Job Description

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT
For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories.
Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken to build a future where luxury dreams become reality - bridging cultures and crafting memorable experiences for our consumers. Be it by constantly reinventing itself, committing to innovation, or embracing new technologies, the Group is shaping the future of luxury retail. It delivers seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps. Driving this innovation journey is The Greenhouse - the Group's innovation hub, incubator, and accelerator for startups and emerging businesses, regionally and globally.
Chalhoub Group fosters a people-at-heart culture rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a workplace catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. Today, it brings together over 16,000 talented professionals across eight countries in the Middle East, with a presence in LATAM. Their collective efforts have earned the Group the Great Place to Work certification in several markets.
Sustainability is at the core of the Group's strategy, guided by a clear commitment to people, partners, and the planet. Chalhoub Group is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles, and to have pledged to reach Net Zero by 2040.
What you'll be doing
As a Specialist for Data Analytics, supporting the Internal Audit Department, you will be responsible for building the continuous monitoring as well as working with the relevant internal audit team members to define and generate the analytics best needed for the planned audits. You will also present and support analytics results and conclusions to audit clients when needed.
You will be reporting to the engagement in-charge on assigned engagements with a direct reporting line to the Vice President - Internal Audit.
Your responsibilities include:

• Review the current data analytics, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to map out our existing technical capabilities.
• Identify gaps and develop a future-state vision for Internal Audit's continuous monitoring program, recommending specific data analytics platforms, visualization tools, and data infrastructure improvements.
• Work with the audit team and business leaders to translate their requirements into technical specifications for new reports and automated alerts.
• Partner closely with IT, business, risk, and compliance teams to gain access to data sources and create a unified, cross-functional monitoring process.
• Lead the adoption and technical configuration of internal audit's primary data analytics tool, ensuring it is optimized for performance and usability.
• Provide technical training and hands-on support to the audit team, empowering them to leverage data tools and interpret analytical outputs effectively.
• Develop a clear roadmap for building and enhancing the continuous monitoring program, presenting the business case for technology and resource investments.
• Work closely with the IA team and key stakeholders and define key exception reports and continuous monitoring methods to ensure real time reporting for key risk indicators.
• Work closely with first and second lines of defence in the business to ensure that exception and continuous monitoring reports are aligned and establish combined assurance process.
• Data extraction and preparation for internal audit.
• Establish a framework for data extraction for the audit team in an autonomous
• Write and execute complex SQL queries and Python scripts to extract large, diverse datasets from primary sources, including ERPs (SAP, Oracle), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and on-premise databases.
• Design, build, and maintain automated ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to ensure the timely and reliable flow of data from source systems into our analytics environment.
• Utilize Python libraries (Pandas, NumPy) to perform critical data preparation tasks.
• Handle missing values, correcting data types, and removing duplicates.
• Standardize formats across different data sources.
• Join, merge, and aggregate disparate datasets to create unified views for analysis.
• Implement data validation checks and quality assurance scripts to guarantee the accuracy and reliability of the data used for monitoring.
• Apply analytical techniques to the prepared data to develop key risk indicators, exception reports, and dashboards that provide real-time insights.

What you'll need to succeed

• You have 5 to 7 years of experience in design and application of advanced data analytics techniques, with at least 3 years working with internal audit or internal controls teams.
• You hold a Bachelor's degree or equivalent in computer science, management information systems or STEM. An advanced degree in analytics (i.e. MS Business Analytics, Masters Data Analytics, Masters Information & Data Science) is a plus.
• You preferably hold professional certifications such as ACL Certified Data Analyst (ACDA), Certified Analytics Professional (CAP), CompTIA Data+.
• You have experience working Looker, BigQuery, and SQL and data visualization tools (e.g Tableau, Power BI).
• You are a continuous learner who is attentive to details, curious, proactive and self-directed, and an excellent problem solver and communicator.

What we can offer you
With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.
We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.
We Invite All Applicants to Apply
It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.
We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.

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