IT Services

Senior Data Analyst

Location: Sandton, Gauteng

Type: Permanent

Salary: R360,000 – R600,000 per annum (Negotiable on experience and qualifications)

Job Description

We are looking for a Data Analyst that will help discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data and assist in decision making.

Duties and Responsibilities:

·         Review and validate data integrity, quality and accuracy

·         Identify potential process improvements and areas within the business for the BI team to get involved

·         Preparing reports and presentations and deriving business insights

·         Ad hoc analysis (scenario modelling, impact analysis etc)

·         Develop, test, and implement data driven (SQL) reports

·         Identify new process improvement opportunities

·         Excellent written and verbal skills

·         Analyse customer behaviour, market trends and demographics

·         Project management skills

Skills and Qualifications:

·         Any Microsoft Business Intelligence (MSBI) certification – No negotiations (70-461: Querying Data with Transact-SQL advantageous)

·         Bachelor’s degree advantageous

·         2 – 5 years working experience with SQL Server databases and Transact-SQL

·         Advanced Excel (Pivot, VLOOKUP, etc.)

·         Experience with SSRS

·         Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organise, analyse and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.

·         Database documentation experience

·         Experience in building report models with visualisation tools (Power-BI advantageous)

·         Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.

·         Machine Learning and Analytics experience advantageous

·         Any Microsoft Business Intelligence (MSBI) certification – No negotiations (70-461: Querying Data with Transact-SQL advantageous)

·         Bachelor’s degree advantageous

·         2 – 5 years working experience with SQL Server databases and Transact-SQL

·         Advanced Excel (Pivot, VLOOKUP, etc.)

·         Experience with SSRS

R600,000 per annum