Data Insights Specialist

2 days ago

Sandton, South Africa Discovery Limited Full time

About Discovery

At Discovery Limited, we're committed to making people healthier and enhancing their lives. We seek individuals who share our core purpose and values.

We operate in a fast-paced environment that enables smart, self-driven people to thrive. As global leaders, we're passionate about innovation, achieving financial success, and driving positive change in society.

About Invest

Discovery Invest was launched in 2007 to provide clients with access to top-performing funds and investment opportunities. Our unique shared-value model promotes financial health and freedom for South Africans.

We reward clients for positive investment behavior with extra returns. Our employees are dedicated to delivering world-class service to internal and external clients, fostering long-term relationships.

Key Role

The data analyst is responsible for transforming raw data into actionable insights to support informed decision-making within an organization. Through the collection, cleaning, and analysis of data, they identify trends and patterns, creating reports and visualizations to communicate findings.

This role provides data-driven recommendations, helps optimize processes, improves performance, and drives strategic initiatives.

Objectives of this Role

  • Data Collection and Cleaning: Gather data from various sources and ensure accuracy and integrity.
  • Data Analysis: Use statistical methods and tools to identify trends, patterns, and insights.
  • Reporting Findings: Create clear and informative reports and visualizations to communicate insights.
  • Supporting Decision-Making: Provide data-driven recommendations to inform strategic and operational decisions.
  • Process Optimization: Continuously monitor and analyze data to identify opportunities for improvement and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Gather data from various sources to analyze and document data and visualization requirements to ensure consistency and reliability.
  • Ensure the data is accurate and free from errors by removing duplicates, correcting errors, and dealing with missing values.
  • Assist with formulating data accuracy and completeness processes from ingestion to storage.
  • Use statistical techniques and software tools to analyze data and identify trends, patterns, and insights.
  • Design and create data models to organize and structure data effectively.
  • Create visualizations like charts and graphs to present data findings clearly and concisely.
  • Identify areas of opportunity to introduce new visualization tools.
  • Present findings to stakeholders through detailed specification documents, presentations, and dashboards, making complex data understandable and actionable.
  • Work with other teams, such as IT, marketing, finance, and actuaries to understand their data needs and provide relevant insights.
  • Contribute to enhancing the data architecture principles for the environment.
  • Understand the data pipeline process and assist with creating data pipelines to democratize access to data across the Invest ecosystem.
  • Monitor the use of data within the environment and contribute to enhancing and improving the security of data through continuous monitoring processes.

Education and Experience

  • Bachelor's degree in IT or quantitative fields or related fields.
  • Postgraduate degree (advantageous).
  • 5 to 8 years of data analytics experience.

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • Documentation using Confluence/Wiki.
  • Strong communicator verbally and in writing.
  • Expert database knowledge in SQL.
  • Experience working on large and complex datasets.
  • Data analysis/synthesis.
  • Understanding of data quality and data governance concepts.
  • Self-management of tasks and deliverables.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

  • Advanced training in data engineering and data analysis.
  • Prior leadership experience.
  • Experience in data integrity, privacy, and data governance.
  • Change management experience.
  • Engagement with senior stakeholders.

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