Business Intelligence Analyst I [BI Analyst I]

Date: 20 Jun 2024

Location: Stellenbosch, Western Cape, ZA

Company: Capitec Bank Ltd

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Purpose Statement

  • Build value for the product line by solving client and business challenges using data. 
  • Utilise data and analytical skills and experience to build insights which enable senior decision makers to make better, informed decisions faster.
  • Ownership and responsibility for allocated focus/product or client area (collaboration, planning, discretion, escalation, building an understanding of the specific business domain, and identifying opportunities)
  • Deliver on business requirements (using relevant tools/methodologies/platforms/standards, understanding and documenting the business need appropriately, mining databases and relevant reports to answer business questions, joining and extracting relevant data from multiple sources/processes, data manipulation, clarity on projected timelines, prioritisation, estimating positive impact and potential risk, and providing end-to-end data driven analysis).
  • Deliver data driven insights (contributing to and sharing visualisations/report prototypes/analyses, understanding stakeholders, recommendations, and communicating outcomes/feedback appropriately)
  • Knowledge share, standards, and data quality (self-development, improvements, adherence to principles and best practices, reviews, assisting with establishment of processes to ensure effective query resolution, and participating in the relevant Community of Practice)
  • The job holder will have no direct reports.

 

Key Role Expectations

Autonomy and decision making:

  • Works under close supervision - makes choices in the execution of day-to-day tasks.
  • Uses some discretion in attending to enquiries, but expected to seek guidance in unexpected situations.
  • Plans own work within short time horizons.

Influence and Stakeholder Engagement:

  • Interacts with and may possibly influence colleagues in own team.
  • May have contact with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and partners.
  • Understands stakeholder/client needs and collaborates with team to analyse and represent such needs in work output.

Job Scope and Complexity:

  • Performs a range of work, sometimes moderately complex and non-routine, in a variety of environments.
  • Applies a methodical approach to routine and moderately complex issue definition and resolution within scope of own tasks.

Technical/Specialist Leadership and Oversight:

  • Understands and effectively applies appropriate methods, tools, applications, and processes.
  • Takes initiative to develop own knowledge and skills by identifying and negotiating appropriate development opportunities.

Education (Minimum)

  • A relevant tertiary qualification in Business Analysis
  • Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

  • A relevant tertiary qualification in Business Administration or Mathematics

Knowledge and Experience

Knowledge (Minimum):

  • Design thinking
  • The Data Product Life Cycle (DPLC)
  • Data Visualisations using tools such as Power BI 
  • Fundamental Data Privacy and Security regulations 
  • Fundamental Data Quality and Incident Management  

 

Experience (Minimum):

  • At least 1 year's proven experience as Business Intelligence Analyst or equivalent (e.g., Data Analyst, etc.); including experience in Data Analytics, BI methods and tools, Data Warehousing and the Data Product Life Cycle
  • Experience in identifying, quantifying, and subsequently delivering value on how to solve business challenges using data 
  • Exposure to using data and Visualisation tools (such as Power BI, SQL, and Excel)
  • Experience in building Data Visualisations using tools (such as Power BI)

 

Knowledge and Experience (Ideal):

  • Knowledge of and experience operating on the AWS (or similar) data stack
  • Knowledge of Agile Project Management methodology
  • Ability to design databases and data assets
  • External data, and receiving, integrating and supplying data to external suppliers/vendors

Skills

  • Communications Skills
  • Facilitation Skills
  • Numerical Reasoning skills
  • Presentation Skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Commercial Thinking Skills
  • Analytical Skills
  • Planning, organising and coordination skills

Additional Information (Required)

  • Clear criminal and credit record

Capitec is committed to diversity and, where feasible, all appointments will support the achievement of our employment equity goals.