1. JOB DETAILS:
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Job Title:
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Analyst/ Specialist, Data Science and Insights
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Reports to:
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Internal Controls and Assurance Senior Manager
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Department:
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Corporate Finance
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Function:
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Financial Compliance
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Location
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Hikma PLC Headquarters, (New building)
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Job Code:
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TBA
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2. JOB PURPOSE
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Assist the internal controls and assurance function with the analysis of data and provision of reports, to aid testing of controls, investigations, and managerial reporting.
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4. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
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- Identify strategic gaps and opportunities for data collection and data driven solutions in line with the internal controls and assurance function objectives.
- Utilize data mining and data analytics tools at disposal of Hikma to build visualization models.
- Build continuous control monitoring models to support first line with rectifying errors and investigate anomalies in high risk areas of the finance cycle
- Identify data sources to fill any data gaps related to assurance engagement, utilize data engineering skills to integrate and process metadata from various sources; Analyse existing and produced datasets to identify risk flags, transactions and trends using data science concepts and statistical modelling;
- Build data sets leading to high-quality sampling, findings, trends, and observation, supporting the internal controls and assurance objectives.
- Generate data-informed insights and communicate these narratives through analysis and visualisations to a range of technical and non-technical team members;
- Apply various ML, advanced analytics and visualization techniques to various datasets across the company, as identified by the internal controls and assurance team.
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6. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS
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QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum:
- Bachelors degree or higher in Computer Science, applied computational mathematics, Mathematics, Statistics, or other relevant field.
Preferred:
- Advanced Degree (Masters or PhD in relevant topic)
- Certified Fraud Examiner
- Data Science Certifications i.e. CAP, SDS, PDS, SAS certifications etc.
- IT advanced professional certifications (CISA)
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EXPERIENCE
Minimum:
- 3-5 years of experience in a professional setting working with the following duties:
- Utilizing data analytics, visualization, and mining tools, such as Process Gold, ACL and PowerBI.
- Designing macros on Microsoft Excel
- Extracting data insights and building ML models and, especially in business analytics (or related) domain.
- Producing visualized data in a professional setting for decision making purposes.
Preferred:
- Familiarity with forensic engagements and risk flags
- Familiarity with SAP and/or SAGE.
- Familiarity with COBIT/COSO/ISO
- Experience working with (as a client) or for (as a team member) of large, listed companies (US & UK)
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SKILLS
- Advanced understanding of Machine Learning algorithms, deep learning, or recommendation systems
- Advanced proficiency in a functional or object-oriented programming language (e.g. Python, R)
- Advanced understanding of statistical analysis
- Ability to independently troubleshoot technical issues or bugs.
- Ability to independently design models and test them.
- Excellent communication skills, reporting to management.
- Quick learner
- Tenacity and Ethics
- Data analytics/ Data mining/ Continuous control monitoring
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