM • Task tracking tools, such as TFS and JIRA

    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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    Scrum Master – MuleSoft | Chalhoub Group

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Who we are We are a leading partner for luxury across the Middle East. With more than 600 stores, 300 brands and over 65 years of experience in the region, we have become a major player in the beauty, fashion and gift sectors, by offering service excellence to our partners and delighting all our customers. We are moving fast from a traditional distributor and retailer for luxury in the Middle East, to a hybrid retailer bringing luxury experiences to the fingertips of customers everywhere. This is a fantastic opportunity for a Scrum Master to join a leading retail group in the middle east, working as part of the Technology team. The candidate will work in the Mulesoft integration engineering team to guide the development of Mulesoft services for products in the team which include Salesforce, OMS, WMS, ERP and any other technology platforms in the enterprise. This role includes working with senior stakeholders within the business to understand customer requirements and plan the portfolio of delivery accordingly. What you will be doing – Partner with the delivery teams to create lead and inspire their products – Work closely with stakeholders and project owners to collect business objectives and requirements to clearly define, document and scope products, projects and initiatives – Establish project timelines and matrices, determine assignments and follow up to ensure that obstacles are mitigated, and progress is on-going – Ensure that planning meetings, daily updates, customer reviews and retrospective meetings are held consistently and are run effectively – Facilitate internal team coordination, mitigating blocks and achieving results from other teams and vendors – Work to overcome obstacles to success and build collaborative relationships with other teams – Create backlogs in Jira, functional specifications, workflows and document requirement changes – Work across departments to ensure that all stakeholders have input into the final product – Lead project status meetings and provide project status updates – Assist the Technical Lead Architect in determining best practices for team resource planning and utilization – Triage related production support incidents and implement solutions to common issues. – Build and maintain detailed documentation for the services and processes – Modify/update documentation prepared by others – Be able to function under tight deadlines – Work with 3rd parties and offshore development teams to deliver changes to the services and products

    What you’ll need to succeed – Experience in Scrum agile methodology is a must – Experience in Mulesoft is preferred – 3+ years of experience in Agile project management overseeing the management and implementation of customer facing solutions such as web sites, mobile, web applications, or enterprise software – 2+ years in analyst or technical writer role writing requirements, managing changes to requirements, creating user guides and training materials as well as release notes – Detail-oriented with excellent organization, communication and follow-up skills – Demonstrated experience in working with vendor/professional services engagements – Excellent presentation and communication skills and ability to speak to senior level clients – Knowledge of the entire SDLC process is required and Agile methodologies – Critical thinking and multi-tasking skills are a must – Must be proficient in English for reading/writing and conversation – Experience in the development of process and procedure documentation, user guides and training materials – Expert knowledge of Jira or alternative Agile tooling – Experience in a fast-paced Agile environment – Ability to be self-driven and execute projects with minimal management oversight – Certificate in Agile Scrum Master a plus What we can offer you With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day. We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

    The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

    By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

    With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group’s success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group’s competitive edge in today’s market.

    By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce. More

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    Sales Support | PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Line of ServiceAssuranceSpecialismAssuranceManagement LevelAssociateJob Description & SummaryPwC’s Academy is looking for a candidate who thrives on dealing with people (of all grades) and who is organised and capable of maintaining focus on multiple projects at the same time. Knowledge of the Academy is preferable but not required, although the candidate will be expected to learn about these services quickly if appointed. This person will work closely with local and regional teams and perform a wide variety of operational activities. The candidate will work closely with the UAE Academy PQ head and perform a wide variety of sales support and lead generation activities.Our team is a client focused group that is responsible for positioning the PwC brand and driving long term growth. You’ll work with sales and marketing teams to drive consistency in executing our client relationship, and business development strategy, as well as driving our sales framework to help deliver value on key business initiatives.Sales Support• Advise / counsel queries relating to PQs including but not limited FIA, ACCA,• CMA, CPA, CFA, CIPD, DipIFR, CIMA, ICAEW, PwC’s Management.• Development Programme and non-PQs (open courses) directing students to the best suited programmes.• Support personnel for customer interaction, engagement and relationship building.• Convert leads to registered students status as per the sales targets. Support• the entire sales process from lead generation and negotiation, to closingSupport Retail Sales• Incoming and outgoing calls to enquiries generated from marketing activities• Walk in clients• Cold calls• Contacting old or unqualified leads• Providing sales support• Support sales and other promotional events including but not limited to open• days, info sessions, workshops, field trips, student benefit sessions, School• and University career fairs, exhibitions and social events to generate leads• Communicating effectively with clients / customers, ensuring minimum response times• Updating and maintaining CRM to ensure validity and completeness

    Preferred skills• 1 to 3 years experience familiarity with Administrate or other CRM platforms will be a plus • Intermediate user of CRMs, intermediate level of technical proficiency and computer literacy particularly with Word and Excel Additional application instructions• Excellent spoken and written English and Arabic skills• Excellent administrative and organisation skills• Experience with cold calling will be preferred• Professional yet approachable manner.• High attention to detail.• Ability to work effectively under pressure.• Ability to work well in a team as well as independently• Flexibility in working hours (evenings, weekends as and when required)

    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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    Network Admin (Healthcare – IT) | Najma Consultancy

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Network Admin (Healthcare – IT) A Reputed Healthcare IT company in Dubai is looking for Network Admin.Responsibilities – Network designing and implementation.- Fully support, configure, maintain and upgrade corporate customer’s networks and in-house servers.- Install and integrate new server hardware and applications.- Maintain network connectivity of all computer workstations.- Support and administer third-party applications.- Ensure network security and connectivity.- Monitor network performance (availability, utilization, throughput, goodput, and latency) and test for weaknesses.- Implement and manage disaster recovery and backup.- Set up user accounts, permissions, and passwords.

    Requirements- Minimum Qualification should be Graduated/Bachelors.- Minimum 02-04 years working experience.- IT Healthcare experience is required- CCNE , CCNA certified Cisco routing and switches certification- Experience in Cisco, Cisco Meraki, HP, Aruba, Fortinet, Sophos, Barracuda, etc.- Excellent knowledge of best practices around management, control, and monitoring of server infrastructure.- Familiarity with backup and recovery software and methodologies.- Candidates who can join immediately on-site will be preferred.

    Najma Human Resources and Training Consultancy, is committed to professional service in Human Resource and Training.

    Najma, has been operating successfully since 1997 and has been offering consultancy service to a number of reputed organizations in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. More

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    Consulting – Data Team Lead | PricewaterhouseCoopers

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Line of ServiceAdvisoryIndustry/SectorSpecialismManagement LevelManagerJob Description & SummaryOver 5 year of experience working with data and delivering business analytics projects to clients. Needs to have the ability to manage the project’s tasks and deliverables, coordinate and assign work to team members and be accountable of technical and architectural decisions. They will work hand in hand with Project/Program Managers and Product Owners to ensure project is delivered on time, on budget, while fulfilling quality-related best practices.Key Technical Skills:• Strong hands-on experience on implementing modern data platform solutions • Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment • Capable of leading data initiatives and communicate clearly with business stakeholders • Ability to work efficiently without supervision • Experience building and optimizing data pipelines, architectures and data sets • Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement • Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management • Technical aspects of Data Governance including glossary, metadata, data quality, master data management & data lifecycle management

    Leadership, Management and Other Skills:• Proven experience as Team Lead for at least 3 years • Proven line management and personal development of a team of highly skilled BI consultants (3-5 years) • Ability to manage the workload of team members though productivity and collaborations tools such as Azure DevOps and JIRA • Ability to execute regular work review and coaching of team members • Provide regular and effective progress updates to and work closely with Project Managers to ensure the management of any delivery risks or issues • Work closely with relevant teams internally to ensure alignment and coordination across operations as part of the seamless implementation of existing and new systems • Supporting project resource scheduling and department capacity planning • Take responsibility for making key decisions to ensure the successful implementation of all initiatives Technologies and Tools:• Extensive experience with core and advanced Azure cloud services • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including some of the following: Azure Synapse/SQL DW and SQL Database, SQL Server , Cosmos DB • Experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Databricks • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: SSIS, Data Factory, Informatica, etc. • Experience with stream-processing systems: Kafka, Azure Event Hub, Azure IoT Hub, Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc. • Experience with data visualization in Power BI, Paginated reports, Power   BI Premium and Embedded • DevOps / DataOps and CI / CD frameworks • Proven knowledge on Machine Learning and AIs

    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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    Account Technical Leader | IBM Middle East

    Employment:

    Full Time

    Introduction At IBM, work is more than a job – it’s a calling: To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate. Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you’ve never thought possible. Are you ready to lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world’s most challenging problems? If so, lets talk.Your Role and Responsibilities Account Technical Leader works hand-in-hand with the client to build and execute an IBM Client Technical Strategy (CTS) that is based on the client’s business and technical challenges, strategies, and priorities. The Account Technical Leader is responsible for showcasing IBM and IBM Technology to the client. They have a deep and strong POV and are the leading advocate for the Technology Decision Points. Through the Client Technical Strategy and the Technology Decision Points, they land and expand the IBM Sales Plays in support of winning Hybrid Cloud Platform. They are the leader of the technical POV and technical engagement with the client. – Direct leadership and ownership of the client experience of IBM Technology. – Defining client use cases from their CTS, engaging the customer on co-creation, defining the architecture, and engaging IBM Client Engineering and CSM directly with the client for Workshops, MVPs, and deployment – Direct engagement with IBM Labs and Research to showcase innovation, technology roadmaps, product feedback, etc. – Fostering direct relationships with developers, researchers, support resources with our clients- Strategic Innovation; Influences the client’s innovation agenda, bringing an outside-in perspective and recommending disruptive technologies and approaches to scale new value capture- Industry and technology Expertise; Deep understanding of the industry trends and industry architectures and stays current on IBM technology, strategy and offerings in the industry

    Required Technical and Professional Expertise – Strong Software Architecture Skills with a POV on Technology Decision Points – Commands respect through current technique skills (e.g., Garage method, DevOps, Design Thinking) – Consultative selling skills – Deep skills in Data, AI, Automation, Security etc solutions – Strong inter-personal, networking and relationship building skills for deep client relationships with key IT influencers – Industry knowledge sufficient to translate the client strategy into IBM initiatives – Understand how to lead, coordinate, and leverage Technical resources: – Technical pre-sales to drive demand and deal progression – Client Engineering to drive demand – CSMs to drive deployment and consumption Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise – TOGAF certification – MNC experience

    For more than six decades, IBM Middle East & Pakistan has played a vital role in shaping the information technology landscape of the region. Today, IBM is part of the region’s technological fabric, solving real-world business and societal challenges, through its offices in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Pakistan, and also a diversity of centers across the region.

    Within the region, IBM currently has groundbreaking initiatives in cloud computing, analytics, mobile, security, as well as nanotechnology, eGovernment, healthcare and many more, collaborating with leading educational institutes and governments. IBM supports hundreds of clients to drive transformation through technology, contributes to regional research & development programs and has an active Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program.

    Reinvention is a keyword in the company’s history and, today, IBM is much more than a “hardware, software, services” company. IBM is now emerging as a cognitive solutions and cloud platform company. More