Business Intelligence Analyst - Johannesburg at FirstRand Group

Job Description

To implement the Business Intelligence strategy and translate tactical strategy in actionable goals; to understand the business environment and requirements in order to analyse data and provide relevant analytical and quantitative insights to business for operational, tactical and strategic decisioning.

• Analyse derived information to create value added knowledge of the bank's products, channels, service levels, trends, or customers for business and operational informed decisions.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders to provide input into assigned projects, in line with business requirements within the required timeframe and specification.
• Involvement in new projects, design, define and document the Business Intelligence solutions in line with business requirements and service ad-hoc requests for information from clients within the required timeframe and specification.
• Provide support in setting the intellectual agenda for the team (in consultation with the necessary stakeholders) and creating conceptual frameworks across multiple projects.
• Share knowledge and ideas into new or improved data product for the Business Intelligence environment.
• Provide expertise to relevant stakeholders in area of specialization.
• Maintain BI repository.
• Extract data from various sources for the purposes of data profiling in order to create the technical BI requirements (e.g. source to target).
• Resolve queries as and when required (medium to complex data extracts).
• Liaise with Business Analyst and relevant stakeholders to produce BI business requirement (BRS) documentation and submit to relevant stakeholders for sign off.
• Provide business summaries to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making.
• Analyse derived information to create value added knowledge of the bank's products, channels, service levels, trends, or customers for business and operational informed decisions.
• Analyse and develop business intelligence models based on data analyzed, data collected, reviewed, and incorporate all internal and external benchmarking data for future solutions.
• Analyse information to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders to provide input into assigned projects, in line with business requirements within the required timeframe and specification.
• Involvement in new projects, design, define and document the Business Intelligence solutions in line with business requirements and service ad-hoc requests for information from clients within the required timeframe and specification.
• Ensure involvement in the solution life cycle, which includes, designing, testing, implementing and validating the overall solution.
• Evaluate against the delivery of solution according to the business case for the specific solution to ensure that the proposed benefits are realized.
• Source, build and manage partnerships with external experts / providers to assist in delivery on key BI projects.
• Share knowledge and ideas into new or improved data product for the Business Intelligence environment.
• Provide thought leadership and expertise in area of specialization.
• Keep up to date with best practice and innovative solutions and challenge current designs to make a relevant difference in business.
• Responsible for creation of BI repository.