Intern: Data Analyst at TFG (The Foschini Group)

Job Description
Key Responsibilities:

• Assist business teams and management with the development and implementation of operational metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
• Use visualization tools to understand and manipulate complex datasets in a simple and intuitive format to rapidly generate impactful, interactive visualizations.
• Provide and support ad-hoc reporting services for non-standard issues and analyses.
• Continually evaluate, develop, and implement new, meaningful methods for data analysis to inform the business teams about its performance.
• Analyze historical figures to identify trends and help define strategies.
• Develop and work with prediction models.
• Extract, transform, and load data from an extremely wide field of data sources into staging datasets and ultimately into visualization tools.

Qualification and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in a related field of study (Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Mathematics, Accountancy, etc.).
• Storytelling ability through visual presentations and dashboards.
• Ability to create data models to bring together datasets from multiple disparate systems in order to support data analysis.
• Ability to analyze large datasets.
• The ability to communicate complex concepts in a clear and concise manner to audiences from staff to senior executive level.
• Familiarity with data warehousing architecture and processes.
• An analytical mind and inclination for problem-solving.
• Experience with visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, QlikView, and/or Pyramid.
• Data manipulation/wrangling skills (SQL and NoSQL technologies, such as KNIME or SSIS).
• Experience delivering prescriptive and predictive analytics.
• Expertise in R and Python is advantageous.

     Skill:

• Organised and thorough  
• Administratively strong with high attention to detail and accuracy  
• Computer proficiency in MS office (Excel, Word & Outlook)  
• Business Case Contribution 
• In-Depth Questioning 
• Perform Gap Analysis 
• Data control   
• Document management   
• Digital Library Management 
• Presentation Creation 3 

Behaviours:  

• Conveys information and communicates ideas in a clear, concise and impactful manner  
• Effectively works with others to achieve shared goals  
• Consistently makes timely, well-rounded and informed decisions 
• Leverages new technology to enhance productivity, improve problem solving, and support business growth  
• Inspires, motivates and empowers individuals to go above and beyond for the benefit of the team and the organisation  
• Develops plans and prioritises initiatives that align to the organisational goals and objectives  
• Assesses and improves the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of various work processes  
• Quickly adapts and acquires new knowledge, skills, and competencies in a rapidly changing environment  
• Interprets and simplifies complex and contradictory information when resolving organisational problems  
• Takes accountability and ensures others are held to account on agreed upon performance targets  
• Sets ambitious goals and takes focused action to achieve desired outcomes to deliver measurable results