Vice President Data Analysis

About the role

The Vice President Data Analysis leads QNB's enterprise-wide analytics strategy, ensuring insights-driven decision-making across all business units. The role oversees executive dashboards, KPI frameworks, performance analysis and business intelligence solutions, manages a team of analysts and works across functions to improve profitability, operational efficiency and compliance with internal and regulatory standards.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage analysts, BI developers and MIS experts, define team OKRs and enterprise KPIs and dashboards, and align analytics with lending, deposits and fee income
• Support C-level decisions with financial modelling, profitability analysis, scenario planning and cost-efficiency analysis
• Act as senior advisor to business units, work with retail, corporate, international and digital banking, and run quarterly business reviews
• Own the analytics lifecycle, set metric definitions and metadata, and ensure regulatory-compliant data architecture under QCB, GDPR and NDCP
• Review and approve business models (profitability, risk scoring, churn) and support audits, RCSA, KRI and Basel reporting
• Build a learning roadmap, mentor analysts, run innovation forums and a data literacy programme, and oversee recruitment and governance of dashboards and metrics

Required profile

• University degree in Business Analytics, Data Science, Economics, Engineering or a related field; Master's or MBA highly preferred
• Minimum 12 years' experience in data analytics, with at least 8 years in senior leadership in banking or financial services
• Track record of delivering enterprise-wide BI strategies and measurable results

Required skills

• Advanced SQL and data modeling
• Python, DWH / lakehouse design, ETL / ELT pipelines
• BI and reporting platforms, data quality and reconciliation
• Databricks or similar, workflow orchestration and automation
• Data governance and banking data domain knowledge