Strategy Analyst
6 days ago
**Strategy Analyst**
**Sandton**
Be the backbone of Group Strategy project teams and will be expected to play a key role in all aspects of delivering strategic support and initiatives to the group. Structure rigorous research, modelling and analysis to provide the insights required to answer clients’ toughest strategic questions.
**Strategy development/ thought leadership**
- Content expert on stream of work within a project. Comfortable defending findings to internal clients
- Solid business grasp, keeps up to date with business press and can sound knowledgeable
- General understanding of internal client's business and goals, enough to sound informed and competent in conversation
- Builds areas of expertise within Group Strategy department
**Problem solving**
- Solution oriented
- Organised, structured, methodical approach to tasks. Demonstrates ability to plan and organise complex/large volumes of work.
- Expert in research and analysis; can coach others on some methodologies
- Generates relevant insights from analysis
- Understands how work fits in and contributes to the overall project. Can start to contribute to project approach.
- Understands the client situation and relevance of Group Strategy's role
**Numerical and Financial Analysis**
- Expert with excel: makes appropriate use of technical tools
- Capable of building detailed market and financial models and comfortable with complex financial tools (e.g. valuation methodologies, acquisition scenarios, detailed financial forecasting)
- Capable of interrogating company accounts
**Industry and company analysis**
- Presents compelling and appropriate picture of market situation, drawing value chains, market and distribution maps as appropriate; identifies industry trends and drivers
**Research**
- Quickly assembles available research thoroughly and does not miss information
- Comprehensive knowledge of sources
- Capable of using data creatively to draw conclusions (eg using multiple sources to size a market, proxies, etc)
- Draws available data into a clear, appropriate picture for presentations, balancing rigour with insight
- Creates consistent research output in the face of incomplete data, clearly articulating degree of reliability
- Aware of scale of findings and sources (able to answer ad-hoc questions on research)
- Understands and articulates applicability and limitations of research
**Project delivery**
- Produces compelling summary slides, pulling out major trends
- Resourceful and suggests ways to overcome task-related obstacles
- Delivers work of a quality equal to international consultancies. Meets deadlines and supports project workload effectively
**Communication, Relationship building and Personal Effectiveness**
- Focused, logical, well-argued written and oral communications
- Zero defects - sense checks own work
- Clear upward communication and timely discussion of issues and problems
- Can coordinate activities and meetings with internal client
- Can act as point person with peer-level client
- Presents a confident, articulate, professional, trustworthy character to internal clients, responding to their needs with a sense of urgency and sensitivity
- Provides coaching to Strategy Support Specialists
- Relevant tertiary qualification (BCom, BSc, CA, Actuarial Science or B Bus SC or similar)
- 4 years relevant experience in financial services and/or business strategy
- Prior consultancy experience is an advantage
- Exceptional proficiency in MS Excel
- Expertise in financial analysis and data modelling
Knowledge and experience of emerging technologies is advantageous 25.10lo
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Sandton, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)
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