Background:

Reporting to the Chief Investment Officer within a Global Family Office based in the GCC, the Data Analyst will extract data related to our investments from multiple sources, organise this data, process it, clean it, and validate it. The objective is to present this data in a clear, accurate and exhaustive manner in order to facilitate timely investment decisions. It is also of utmost importance to preserve the confidentiality of this data.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Enhancing data collection procedures in their DAPM system to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems and managing our portfolio of investments
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods and extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
• Investigating and interpreting data to identify actionable insights and opportunities for improvement of the performance of our portfolio of investments
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner
• Presenting findings and recommendations to stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
• Protecting data to ensure its confidentiality to the most stringent standards and divulging information on a need-to-know basis only.

Your profile

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in data science, computer science, statistics or a related field
• 5+ years of experience, with a minimum of 3 years in the financial industry
• Proficiency in programming languages such as R or Java
• Prior experience of the DAPM system a plus
• Good applied statistics skills such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Experience with data manipulation, cleansing, and analysis using tools such as SQL, Excel and other statistical software
• Understanding of Machine learning techniques and algorithms (K-NN, Naïve Bayes, SVM, etc.)