Ithemba Recruitment

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Ithemba Recruitment  •  South Africa (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

Role Purpose

The purpose of the role is to act as a lead in helping to shape the collection, management, and use of data for key business functions. The job holder will be required to drive the connecting of appropriate ‘back of house’ technology to deliver customer solutions and service satisfaction while leveraging these capabilities to drive valuable MI and insights for management.

  • To produce detailed analysis and insight to help decision making in the business ensuring the data is central to the delivery of our new corporate strategy and associated strategy delivery plans
  • To work with key colleagues across the company and assist the programme of work to improve the business understanding of data as well as promoting data analytics skills across each directorate
  • As the Senior BI Analyst, you'll manage the integrity and effectiveness of data collection across operational and compliance related reporting
  • To support quarterly business assurance reporting process
  • You're also going to be using Power BI, providing analysis and insight for the business on complex issues and projects
  • To improve and automate the collection and management of data
  • Continue to review and improve the technology solution or knowledge base allowing issues to be fixed on first touch and minimising client downtime
  • Ensure that identified data issues and problems are descriptively logged and kept up to date on the companie’s Incident and Problem logging system
  • Ensure projects (internal and client) are progressed professionally and in a timely manner, ensuring projects are delivered on time and to budget
  • Any other duties as required

Essential skills

  • Experience in leading on data analysis projects
  • Excellent knowledge of Power BI (dashboards, workspaces and apps) or similar systems
  • Excellent knowledge of MS Office applications including using complex formulas, VBA, SQL beneficial
  • Good attention to detail and a highly numerate ability
  • Confidently engage and manage client relationships as well as Senior Leadership stakeholders (Stakeholder Management at all levels)
  • Track record of providing services in a multi-site, 1000+ seats context
  • Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex data related problems – data cleansing, validation, Tabular BI semantic model, advanced analytics and reporting, data mining, etc.
  • Provides technical assistance and mentoring to staff in all aspects of data management
  • Ability to speak confidently with senior stakeholders, as well as talk "techy" with Tech teams
  • Experience of large and small technology change projects within a fast paced and demanding corporate culture.

Desirable skills

  • Experience of working with applications such as; Microsoft Office products, NetSuite, SalesForce, JIRA
  • Experience with Microsoft Cloud (Azure, Office 365) and AWS Data tools
  • Experience of working in an ISO27001:2013 environment
  • Degree in a relevant subject



Ithemba Recruitment

About Ithemba Recruitment

Ithemba Recruitment is an organisation that specializes in the placement of quality candidates in various industries.

We at Ithemba recruitment are “specialist generalists” we have the understanding that the we are able to recruit for a wide range of positions in various job functions that clients may require because we prefer to be seen as specialists for our clients needs and culture rather than specialists in a specific sector.

We feel that any position can be qualified by the correct understanding of people rather than what field they work in. We feel that by communicating effectively with candidates and having respect for their needs, requirements and time – we are able to form relationships and properly understand our candidates and the culture that they would fit into so as to service our clients’ needs more effectively. You could possibly classify us as “Versatilist”.

Whether you are in need of a new member of staff or as we like to call it "a new family member"​ or if you are in search of a new opportunity our consultants are ready to take your call.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Durban, ZA
Year Founded
Unknown
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