BI Report Lead at Auditor-General of South Africa

Strategic Function

• Contributes to the strategy, vision, and governance of the business intelligence capability.
• Drive best practices, iterative improvement, and innovation at the strategic deployment level.
• Provide strategic support to business in identifying opportunities in transforming raw data into relevant insights that will enable and drive business strategy.
• Take the strategic lead in all BI report solutions to be implemented.
• Support the implementation of the centre Balance Score Card (BSC) project and initiatives.

Product Management

• Lead the BI and analytics technical oversight across cross-functional teams, fostering a culture of support and collaboration within the data team.
• Hands-on participation in BI and analytics deliverables, coding, peer reviews, delivery of execution plans, etc.
• Lead the design, execute the creation of data solutions and enable the maturity of AGSA’s best practices.
• Lead and provide oversee and validate the creation of data
• visualization prototypes to support the elicitation of business needs.
• Create advanced data visualizations and data products to turn data into actionable business insights.
• Provide leadership and drive collaboration between data engineers and data scientists/ data governance lead in the development of
• scalable and robust pipelines by means of completing and maintaining source-to-target mappings templates and associated metadata.
• Lead and provide oversee on the advancement of Analytical models by working in collaboration with Data scientists and Data governance lead in translating or anticipating business needs into actionable data solutions.
• Identify opportunities in existing customer business processes for building reports and dashboards.
• Lead as an integrator between the business and technology to create solutions for customers.
• Lead and be responsible for the designing and development of the necessary core reporting architecture to enable appropriate automated business intelligence software solutions with an emphasis on Power BI.
• Keep abreast with the latest trends and advancements in Business Intelligence/Data Analytics technologies and identify opportunities for innovation.

Stakeholder Management

• Establish, build, and maintain collaborative working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders.
• Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with relevant internal/external stakeholders.
• Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Proactively interact with stakeholders to determine their needs and deliver on them accordingly.
• Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers in order to continuously improve service delivery.
• Work in collaboration with business stakeholders to ensure timeous delivery of the work.
• Establish and maintain relations with recognized professional bodies within their own professional sphere.
• Manage service level agreements (SLAs).

People Management

• Manage own and team performance to drive productivity.
• Participate and/or take lead in the business unit transformation and culture plans.
• Review the work of peers assisting in the execution of work.
• Provide support to the management team regarding centre management and other people-related tasks.

Financial management and Operational Management

• Contribute to the compilation of centre budget, and manage project expenditure related to functional area.
• Ensure compliance with AGSA policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with internal processes and procedures.
• Manage supply chain processes within scope of work.

Other responsibilities(Applicable to All JD’s)

• Perform and/or manage other projects, tasks, and assignments not stipulated on the Job description as and when required.

ormal Education

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business or related field or equivalent combination of education.
• Honours will be advantageous
• Preferable Power BI certificated and/or MSCE.

Experience / Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of related experience of which 3-5 years has been in managing a team.