Data Analyst

The Good Human (Pty)Ltd; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

The Good Human (Pty)Ltd is seeking a BI Analyst to design, build, and maintain Power BI dashboards to meet business reporting needs. You will gather requirements from stakeholders, translate them into metrics, and deliver timely recurring reports with ad-hoc analyses.

You will also define metric definitions, promote self-service reporting, ensure data quality, and collaborate with Data Engineers while mentoring junior analysts.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, building and maintaining BI reports and dashboards using Power BI.
• Ability to translate stakeholder questions into defined metrics and data models.
• Hands-on experience delivering recurring reports and ad-hoc analyses.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain reports and dashboards using Power BI.
• Gather and clarify reporting requirements from stakeholders and translate them into metrics.
• Deliver accurate, timely recurring reports and respond to ad-hoc analyses.
• Define and document metric definitions for trustworthy reporting.
• Promote self-service dashboards and good reporting practices.
• Perform data-quality checks and validate outputs before publication.
• Support data engineering with data preparation and modelling tasks.
• Write and optimise SQL to extract/shape data across MS SQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL.
• Maintain and improve data pipelines and automation stacks.
• Provide backup and continuity for core data tasks.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Data Automation resources.
• Support and mentor Junior Analysts.
• Maintain clear documentation of reports, datasets, definitions and processes.

Skills

Power BI

SQL

Data modelling

Data quality

Reporting

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring juniors

Documentation

Tools

MS SQL

MariaDB

PostgreSQL

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain reports and dashboards using BI and reporting tools (Power BI) to meet business and departmental reporting requirements.
• Gather and clarify reporting requirements from stakeholders, translating business questions into well-defined metrics and data models.
• Deliver accurate, timely recurring reports and respond to ad‑hoc analysis requests.
• Define and document consistent metric definitions for trustworthy reporting.
• Help stakeholders adopt self‑service dashboards and promote good reporting practice.
• Perform data‑quality checks and validate outputs before publication.
• Support data engineering with data preparation, transformation and modelling tasks.
• Write and optimise SQL to extract and shape data across relational databases (MS SQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL).
• Assist in maintaining and improving data pipelines and automation stack.
• Provide backup and continuity for core data tasks.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Data Automation resources.
• Support and mentor Junior Analysts.
• Maintain clear documentation of reports, datasets, definitions and processes.