Business intelligence manager
Americana Group - United Arab Emirates
Total years of experience :22 years, 0 Months
• Developing strategies and roadmaps for BI and Analytics solutions.
• Providing vision and leadership to ensure maturation of business intelligence within the institution.
• Initiate and drive complex POC’s and Business cases for project assessments.
• Act as an idea incubator for new use cases; identifying new business needs, bringing innovation, and assessing & prioritizing among new use cases
• Working with all functions (Finance, Marketing, Sales, Operations, HR, Supply chain, Call Center).
• Leading the strategic design and maintenance of business intelligence applications cross 13 countries.
• Manages a team of analysts & developers who facilitate business intelligence processes and procedures development and implementation.
• Collaboratively and extensively investigating, analyzing and interpreting business information needs based on a strong
Understanding of business processes, drivers and priorities
• Ensures that the use of business intelligence applications enhances business decision making capabilities.
• Prioritize, plan, and track project progress.
• initiate capability building and change management through workshops.
• Identifying data quality issues and supporting information governance by participating in necessary activities and assisting in the development of and adherence to database and development standards.
• Developing strategies and roadmaps for BI and Analytics solutions.
• Providing vision and leadership to ensure maturation of business intelligence within the institution.
• Initiate and drive complex POC’s and Business cases for project assessments.
• Act as an idea incubator for new use cases; identifying new business needs, bringing innovation, and assessing & prioritizing among new use cases
• Working with all functions (Finance, Marketing, Sales, Operations, HR, Supply chain, Call Center).
• Leading the strategic design and maintenance of business intelligence applications cross 13 countries.
• Manages a team of analysts & developers who facilitate business intelligence processes and procedures development and
implementation.
• Collaboratively and extensively investigating, analyzing and interpreting business information needs based on a strong
Understanding of business processes, drivers and priorities
• Ensures that the use of business intelligence applications enhances business decision making capabilities.
• Prioritize, plan, and track project progress.
• initiate capability building and change management through workshops.
• Identifying data quality issues and supporting information governance by participating in necessary activities and assisting in
the development of and adherence to database and development standards.
• Leading the design and maintenance of business intelligence applications cross 13 countries.
• Manages a team of analysts & developers who facilitate business intelligence processes and procedures development and implementation.
• Collaboratively and extensively investigating, analyzing and interpreting business information needs based on a strong
Understanding of business processes, drivers and priorities
• Utilizing business intelligence to instigate internal and external change.
• Identifies, researches, and resolves complex technical problems.
• Providing high level conceptual and technical expertise and understanding of data warehousing and business intelligence best practice.
• Working with business stakeholders to define business KPI’s and develop semantic layers in the BI tools to support KPIs.
• Identifying and evaluating inefficiencies in existing systems and processes and recommending solutions for improvement.
• Participate in business analysis activities to gather required reporting and dashboard requirements
• Be involved in the design phase of new solutions/projects.
• Lead the design of a business management platform, defining the relevant metrics to track and training users in how to capitalize the information.
• Ensure proper configuration management and change controls are implemented.
• Work along with department heads and support staff to determine the plans and strategies for different departments and projects.
• Build presentations communicating company strategy and performance.
• Use project management methodologies, principles & techniques to develop project plans and manage projects.
• Deploying functional solutions, such as design, creating, adopting and implementing business models
• Test plans, which ensure acceptable quality and integrity of the system using SAP Business Objects.
• Prepare recurrent and ad-hoc management reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data.
• Translate business requirements into specifications that will be used to implement the required reports and dashboards from potentially multiple data sources.
• Develop, manage, and validate existing data models including logical and physical models of the Data warehouse and source systems.
• Provide support as required to ensure the availability and performance of developed reports and dashboards for both external and internal users
• Responsible for all business groups in their analysis and reporting needs on a regular basis.
• Provide training for end users for generating reports as per complex user specific requirements in MENA region.
• Involved in the support, maintenance and development of critical systems.
• Carrying out design, construction, review and defect analysis activities.
• Responsible for database design and development and Application Tuning.
• Defining and generating screen formats and report designs.
• Providing suitably tested fixes to defects within the sanctioned delivery process.
• Producing and updating relevant documentation.
• Developing in accordance with policies regarding secure coding & standards. Meeting clients face to face and on site to ascertain requirements.
• Develop software in accordance with agreed design with consideration for usability, software quality and future maintenance.
• Installed and configured a Network infrastructure using Microsoft windows server 2003 (DNS-DHCP-Active Directory-VPN- ISA).
• Established Video Conferencing over IP using Polycom equipments.
• Conducted technical research on system upgrades to determine feasibility, Cost, time required, and compatibility with system.