Data Analyst II

About Tamara

Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in KSA, UAE and Kuwait, and partners with leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, Amazon, IKEA, eXtra and Farfetch as well as small and medium businesses.

Tamara is Saudi’s first fintech unicorn and is backed by Sanabil Investments, SNB Capital, Checkout.com, amongst others, operating out of its headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with other regional and global support offices

About the role

We are looking for mid-level Data Analysts (min 2 years experience) to take us to the next stage of growth, supporting functions across Finance, Product Analytics, and Risk Analytics. The successful candidate will have experience developing analytical solutions and assisting with data-driven decision making, while managing stakeholders across a broad range of functions. Tamara is a high growth startup looking to develop key product success metrics and enhancing decision making through data. 

Join us at Tamara and become a driving force in innovation. We firmly believe in granting individuals the freedom and accountability to excel in their areas of expertise. As a vital member of our dynamic Engineering team, you will play a crucial role in building cutting-edge platforms that enable seamless and scalable transactions within the MENA region. Drawing on your proficiency in payment, shopping, and banking systems and algorithms, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing our secure and robust payment processing infrastructure.

In this exciting role, you will collaborate with a diverse ecosystem of talented engineers, designers, analysts, product experts, and other cross-functional team members to leverage system design, create technical solutions, dive deep into complex problems, and ultimately revolutionize the way millions of users shop, pay, and bank.

Responsibilities

• Drive business impact through actionable insights and identifying key opportunities for rapid growth
• Build dashboards that provide accurate and actionable insights
• Work with the data engineering team on the data enrichment needs of the product team
• Work with stakeholders across the business to prioritize projects based on impact and drive delivery
• Developing a process to identify, analyse, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets, empower informed decision making for stakeholders
• Ensuring governance and being a steward of good analytical practices throughout the process

Your Expertise

• 2+ years of experience in data analytics
• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science or other analytical field. Graduates from other fields with relevant knowledge and experience are welcome to apply.
• Hands on experience using programming (Python, R) to manipulate large data sets for insights
• Demonstrated proficiency in one or more implementations of SQL (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Display understanding of your domain of interest - Whether its Finance, Risk, or Product
• Experience using Machine Learning tools and techniques in R or Python a plus!
• Experience using one or more data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, Qlik)
• Experience creating data visualizations and dashboards with Apache Superset a bonus
• Experience in a high-growth startup or unicorn a bonus!

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