Job Description

Job Title: Data Analyst (SQL, Power BI)
Application Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
Job Location: Yemen Kuwait Bank, Sana’a, Yemen
Type: Full-time

About Us

Yemen Kuwait Bank (YKB), established in 1977, stands as one of Yemen’s premier financial institutions, catering to Retail, MSMEs, and Corporate customers with a diverse range of products and services. YKB is dedicated to innovation, offering advanced digital services such as digital account opening, e-wallets, virtual card app, banking chatbot, mobile banking, and SuperApp. Through seamless, convenient, and secure banking experiences, we are setting new standards of excellence in the national financial services industry.
Driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation, we are building a top-tier Data and AI team. This team is at the forefront of disruption, providing specialized analytics capabilities to the bank.
Your Career, Our Commitment: At Yemen Kuwait Bank, we believe that a fulfilling career is more than just a job—it's a journey towards personal and professional growth. Our mission is to make this journey as smooth and rewarding as possible, providing a supportive and dynamic work environment where you can thrive.

Job Description

If you are an experienced Data Analyst and you want to extend your expertise, we invite you to join YKB Data AI to work as part of the data science group. You will work on a variety of analytics projects using cutting-edge technologies.
As a Data Analyst, you'll collect, organize, and analyze data to drive business decisions. You'll work with various data sources, ensuring quality and integrity, and use advanced analytics to uncover trends. Agility, proficiency, and discipline are key. This role offers the chance to build a showcase-worthy data capability. Ideal candidates have proven data analysis experience, strong statistical and data modeling knowledge, and excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills. A passion for operational excellence and continuous learning is essential.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into technical requirements for the data science team.
• Analyze sources to determine value and recommend data to include in analytical processes.
• Identify, collect, and preprocess data from various sources to prepare it for analysis.
• Apply analytical methods including exploratory data analysis and statistical testing for data inspection, exploration, and visualization.
• Perform analysis on business operations using tools like SQL, Python, and Power BI, and provide actionable recommendations.
• Utilize advanced Power BI capabilities to create semantic models, interactive dashboards, and reports, ensuring high standards of data accuracy and timeliness.
• Apply statistical techniques to discover new relationships and offer insights to improve organizational processes and support decision-making.
• Execute & streamline our TeamOps processes, including user stories, acceptance criteria, bug and data matrices, analytics deliverables tests, and measure the success/impact of requested analytics and reporting.
• Mentor and teach Power BI capabilities, focusing on developing greatness in your peers.

Qualifications

Who we're searching for

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience: At least 2-3 years in data analysis and reporting with Power BI, or 1-year and "Power BI Data Analyst Associate" certification.
• Skills: Proficiency in SQL and intermediate-level experience in Python or R.
• Adaptability: Ability to embrace new technologies and learn new analytics practices.
• Language: Advanced proficiency in English.
• Preferred: Power BI certifications such as "Power BI Data Analyst Associate" or "Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate."

Why Explore a Career at YKB Data AI 

This section should have been entitled - Why Explore a Challenge at YKB Data AI. What?
YKB Data & AI is not for everyone. This is the strongest differentiator. How?
Skills are secondary for us. We believe in intentions, not capabilities. Why?
If you don’t understand or resonate with the above three points, we encourage you not to apply. You won’t thrive here.
Most candidates look for a job or a career, but only a rare 2% see it as a challenge that fulfills their soul. We look for these 2%. Period.
If you happen to be fortunately falling in this group then world is too small for you. Reason being there are very few organizations which can really meet your expectations. We can! 
Experience the Real Work with Real People for a Real Purpose. 

1- Leading Platforms: Work with cutting-edge data and AI platforms on groundbreaking projects.
2- True Startup Culture: It’s not about bean bags or flexible hours; it’s about the spirit of innovation and creation.
3- Top Talent: Work with brilliant, like-minded individuals.
4- Empowerment: You’ll feel empowered every day, fostering your entrepreneurial spirit.
5- Greatest Work of Your Life: We promise this will be the most fulfilling work you’ll ever do.

Join us if you’re ready to push boundaries and make a real impact. The world is small for those who dare to dream big.