Description:
The purpose of this position is to manage and develop a central data source for Business Intelligence across Merchants.
1. System development and management
- Plans and develops a single automated platform for all Business Intelligence across Merchants.
- Analyzes business requirements and ensures the database platform is stable, functional and available
- Equips all operations to utilize the system and interpret the information it provide
- Documents all system processes, policies and procedures related to databases and statistical information ensuring standardisation across Merchants
2. Reporting
- Develops and automates reports that indicate the Merchants organisations performance
- Creates reports which facilitate decision-making for Merchants
- Facilitates the process of information analysis and report development for the Business units
- Identifies best practices in report design and automation
- Researches business intelligence tools that are appropriate for Merchants
- Provides business intelligence support to enable Business Improvement
3. People Management
v Leadership
· Leads by example in living the values of the organisation
· Ensures the department is fully equipped to handle the work load and distribute work flow
· Coaches to ensure a full understanding of consequences of errors
· Creates an environment that fosters team work and co-operation amongst team members
· Creates awareness of Merchants strategic objectives and their alignment to the department and company objectives
· Communicates effectively, building and maintaining relationships
· Ensures consistent compliance to company policies and procedures, corporate governance and relevant legislation
v Attraction & Selection
· Ensures appropriate staffing and action accordingly
· Identifies need for creation of position and forward recommendation to direct manager and HR
· Selects and places candidates in terms of agreed recruitment and selection process
v Retention
v Develops and empowers people, recognizing and rewarding value-added performance
v Training and Development
Continually strives to up-skill and motivate staff through effective leadership, mentoring, coaching, performance improvement and the creation and implementation of individual development plans
· Monitors implementation of training needs as per individual development plans
v Career Pathing and Succession Planning
· Identifies, manages and develops talent
v Performance Management
· Sets direct reports quantitative and qualitative performance objectives and ensure individual performance objectives are in place and reviewed to meet organisational and individual needs
· Ensures bi-annual performance reviews take place with direct reports, identifies poor performance and takes corrective action
Requirements:
The purpose of this position is to manage and develop a central data source for Business Intelligence across Merchants.
1. System development and management
- Plans and develops a single automated platform for all Business Intelligence across Merchants.
- Analyzes business requirements and ensures the database platform is stable, functional and available
- Equips all operations to utilize the system and interpret the information it provide
- Documents all system processes, policies and procedures related to databases and statistical information ensuring standardisation across Merchants
2. Reporting
- Develops and automates reports that indicate the Merchants organisations performance
- Creates reports which facilitate decision-making for Merchants
- Facilitates the process of information analysis and report development for the Business units
- Identifies best practices in report design and automation
- Researches business intelligence tools that are appropriate for Merchants
- Provides business intelligence support to enable Business Improvement
3. People Management
v Leadership
· Leads by example in living the values of the organisation
· Ensures the department is fully equipped to handle the work load and distribute work flow
· Coaches to ensure a full understanding of consequences of errors
· Creates an environment that fosters team work and co-operation amongst team members
· Creates awareness of Merchants strategic objectives and their alignment to the department and company objectives
· Communicates effectively, building and maintaining relationships
· Ensures consistent compliance to company policies and procedures, corporate governance and relevant legislation
v Attraction & Selection
· Ensures appropriate staffing and action accordingly
· Identifies need for creation of position and forward recommendation to direct manager and HR
· Selects and places candidates in terms of agreed recruitment and selection process
v Retention
v Develops and empowers people, recognizing and rewarding value-added performance
v Training and Development
Continually strives to up-skill and motivate staff through effective leadership, mentoring, coaching, performance improvement and the creation and implementation of individual development plans
· Monitors implementation of training needs as per individual development plans
v Career Pathing and Succession Planning
· Identifies, manages and develops talent
v Performance Management
· Sets direct reports quantitative and qualitative performance objectives and ensure individual performance objectives are in place and reviewed to meet organisational and individual needs
· Ensures bi-annual performance reviews take place with direct reports, identifies poor performance and takes corrective action
- Plans and develops a single automated platform for all Business Intelligence across Merchants.
- Analyzes business requirements and ensures the database platform is stable, functional and available
- Equips all operations to utilize the system and interpret the information it provide
- Documents all system processes, policies and procedures related to databases and statistical information ensuring standardisation across Merchants
- Develops and automates reports that indicate the Merchants organisations performance
- Creates reports which facilitate decision-making for Merchants
- Facilitates the process of information analysis and report development for the Business units
- Identifies best practices in report design and automation
- Researches business intelligence tools that are appropriate for Merchants
- Provides business intelligence support to enable Business Improvement
- Sql Experience: 3 to 4 years
- Business Intelligence Design Experience Including 2 Yrs Data Warehousing: 7 to 8 years
· B.Comm Information Systems or BSc Computer Science
· 5-8 years Business Intelligence design experience including 2 yrs Data warehousing automation experience and 3 yrs SQL experience