Economic Researcher Specialist
General Authority for Competition
Total years of experience :6 years, 2 Months
• Evaluate merger and acquisition requests to design comprehensive economic analysis strategies.
• Assess the impact of mergers and acquisitions within a competitive marketplace, consider market structure, impact on pricing, and consumer welfare, to develop detailed economic analysis.
• Perform analysis across a wide array of industries, such petrochemicals (Sipchem and Sahara), finances (Saab and Al Awal), ridesharing services (Uber and Careem), and insurance (Wala and MetLife).
• Generate reports that summarize analysis results for senior leadership review.
• Analyze economic and statistical data to determine potential abuse of dominance or exercising market power, economic issues, develop effective work plans, conduct research in source materials, and explain and defend research findings.
• Conduct microeconomic research and analyses that require the study of economic structure, business practices, interest rates, competitive advantage and barriers to entry.
• Provide expert technical advice to service employees relative to the largest and most complex economic issues.
• Served as a key member of the collaborative team tasked with building an attribution model tailored to individual clients, involved extracting weights of multiple benchmarks and portfolio analysis.
• Analyzed market conditions and trends to identify potential investment opportunities.
• Assisted in translating documents used as a request for a proposal for various major investors in the Kingdom.
• Worked with key stakeholders to plan and execute a development roadmap that anticipated market needs.
• Mapped market and customer needs into product requirements.
• Oversaw and effectively managed client’s assets, wealth funds, transactions, and mutual funds.
• Performed routine analysis on fund and competitor performance.
• Formulated terms and conditions policies; worked on existing T&C for mutual funds to comply with the Capital Market Authority’s polices.
• Worked with real estate investment clients, completed extensive market research.
• Collaborated with client portfolio managers, traders, marketers, and client advisors to deliver streamlined service to all clients.