Qualifications
• Minimum of a Master’s degree, with outstanding academic results
• Minimum 10 years of experience in relevant business area
• Experience with databases including SQL coding across standard commercial databases
• Genuine excitement and passion for developing and analyzing large, complex data sets and converting them into the information/insights that drive business decisions at all levels of the organization
• Experience in wireless, retail, and FMCG sectors; management consulting experience preferred
• Knowledge of standard finance systems (e.g. Oracle, Hyperion, OBIEE) together with knowledge of core finance processes
• Fluently in English is a MUST
• Experience in Web-scale databases, Hadoop, or NoSQL technologies. Experience in related underlying technologies such as JavaScript, App Engine
Responsibilities
1. Effectively perform functional accountabilities below:
• Develop BI vision and transformation roadmap to enhance BI capability to support business users and Company management and bridge the resource and skill gaps between the current state and targeted state
• Manage and balance scope of BI support that enable optimum benefit to the organization, while ensuring alignment with technology & people resources and roadmap
• Establish corporate awareness of BI support and obtain management buy-in for critical initiatives to enable implementation of the vision and roadmap
• Oversee BI and data strategy, governance and policies and coordinate with other Groups to facilitate end-to-end their implementation
• Recommend to Marketing Group function heads how BI can give them a competitive advantage and enhance their decision making
• Oversee BI initiatives portfolios and PMO functions to ensure alignment with business needs, and compliance to standard and policies
• Oversee and provide technical advice on BI related projects to ensure success, effective and efficient project delivery to achieve business users objectives
• Oversee profitability analysis of BI investments with support from Finance Group
• Manage and provide technical advice for BI analytics functions to ensure effective and efficient support to business users
• Manage and provide technical advice for design and development of EDW, BI applications, reports (including transactional operational reports) and performance dashboard, as well as data lifecycle and its quality, and BI operation support to ensure smooth and effective and efficient operations
• Oversee technology support operations of BI related applications (Tier1 and Tier2)
2. Provide advice on market insight and determine strategy
• Provide advice on functional or industry knowledge to be widely known as a thought leader
• Encourage team members to seek for industry knowledge
• Provide advice on company’s corporate and the Group’s strategic direction and goals
• Develop n-2 strategy, direction, guideline and action plan that aligns with company’s corporate and the Group’s directions and goals and cascade to direct reports
3. Develop budget plan and manage n-2 expenses to optimize corporate benefit, and ensure efficient budget allocation
4. Oversee the overall operations of the n-2 including collaborating across group/n-2 to ensure operational alignment
• Provide decision making and approval at n-2
• Provide issue resolution and escalation functions
• Manage risk to ensure continuity of business
• Lead team to identify, develop, and communicate improvement opportunities and initiatives, realize improvements and report progress
• Be accountable for special assignments relating to function as allocated by immediate superior level
5. Oversee n-2 team members, resource allocation, coach, mentor, conduct/attend team building, team training
• Manage, monitor, and evaluate performance of subordinates to ensure achievement of n-2 goal and target
• Ensure staff are motivated and followed code of conduct as well as operational compliance with corporate policies and regulatory to promote corporate governance
• Enhance team capability development
• Enhance team career path and competency development