Business Intelligence Business Analyst

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Job Description

Role Description:

The Group Finance Enablement FIT Business Intelligence Business Analyst is a well-rounded and skilled individual with a mature understanding of Data Management. By understanding and using data, solutions are designed and built to assist stakeholders with producing reports and dashboards that will enable informed business decisions. This role requires a committed, analytical individual with excellent communication skills.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationship with stakeholders

• Gather and document data and reporting requirements

• Perform data profiling and analysis

• Independently or collaboratively design data models to meet business requirement

• Produce clear and comprehensive design artefacts such as data flows, source to target mappings, data models, sample reports/dashboards

• Build proof-of-concept or mock-ups to illustrate functionality and/or output

• Engage with technical team and support development process

• Test and monitor testing to ensure quality final delivery

• Build output e.g. Power BI reports and/or dashboards

• Facilitate implementation, delivery and adoption by stakeholders through training & support

• Mentor and manage junior team members

• Prepare and present regular progress updates to stakeholders

• Follow Data Management best practices, particularly ensuring Data Governance is in place

Personal effectiveness

• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality

• Communicates clearly and timeously

• Problem solving aptitude

• Collaborates effectively with rest of team and stakeholders

• Ability to work under pressure and meet firm deadlines

• Willing and able to learn quickly and adapt to change

• Aligns to ways of working and team culture

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years working experience in the BIBA role with warehousing/power BI experience

• Qualifications: Degree or Postgraduate degree in Information Systems or related field

• Technologies: SQL, PowerBI, Data Warehousing, Tabular cubes, Microsoft Master Data Services, DAX, Exposure to AWS, data lake architecture and json would be advantageous

• Methodologies: DAMA, DCAM, Kimball

• Advantageous: Experience with Oracle ERP and EPM systems

• Advantageous: Analytical and BI experience in Human Capital, Actuarial and/or financial reporting

Understands all Business Intelligence and Information needs of the business. Oversees the specifications and design of reporting tools

ResponsibilitiesData Collection and Analysis

Conduct research using primary data sources, and select information needed for the analysis of key themes and trends.

Information and Business Advice

Provide specialist advice on the interpretation and application of policies and procedures, resolving queries and issues and referring very complex or contentious issues to others.

Insights and Reporting

Prepare and coordinate the completion of various data and analytics reports.

Testing Information Technology (IT) Performance

Design and perform website/applications software tests and respond to user emails to monitor, diagnose, and correct performance issues.

Data Exploration

Conduct research and select relevant information to enable analysis of key themes and trends using primary data sources and business intelligence tools.

Data Management

Manage basic aspects of the data management system with guidance from senior colleagues. This includes being responsible for developing or operating basic elements of the data management systems to deliver prescribed outcomes.

Database Specifications

Contribute to the approval process for database specifications to ensure all agreed standards and protocols are followed and data integrity is preserved.

Operational Compliance

Identify, within the team, instances of noncompliance with the organization's policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these instances and escalating issues as appropriate.

Personal Capability Building

Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Skills

Action Planning, Analytics Software, Business Intelligence (BI) Analysis, Computer Literacy, Data Analysis, Database Reporting, Data Classification, Data Compilation, Data Controls, Data Encoding, Data Interpretations, Data Modeling, Evaluating Information, Information Retrieval, Report Review

Competencies

Business InsightCommunicates EffectivelyDecision QualityEnsures AccountabilityManages ComplexityOptimizes Work Processes

Education

Bachelors Degree (B) (Required)

Closing Date

26 February 2025 , 23:59

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutual’s Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.

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