BI Analyst

SUMMARY:
An exciting opportunity to join an Umhlanga based company as a BI Analyst. You will be responsible for enhancing and improving the top-line business understanding and decision-making processes by collecting, analyzing, and reporting data to the various business departments. The ideal candidate must be willing to travel to the office daily.

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

• Create written reports and/or data visualisations that business stakeholders can use to monitor metrics and make decisions
• Support the business operations in the following areas:
• Accurate Reporting
• Automation of manual processes
• Analytical feedback to improve business productivity
• Encourage and maintain a “customer service” philosophy within the BI team with business stakeholders
• Translate business needs to technical specifications and deliver on the output
• Debugging, monitoring and troubleshooting solutions
• Continually look to improve resource requirements & advise the line manager of inefficiencies as they are encountered and work toward continuous improvement of systems that best serve business
• Assist in the development of standardized tools, methodologies, and various business processes for the purpose of refining operational efficiency and identifying areas for improvement across business KPI’s
• Collect, sort, filter, analyse data and interpret the results to look for patterns and determine if the findings
• Provide direction regarding patterns, trends, and market analysis to drive business decisions
• Writing relational and multidimensional database queries
• Building, implementing and supporting the BI solutions
• Assist in problem resolution to the team through problem research
• Perform administrative and other ad-hoc functions as and when required by the team

Requirements:

• Matric
• Degree, Diploma or IT related qualification
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Business Intelligence Analyst or similar position preferred
• Accounting/Finance experience preferred
• Familiarity with reporting in sales, marketing, and other operational departments
• Experience in working with the following tools:
• Microsoft BI Tools (SQL/SSIS/SSRS/SSAS/Power BI)
• MySQL
• R / Python
• Microsoft Excel
• Knowledge of business processes and functional areas
• Possess experience in all stages of BI project work (requirements, design, implementation, testing and deployment)
• Experience in estimating solution development and delivering solutions against those estimates

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