Manager Business Intelligence and Reporting at Sasol

Short Description / Purpose of Job

• The Manager Business Intelligence and Reporting drives evidence based and informed decision making for the achievement of the Global Market Hydrogen Development goals and priorities.
• This is a senior Business Intelligence and Reporting role responsible for working with key business stakeholders to design and develop end user reporting, KPI’s and analytics capability, in order to ensure successful delivery of information requirements. The role applies specialized expertise to provide consultative support to lead reporting and analysis.
• Performs research, analyses information, presents findings, and recommends changes based on data insights to solve problems and improve business outcomes. Conducts specialized work under minimal direction and guidance from manager on more complex tasks.
• The role works closely with the Senior Manager Hydrogen Digitisation, Principal Specialist Change and Communication and Principal Specialist Hydrogen Programme Enablement teams to scope data driven system and process improvements. 
• Supports the Global Market Hydrogen Development teams with report writing and drives the delivery of the Global Market Hydrogen Development strategy and budget.
• Ensures alignment with Functional, Group and OME governance and business intelligence standards.
• The successful candidate will be expected to have excellent technical skills, good oral and written communication skills, an organised approach to meeting targets and fulfilling agreements.

Recruitment Description / Key Accountabilities

• Develops and implements plans for improving business intelligence in the respective areas within Global Market Hydrogen Development.
• Provide guidance to the business teams on data and data management.
• Works with stakeholders to define, design, develop and maintain metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. with the correct tools/mechanism to record them, presented/visualised in a compelling way, in order to drive key decisions. Develops, updates, and analyses more complex metrics used to determine operational performance, staffing needs, productivity, or other measures deemed valuable to an organization.
• Provide the requirements and input to systems, processes and enabling technology to enable performance reporting. Leverage technical capabilities within the Hydrogen Digitisation, Energy IM and Digitisation groups to enable data requirements.  
• Analyse weekly, monthly, and quarterly financial and operational / project reporting metrics for Global Market Hydrogen Development. Analyses information to identify trends, patterns, gaps and insights using descriptive analytics. Typically uses data visualization tools to further business insights.
• Critical analysis and interpretation of metrics in order to create meaningful dashboards and reporting both at a detailed and executive level.
• Leverage benchmarks and identify trends and patterns to provide data insights to explain quarterly results and to shape future forecasts. Conducts analyses based on operational, economic and/or financial data in order to quantify the competitive performance of segments, evaluate potential operational changes, and/or design new approaches and methodologies.
• Applies a more sophisticated level of research and analysis to business process changes. Integrates process improvement and business operations expertise to solve problems considered more complex in nature. They work closely with the Hydrogen Digitisation, Change and Communication and Hydrogen Programme Enablement teams to scope data driven system and process improvements. Builds the business case for making a change to current practices, programs or procedures.
• Understand underlying systems in the collection of data, as well as the business processes driving that data. Partners with stakeholders on the design, testing, implementation, and evaluation of business process changes to improve business outcomes. Leads implementation and evaluation of business process changes.
• Initiate data management and analytics from the Operations, and Project such that technical/ economic models can be made and/ or automated. An example is a “digital twin”.
• Communicate across functional areas to resolve any data discrepancies to assure accuracy of information. Receives, evaluates and responds to complex data-related inquiries by applying knowledge of data and business operations and obtaining information from various sources.
• Owns report development for reports/dashboards of high complexity. Develops, modifies and distributes standard and ad hoc management reports/dashboards to better understand the overall business and/or unit. Develops presentations and shares findings as well as recommendations.
• Provide training and end-user support for customized reports and dashboards.
• Drives the co-creation of the Global Market Hydrogen Development strategy and supports the development and tracking of tactical plans aligned with the Global Market Hydrogen Development strategy, in order to bring the vision into realization.
• Project manage writing, designing and publishing of reports and components of reports.
• Conduct the quarterly tracking of stakeholder management plans, in order to rebuild trust and create shared value with stakeholders.
• Provides mentoring to less experienced staff.
• Ad-hoc requests and special projects.

Formal Education

• Post Graduate Honours Degree

Min Experience

• 10+ relevant years

Competencies

• Communication: Strong communication/interpersonal skills. Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations. Excellent documentation skills.
• Collaboration: The action of working with someone to produce something and experience working with senior decision makers
• Continuous Process Improvement: The methodology followed for increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of a business process, often through automation.
• Stakeholder Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of key stakeholders, anticipating their needs.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis, persistence and a proven analytical background.
• Self-Mastery: Takes accountability for driving own growth through developing self-awareness, reflecting, seeking feedback and self-correcting
• Analytics: The systematic computational analysis of data or statistics