Business Analyst at Omnia (Pty) LTD

Overview    

• Plan and organize workloads and staff assignments; Review progress, and direct changes in priorities, schedules, procedures to meet deadlines. Liaise with project teams
• Motivate staff by setting and achieving challenging goals; demonstrate persistence in overcoming obstacles
• Lead change management and risk management, identifying appropriate resources and developing schedules to ensure timely project completion
• Manage risks by considering the ultimate impact of decisions and actions
• Provide technical governance and alignment over improvement initiatives

Qualifications    

• Matric or NQF level 5
• Bachelor or Master’s degree (preferable) in Industrial engineering

Experience    

• 7- 10 years’ experience
• Experience in analysing and evaluating complex data and solutions (essential) = 4 to 6 years
• Exposure to manufacturing and/or chemical environment

Duties    
Operations:

• Collaborate with Services and Support management to ensure timely, appropriate implementation of processes to drive corporate initiatives and services results
• Develop the business requirements management plan
• On-schedule task delivery within planned cost and agreed scope
• Analyses and optimizes the inter-relationships between business processes, procedures, systems, interfaces, and organizational structures
• Investigates and models business functions, processes, information flows and data structures using various analysis tools and techniques
• To analyse data to identify opportunities for business improvement
• To present opportunities and propose relevant business case and/or remedial actions
• To guide and support implementation of the proposed opportunities
• To consult with, and build collaborative relationships with external and internal teams/experts/stakeholders to ensure a full understanding of data and the effectiveness of proposed solution
• To identify and document business functions and process per business unit to ensure streamlined operations and support contingency planning
• To assess gross profit margins and other relevant financial parameters to facilitate optimization for the Group

Reporting

• Play a key role in the development of business reviews, presentations, reporting, and analysis required for monthly, quarterly, and annual management meetings
• Provide periodic reports of enterprise technology and support activities as required to achieve and maintain performance measures
• Project Management – Manage project and team
• Plan and organize workloads and staff assignments; Review progress, and direct changes in priorities, schedules, procedures to meet deadlines. Liaise with project teams
• Motivate staff by setting and achieving challenging goals; demonstrate persistence in overcoming obstacles
• Lead change management and risk management, identifying appropriate resources and developing schedules to ensure timely project completion. Manage risks by considering the ultimate impact of decisions and actions
• Provide technical governance and alignment over improvement initiatives

Reporting

• Play a key role in the development of business reviews, presentations, reporting, and analysis required for monthly, quarterly, and annual management meetings
• Provide periodic reports of enterprise technology and support activities as required to achieve and maintain performance measures

Job Competencies    

• Creativity
• Innovation
• Problem Solving
• Decision Making
• Teamwork
• Customer orientation
• Collaboration
• Honesty and Integrity

Closing Date    
2023/05/23