Head of Risk Analytics
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About the Role
The Institute of Risk & Resilience seeks a Head of Risk Analytics to lead risk analysis and assessment, extracting business insights from data and building predictive models. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, five years of risk research experience, and fluency in English and Arabic.
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Responsibilities
- Assist with leadership for risk metrics within projects functions
- Collaborate with other Risk Analytics teams at regional and global level
- Conduct primary and secondary research to support formulation of analytical solutions and economic models
- Perform analyses on large data sets to discover trends and drive business insights
- Execute, analyze and interpret monthly and quarterly baseline processes and reports
- Validate, research and analyze data to frame and answer ad hoc analytical questions
- Write and present findings that require ability to communicate complex analytical concepts
- Work with global risk partners to ensure global alignment
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Risk, Statistics, Economics, Business, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science or related field
- Master's degree preferred in Risk Management, Economics or Engineering related field
- Five years of related experience in risk research and analytics
- Fluency in English and Arabic – written & spoken
- Experience in analyzing and manipulating large data sets
- Understanding of quantitative risk management
- Knowledge of economic/econometric methods
- Experience with analytical packages and/or programming languages (SAS, Eviews, SPSS, etc.)
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Job Brief
- The head of Risk Analytics unit for is leadership of risk analysis and assessment activity across the institute.
- The unit is responsible for extraction of meaningful business insights from data and build/leverage predictive models to create decision strategies that will optimize business performance.
- Projects are multi disciplinary and require coordination cross functionally with other departments and projects to research and implement risk & analytical solutions.
Responsibilities
- Assist with leadership for risk metrics within projects functions
- Collaborates with other Risk Analytics teams at regional and global level
- Conduct primary and secondary research to support the formulation of analytical solutions, the development of economic models and the interpretation of results
- Perform analyses on large data sets to discover trends, drive business insights and protect business
- Collect, compile and assess existing research, and assess the applicability of results to the problem at hand
- Execute, Analyze and interpret monthly and quarterly baseline processes and reports.
- Validate, research and analyze data to frame and answer ad hoc analytical questions.
- Write and present findings that require an ability to communicate complex analytical concepts
- Working with global risk partners to ensure global alignment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Risk, Statistics, Economics, Business, Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science or related field
- Master’s degree preferred in Risk Management, Economics or Engineering related field
- Five years of related experience in risk research and analytics—this will be re considered for Master degree holders
- Proven quantitative, analytical and problem solving skills, with attention to detail and high quality self review of work products
- Fluency in English and Arabic – written & spoken
- Experience in analyzing and manipulating large data sets
- Understanding of quantitative risk management
Skills and Competencies
- Accountability: Demonstrates reliability by taking necessary actions to continuously meet required deadlines and goals
- Global Collaboration: Applies global perspective when working within a team by being aware of own style and ensuring all relevant parties are involved in key team tasks and decisions
- Communication: Articulates information clearly and presents information effectively and confidently when working with others
- Innovation and Creativity: Thinks boldly and out of the box, generates new ideas and processes, and confidently pursues challenges as new avenues of opportunity
- Knowledge of economic/econometric methods is needed
- Experience with analytical packages and/or programming languages (SAS, Eviews, SPSS, etc) and excellent knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access.
- Self motivated, proactive, and results driven problem solver with excellent written and oral communication skills
Key to Success
- Intellectual agility and interpersonal flexibility
- Change leadership
- Ability to work across silos
- Comfortable in the space between no longer and not yet
- Deep curiosity to learn about new trends and topics
- Ability to develop mutually beneficial relationships inside and outside of the company
- Ability to use data to formulate and flex communications
Benefits
- We are growing institute and offer a multifaceted and challenging function in a dynamic and international environment with a wide range of career and advancements opportunities.
- We offer an intensive professional development and training programs, a performance related compensation combined with attractive social benefits.
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