Senior Specialist – Business Analytics & Customer Onboarding
Role Overview
Senior individual-contributor role in Sales & Delivery Enablement Operations, reporting to the Manager of Reporting Automation & Data Management.
Leads customer, partner, and internal-user onboarding across Azure and other software licensing platforms.
Owns licensing operations, reporting, stakeholder coordination, and automation for accurate fulfilment, documentation, and performance, risk, utilisation, and cost visibility.
Role leads cross-functional workstreams and supports other analysts without direct people-management responsibility.
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Senior individual-contributor role in Sales & Delivery Enablement Operations, reporting to the Manager of Reporting Automation & Data Management.
Leads customer, partner, and internal-user onboarding across Azure and other software licensing platforms.
Owns licensing operations, reporting, stakeholder coordination, and automation for accurate fulfilment, documentation, and performance, risk, utilisation, and cost visibility.
Role leads cross-functional workstreams and supports other analysts without direct people-management responsibility.
Licensing and onboarding operations
- Coordinate onboarding and licensing services for customers, partners, and internal users across Azure and other platforms.
- Manage the licensing lifecycle from request validation and provisioning through renewal, suspension, and retirement.
- Validate approvals, contracts, billing details, and supporting documents before fulfilment; maintain accurate records.
- Monitor service levels, renewals, dependencies, and risks; escalate delays and keep audit-ready records.
Reseller and vendor management
- Act as operational contact for resellers, distributors, publishers, and technology vendors.
- Coordinate and validate quotations, orders, renewals, upgrades, cancellations, credits, pricing, terms, and fulfilment.
- Track partner actions, exceptions, performance, and issue resolution against service levels.
- Support Procurement and Finance with purchase orders, invoices, billing reconciliation, renewal planning, and corrective actions.
Reporting, analytics, and automation
- Develop reports and dashboards for onboarding, licensing, renewals, utilisation, cost, compliance, and service performance.
- Analyse bottlenecks, underutilisation, duplicate assignments, renewal risks, data issues, and savings opportunities; track KPIs, trends, and exceptions.
- Reconcile platform, reseller, contract, invoice, billing, and customer data for budgeting, forecasting, accruals, and demand planning.
- Standardise repetitive activities; build automation for intake, approvals, notifications, provisioning handoffs, renewals, reconciliation, and reporting.
- Document business rules, controls, dependencies, exceptions, and support procedures; monitor failures and coordinate fixes.
- Deliver scalable improvements with business and technical stakeholders while balancing speed, accuracy, compliance, and service quality.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business analytics, business administration, finance, or a related field.
- 5–7 years of experience in onboarding, licensing or subscription operations, business analytics, vendor management, sales operations, or a related function.
- Experience managing cross-functional onboarding and software licensing lifecycles across Azure or comparable platforms.
- Experience producing reports, dashboards, reconciliations, and actionable insights, and improving processes through automation and data controls.
- Strong Microsoft Excel, communication, and stakeholder-coordination skills; working knowledge of reporting and automation platforms.
Preferred qualifications
- Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, SharePoint, Dataverse, and Microsoft Excel.
- SQL, data modelling, API-based integrations, and data-quality management.
- Process mapping, requirements gathering, user acceptance testing, and operational documentation.
- Licensing compliance, subscription billing, renewals, and vendor management.
Performance indicators
Request and licence-provisioning turnaround time and percentage of requests completed within service levels.
On-time renewal completion rate and accuracy and completeness of licensing and reporting data.
Licence utilisation and cost-optimisation opportunities identified.
Reduction in manual effort and errors through reliable automation and timely exception resolution.
Compensation and benefits
- Salary package is described as competitive and based on skills and experience; no pay cadence or amount is specified.
- Performance-based yearly bonus, Esaad and Fazaa discount cards, family health coverage including dental, vision, and life insurance, and learning and development access.
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