Graduate Data Analyst

SUMMARY:
An independent bank that combines excellent personal service with innovative financial solutions to assist businesses and individuals to bank the way they want, where they want and when they want is looking for an energetic and resourceful Graduate Data Analyst.

POSITION INFO:

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB:

They are seeking people that are passionate about using data to solve problems, to turn data into information and information into insight that will lead to informed business decisions. This position involves using Data Analytics techniques to drive business strategy and performance. It includes a range of approaches and solutions from looking backward to evaluate what happened in the past, to forward-looking scenario planning and predictive modelling.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Source, cleanse, refine and verify the integrity of data used for analysis.
• Interpret data, analyse results and interpret trends enabling continuous improvement in data
• quality and overall business performance.
• Create detailed specifications that specify data sources, data flows, data transformations,
• data storage and reporting.
• Produce documentation such as source-to-target-maps, data dictionaries and data models.
• Create test cases and scenarios used to ensure quality assurance.
• Promote the use of existing enterprise and divisional data standards to enhance data
• quality, ensure constant compliance and adherence to data governance principles.
• Promote reusability, maintainability, reliability, and scalability in design and development of
• data solutions.
• Process data according to specified guidelines.
• Perform other duties as required.

Skills/Personal Attributes Required

• BCom or equivalent degree
• Knowledge and strong understanding of data frameworks, practices, and tooling.
• Practical knowledge using database management tools (SQL) and reporting tools
• (Power BI).
• Superior written and verbal communication skills, including technical and report writing.
• Energetic and tenacious
• Lateral thinker
• Integrity and accountability
• Good work ethic
• Effective communicator with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Independent thinker
• Takes ownership
• Effective time-management skills
• Teamwork and cross collaboration ability
• Exposure to operating in an Agile environment

The next step is to enter the application process by completing the role match questionnaire. This online questionnaire is designed to identify if you are a good match for the role and the company and also help predict a new hire''s on-the-job performance and retainability. You will be required to use the link below:

Creating your profile:

• Registration and authentication:
• Please navigate to  http://ai.pivotaltalent.co.za/?CID=195DF   (we recommend using Chrome)
• Select ‘New registration’
• Complete registration information. Your email and password can be used to log in and continue building your profile, if you do not complete it in one session. Remember to accept the terms and conditions. 
• Select ‘Register a new account’

A few general guidelines for completing the assessment:

• Follow the registration page and register as a new user.
• There are no right/wrong answers. Do not see this as a test, just a way of assessing how you see things and approach problems. 
• Read the instruction pages carefully, there are timed questions, if you go past them you cannot go back. You only have one chance to complete the assessment.
• The 1st section is the most challenging and is also timed, take notes right from the start! Do not let this section discourage you.
• Please find the time to put aside 45 min to complete the assessment (without any distractions).

Please note that selecting ‘next’ on the assessment saves the current progress.

Please ensure that you do this before logging out. (It is recommended not to log out during a section that is timed, as indicated by a counter at the top of the page).

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