Business Intelligence Analyst at FirstRand Group

Job Description

To understand the business environment and requirements in order to analyze data and provide relevant analytical and quantitative insights to business for operational, tactical and strategic decisioning.

• Provide support and input into tactical business strategies and execute on relevant business intelligence (BI) projects / BI initiatives aligned to strategic objectives with specific performance measures and control systems to track progress.
• Drive business profitability in the context of cost management through effective delivery of Business Intelligence solutions (time management and cost).
• Integrate data assets (i.e. outcomes from data science and, data and analytics teams) to business.
• Ensure ongoing efficiencies driven by a culture of sharing "build once and build for all" as well as leveraging tools built by other D&A teams via consumption or enhancements prior to new builds on D&A outcomes.
• Extract data from various sources for the purposes of data profiling in order to create the technical BI requirements (e.g. source to target).
• Resolve queries as and when required (medium to complex data extracts).
• Liaise with Business Analyst and relevant stakeholders to produce BI business requirement (BRS) documentation and submit to relevant stakeholders for sign off.
• Provide business summaries to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making.
• Analyse derived information to create value added knowledge of the bank's products, channels, service levels, trends, or customers for business and operational informed decisions.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders to provide input into assigned projects, in line with business requirements within the required timeframe and specification.
• Involvement in new projects, design, define and document the Business Intelligence solutions in line with business requirements and service ad-hoc requests for information from clients within the required timeframe and specification.
• Provide support in setting the intellectual agenda for the team (in consultation with the necessary stakeholders) and creating conceptual frameworks across multiple projects.
• Share knowledge and ideas into new or improved data product for the Business Intelligence environment.
• Provide expertise to relevant stakeholders in area of specialization.
• Maintain BI repository.

Requirements:

• Bachelors' degree in relevant field
• 3 years' experience with SQL Management Studio
• Experience with SSIS and ETL
• Experience with PowerBI and
• Knowledge QlikView