Data Analyst - Contract

SUMMARY:
Data Analyst

POSITION INFO:

Our Client a global tech firm is seeking a Data Analyst to join their team in Cape town on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.

To develop, maintain and administer reports, with a focus on financial data, and provide technical support related to BI tools and general data requests. The role requires a strong understanding of retail data and experience within cloud environments, GCP or similar.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Development and deployment of new Business Intelligence reports (Business Objects, Looker Studio, Qlikview, Google Sheets) and ad hoc reports.
• Provide accurate information on requirements to IT; contract delivery and costs and manage ITs priorities and delivery.
• Accurate understanding of user reporting needs to be reflected in specifications and variables
• Opportunities for current report improvements will be investigated, identified and implemented
• Maintain and improve current Business Intelligence (Business Objects, Looker Studio, Qlikview, Google Sheets) reports.
• Oversee structure and administration of reports, with an emphasis on financial data integrity and retail data consistency.
• Develop training material and facilitate training for users
• Providing internal customer (user) support on an on-going basis
• Ad hoc duties and projects

JOB INCUMBENT REQUIREMENTS

• Relevant 3-year tertiary qualification
• 4 years experience as a Data Analyst in a retail environment
• Functional knowledge of PL/SQL/MySQL
• Ability to develop reports by using BI tools (BO, Looker Studio, Qlikview)
• Designing of data models to support reporting requirements
• Understanding the working of relational databases
• Knowledge of SAP Web Intelligence (BO) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ideal.