Data Analyst

SUMMARY:
Brief Description:

Are you a Senior Data Analyst who excels at turning complex data into meaningful business insights? I’m currently inviting experienced Data Analysts to apply for upcoming contract and long-term assignments across Gauteng.

POSITION INFO:
Job & Role Description:

I’m looking to connect with Data Analysts who can translate business needs into actionable data solutions, improve data quality, and enable strong data governance practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse complex datasets to identify trends, issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Conduct root cause analysis and propose solutions to improve data quality, access, and management.
• Translate business requirements into clear reporting and analytical outputs.
• Enable Data Quality and Metadata disciplines across the organisation.
• Provide guidance to business units on data governance best practices.
• Support users on information management platforms and related capabilities.
• Contribute to optimisation, clean-ups, testing, and platform enhancements.
• Work on data and analytics projects aligned to organisational strategy.

• Bachelor’s Degree, Postgraduate Diploma, or Advanced Diploma in Information Technology.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate or AWS Certified Data Analytics – Specialty advantageous.

• 3+ years experience as a Data Analyst (Senior-level exposure preferred).
• Strong experience working with relational databases (SQL, Oracle, Teradata, SAS).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud) for data management and analytics.
• Experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
• Solid understanding of data structures, data quality strategies, and metadata management.
• Experience analysing large volumes of data.
• Exposure to the financial services or banking industry (strong advantage).
• Experience with data and information management tools (e.g. Ab Initio, Metadata Hub, ExpressIT or similar).