Senior Specialist: Regional Data & Analytics at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Role purpose:

• Represent their business function on the Data Governance Committee.
• Involved in making business critical decisions about the data they own.
• Responsible for data privacy and cyber security assessments.
• Own the risk of sharing data outside of the organization.
• Accountable for approving data retention and extensions if required.
• Accountable for data quality for their business function.
• Responsible to ensure that data is not duplicated in multiple environments creating ‘Shadow IT’
• Responsible to ensure that D&A develops all standard scripts for performance KPIs to avoid ‘Shadow D&A

Your responsibilities will include:

• Business Ownership: To clearly define product roadmaps outlining data and reporting requirements. And to partner with D&A at being the business owner of created data assets in a D&A & IT controlled common data platform
• Month-end reporting & analytics: Central BI analyst responsible for the delivery of month end data as well as insights
• BI Solutions: Partner with Qlik developers and solution architects to design transformational analytical solutions
• Actionable Insights: Deliver daily and monthly insights from data models to support commercial action and financial steering
• Portfolio Optimisation: Increase the penetration of D&A products within the Regions through portfolio reviews, effective stakeholder management and a decommission plan of sprawled reporting

The ideal candidate for this role will have:
Must have technical / professional qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering or related field essential and
• A minimum of 5 years relevant experience essential
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and working with relational databases
• Comfortable working with Agile as part of a high-performance diverse team across three geographies

Core competencies, knowledge, experience:

• Outstanding analytical skills and problem solving ability
• Experience of working on complex data modelling projects to support strategic, financial and regulatory mandates
• Advanced SQL skills including extensive experience querying large, complex data sets
• Deep knowledge of Vodacom’s income statement structure in HFM and the supporting drivers of revenue and cost
• Experience in working in visualisation tools like Qlik Sense or Qlik View
• Experience of working with and presenting to senior leaders and executives with excellent oral and written communication skills
• Capable of working under pressure, particularly for regulatory or month end reporting deadlines
• Ability to work as a team with other BI professionals, with the desire to develop junior data analysts

Closing date for Applications: 15 June 2023.