Sales Analyst (FTC) at RCL Foods

Job Description    

• RCL FOODS is on the hunt for an experienced Sales Analyst (Fixed Term Contract) for their Baking Division to drive business insights and continuous improvement to assist in short, medium & long-term decision making, scope reporting requirements to deliver key analytics initiatives and manage and support day-to-day analytics requirements and platforms by ensuring solutions are up-to-date and accurate.
• The role will report into the Business Analyst and will be based at Pretoria West.

Minimum Requirements    

• A relevant Qualification or 3+ relevant experience (preferably a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, B.Com Computer Science or similar degree).
• High level of proficiency with MS Office packages with proven advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of PowerBI and system integration.
• 2-5 Years’ experience in a data analytics environment.
• Experience and In-depth knowledge of creating dashboards.
• Success in providing data & analytics insights that have added value.
• Experience in food manufacturing, consumer and sales industries.
• Ability to draw insight from analysis, communicate effectively, and be able to influence peers and superiors.
• Specialization in data sciences and data analytics.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Excellent research and analytic skills.
• Data Base knowledge.
• Working knowledge of relevant business management principles.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to turn complex concepts into simple language.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Working knowledge of word processing tools and other relevant software packages.
• Have a good understanding of the solution technology components and how they are used together.
• Proven success as a business analyst delivering a well-balanced repertoire of business relationships, BI solutions, and business requirements in a Sales function.
• Proven capabilities to model and frame strategic business scenarios that impact on critical business decisions, providing insights and reporting.

Duties & Responsibilities    

• Partner with various stakeholders within sales to understand and deliver performance insights and key analytics solutions.
• Collaborate with business and business partners to deliver analytical solutions aligned to other business solutions.
• Design and develop cost effective BI solutions.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation for all processes and procedures required to perform the BI Analyst role.
• Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and validity.
• Ensure data and information is accessible to departments and stakeholders across the business as per business requirements.
• Provide training and support on dashboards to business users.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues and queries from users regarding dashboards.
• Maintain current knowledge of all relevant technological developments and seek opportunities to deploy new technologies.
• Generate specs for new reports based on business requirements.
• Identify areas of improvement in the reporting process.
• Create dashboards and interactive visual reports using Power BI or relevant data dashboard tool.
• Document all reports, data sources and purpose of reports.
• Design, build and release reports to relevant stakeholders.
• Extract, transform and load data from external sources (Excel, SharePoint lists).
• Build user friendly data models.
• Monitor and track all data reports.
• Identify root causes and escalation of failure points.