BI Analyst at Superbalist.com

Superbalist, South Africa’s fashion destination, is looking for a BI Analyst to join our team.

We are looking for candidates who have a real passion for technology, who are constantly exploring, learning and improving their skills. We’re a hyper growth company looking for smart, innovative, autonomous, and creative people to join us! 

We think big, and follow through!

• Scale: Over 900,000 happy shoppers shop online on Superbalist.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D Food. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s who in the tech space 

This position reports to the BI Manager.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Helps to lead BI analytical projects in the implementation and use of new BI software tools and systems.
• Works on highly complex, cross- functional, and enterprise BI solutions.
• Works on multiple tasks/projects.
• Provides subject matter expertise for key BI core functions.
• Participates in the planning process including inception, technical design, development, testing and delivery of BI solutions.
• Provides subject matter expertise for key BI core functions.
• Manages and plans for service demand forecasts.
• Evaluates internal and external customers’ needs and abilities in order to provide appropriate solutions..
• Provides input to business requirements for the design of solutions.
• Understands and  articulates business requirements to find the optimal  BI solution to satisfy the stakeholders needs.
• Advises executives on how BI plays a critical role in improving business management and optimisation.
• Researches, identifies, analyses and provides input to new tools, frameworks, techniques, patterns or processes  that will have a positive impact on the BI architecture.
• Designs corporate-wide dashboards and reports.
• Performs analysis for a wide range of requests using data in different formats, volumes and from various sources.
• Researches and documents business problems, to design and implement models that help analyse these business problems.
• Reviews data pipelines and test plans to ensure that business results are tested and correct.
• Researches and develops best practices for reports and dashboards deployments.
• Provides input to the development of information quality metrics.
• Creates data quality tickets, as needed.
• Interfaces with vendors to keep abreast of new technologies, pricing and customer applicability.
• Participates in vendor evaluations.
• Provides input to standards, policies and procedures that will help our Data Governance program.
• Designs and documents end-user and analyst training material.
• Trains users to transform data into action-oriented information and to use that information correctly.
• Provides guidance, training, and problem-solving assistance to other team members.
• Coaches less-experienced individuals.

The skills we need: 

• Ability to understand a customer's business needs and translate needs into IT specific requirements
• Gathers and analyses information or data on current and future trends of best practice.
• Seeks information on issues impacting the progress of organizational and process issues
• Anticipates, identifies and defines problems- seeks root causes
• Demonstrates attention to detail and accuracy
• Collaborates with other members of formal and informal groups in the pursuit of common missions, vision, values and mutual goals.
• Places team needs and priorities above personal needs

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management and a minimum of 5 years of Business Analysis or related technical experience is required.
• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Business Analysis or related technical experience.
• Minimum 3 years experience using a BI reporting tools (e.g. Looker, QlikView, Tableau, Microsoft BI etc.)
• Experience using Looker is advantageous
• Minimum 3 years SQL experience
• High proficiency in working with large data sets and business models
• Retail or e-commerce industry experience beneficial
• Knowledge of one or more business functional areas.
• Python Experience would be advantageous