Analyst (Junior)

2 weeks ago


Sandton, South Africa Discovery Ltd. Full time

**Business Unit**:Discovery Health**Function**:Data Analysis**Date**:11 Aug 2023**Discovery Health - The Service Lab**

**Analyst (Junior)**

**About Discovery**
- Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.**About The Service Lab**
- The Service Lab consists of 14 unique functions that serve to centralise and departmentalise various functions throughout Discovery. Our department's Vision is to be recognised as the thought leader to all areas of Discovery developing and driving best practice. The culture within the department is one of constant learning, knowledge sharing, change and innovation.**Key Purpose**
- This role is to provide business with operational and incentive research, analysis and reporting produced from survey data sources (internal) to support its business operations.
Gather, synthesize and summarize information to support decision making and communication**Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to**
- Information gathering (research, question structuring and interviewing)
- Information synthesis (making sense of information from many sources)
- Summarising (identifying and illustrating key concepts)
- Reporting (conveying key concepts in writing and diagrams)
- Presentation design and building
- Information analysis (turning data into information to support decision makers)
- Initiatives: Ways to improve a process or procedure to better support business
- Quality - pays high attention to detail
- Run large research projects with little assistance, including new experimental projects in terms of approach, technology etc (Pharmacy usage-, customer effort surveys)

**Behavioural Attributes and Skills**
- Ability to analyze/interpret data, take appropriate action and use good judgment to escalate issues when necessary.
- Proficient in advanced excel.
- Project management/administration ability
- Discovery Service operations knowledge an advantage
- Experience with data analysis and reporting.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Assertiveness and self-motivation
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to coordinate various projects simultaneously.
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office products including Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of structured query language (PL/SQL and COGNOS reports) and/or Python

**Qualification Experience**
- Matric studying towards a degree
- Tertiary qualification with Research, Statistics, Mathematics or other/similar quantitative modules
- Knowledge of structured query language (PL/SQL and COGNOS reports)
- 1 years experience working in a data analysis and reporting role
- EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.


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