Head of Data Analytics and Automation at Old Mutual South Africa

Minimum Requirements.

•  Namibian Citizen.
•  Any Engineering Degree or Similar Qualification related to Robotic/ Data /Process Automation.
• 5-7 years of industry and development experience.
• Experience developing and testing software.
• A track record in the successful delivery and support of excel macros, Visual Basic scripts or other configuring/scripting type technology.
• Knowledge of Blue Prism will be an added advantage.
• Understanding of workflow-based logic and the ability to both understand a business process from a workflow diagram and top conceptualise it as an automated solution.

Job Specification...

• Responsible for managing several projects within the constraints of scope, quality, time and cost. 
• Accountable for defining the organisational analytics strategy and model methodology working closely with the business to significantly improve business insights based on a strong understanding of business processes, systems and objectives.
• Works closely with data team to inform and scope the development of the data architecture and governance framework to ensure the platform/s are able to scale up, deal with variety of data for analytics purposes and support changing business priorities across all business systems with clear roles and accountabilities. 
• Develop and apply analytical algorithms and methods with a view of driving and enhancing data systems and streamlining business processes. 
• Design necessary systems and processes to ensure robust, accurate and timely information which is available to support decision making. 
• Provide thought leadership on analytics by establishing best practices and creating an execution plan for the overall delivery of the analytics strategy and vision.
• Lead key analytical projects and processes to deliver actionable insights and recommendations for enhancing operational efficiencies, growing the capability.
• Participate in design, definition, planning, development, and implementation of end to end business intelligence and analytics solutions. 
• Delivers specified requirements and meets customer satisfaction. 
• Delivers the required product(s) for each project, phase or stage.
• Ensures that quality is achieved as planned.
• Deliver to time and cost within agreed tolerances.
• Manages the people, work and resources involved.
• Establishes and updates plans with actuals and forecasts.
• Manages deviations from plan.
• Reports to respective stakeholders.
• Escalates decisions and unresolved issues.
• Champion intelligent automation in assigned Business area.
• Facilitate the Business to identify opportunities, and lead assessment there-of.
• Facilitate development of business cases and agree estimated benefits with Business.
• Facilitate prioritisation of work with Business.
• Plan execution and delivery of benefits.
• Identify appropriate business stakeholders and ensure their engagement with development teams.
• Oversee execution of plans and report status to Business.
• Remove blockers to delivery and escalate risks and issues when appropriate.
•  Manage dependencies.
• Do capacity planning and manage utilisation of resources.
• Report regularly to Business stakeholders on progress, risks and issues.
• Develop accurate cost and resource estimates and ensure delivery against agreed budgets, maintaining transparent financials in adherence with Finance best practices

Skills

• Business Processes, Data Analysis

Education

• Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) (Required)

Closing Date

04 May 2023