Bi Analyst - Team Lead - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 15-02-2018 9:30:08 PM
15-03-2018 9:30:08 PM
Business Intelligence Analyst / BI Team Lead
Reporting to the CIO you will lead a small team of specialists, liaising with business users and partners in the IT arena, planning and managing BI deliverables and working with DBAs around data structure, availability and validity. Applicants will be required to explain how they understand the challenges; which areas they can add value to; and which will be a challenge for them. This is not for somebody to “grow into”, but rather to add value and deliver immediately.

Our Environ:
We use MS SQL server to host Data Collections and  Involved ETL processes. Currently establishing a new Data Warehouse.  Strong emphasis on establishing proper Master Data structures, managed by data architects and an internal Data Steward. The procedures and business rules around this are not finalized and we want the new BIA to assist with insight / experience in deploying MS SQL properly to manage and enhance BI delivery. The main BI tools are MS Excel and Tableau and we are hoping to utilize SSRS and MS PowerBI in future, depending on the specific requirements and type of data source.
 
You Need:
Experience working with & producing BI dashboards plus Proven:-
  • Data Warehousing
  • ETL
  • Business Intelligence
  • Business functioning understanding
  • MS-SQL (or other advanced DB programme)
To Do:
The successful person will:-
  • Be comfortable dealing with record sets in the millions, e.g. using queries to identify outliers and actively become a part and guiding force of our ongoing data validity auditing processes.
  • Have worked in a Data Warehouse environ & be familiar with related conventions / approaches.
  • Naturally think outside the box while having a good overall understanding of business functions.
  • Be very detail aware and able to find the stories in the data and come up with sustainable, cost effective and user- friendly ways to deliver business and strategy relevant BI to management and users across the organization.
  • Have strong communication skills to liaise with business users regarding requirements and translate business talk and strategic intentions to BI deliverables. 
  • Have robust figure orientation to aid you to determine the feasibility of results as well as guide the computation of relevant required aggregations.

Recruiter: CompuJobs