Business Analyst at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• Support and enablement of the Commercial Sales (CS) teams in all portfolios i.e. Commercial M&S and Gas M&S. Take the lead or support the monitoring, analyzing and improving CS business performance. Key activities will include conducting research, interpreting data and making recommendations based on findings leading the analysis, economic modelling, project management/execution support, and market/industry research to support CS’ growth ambitions and performance improvement initiatives. In addition, supports the CS strategy development through the analysis of strategy-related opportunities and threats across the business portfolio of assets and product. Ensure alignment across all elements of the integrated business (commercial, supply chain/planning, technical, financial, legal, regulatory etc.).

Key Accountabilities

• Provide business improvement support to the CS Marketing and Sales teams; Management and relevant internal stakeholders.
• Ability to take the lead with the full CS strategy related formulation; implementation and tracking, including CVP development.
• Monitor and observe activities, trends and developments in different market segments and product application.
• Compile and provide business and market intelligence in relevant segments, interpret information & provide thought leadership through updates on competitors & overview for key products/geographies.
• Lead/Partake in strategic initiatives for CS.
• Deliver on continuous improvement initiatives when required and find ways to add value to the CS environment.
• Lead/support in the development and maintenance of Business Improvement Tools Processes and Procedures.
• Lead/Support the Integration of Sustainability and new value pool initiatives for CS.
• Lead/support CS related projects in different roles either as project member, as project lead, as advisor or as a coordinator.
• Prepare required reports, approval documents and presentations to be used in project related meetings.
• Support the tender management process including tender submissions, monthly reporting and improvements.
• Follow through on customer enquiries, requests, and complaints.
• Experience in development of metrics, KPIs and dashboards.
• Profound data analysis experience and understanding of key financial ratios; sufficient understanding of financial basics.

Formal Education

• Bachelor’s Degree (Engineering/Science/Business/Finance) or equivalent (Post grad an advantage).
• 6+ relevant years of experience with significant exposure in Strategy development, Business Analysis, Market/Industry Intelligence analysis and Project Management.
• Must be analytical and be able to think critically.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite to include Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficiency with understanding PowerBI.
• Proficient in Report writing and presentations.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proven self-starter with high integrity, energy, enthusiasm and tenacity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills.
• Ability to translate questions into actionable analysis.
• Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently.
• Approach to doing work which focuses on providing a positive customer experience.
• Proficiency in compiling and presenting management reports/presentations
• Experience in identifying/supporting/developing /implementing Sustainability products/solutions

Competencies:

• Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail: Thoroughness in accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small. Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently.
• Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries.
• Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability.
• Maintains a market-focused approach to business. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions. The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome.
• Critical Reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration.
• Influencing: Influencing is an ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence. Strong integrator. Managing cross functional teams
• Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs.
• Agility: Way of planning and doing work in which it is understood that making changes as they are needed is an important part of the job and that small but continuous improvement with a comprehensive view delivered frequently is more important than a final deliverable at end state which potential could be late or not meet the customer expectation.
• Collaboration: Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together for a common purpose to achieve business benefit. Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a defined and common business purpose.
• Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence.