Helpdesk Analyst - SA

As a partner to businesses and governments, Crane Authentication offers expertise and cutting-edge innovations that protect and enhance products, secure identities, safeguard revenues and enforce compliance. Customers from different business sectors and levels of government trust our team of 1,250 people for their expertise in R&D, security design, engineering and data-driven insights. We are an integral part of Crane NXT, a $2 billion dollar business with over 5,000 associates

Position Summary & Objective

The Help desk role is to provide 1st line support and guidance to ensure requests, issues, orders, and complaints are recorded, categorised, prioritised and resolved in compliance with agreed service levels. You will need to enjoy working as part of a team with an excellent telephone manner and take pride in the work you deliver. Where possible, a first-time fix should be provided through the use of excellent questioning skills, tools and knowledge bases, working to clearly defined ITIL processes.

The role includes trending of incidents, supporting investigation into root cause, order management and creation and analysis of reports.

Essential Functions Performed by the Position:

• Act as single point of contact for all engagement with the Customer community

• Accurately record all requests and incidents in the Service Management tool, assess impact and urgency, complete 1st line diagnostics and provide a First Time Fix where appropriate.

• If a First Time Fix cannot be reached, assign to the appropriate group for resolution Monitor incidents trends for repeat incidents and proactive incident management.

• Understand and implement escalation procedures if an incident has the potential to breach SLA

• Proactively manage updates to all parties with Incident/Request statuses through to resolution and to the customer's satisfaction.

• Maintain high levels of incident ownership through the incident lifecycle to a satisfactory Customer resolution

• Support the Problem Management function in the root cause analysis of incidents

• Provide end user training and support during and after the on-boarding process and educate users on appropriate use of the available services

• Actively contribute to and support in the creation of, Knowledge articles, Operating procedures, work instructions and as required for the role.

• Preparation of regular and adhoc reports as determined by the Customer (daily, weekly, monthly)

• Timely response to ad-hoc data/analysis requests, according to business priorities; includes preparation of datasets for further processing and analysis of outputs

• Accurately implement order entry including the ability and willingness to learn specific order management procedures

• Analytical thinker, able to work with large sets of data to standardise and validate information with excellent attention to detail. Ensure the processing, planning and prioritisation of customer orders is based on the Customer's procedures.

Position Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or related fields.

Experience:

• 3 Years' experience in a similar professional role.

Certifications/Licenses:

• ITIL Foundation and / or experience of working in an ITIL environment desirable.

Language Proficiency:

• Native Arabic and Fluent in English.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Strong customer-service orientation with a confident and enthusiastic approach to work

• Positive outlook, demonstrating patience, excellent listening and questioning skills.

• ITIL v4 Foundation or working within an ITIL Service Support framework (Incident, Problem, and Change) is desirable but not essential. Basic knowledge of an IT Service Management System tool (Remedy, HP Service Now, Hornbill, Heat, Peregrine).

• 'Can do' attitude with the desire to learn.

• Experience of using data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau or similar would be of benefit to this role.

• Microsoft Active Directory (users/computers) experience and/or experience of using network and IT monitoring tools is advantageous

• MS Office 2007 (or later) user knowledge.

• Knowledge of order-take systems or SAP is beneficial or have the ability to learn and adapt to bespoke systems and processes.

• Able to work to strict Policy and Procedures and desire to ensure consistency in approach to all tasks.

Working Hours and Conditions

• KSA Riyadh Office Timings – Onsite

Physical Characteristics and Demands

This role is sedentary in nature, you must be able to sit at a desk and use a computer for extended periods of time.

Travel Requirements

None.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

• Work for a market leading, established product company.
• Nice modern offices with great facilities.
• Health Insurance.
• 24 days holidays plus national holidays.

Crane Authentication is part of Crane NXT

Crane NXT is a premier industrial technology company that provides proprietary and trusted technology solutions to secure, detect, and authenticate what matters most to its customers. Crane NXT has approximately 5,000 employees with global operations and manufacturing facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, and Malta. For more information, visit www.cranenxt.com.

We value diversity at our company. Everyone who applies with the qualifications will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, colour, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We receive a high number of applications, so apologies if we are unable to provide specific feedback. If we feel you are a fit for the role, we’ll be in contact.