BI Business Analyst - (EE) Cape Town

SUMMARY:
Seeking a BI Business Analyst with a Degree/Diploma (Information Systems; Statistics; Data or Computer Science; Engineering) or equivalent, plus 2-5 years experience performing Data /Systems /Information Analysis in a BI environment, for an EE position in Cape Town.

POSITION INFO:

Job Role

A unique opportunity to complement a small, high performance team in supporting Business Intelligence (BI) solutions for the Group’s Investment business. Support will be provided through Data and Systems analysis (incl. data issue investigation), required to deliver various business BI support requirements.

 Responsibilities

• Guided by Lead Analysts, be responsible for sourcing and transforming a wide range of Data across the business into formats that can be used by end users to develop differentiating business insights.
• Experienced in using a variety of data tools, analysis methods and data visualization to turn data into actionable insights with demonstrable business impact.
• Assist in specifying complex business rules using the specified toolsets to enable the data modelers to create complex analytical models. Hence, need to understand and continuously seek to build knowledge of data and information.
• Analyze data models and test the outputs, investigate & troubleshoot data issues and devise solutions in line with best practice.
• Responsible for the end-to-end tasks within the data analysis framework working with business representatives, product owners, etc. to define and elicit requirements, analyze data and create reports/dashboards.

 Requirements

 Qualifications

• Diploma/Bachelor Degree (Information Systems; Statistics; Data or Computer Science; Engineering) or equivalent (preferred but not essential)

Experience

• 2-5 years experience performing Data /Systems /Information  Analysis in a BI environment.
• Functional experience in Analytics, Data visualisation or Reporting.
• Knowledge of and experience with reporting packages.
• Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings for stakeholder use.
• Experience working with Data in various data sources and databases.
• Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical terms.
• Demonstrated experience in handling large data sets and relational databases with proven SQL skills.
• Ability to comply to and manage Data assets under strict governance framework.
• Experience in Agile development desired.
• Business experience in Financial services or Financial Asset management will be advantageous.
• Ability to work with Data profiling, Data quality and reference data toolsets advantageous.
• Knowledge of various toolsets such as SAP Hana Studio, SAP Data Services, Informatica Data Quality Suite, Cloudera big data storage and Microsoft Power BI will be advantageous.
• Proficiency in MS Excel.

Knowledge and Skills

• Business and Data Analysis
• Project Management
• Business processes and management of budget
• Project and resource management
• Business Processes and business requirements definition.

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