Knowledge and Insights Senior Data Analyst

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Job Description

This role is individually accountable for turning data into actionable insights.The incumbent is relentlessly curious and uses advanced analytical skills, tools and platforms to present data as information and create analytical solutions that are interactive and easy to understand.

Key Result Areas:

Data Analysis

• Meets with internal clients, understands their business requirements, agrees analytical approach and performs data analysis and visualization.
• Develops business reports to support ad-hoc and regular business requirements.
• Responsible for creating end to end solutions which includes problem definition, data acquisition, data exploration and visualization.
• Performs data quality checks and validates results.
• Liaises with data delivery teams.
• Presents final results to stakeholders.
• Provides a technical coaching role to data analysts.
• Coordinates data extractions and input to strategic projects where integrated data sets are required.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge in data analytics and visualisation.
• Generates and tests hypotheses and provides actionable and measurable insights.

Reporting

• Builds dashboards and reports to help answer business questions.
• Interprets and analyses data and presents to stakeholders in presentations or reports.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor of Commerce/Business Science/Applied Mathematics or similar degree with a minimum of 3-5 years relevant experience essential.

Personal Effectiveness

• Accepts and lives the company values.
• Accountable for service delivery through own efforts
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
• Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality.
• Makes increased contributions by broadening individual skills.
• Balances own priorities with directing and coaching others
• Makes increasing contributions by broadening individual skills.

Preferred Skills

• Advanced user of data analysis tools eg. SQL, SAS, Python, Alteryx.
• Advanced tableau developer.
• Media data analysis experience.

The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.

Skills

Analysis Tools, Business Requirements, Dashboard Reporting, Data Acquisition, Data Analysis Tools, Data Explorations, Data Quality, Datasets

Education

Bachelor of Business Science (BBSc), Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Bachelor of Commerce Honours (BCom Hons)

Closing Date

11 August 2023

Old Mutual Limited is pro-vaccination and encourages its workforce to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

All prospective employees are required to disclose their vaccination status as part of the recruitment process.

Please refer to the Old Mutuals Covid-19 vaccination policy for further detail. Kindly note that Old Mutual reserves the right to reinstate the requirement to vaccinate at any point if it is of the view that it is imperative to do so.