BI Analyst at Global Logistics Internet

Job Description

• We are looking for a BI Analyst to join our GLI family in Century City. This role will be an 80/20 split between analytical and warehouse development work. The BI Analyst will form part of our BI Team, with the main focus being to provide actionable insights to the business.
• At GLI, we encourage a culture of empowerment, creative expression, and a positive work-life balance. We offer our employees flexible working hours, weekly company events, and Medical Aid contributions.
• If you’re a driven individual, that has a passion for business intelligence, enjoys challenging projects, a collaborative working environment, and you’re looking to join an exciting industry, then this is the place for you!
• GLI is currently working remotely, until it is safe for our employees to return to work. The successful candidate will be virtually onboarded for now.

Essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

BI Analyst Duties

• Provide clear and actionable insights to all business units through project based work and daily performance tracking
• Creating reports in Tableau to provide the business units with clear and actionable insights
• Providing meaningful and timeous feedback to all business units on queries regarding business metrics as and when the arise
• Provide data to the marketing and financial units of the business as needed
• Maintain Tableau online landscape to ensure data is uploaded and updated correctly on a daily basis
• Provide feedback to management on insights, new reports, new developments
• Communicate throughout the business on new improvements in reporting / analysis / findings / insights
• Assist management/staff with ad hoc investigations where Tableau reports are unable to answer the specific question.
• BI Developer Duties
• Maintain existing and new MYSQL databases
• Oversee daily warehouse updates to ensure the warehouse is updated correctly and timeously
• Together with the Head of BI, you will be responsible for the organisation’s Management Information landscape to provide metrics, reports, dashboards and analysis needed to drive the business.
• Upskilling as required in order to create data pipelines and ETL processes.

Ad Hoc Requirements

• Providing the finance team with data required for monthly shareholder reports and providing commentary as needed
• Daily monitoring of routines and integrity tests to ensure they have completed successfully and without error
• Weekend morning support to ensure transfer routines have completed successfully is required on a rotational basis
• Improving personal, business and industry knowledge, and upskilling oneself as and when required.

Skills and Qualifications

• Strong maths, statistics and logical skills
• Relevant numerate Bachelor Degree, Computer Science, Finance or Business preferred
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in similar role
• Minimum 3 years SQL experience
• Minimum 3 years Tableau experience
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel, VBA knowledge an advantage
• Excellent knowledge of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Online
• Excellent knowledge of MySQL and PostgreSQL platforms
• Sound understanding of database principles and relational table structures
• Knowledge of how to control financial information systems an advantage.

Attributes

• Ability to read spreadsheets and numbers, genuine love of numbers and the value that can be derived from interrogating them
• Hands-on experience with reporting services and data mining will be useful
• Displays positive attitude
• Demonstrates flexibility in day-to-day work
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Able to think logically and objectively with the ability to think outside of the box and therefore see the bigger picture
• Comfortable working under pressure and successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Results driven with good time management skills
• Good leadership skills in order to obtain appropriate information and to arrange and co-ordinate projects
• Possess a high attention to detail

How Vacancies Work:

• Once we have received your resume, our HR Team will review it shortly. If you’ve reached the interview stage, you’ll then hear from us via email or phone within two weeks. Unfortunately, due to application volumes we can’t give feedback to all applicants. But be sure to keep an eye out, as new job opportunities are posted here regularly.