Business Intelligence Analyst

Paracon; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector seeks a seasoned Business Intelligence Business Analyst to join their Insurance team. This strategic role involves enabling data-driven decision-making, gathering requirements, building dashboards, and ensuring compliance within the insurance value chain. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in business intelligence, data analysis, and regulatory understanding, along with proven experience in both business and technical domains.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in business intelligence and data warehousing.
• Proven experience drafting Business Requirement Specifications.
• Understanding of regulatory and legislative data risk exposure.

Responsibilities

• Gather and translate business needs into technical requirements.
• Build dashboards and define KPIs to support decision-making.
• Ensure regulatory alignment across insurance data solutions.

Skills

Data Analysis

Business Analysis techniques

SQL

Power BI

Education

Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Information Systems

Business Analysis certification

Tools

Power BI

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

SSIS / SSRS

ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)

Job description

Business Intelligence Analyst

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Our client in the financial services sector is seeking a seasoned Business Intelligence Business Analyst (BIBA) to join their growing Insurance team. This role plays a crucial part in enabling data-driven decision-making across the insurance value chain.

The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders to gather and translate business needs, build dashboards, define KPIs, and ensure regulatory alignment. This is a strategic, domain-focused BI role — not a generic reporting position — and will directly influence how the business delivers customer-centric insurance solutions.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ proven experience in information systems, business intelligence, and data warehousing.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience drafting Business Requirement Specifications/Documents and translating requirements between business and technical stakeholders.
• Proven experience with Business Analysis techniques: conceptual models, ERDs, test cases, data flows, UML models, data dictionaries, business process flows, etc.
• Strong data analysis capability with a focus on determining impacts and identifying next steps.
• Understanding of data exposure risks from relevant legislation.
• Knowledge of regulatory and legislative data risk exposure specific to the financial/insurance sector.

Education & Certification:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology or Information Systems.
• Business Analysis certification is essential.

Domain & Culture Fit:

• Working knowledge of insurance products, long-term insurance data models, and related compliance/reporting standards.
• Ability to navigate and influence in a fast-paced, regulated, and customer-focused business environment.
• Preference for candidates with a mix of consulting and corporate experience to ensure strong governance and delivery across teams.

Preferred Experience:

• Designing and delivering data solutions tailored for insurance or financial environments.
• Experience with data pipelines, ETL processes, and reporting structures.
• Building governed data environments to support strategic insights.
• Working within Agile project delivery frameworks.
• Delivery of insights via Power BI, SSRS, or custom dashboards.

Technical Skills:

• SQL
• Power BI
• SSIS / SSRS
• AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Data Migration
• ETL (Extract, Transform, Load)
• Agile Methodologies
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Data Quality & Governance Awareness

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Insurance and Financial Services

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