Business Intelligence Analyst at Anglo American

Job Description:

• The Business Intelligence Analyst (BIA) provides business insights utilising advanced Business Intelligence visualisation tools, to enable stakeholders’ data-driven decision-making around key strategic levers, whereby dashboard reporting maximises value delivered. The BIA utilises descriptive and diagnostic analytics to enable reporting on business insights based on historical trends. The BIA support to data driven projects through establishing business requirements, developing dashboards utilising advanced Business Intelligence tools, data validation, testing and preparation of associated test plans, dashboard training and drive automation of reports.  The BIA interprets business requirements as received from stakeholders in requests for reporting whereby data is transformed into the most appropriate dashboard layouts that meet the stakeholders’ business requirements

The primary accountabilities will incorporate:

• Complying with the BI Governance new or change request in developing automated dashboards
• Logging of new or change requests in developing automated dashboards received by stakeholders
• Discussion with manager to ascertain the acceptability, suitability, viability, organisational fit, sizing of workload and capacity availability of the request
• Once agreed that the project should continue, an initial engagement is set-up with the relevant stakeholders where data availability, timelines, availability of SMEs for testing and appropriate visualisation tools are discussed and agreed
• Establish business requirements based on new or change requests in developing automated dashboards submitted by stakeholders
• Engage with the relevant stakeholders for approval of the Business Requirements Document (BRD)
• Design and development of dashboards
• Integrate different structured data sources from data warehouses and data extracts
• Utilisation of tools such as SQL and writing SQL queries. 
• Monitor consistency and accuracy of data collection throughout the data workflow end to end process
• Present business insights brief that address areas of business value and opportunities to improve it
• Provide business insight into what the data report is reflecting and / or present the data in a way that stakeholder can easily interpret what the data is illustrating
• Effective communication of business insights using Data Visualisations (e.g. PowerBI dashboards) 
• Engagements with stakeholders for input and feedback once the initial dashboard was designed and built
• Final amendments to be made to dashboards based on feedback received from stakeholders
• Involvement in data validation
• Preparation of test plans and involvement in testing
• Preparation of the project closure document
• Maintain a suitable document repository for all dashboards and ensure that these folders / repositories are up to date and accessible by the relevant stakeholders. 
• Maintain working instructions / reporting principles for all existing and new dashboards
• Maintain absolute confidentiality around confidential personal employee data used when discussing with stakeholders as well as external contacts
• Be familiar with the appropriate data security policies and governance in place. 
• Attend bi-weekly check-in meetings with the Data Analysis and Business Intelligence function 
• This role is at a Band 7 level, reporting to the Business Performance Reporting Coordinator.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with a major in Statistical Sciences/ Information Systems/ Informatics/ Commerce /Finance or HR

Knowledge and skills required:

• 2-5 years or more experience as BI Analyst 
• New applications/software systems effectively and efficiently learned and implemented sustainably – PowerBI, SAC, SQL, VB 
• Understanding of the business and business requirements 
• Experience in Hr analytics and finance background
• Excellent documenting and presentation skills 
• Familiarity of Project methodologies 
•  Ability to work with multiple structured data sources 
• Must enjoy working with numbers and bringing structure to complex data sheets 
• Experience with PowerBI is a requirement 
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) is a plus 
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Problem solving & Critical thinking 
• Sharp analytical thinker who is adept at providing insights on data