Never pay for any CBT, test or assessment as part of any recruitment process. When in doubt, contact us
PwC - Biggest provider of audit, accounting and tax services to the companies listed in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Also provides internal audit, forensic audit, corporate finance, corporate governance services, sustainable assurance services and others.
Read more about this company
Job description
The PwC Deal
Our people make an impact through their dedication to client service, creativity, and high performance. Whatever your passion, the opportunities available to you at PwC will help you realise your career aspirations.
As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to a variety of flexible working styles. We're committed to collaboration and strong relationships that help our clients and our people realise their ambitions. Well known for our technical excellence, we're also a firm brimming with energetic and inspirational people who want to build a diverse career in a progressive, global organisation.
What's in it for you? The opportunity to join a diverse and progressive team, with the chance to learn from inspirational people committed to ensuring each and every interaction is an opportunity to learn, challenge and innovate.
Purpose of Job
This is a client facing role to provide strategic advice and guidance on Information Management.
- Helping clients drive architecture, organization, and alignment of information assets to deliver value, better decisions, and manage risk
- Information Strategy & Roadmap
- Assist our clients with assessing their current data and analytic capabilities and comparing to information needs requested by business stakeholders;
Defining the target state architecture required to enable those capabilities and defining a roadmap of initiatives. This will cover capabilities across:
- Data Governance
- Data Structures and Architectures
- Master and Meta data
- Data Quality
- Data Security
- Analytics & Discovery
- Reporting & Analysis
- Big Data Platforms
- Operating Model Definition
- Assist our clients with right-sizing and optimizing the organizational structure and supporting processes in place designed to enable efficient business intelligence reporting and Analytic Centers of Excellence (CoE)
- Data Platform Selection
- Determine technology requirements, target environments and technical specifications for component tools of the architecture
- The Information Architect will work with other domain architects in a collaborative and project based environment.
- Establish and promote information management best practices.
Key Outputs
- Information / Data Management capability assessment
- Target Logical Information / Data Architecture
- Information Management Strategy and Roadmap
- Conceptual and Logical data model
Qualifications
- Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's degree
- Minimum Degree Required Major: in Computer Science or any MIS related field
Experience
Minimum Years of Experience: 6
Must be proficient in:
- Information Architecture - Design and develop architecture components including data warehouses, data marts, Big Data and data provisioning architecture (ETL, messaging, etc.)
- Big Data Reference Architecture & Platform definition as well as vendor specific best-practices for key market players (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, SAP, Oracle,)
- Data Management Frameworks covering Data Governance, Data Quality and Profiling, Metadata
- Evaluating enterprise information architecture feasibility, risk and technologies related to business change, processes and performance from business and technical standpoints; and the impact of data changes on business and/or IT processes
- Advising CXO's/CDOs on emerging technologies and strategies consistent with clients' business strategies;
- Prioritizing, preparing and implementing information architectural improvements
- Developing and validating business stakeholders' conceptual data models, including socializing and implementing logical and physical data models; identifying data sources and metadata (including business rules, definitions, attributes, etc.) to deliver analytic requirements.
- Demonstrates extensive ability to develop a business vision and lead implementation efforts with complex project management capabilities, including:
- Identification and addressing of client needs--developing and sustaining deep client relationships using networking, negotiation and persuasion skills to identify and sell potential new service opportunities; preparing and presenting complex written and verbal materials; and defining resource requirements, project workflow, budgets, billing and collection.
- Team leadership--generating a vision, establishing direction and motivating members, creating an atmosphere of trust, leveraging diverse views, coaching staff, and encouraging improvement and innovation
Competencies / Attributes Delivery
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and coordinate tasks to meet multiple deadlines and conflicting client and company constraints;
- Must be a self-starter, motivated individual who works well under pressure;
- Is able to motivate a team for excellent delivery;
- Open-minded, practical and able to solve complex problems;
- Attention to detail and committed to quality;
- Ability to perform quality reviews on others work and provide constructive feedback when required;
General
- Strategic and big picture thinking;
- Facilitation skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills;
- Sound judgment;
- Innovative;
- Resilient;
- Cope well under tight deadlines and work well under stress;
- Relationships
- Is a team player and contributes to team success;
- Is able to build effective customer relationships;
- Learning and growth
- Is curious – learning, sharing and innovating;
- Willingness to continually learn and develop skills across a multitude of core Information Management competencies;
- Approaches problem solving in a logical and structured manner with due consideration given to alternative solutions which may require the acquisition of new knowledge;
go to method of application »
Job description
The PwC Deal
Our people make an impact through their dedication to client service, creativity, and high performance. Whatever your passion, the opportunities available to you at PwC will help you realise your career aspirations.
As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to a variety of flexible working styles. We're committed to collaboration and strong relationships that help our clients and our people realise their ambitions. Well known for our technical excellence, we're also a firm brimming with energetic and inspirational people who want to build a diverse career in a progressive, global organisation.
What's in it for you? The opportunity to join a diverse and progressive team, with the chance to learn from inspirational people committed to ensuring each and every interaction is an opportunity to learn, challenge and innovate.
Purpose of Job
This is a client facing role to provide strategic advice and guidance on Master Data Management
Help clients to:
- Conduct current state assessment of Master Data Management practices / tools and provide recommendations for desired improvements
- Determine the sourcing and consumption requirements and design to create and manage Master Data
- Reconcile Reference Data & standardize for upstream and downstream consumption and management
- Data quality profile and cleanse master and reference data
- Implement master data management technologies
- Harmonize and consolidate the data via standards and process
- Develop and implement data governance programs
- Implement data integration technologies
- Design, build, and manage data management solutions
- Enhance data management security, access , and controls
Key Outputs
- Current State MDM Assessments
- Future State MDM Strategy and Roadmap
- Data Quality and Profiling Strategy for MDM
- Data Governance Strategy for MDM
- Data Migration Strategy for MDM
- Technology Architecture for MDM solution
- Business Case
- Design and Implementation Plan
Experience
Minimum Years of Experience: 6
Proficient experience with these capabilities:
- MDM Architecture and integration – physical vs virtual MDM, real-time, near real-time, batch
- Master Data Management Technologies
- Data Loading strategies – will include Data Migration and Conversion
- Metadata Management
- Data Modeling
- Data Quality Profiling & Cleansing
- Data Stewardship
- Data Governance Programs
- Service Oriented Architecture – Web Services, Enterprise Application Integration
Qualifications
- Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's degree
- Minimum Degree Required Major: in Computer Science or any MIS related field•
Competencies / Attributes Delivery
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and coordinate tasks to meet multiple deadlines and conflicting client and company constraints;
- Must be a self-starter, motivated individual who works well under pressure;
- Is able to motivate a team for excellent delivery;
- Open-minded, practical and able to solve complex problems;
- Attention to detail and committed to quality;
- Ability to perform quality reviews on others work and provide constructive feedback when required;
General
- Strategic and big picture thinking;
- Facilitation skills
- Good verbal and written communication skills;
- Sound judgment;
- Innovative;
- Resilient;
- Cope well under tight deadlines and work well under stress;
- Relationships
- Is a team player and contributes to team success;
- Is able to build effective customer relationships;
- Learning and growth
- Is curious – learning, sharing and innovating;
- Willingness to continually learn and develop skills across a multitude of core Information Management competencies;
- Approaches problem solving in a logical and structured manner with due consideration given to alternative solutions which may require the acquisition of new knowledge;
Method of Application
Use the link(s) below to apply on company website.
Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.
Gmail
Yahoomail