Analytics Specialist at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

• The incumbent to this role will understand and clearly articulate business challenges and translate these into actionable insights which can be acted on by business. They are individually accountable for achieving results through own efforts.

Key Result Areas

Data & Analytics Delivery

• Understand and clearly articulate business challenges and translate these into actionable analysis items which can be acted on by a wider team of analysts and data scientists
• Provides analytical insights to support business initiatives such as regulatory/compliance data insights
• Provides analytics support to management in the form of reports, data visualizations, analysis, or presentations
• Leads analytics delivery initiatives independently, from problem formulation through data extraction, data manipulation, data analysis and presentation of results and recommendations.
• Understands and identifies business challenges and opportunities specific data and analytics through others over applicable period.
• Manages personal workload effectively

Stakeholder Management

• Provides analytics-based support to Data & Analytics and various other Business Units.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external clients
• Communicates and presents analysis results to key stakeholders across organisational level

Team Effectiveness

• Develops 1-year detailed plan for delivery aligned to broader business plan.
• Balances own priorities
• Strives for operational excellence in personal performance.
• Holds oneself accountable for time management, tasks completion and , and output quality.
• Manages own performance
• Plans and assigns work over periods of up to a year.
• Demonstrates autonomy in selecting potential staff to support customer/client service delivery.

Key Focus Areas

• Translating business challenges into actionable analysis initiatives independently
• Provides pro-active and reactive support to management
• Filters input from team into business intelligence
• Establishes strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and business partners
• Aligning performance for organizational success

Minimum Requirements

• BSc/BBus Sci/ BCom (analytical or statistical qualification)
• Between 5 and 8 years’ experience in an analytics related field
• Demonstrates strong business acumen
• Willingness to research and learn new technologies, tools and platforms
• Possesses excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrates proficiency in numerical and mathematical skills
• Displays strong problem solving skills
• Exhibits effective relationship management skills
• Demonstrates proficiency in presentation and facilitation skills
• Financial services experience is advantageous
• Some people management experience is advantageous

Competencies

• Strategic
• Leading with Influence
• Innovation (Perspective)
• Execution
• Customer First
• Personal Mastery (Learning)
• Collaboration (Relating)