Analyst (Junior) - Sandton at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

• Maintaining our clients Data and Reporting needs on a Weekly/Monthly basis.

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

• Responsible for maintaining monthly production of Data and Reporting needs.
• Interact directly with clients, gathering information and implementing any change requests to their current reports.
• Working with assigned dashboards and checklists, reviewing to ensure all requirements have been captured (Quality Assurance).
• Collect data, analyse trends, summarise, draw conclusions, and make recommendations.
• Build tables, graphs, and presentations using approved tools.
• Perform ad-hoc support to our clients and internal Teams.
• Create / maintain all Production Documentation.

Technical core skills

• Excellent conceptual and technical ability
• Excellent communications, both written and verbal
• Comfortable presenting to external parties
• Accuracy (Advanced)
• Analytical (Advanced)
• Stakeholder management (Intermediate)
• Strong team player.
• Ability to work in a collaborative/problem solving environment.
• Ability to multitask.

Education and Experience

• Completed Diploma/Degree in the field/s of Mathematics/ Statistics/Business Analysis/Coding.
• 1 - 2 years of work experience in data analysis.
• Must have a strong interest and understanding of the following.
  • Data management, data analysis.
  • Skills in Microsoft Excel (macros, v-lookups and pivot tables) and Power Point
• Experience with the following would be considered an asset for this role.
  • Development tools such as Python, VBA and SQL
  • Hands on experience with Microsoft Power BI 
  • Experience with any Dashboard tools