Senior BI Analyst

Ithemba Recruitment- Sourcing Top Talent; Durban; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst in Durban, South Africa. The role involves providing strategic analysis services, analyzing market trends, and improving business processes through data collection. The ideal candidate has 3-5 years of experience in Business Intelligence Analysis and holds a degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics, or Information Management. This position offers the opportunity to support business strategy and optimize data processes.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years experience in Business Intelligence Analysis
• Proficient in analyzing data for market trends and patterns
• Experience in generating reports and managing stakeholder communication

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic analysis services to the business.
• Analyze data for market trends and patterns for business requirements.
• Design new data collection models for information gathering.
• Oversee functional, integration and user acceptance testing activities.

Skills

Data analysis

Market trend analysis

Customer relationship management

Business process improvement

Reporting

Education

Diploma/Degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics, Information Management

Job description

• Provides strategic analysis services to the business.
• The focus of this position is to work closely with the business to gain in-depth understanding ofbusiness strategy processes, products, roadmap and the context in with the business operates.
• Demonstrate up to date expertise in information systems and apply this to the development, execution andimprovement of action plans, by providing advice and guidance to others in the application of information and
  best practices, on behalf of the business.
• Support and align efforts to meet customer and business needs.
• Manage customer relationships and expectations by developing a communication process to keep the businessaligned with results.
• Communicating to the business trends and analysis across the business with peaks, trough and performance onan ongoing basis.
• Analyze data for market trends and patterns for business requirements
• Generate weekly and monthly reports with market trends past, present and with competitor overview.
• Design new data collection models to better collect information on behalf of the business.
• Perform data profiling across the business.
• Continuously updates and aligns the to-be business processes as business changes.
• Determine the impact of change of proposed projects on the business and on the IT systems supporting the business.
• Perform impact assessments on new requirement and there impact on upstream and downstream systems.
• Analyse the gaps between the current and future state to determine the extent of change required to realise the future state objective. Identifies processes in need for re/design (e.g. due to inefficient operations) and identifies options to improve them gaining stakeholder buy‑in.
• Understanding functional and technical system specifications in order to be able to identify business solutions, opportunities and system limitations.
• Applying and influencing the use of Business Architecture guidelines to ensure consistent and high quality business requirements/functional/process specifications for any solution.
• Assisting Technical Designers in translating the business requirements and functional/process specifications into detailed technical requirements.
• Overseeing functional, integration and user acceptance testing activities to ensure that the delivered solution meets agreed business requirements and functional / process specifications.
• Identifying proactively operational problems and proposing solutions.
• Interfacing with other Business Analysts and Project Managers.
• Working closely with the technical architects in defining the systems landscape.
• Challenging business demands and identifying duplications or redundant needs
• Creating, developing and maintaining relevant business information model and guidelines for data input, processing and output.

Qualifications and experience:

• A Diploma/Degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics, Information Management
• 3 to 5 years experienceBusiness Intelligence Analysis