Data & Analytics Lead | Al-Futtaim Finance | Financial Services

• The Data & Analytics Lead is pivotal in developing and executing the data and AI enablement strategy for Al-Futtaim Financial Services (AFF), Hertz, and international businesses, aligning all initiatives with the digital transformation roadmap. The role bridges business, technology, and AI innovation, focusing on creating a unified, governed, and scalable data ecosystem. By leading the design and delivery of the AI-enabled data and analytics platform, the role aims to offer product-level profitability, portfolio insights, and operational excellence. This involves driving various analytics deliveries and building an internal AI capability crucial for automation, decision intelligence, and customer insights.

• Lead the Data & AI Enablement agenda by defining and executing the data strategy aligned with the Group CDO and Digital Transformation plan.
• Design and deliver the AI-enabled Data platform by establishing data pipelines and governance frameworks for AFF, Hertz, and related businesses.
• Build AI capability by developing internal data science and ML delivery capabilities for use cases like credit risk, pricing, fraud detection, and collections optimization.

• Implement policies, metadata management, lineage, and quality frameworks aligned with Group data leads.
• Ensure data governance score achieves 95% with zero critical audit findings.

• Drive data analytics platform adoption, ensuring implementation of executive dashboards covering profitability, equity, RoE, and self-service analytics for business teams.
• Aim for BI adoption rate of 80% with reduction in manual reports.

• Collaborate with Group & Divisional teams to ensure synergy with AFS&TD, GTDP, EIB and initiatives to avoid duplication and ensure reuse of shared data assets.
• Manage relationship with data engineering vendors, AI partners, and Group shared services (infrastructure, security) with SLA adherence of 95% and cost efficiency within budget.

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