Analyst at Discovery Limited

Job Purpose

• To service our customers by obtaining and providing accurate data and information, measuring performance and providing intelligence to enable continual improvement.

Principal Accountabilities

• Compile and update existing daily/weekly/monthly reports. (DPMO,TCF,iQS)
• Review and optimize business processes within QMC.
• Research best practice and new innovative ways of presenting data.
• SharePoint administration libraries, Lists, site permissions and workflows.
• Ad hoc and bi-annual reporting.
• Manage multiple portfolios.
• Identify, analyze and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets using statistical techniques with a focus on increasing service efficiency.
• Design and build excel reports based on business requirements using power pivot, Power query and Dax.
• Experience in developing PowerBI reports.
• Data processing implementing protocols for data processing, cleansing and verification of data used for analyses
• Proposed system improvements by analysis facilitating JAD sessions.
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for Building reports.
• Design, create and execute test cases and test scripts.
• Document business requirements in the form of BRDs, use cases, user stories and Business rules

Education

• Essential: Matric with Math
• Advantageous: Degree/Diploma: Information systems or Stats – advantageous

Knowledge 

• Excel (Essential) – Advanced  
• Word and PowerPoint (Essential0 – Advanced  
• Information systems (includes SharePoint Cognos) (Essential) – Intermediate
• Data Models Cubes and Tabular (Essential) – Intermediate
• Power Pivot and Power Query (Essential) – Advanced
• Visual Basic (Essential) – Intermediate
• SQL and DAX (Essential) – Intermediate
• Jira and Confluence (Essential) – Intermediate
• Python and R (Nice to have) – Intermediate  
• SSAS SSIS SSRS (Nice to have) – Intermediate

Experience

• Essential: 2- 3 years’ data analysis experience
• Advantageous: 2-3 Business analyst experience.