Senior Data Analyst – Cape Town – R650k to R850k per annum

Senior Data Analyst – Cape Town – R650k to R850k per annum

POSITION INFO :

A leader in the healthcare market committed to increasing access to affordable primary healthcare for all South Africans through its retail pharmacy and wholesale businesses is looking to recruit a Senior Data Analyst to work within their Internal Audit department supporting the department goals to increase efficient and effective use of data analytics by obtaining more timely access to and management of data assets.

Responsibilities :

• Assist in investigations and other management requests as necessary by gathering, sorting, and making sense of necessary data.
• Proactively search for data anomalies that could be indicative of control issues.
• Work with internal auditors to understand data needs and brainstorm ways to perform audits more efficiently.
• Drive the implementation of a continuous monitoring framework using data analytics to support the relevant internal audit projects.
• Perform special reviews of operations when requested.
• Link different data streams and visualizations; upskill in SAS, ACL, Tableau, and other visualization tools.

Qualifications and Experience :

• Bachelor's degree or above in quantitative fields or related fields.
• Postgraduate degree in quantitative or related fields (advantageous).
• 5-8 years data analytics experience.
• Experience in data management, governance, data acquisition and modeling, data structures and architecture.
• 3-5 years financial systems or system auditing experience.
• Experience in using visualization tools such as Tableau and Power BI.
• Data analytics tools such as ACL / SAS / IDEA or similar.
• Application of internal audit and risk assessment methodologies.