Sales Analyst (FTC) - Pretoria West at RCL Foods

Job Description    

• At RCL FOODS we see and do things differently, we think bigger, work smarter and as a team collectively work towards achieving our ambition, to Grow What Matters! 
• Our Talent Team is currently on the hunt for a Sales Analyst (FTC) to join our Baking Division on a Fixed Term Contract. The role will be based in Pretoria and report to the Business Analyst.
• The BI Analyst will also be responsible for driving business insights and continuous improvement to assist in short, medium & long-term decision making, scope reporting requirements to deliver key analytics initiatives and manage and support day-to-day analytics requirements and platforms by ensuring solutions are up-to-date and accurate.

Minimum Requirements    

• A relevant Qualification or 3+ relevant experience (preferably a Bachelor’s Degree Information Systems, B.Com Computer Science or similar degree).
• High level of proficiency with MS Office packages with proven advanced proficiency in Excel.
• Knowledge of Power BI and system integration.
• 2-5 years’ experience in a data analytics environment.
• Experience in creating dashboards.
• Success in providing data & analytics insights that have added value.
• Experience in food manufacturing, consumer and sales industries.
• Ability to draw insight from analysis, communicate effectively, and be able to influence peers and superiors.
• Specialization in data sciences and data analytics.

Duties & Responsibilities    
Main Responsibilities

• Partner with various stakeholders within Sales to understand and deliver performance insights and key analytics solutions.
• Collaborate with business and business partners to deliver analytical solutions aligned to other business solutions.
• Design and develop cost effective BI solutions.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation for all processes and procedures required to perform the BI Analyst role.
• Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and validity.
• Ensure data and information is accessible to departments and stakeholders across the business as per business requirements.
• Provide training and support on dashboards to business users.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues and queries from users regarding dashboards.
• Maintain current knowledge of all relevant technological developments and seek opportunities to deploy new technologies.
• Generate specs for new reports based on business requirements.
• Identify areas of improvement in the reporting process.
• Create dashboards and interactive visual reports using Power BI or relevant data dashboard tool.
• Document all reports, data sources and purpose of reports.
• Design, build and release reports to relevant stakeholders.
• Extract, transform and load data from external sources (Excel, SharePoint lists).
• Build user friendly data models.
• Monitor and track all data reports.
• Identify root causes and escalation of failure points.