Analyst

The Analyst will be a member of the company's CEMEA Corporate Strategy team. The team shapes the company's long-term strategy and solves enterprise-level questions and challenges, by partnering with executives and business leaders across the company's organization. Recent initiatives have addressed such topics as go-to-market strategy, product strategy, and partnership/acquisition opportunities – many of which have been internationally focused. The team is also responsible for developing competitive intelligence and thought leadership on emerging trends in payments and technology.

Responsibilities

• Independently lead and design part of a strategy that enables strong sustainable competitive advantage for the company and generates tangible impact on the company's performance
• Breakdown complex business problems, define a structured approach to addressing the component parts, independently formulate hypothesis and support project workstreams
• Drive deep quantitative and qualitative analytical insight bringing a fresh and differentiated perspective, and supporting proposed recommendations
• Drive thought leadership with creative, novel, disruptive, but highly practical and implementable solutions to the challenges faced by business owners
• Ensure strategies and execution programs developed drive tangible commercial impact, secure active stakeholder buy-in and provide a clear actionable path to implementation
• Develop frameworks that support the prioritization of strategic initiatives and evaluate investment opportunities for their strategic and financial value
• Develop clear, simple and impactful executive level communications, with a strong ability to persuade and influence senior decision makers
• Demonstrate outstanding people skills including supporting colleagues and acting as a magnet for future top talent to the strategy team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 2 or more years of work experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, investment banking, or equivalent
• Prior experience working and living in the CISSEE (Commonwealth of Independent States & South and Eastern Europe) region is a must

Location
Dubai, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES