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About the Division

The value that Deloitte Risk Advisory Africa creates for organisations is synonymous with operational excellence. Deloitte Analytics is the practice of using data to drive business strategy and performance. It includes a range of approaches and solutions, from looking backward to evaluate what happened in the past to looking forward to conduct scenario planning and predictive modelling.

Deloitte Analytics spans all of the Deloitte functional businesses to address a continuum of opportunities in Information Management, Performance Optimisation and Analytic Insights. By understanding decision-makers’ roles to maximise analytics value, Deloitte turns everyday information into useful and actionable insights.

We assist our clients in solving a wide variety of data related problems and define strategies for them to better manage, interpret and monetize their data assets. We are the leaders in analytics both globally and in South Africa and work across all the big companies, with a large focus on financial services and a strong footprint into the rest of Africa.

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As a SAP BI & Analytics developer in our Data Analytics practice, we are looking for people who are passionate about data and technology solutions, are driven to learn about them and keep up with market evolution. You will play an active role throughout the entire engagement cycle, specializing in modern data solutions including data ingestion, data warehouse & data lake architectures, cognitive computing and SAP cloud services. You will bring your enthusiasm about all things data, have strong problem-solving and analytical skills, are tech savvy and have a solid understanding of software development.

The key responsibilities of this SAP BI & Analytics Developer will include:

·       Sourcing and Analysis of business requirements

·       Design of SAP BI and Analytics models / solutions to meet requirements

·       Development, testing and implementation of SAP Analytics Solutions

·       Develop client relationships and expand upon our technology solution presence

Working as a SAP BI & Analytics Developer, you will mainly focus on SAP but also work on other technologies.

Technical Competencies  

•         Foundational technical knowledge in specific area and/or industry

•         Basic consulting skills

•         Experience in drafting of professional presentations and reports

•         Basic financial knowledge and understanding

•         Proficient in MS Office suite

•         Business acumen

Knowledge and experience across one ore multiple areas

•         Programming Coding in variety of languages (SAS, SQL, R, Python etc.)

•         Business Analysis (including business process mapping)

•         Data Modelling

•         Machine Learning (ML)

•         Data Management

•         Data engineering (extractions, transformations, loading patterns)

•         Descriptive analytics (ability to extract insights and trends from data)

•         Cloud Analytics

•         SAP Analytics

•         Robotics Process Automation (RPA)

Behavioural Competencies        

•         Continuous learning mindset

•         Curiosity

•         Good communication skills, both written and verbal

•         Demonstrates ability to work efficiently and meet all deadlines consistently

•         Displays initiative

•         Takes accountability for delivery of own work

•         Active participation and proactive attitude to service delivery

•         Adaptable

•         Works well within a team and with client counterparts

•         Focus on quality

Minimum Qualifications

BSc in Computer Science, BSc in Honours Computer Science, BSc Maths Statistics, BEng (all disciplines), BCom (Informatics preferred). Or if direct entry proven experience in data & analytics and other relevant qualifications (e.g. SAP certifications and other certifications in analytics technology platforms and techniques)

Desired Qualifications

SAP Certification, Masters or certifications and proven analytics training

Minimum Experience       

2+ years relevant BI and SAP Analytics experience (equivalent to Deloitte internal training where relevant)

Desired Experience         

2+ years relevant experience and beyond

Consulting experience is advantageous

*Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.