Data and Reporting Specialist

1 week ago

Cape Town, South Africa Progressive Edge Full time

**Data and Reporting Specialist**

**Permanent**

**Newlands, Cape Town**

**Purpose of the job**

We are looking for a dedicated Data and Reporting specialist who will be responsible for understanding, extracting and evaluating data for key control activities, business insight and management information for client reporting. Ultimately the person responsible should reduce risk within the business through the control activities; increase efficiency via reporting activities and improving business decision making by providing insight into data. The role also includes a component of operational and system production support.

To be a successful Data Specialist you should demonstrate a combination of technical as well as leadership skills. The individual would need to have excellent communication skills (both the ability to listen as well as communicate insight in a meaningful manner) as well as a deep sense of curiosity combined with a need to improve the current status quo. A background in statistics, information management or economics would be beneficial.

**Main duties and responsibilities**:

- Extracting, manipulating, evaluating and signing off control reports critical for the risk reduction of the business
- Using various tools to extract data from primary and secondary sources
- Interpreting data, analyzing results using statistical techniques
- Developing and implementing data analyses, data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality
- Developing and maintaining databases, data systems reorganizing data in a readable format
- Performing analysis to assess quality and meaning of data
- Filter data by reviewing reports and performance indicators to identify and correct code problems
- Using statistical tools to identify, analyse and interpret patterns and trends in complex data sets that could be helpful for the diagnosis and prediction
- Assigning numerical value to essential business functions so that business performance can be assessed and compared over periods of time
- Analysing local, national and global trends that impact both the organization and the industry
- Preparing reports for the management stating trends, patterns and predictions using relevant data
- Working with developers, business analysts, SMEs and management Heads to identify process improvement opportunities, propose system
- modifications and devise data governance strategies
- Preparing final analysis reports for the stakeholders to understand the data-analysis steps, enabling them to take important decisions based on various facts and trends.
- Using statistical tools to identify, analyse and interpret patterns and trends in complex data sets that could be helpful for the diagnosis and prediction
- Assigning numerical value to essential business functions so that business performance can be assessed and compared over periods of time
- Analysing local, national and global trends that impact both the organization and the industry
- Preparing reports for the management stating trends, patterns and predictions using relevant data
- Working with developers, business analysts, SMEs and management Heads to identify process improvement opportunities, propose system modifications and devise data governance strategies
- Preparing final analysis reports for the stakeholders to understand the data-analysis steps, enabling them to take important decisions based on various facts and trends.

**Ideal experience**:

- 2+ years BA / Service Delivery experience / data analysis
- Degree qualified in either statistics, information management or economics
- Knowledge of Retail Investment domain
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills is essential
- Knowledge of database query languages e.g. SQL
- Knowledge of reporting tools eg SSRS
- Understanding of database structures, languages and reporting toolS
- Demonstrated experience in handling large data sets and relational databases
- Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical, lay terms
- Ability to work with stakeholders, understand their requirements and challenges and provide efficient, insightful data solutions
- Proactive with a sense of urgency and the ability to establish priorities and make decisions
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to understand complex problems and package data to check assumptions and guide business decisions
- Adept at queries, report writing and presenting findings
- A great team player, able to interact easily with both business and technology stakeholders
- Strong analytical skills and strong attention to detail
- Ability to communicate effectively with teams and stakeholders
- Ability to source information from the users/clients
- Ability to work under pressure, time management, provide reasonable effort estimations and to be able to multi-task across multiple projects and communicate effectively.
- Unquestionable integrity and accountability
- Uncompromising in delivery of excellent quality

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