1 X Business Analysis & Insights Manager - Uk Reporting Lines

Rentokil Initial; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Business Analytics Manager to provide data insights that drive business decisions and growth. This role will involve ensuring data integrity, performing advanced analyses with SQL and Python, and collaborating with teams for reporting and insights. Candidates should possess a relevant degree and have at least three years of experience in a large organization.

Benefits

Company contribution to Medical Aid

Opportunity for Growth and Development

Qualifications

• 3+ years of data analytics experience in large organizations.
• Advanced Google Sheets and MS Excel skills.
• Proficient in SQL, BigQuery, and Python.

Responsibilities

• Ensure data integrity and respond quickly to business needs.
• Conduct advanced analytics and develop predictive models.
• Define data and technical requirements with stakeholders.

Skills

Data Analysis

Data Integrity

Stakeholder Management

Predictive Analytics

SQL

Python

Data Visualization

Education

Degree in Data Analytics or equivalent

Tools

Qliksense

Google Applications

Looker Studio

BigQuery

MS Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Business Analytics Manager who will report to the Head of Business Insights. This challenging and pivotal role is responsible for proactively providing analysis and creating compelling insights that drive key business decisions and business growth.

This means, ensuring data integrity at all times, responding quickly, being agile to respond to the business needs and supporting the delivery of effective reporting tools to improve performance..

Requirements

Data Integrity:

• Maintain existing master data sets such as sector, product and pest types which are used for global reporting ensuring there is a robust exception process in place to identify issues or gaps in the master data.
• Work with stakeholders to validate and improve the data quality.
• Proactively identify third party data requirements and support its successful procurement and integration with other data sets.

Data Analysis:

• Work with stakeholders across the organisation globally, to understand priorities and business challenges and conduct advanced analytics (planned or adhoc requests) using the available data to support them.
• Use SQL, BigQuery, Python and Google Sheets to prepare and analyse large and complex datasets .
• Develop predictive analytic models to support planning and fully realise emerging customer and industry opportunities.
• Be an analytics subject matter expert, build knowledge about existing and emerging technologies and techniques in the data-science area.
• Collaborate closely with the internal AI team to identify opportunities and integrate relevant AI functionalities and tools into data analysis projects to enhance insights and drive business value.

Reporting:

• Work with our Data Platform team and others to define the Business Insights data and technical requirements in the short, medium and long term.
• Measure global performance based on the demands from key stakeholders by working in conjunction with the Data Platform team to:
• Prepare QVDs
• Develop proof of concept (POC) reports and once approved push them into production
• Exploit tools (including Qlik, Looker Studio and others) to provide advanced analytics and data visualisation

Insights:

• Provide insight into complex relationships, trends and patterns in data to meet the needs of stakeholders.
• Based on the data analysis conducted, present findings clearly and concisely with actionable visual insights to senior stakeholders to influence decision making .
• Utilise previous trends and predictive analytic models that you develop to provide future based insights.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Grade 12
• Preferably hold relevant data analytics and insights degree or equivalent qualification/s.
• +3 years of data analytics and insights experience in large matrixed organisations.
• Highly numerate with excellent data manipulation and analytical skills.
• Proven ability to successfully influence others and support change through projects.
• Naturally curious and questioning insight who has the ability to cut through the data to identify what is most important for the decision making process.
• Be able to turn data into insights and present it clearly and concisely in a highly visual but easy to understand way.
• Advanced level of Google sheets / MS Excel and intermediate competence in Google Applications (Drive, Word, Slides) or Microsoft Office equivalent
• Proficient in SQL / Big Query, Python and data visualisation tools such as Qliksense, Looker Studio (or equivalent)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience communicating and working across various teams.
• Self-motivated, takes ownership and responsibility for making things happen.
• Adopts a flexible/can do approach to work and is highly resilient and results focused.
• Interest in application of AI for Data Analysis and Insight

Benefits

Benefits including:

• Company contribution to Medical Aid and Pension / Provident Fund
• Opportunity for Growth and Development

Employment Equity

Rentokil Initial believes in diversity and thus offers all employees opportunities and avoids discrimination in compliance with the Employment Equity Act. Our selection process will therefore give preference to suitably qualified Employment Equity candidates in order to to achieve our Employment Equity numerical targets.

Do you love to provide a valued professional service throughout your community? Do you feel like you could do the job well? Apply for the role today!