Remuneration:	Market related
Location:	Cape Town, Northern Suburbs
Job level:	Management Jnr-Mid
Type:	Permanent
Reference:	#REQ0011361
Company:	Capfin

Job description

Capfin is a data-driven financial services company, with a strong focus on digital migration and enhancing our data and advanced analytics capabilities.  We have an exciting position in the Data and Analytics department for an analytical person with a passion for business and driving business value by using data, decision support tools, and advanced analytical solutions.  The Data and Analytics department includes the data warehouse, business intelligence reporting, data science and business analytics functions and is directly represented on Exco by the Credit Risk and Analytics Executive.

The Lead Analyst for Account Management will lead a small team of analysts to drive business value in the Payment, Collections, Finance operations and Recoveries business areas.

If you are business minded, analytical, energetic and driven, collaborative, love driving meaningful change and seeing the results, passionate about your work, like being challenged and challenging others, have the ability to work across multiple business areas at an in-depth as well as strategic level, and want to be part of building a world-class analytics team with like-minded individuals, this role is for you. 

 

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:Business analytics

• Work closely with business stakeholders to drive business efficiency and enhancing business decisions by using data.
• Monitor and analyse real-time and historic data to identify trends, issues and/or opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for advanced analytics and automated decision solutions.
• Enhance the use of data, reports and analytical tools for decision making by educating and influencing stakeholders.

Decision support solutions

• Work closely with business to identify opportunities for monitoring and decision support solutions.
• Gather requirements, design and implement decision support solutions.
• Work closely with the data team and information and analytics architect to implement data solutions in the data warehouse.
• Work with the data science team to develop appropriate predictive analytics solutions.
• Work with IT, business and data science to implement embedded automated decision solutions.

New business functionality

• Ensure data and analytics requirements are considered in new business solutions.
• Do impact assessment on changes to existing functionality.

Project management

• Effective planning and prioritising of own work, as well as that of the team.
• Provide progress feedback to business stakeholders and line management.

Team Management

• Manage the performance and development of a small analyst team.
• Coach and mentor team members.

Stakeholder management

• Effective internal stakeholder management within Data and Analytics.
• Effectively represent the data and analytics team in the organisation. Listen, influence, collaborate, communicate in a way that enhances the efficiency and decision making capabilities of the organisation.

Qualification:

• Degree in finance / mathematics / statistics / actuarial / business management / engineering or related discipline

Experience: 

• Eight+ years in an analytical role, preferably in a formal analytics or business intelligence environment. Management or mentoring experience would be advantageous.

Functional Competencies

• Presentation and communication skills
• Formulating analytical solutions to business problems
• Excellent problem-solving skills coupled with a high degree of logic and attention to detail
• Decision support principles and best practices
• Previous management or mentoring experience (advantageous)

Technical Competencies

• SQL
• Advanced Excel
• Data analysis
• Data visualisation
• Microsoft business intelligence technologies (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SQL Server).
• Data warehouse, business intelligence and decision support concepts
• Data modelling

Behavioural Competencies

• Information gathering and problem analysis
• Applying Professional / Specialist / Technical Expertise
• Creating and innovating
• Developing others
• Leadership
• Planning and organising

The closing date for applications is 27 August 2018.

Posted on 15 Aug 12:19