Helpdesk Analyst

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

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.

As primary contact will be from the Customer community a high level of professionalism is paramount.

• 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.

• To ensure full participation in the performance development review (PDR) process and maintain an up‑to‑date record of all training and development activities/programs
• To always act and behave in a way compliant with all Crane company guidelines and policies, especially those relating to values and behaviours, environmental health and safety, ethics, and codes of conduct, as it is through living our values that we strengthen the culture of our business and demonstrate our understanding of our Code of Business Principles. Further information on our company values can be found in our “Living the Values” guidelines

• Fluent in Arabic and English is essential (written and verbal)
• Strong customer‑service orientation with a confident and enthusiastic approach to work
• Positive outlook, demonstrating patience, excellent listening and questioning skills.
• ITIL v3 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,…