Data Analyst Specialist

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POSITION INFO:

Contract Duration: 9 months 

Hybrid model, 2-3 days on site in Johannesburg and the rest virtual

The consultant should have a sound understanding of finance and financial data, to ensure the overall success of the migration and continued interfacing of Bank Product related data into a SAP financial environment. The individual must be able to work in a team, have ability to build good inter personal relationships and take fellow team members on the overall journey to support the successful outcome of the overall project. A self-starter with previous exposure to mentoring and training of individuals is required to join an already established team to assist with the implementation of a large financial data to support the enablement of controls and standardized processes for African banking entities onto a SAP platform.

This will include the following:

1. Acquire data from legacy data sources, analyse patterns in line with desired outcomes and assist with translation / mapping to new solution utilising predefined mapping logic.
2. Financial understanding a prerequisite for analysis of data as overall balancing and reconciliation is critical.
3. Understand data available from product related legacy systems and how data fields can be combined to provide the required financial dimensions to support the SAP financial requirements.
4. Work with business finance colleagues to understand the data from legacy financial system to new solution.
5. Problem solving skills to troubleshoot misaligned information is required.
6. Ability to utilise tools such as Advanced Excel, Power Query or SQL to simulate and manipulate large volumes of data.
7. Design and participate in all levels of testing of the overall mapping effort to support the overall accuracy of the mapping and migration process.
8. Key responsibility in the migration of financial data and the ability to support queries from business as part of the process.
9. Key responsibility in the creation of new master data, adhering to the current business processes and master data principles.
10. To support business on queries logged and month end processes with regards to financial data queries, including assisting with journals to correct data where required.
11. Execute and support the data load requirement for:
    1. Historic data loads,
    2. Parallel Run data loads,
    3. Cutover data loads.

Background and Experience Required: 

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in a financial environment.
• • Relevant experience with large data sets.
• • Relevant experience in project delivery.

Mandatory Skills: 

• Understanding of financial business processes
• Excellent data skills
• Solid financial background
• Solid accounting knowledge
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Beneficial Skills 

• Relevant experience in the banking industry.

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