Data Analytics Consultant

Deloitte Africa; Midrand; Hybrid; ZAR 30 000 - 50 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Midrand is looking for a Data Analyst to join their team, emphasizing effective data analytics to drive business insights. The role combines hands-on data analysis with opportunities for mentorship within a dynamic environment. Candidates should possess 2-3 years of experience in MS SQL Server, Tableau, and Power BI, with strong analytical and communication skills. A hybrid work model allows flexibility while ensuring impactful collaboration with colleagues. This role offers a supportive team atmosphere in a growing division focused on enhancing client operations.

Benefits

Competitive package of benefits

Hybrid work environment

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• 2-3 years experience with MS SQL Server and experience in visual communication.
• Experience extracting and analysing data from complex data sets.
• Strong attention to detail with a curiosity to understand data.

Responsibilities

• Assist with applying data analytic techniques for business insights.
• Manage and optimize data architectures for relevant insights.
• Conduct technical trainings and mentorship for junior colleagues.

Skills

MS SQL Server

Tableau

Power BI

Excel

VBA

Job description

Overview

About Africa Talent

Africa Talent by Deloitte (Africa Talent) is a standalone division of Deloitte, owned by Deloitte Africa and Deloitte Netherlands, based in South Africa. Our goal is to meet the growing demand for Talent in Africa and Europe; by recruiting and developing Talent throughout Sub Saharan Africa in order to service the diverse needs and to enable projects at our clients. Talent employed will have the full experience of Deloitte, while getting both international and local exposure to a diverse set of clients, working remotely from Africa. It will take advantage of the demographic reality of Africa as a future source of talent for both Africa and Europe and at its core, the goal is to create employment in Africa and invest in African talent.

The ethos of our organisation is characterised by vision, purpose beyond profit and an appetite to innovate and deliver creative, high impact solutions to client challenges. Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. Deloitte – Africa Talent - is where you will find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential. This new team embodies hybrid work whereby you gain access and exposure to learn from and engage with colleagues in South Africa and across Europe, while working virtually from your local Deloitte office or from home. The learning consultant is key to the continued development of our Africa Talent Professionals and to the value we add to making our clients responsible businesses. Being a quickly growing division also brings ample opportunities for personal growth in the role.

What’s in it for you?

• An ever dynamic and growing internal scaleup with a purpose
• The stability and trustworthiness of a purpose driven global brand, ready to build your own future and add to Africa’s prosperity
• Being the driver of Africa Talent’s day-to-day operations
• A competitive package of benefits
• A hybrid work environment with possibility to work at home some days
• A driven and ambitious team that looks to you for making the team tick

Note: This description reflects the job content at the time of posting and may be updated. It does not guarantee job offers or the right to work in a particular region.

Job Description

A member of the Data Analytics team, you will assist with applying data analytic techniques to increase an organisation’s capacity to anticipate risk and maximise business opportunities through data driven insights. Deloitte’s deep and thorough understanding of underlying risk and control issues, combined with our knowledge of technology and analytic skills, uniquely helps us to identify high priority risk areas in our client’s businesses and explore those risks using data analytics.

Successful candidates will have demonstrated their ability to carry out data analysis from initial requirements gathering through to production deployment and operations. They should have a demonstrated interest in solving analytics challenges using many different techniques and technologies and a commitment to personal learning and development in this discipline. Excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to a wide audience are a must.

Expertise in data transformation and modelling analytic results, you’ll formulate conclusions and recommendations to client stakeholders, leveraging strong consulting, communication, visualization including storytelling skills.

• Work in an agile, collaborative environment, partnering with other stakeholders including audit team and data analytics consultants to integrate the analytics with enterprise-level solution development with the aim of providing viable insights to clients.
• Responsible for managing, building and optimizing data architectures and converting data into relevant insights using data analytics technologies and clear interpretations using data governance and data quality processes.
• Design of data pipelines for data ingestion and data transformation and ensure the reconciliation and accuracy of the data
• Development of data modelling and architecture documentation
• Provide technical trainings on data analytics standards and procedures including mentorship to junior colleagues.
• Communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand and define business needs and translate them to a data science context
• Contribute to the design and development of analytical solutions in response to these risks.
• A passion for continuously improving yourself and how we best solve our clients’ problems
• Interact cohesively with other members of the Financial Risk & Regulatory team, including being a buddy to new members of the team.
• Open and honest communication to understand what is required of you and how you and others can improve.
• Contribute to the analysis and interpretation of data towards relevant communications to explain the value of the work completed.
• Assist in identifying and collecting data from financial systems and other related data sources
• Assist in assessing and determining the techniques and tools to be used in collection, analysis and communication for a project
• Apply selected analytical techniques and tools to achieve project outcomes
• Ability to effectively work in technical cross-functional teams
• Provide expertise on data analytics and digital transformation
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks while maintaining project timelines
• Understanding of ML and AI concepts and its applicability.
• SAP experience an advantage.
• Project management skills essential for this role.
• Practical data engineering skillset is a basic requirement but fundamental domain experience in any field is a complimentary advantage

Qualifications

Are you someone with:

• 2-3 years experience with MS SQL Server and experience in visual communication of analysis (i.e. Tableau and Power BI)
• Experience extracting and analysing data from complex data sets and systems
• Strong attention to detail with a curiosity to understand data
• Ability to thrive working in a team environment and serving clients with distinction
• Ability to turn data into insights and communicate insights effectively with our clients
• Ideally, experience in visual communication of analysis (e.g. Tableau, Qlik, Power BI)
• Strong Knowledge of Excel and VBA

Additional Information

We are always interested in talking with professionals about their next career experience. If you have a passion for learning from talented people and benefit from the support of a global organization and network, apply online now.

If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we encourage you to apply. Deloitte is an equal opportunities employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented as part of the recruitment and selection process.

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