Senior BI Analyst - Cape Town Verfied

Salary Negotiable Cape Town, Western Cape Cape Town, Western Cape more than 14 days ago 15-08-2019 1:01:36 PM
10-10-2019 1:01:36 PM
A leading luxury travel company have a great job opportunity for a Senior BI Analyst to join their team in Cape Town. Join the BI team of the fastest growing company in travel and help them shape the future of their industry. If you have 5+ years of experience in Business Intelligence teams, get in touch with us today!

Your key job responsibilities as the Senior BI Analyst in Cape Town will include:

- Assist business teams and management with the development and implementation of operational metrics, dashboards and reporting
- Develop SQL scripts for ad-hoc requests, analysis and for reporting issues or bugs
- Be the bridge between business and technical teams by translating business needs into technical specifications
- Keep improving automated data quality processes and alerts on data sets and reports
- Continually evaluate, develop and implement new, meaningful methods for data analysis to inform the business teams about its performance
- Analyse historical figures to identify trends and help define strategies
- Lead deep dive analysis of sales pipeline, internal processes, and productivity
- Develop subject matter expertise on the key data sources for diverse business analysis
- Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing reports and dashboards and their underlying data sets
- Confidently present outcome of analysis and recommendations to executives and managers
- Provide leadership and mentoring within the business analysis community
- Develop and work with prediction models

Requirements for this Senior BI Analyst job in Cape Town:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field; or relevant experience in Business Intelligence development
- 5+ years of experience in Business Intelligence teams
- Experience creating data models to bring together datasets from multiple disparate systems in order to support data analysis
- The ability to analyse data to identify possible gaps, inconsistencies or quality issues on the numbers and figures
- Experience with at least two of the following reporting suites: SSRS, Google Data Studio, Power BI, Looker or Tableau
- Proficient in at least one of the following languages: Java, DAX, MDX, Python
- Advanced SQL skills
- A strong understanding of relational databases and experience working and developing within a Data Warehouse environment
- The ability to communicate complex concepts in a clear and concise manner to audiences from staff to senior executive level