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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, what is happening right now and then what could happen in the future.

Deloitte Analytics spans all of the Deloitte functional businesses to address a continuum of opportunities in Information Management, Data Ops 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.

As a Manager in the Deloitte Analytics practice, you will need to understand the data management trends, and help clients comprehend and manage their data to better deliver information and insights, manage high performing teams and help clients maximize the data management initiatives to support their business objectives and improve their business strategy.

Typical duties will include:

·       Contribute and manage the preparation of proposals and presentations

·       Manage teams to ensure delivery of engagements to meet objectives and customer expectations

·       Ensure internal processes are adhered to, including managing WIP, timesheets

·       Develop productive, credible and trusting relationships with clients

·       Develop a network of internal relationships across Deloitte to understand other business unit offerings

·       Coach, mentor and develop less experienced professionals in data management

·       Maintain own development and knowledge in data management

·       Inspire teams in a way that drives enthusiasm and motivates them to deliver on engagement goals

Technical Competencies

·       Knowledge of data management frameworks e.g. DAMA

·       Experience with extracting and processing large amounts of data from systems, managing data and extracting value from data

·       Practical knowledge of data governance. Ability to assess, provide design input to data governance structures and execute data governance capabilities i.e. policies and processes

·       Practical knowledge of data quality principles, data profiling and data quality tools. Ability to assess, design data quality approaches and processes

·       Practical knowledge of master data and reference data

·       ​Practical knowledge of meta-data concepts, standards, processes, and tools. Ability to design meta-data artefacts

·       Practical knowledge of integration methods, processes, and tools. Ability to assess and design and execute data integration processes

·       Practical knowledge of data privacy

·       Ability to manage and execute projects

·       Able to manage pilots to realize quick wins

·       Ability to organize functional work based on how it adds value and where it needs to be performed

·       Builds expertise in 1-2 data management sub-offerings and applies knowledge in a function and sector to recognize unique factors that may influence data management

·       Ability to identify business development opportunities and manage the preparation of proposals/ RFPs

·       Experience with data management technologies (on premise and cloud based) from companies such as Informatica, Talend, SAP, Microsoft, and Amazon etc.

·       Practical knowledge of data architecture and blueprint design

·       Practical knowledge of data strategy development

·       Practical knowledge of data management maturity assessments

·       Practical knowledge of data management operating model design and implementation

Behavioural Competencies

·       Good communication skills, both written and verbal

·       Interpersonal and relationship building skills

·       Desire to develop self

·       Desire to develop others by providing on the job coaching for junior staff

·       Client delivery focus

·       Adaptable and flexible

·       Focus on quality

·       Problem solving ability

·       Analytical

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or business informatics or computer science, engineering or related qualifications/ experience.

Qualifications in data management practices such as CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional).

Experience

·       6+ years of Data Management, data modelling, data architecture, data governance, master data management, meta data management and/or data analytics experience

·       Management Experience

·       Experience in project delivery

·       Experience with assisting businesses in deriving value from existing data

·       Previous consulting experience will be advantageous

·       Demonstrated experience working across multiple functional projects to understand data usage and implications for data management