Purpose of the Role:
To gather, analyse and understand business users’ data and analytics requirements and translate these requirements into analytics best practice technical solutions that meet the relevant business objectives.
To ensure alignment between business, Product Managers, data and analytics teams and produce a comprehensive functional specification from business requirements by maintaining a high level of in-depth knowledge with regards to analytics and other relevant data concepts.
Key Performance Areas:
Identify, clarify and agree data and analytics requirements.
- Liaises with business to understand and document their data and analytics requirements; performing analytical processes and KPIs/measures related to the processes.
- Adopts multiple actions with stakeholders to elicit the requirements; uses interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, business process descriptions, user cases, scenarios and business analysis.
- Provides functional knowledge and expert input during planning, design and implementation phases of projects and initiatives between Data and Analytics and business.
- Assists stakeholders (e.g. Product Managers) with data-related scoping and planning.
- Applies end-to-end best practice to deliver data and analytics requirements.
- Ensures appropriate testing is done and provides the business with assistance during user acceptance testing.
- Designs training material and conducts training with solution users.
- Provides business with functional and technical assistance during data and analytics implementations.
- Applies business and data and analytics functional knowledge at all times to identify possible improvement opportunities and motivate with business.
- Owns personal continued professional development to remain current with data and analytics industry trends, particularly around data and analytics tools and technologies.
- Establishes effective and collaborative partnerships with data and analytics teams and relevant business teams (Business Process Analysts, BI source systems)Translate business data and analytics requirements to the Data and Analytics teams.
- Analyses, understands and document relevant data and analytics technical requirements; performs data modelling and maps the analytic solution to the relevant data sources.
- Works closely with the Data Architect(s) and Data Modeller(s) to design, refine and implement analytic solutions in order to execute the functional design of the relevant data and analytics solution; including reports and dashboards.
- Provides input to data governance and data and analytics quality assurance; identifies and communicates all risks.
- Performs functional testing and data validation of reports and other data and analytics deliverables before presenting to business users.
- Applies data and analytics functional knowledge at all times to identify and motivate possible data and analytics support/improvements.
Facilitate the Data Product Life Cycle and application of best practice/process.
- Acts as the custodian of reporting catalogue; maintains the information framework and reports.
- Engages with Front end development lead to ensure adherence to processes that will keep the catalogue current.
- Facilitates the process between all teams regarding data governance and processes.
QUALIFICATIONS
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Statistics, Mathematics
- A relevant 3 year tertiary qualification (degree / diploma) in statistics, finance, actuarial science, mathematics, computer science, information systems, data or mathematical sciences, or engineering.
- Certification in Business Analysis – Business-related qualification, FTI or similar Business AnalysisExperience:
- At least 5 – 7 years’ proven experience within business intelligence and data warehousing environment
- At least 5 – 7 years’ proven experience in drafting functional specifications and translating requirements between busines and functional stakeholders
- BI Business Analysis, data design and systems analysis experience in a data and analytics environmentKnowledge:
- Relevant business area knowledge
- Data and analytics Business Analysis
- Data Warehouse Methodologies
- BI Best Practice
- Data Analysis
- Data Governance
- Financial systems and procedures
- Visualisation tools
- Data Product Life Cycle
- Data modelling
Ideal
- Business Information Business Analysis experience in an finance services environment
- Exposure to a credit environment
- Agile development life cycle
- Best practices for Quality Assurance (QA)
- Microsoft Appliance (APS)
- Process and organisational thinking skills
- Project Management skills
Technological skills:
Minimum:
- MS Office suite (advanced)
- SQL or SAS
- Data Warehousing
Ideal:
- Power BI
- Visual Basic
- AWS
Desired Skills:
- Business Information Business Analysis experience in an finance services environment
- A relevant tertiary qualification in Statistics
- Mathematics
- Certification in Business Analysis – Business-related qualification
- FTI or similar Business AnalysisExperience:
- At least 5 – 7 years’ proven experience within business intelligence and data warehousing environment
- At least 5 – 7 years’ proven experience in drafting functional specifications and translating requirements between busines and functional stakeholders
Desired Work Experience:
- 5 to 10 years
Desired Qualification Level:
- Degree