Game Business Analyst

About Sandsoft:

Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Sandsoft is a global video game developer, publisher and investor with a focus on engaging and entertaining players worldwide.

Our vision is to be the leading mobile-first games publisher & developer out the MENA region.

Our international team is composed of passionate and brave game makers with vast experience in developing, publishing and leading highly successful AAA mobile, console and desktop games including FIFA, Candy Crush, Need for Speed, Angry Birds, World of Tanks and more!

Through a passion for games, Sandsoft Games aims at bringing closer continents, cultures, and people.

About the Role:

As a Game Business Analyst you will play a key role in formulating Sandsoft’s future through strategic market and data analysis. You will bring an in-depth understanding of the mobile games market, the ability to mine and analyze internal, open source and market data, and the ability to identify and capitalize new business opportunities. 

You’ll be able to search, collect, distill and compile this data into compelling presentations to explain your strategic recommendations to your peers and the company decision makers. You will help Sandsoft to stay ahead of the competition by predicting market shifts and upcoming trends in this fast moving and rapidly changing mobile gaming market.

What you will be doing:

• Leveraging all internal & external data sources to identify market opportunities

• Monitoring and analyzing mobile game market and main competitors games

• Regularly conduct competition benchmarking

• Finding, analyzing and breaking down new emerging games

• Monitoring and reporting on emerging Market Trends

• Presenting reports and suggestions to all levels of management

• Work with a wide range of internal clients including business development, product management, marketing, finance, data and leadership team

• Analyzing market test numbers and building revenue projections based on KPI data

• Supporting decision making on running and analyzing P&L calculation for new business cases

• Alerting all internal teams on insights discovered from game evaluations or market analysis

• Proposing new internal tools or adopting 3rd party to improve market analysis capabilities

What you will bring:

• Good understanding of the mobile gaming industry, games and apps ecosystem

• Passion for mobile F2P gaming

• 3-5 years of working experience in mobile gaming industry

• Strong skills in BI tools such as Looker, Tableau or PowerBI and fluent in Excel, knowledge of game analytics, UA campaigns and metrics and market insights tools like Sensor Tower etc
  

• Experience in quantitative data analysis

• Good understanding on financials and building P&Ls

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Positive attitude and growth mindset

• Fluency in English, both written and oral