We are presently sourcing for a Senior Specialist Data Analyst for a contract based role. The contract is 9 Months open to renewal and extensions. If you are intersted, please read below and apply.
Role Description:
The consultant should have a sound understanding of finance and financial data, to ensure the overall success of the migration and continued interfacing of Bank Product(‘s) related data into a SAP financial environment. The individual must be able to work in a team, have ability to build good interpersonal relationships and take fellow team members on the overall journey to support the successful outcome of the overall project. A selfstarter with previous exposure to mentoring and training of individuals is required to join an already established team to assist with the implementation of a large financial data to support the enablement of controls and standardized processes for African banking entities onto a SAP platform.
This will include the following:
- Acquire data from legacy data sources, analyse patterns in line with desired outcomes and assist with translation / mapping to new solution utilising predefined mapping logic.
- Financial understanding a prerequisite for analysis of data as overall balancing and reconciliation is critical.
- Understand data available from product related legacy systems and how data fields can be combined to provide the required financial dimensions to support the SAP financial requirements.
- Work with business finance colleagues to understand the data from legacy financial system to new solution.
- Problem solving skills to troubleshoot misaligned information is required.
- Ability to utilise tools such as Advanced Excel, Power Query or SQL to simulate and manipulate large volumes of data.
- Design and participate in all levels of testing of the overall mapping effort to support the overall accuracy of the mapping and migration process.
- Key responsibility in the migration of financial data and the ability to support queries from business as part of the process.
- Key responsibility in the creation of new master data, adhering to the current business processes and master data principles.
- To support business on queries logged and month end processes with regards to financial data queries, including assisting with journals to correct data where required.
- Execute and support the data load requirement for; Historic data loads, Parallel Run data loads, Cutover data loads.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience in a financial environment.
- Relevant Degree or Diploma
- Relevant experience with large data sets.
- Relevant experience in project delivery.
- Relevant Experience in SAP
- Understanding of financial business processes
- Excellent data skills
- Solid financial background
- Solid accounting knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desired Skills:
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Complex Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Social Perceptiveness
- Management of Financial Resources
- Time Management