Senior Data Analyst

Salt; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 360,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a data analyst who can turn messy data into trusted business insights. You’ll go beyond reporting, tackling problems end-to-end from data understanding to model validation and delivering actionable dashboards.

With 2-3+ years in analytics or data science and a bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field, you’ll bring SQL, dbt, and Tableau experience, plus a nose for data quality and practical storytelling with numbers.

Qualifications

• 2-3+ years in data analytics or data science.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant quantitative field.
• Experience in financial services, consulting or high-growth tech is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Turn messy data into trusted dashboards and reporting.
• Understand business questions, model data, validate numbers, and build actionable insights.
• Work with SQL, dbt, and Tableau to deliver reliable data solutions.
• Support ad-hoc analyses to answer business questions.

Skills

SQL

Data modelling

Ad-hoc analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant quantitative field

Tools

dbt

Tableau

Job description

Have you built a dashboard that someone actually trusted enough to make a decision from? We're headhunting Data Analysts who know that a good dashboard is only as good as the data behind it. This isn't a role where you pull a report, make the charts look nice, and move on. You'll be taking messy data and real business questions all the way through to something useful; understanding the problem, modelling the data, validating the numbers, and building reporting that people rely on.

• SQL - investigating data, finding patterns and answering business questions
• dbt - building reliable, reusable data transformations
• Tableau - dashboards, recurring reports and actionable insights
• Data modelling, quality and validation - knowing where the numbers came from and why they're right
• Ad-hoc analysis - finding answers when the business needs them

The sweet spot?

2-3+ years in data analytics or data science, with a completed bachelor's degree in a relevant quantitative field.

Experience in financial services, consulting or high-growth tech is a big plus.