Aobakwe Pitsonyane
Senior Planning Analyst
Gaborone
Summary
Prudent Analyst with years of experience providing the business with insightful and actionable data to drive business strategy and profit growth. Practiced at gathering, manipulating and cleaning data to drive data driven decision making.
Results orientated analyst with proven history of guidance to business on digitization, sales optimization, pricing and forecasting.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Senior Planning Analyst
De Beers Group
05.2023 - Current
- Lead the development and implementation of data collection processes with approved business tools for insights into the business.
- Continuously seek opportunities to automate reports and eliminate manual reports.
- Conduct data analysis to identify bottlenecks in supply chain and develop solutions to optimize operations.
- Analyze data trends within the business to advise on risks, maximize opportunities and create value.
- Utilized data visualization tools to effectively communicate business insights.
- Collaborated with business-unit leaders to identify and prioritize problems.
- Documented effective and replicable methods for extracting data and organizing data sources whiles reporting back to business stakeholders on solution developments.
- Report on business KPIs to drive business strategy and long term sustainability.
Strategic Business Analyst
Mascom
09.2022 - 03.2023
- Designed and developed data pipelines to acquire, clean and process data for data driven decision making within the executive leadership.
- Supported the sales and distribution team with sales reporting and sales forecasts.
- Supported the commercial sales team with sales data insights and analysis for new opportunities and extracting value from existing customers.
- Generated standard and custom reports to provide insights into business performance.
- Developed customized reports, summarizing and presenting data in visually appealing format.
- Provided guidance on business case analysis and business case development to ensure that key initiatives/projects that are approved are aligned to strategic objectives and will deliver the desired value
- Provides guidance on the development of value and benefits management frameworks
- Maintained effective relationships with key stakeholders to ensure the achievement of business objectives.
- Built internal, external networks
- Provided guidance through research and analytics for strategy development considering internal and external factors.
Business Analyst -Credit
First National Bank
04.2022 - 09.2022
- Created packs for monthly corporate and commercial FRMC packs.
- Reported on the business' credit performance for Corporate and Commercial clients.
- Provided insights to the on-going risk management team on defaulting clients to effectively manage the clients.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Developed and deployed monthly performance dashboards using PowerBi, Excel and PowerApps.
- Gathered, cleaned and transformed data using SAS, SQL and Excel.
- Maintained networks and relationships with group and external stakeholders for skills and knowledge sharing.
- Made recommendations to business case developments aligned to the credit strategy and financial goals.
- collaborated with business intelligence and IT teams for innovate around business analytics solutions for data driven decision making.
- Collaborated with management to generate and critically evaluate future scenarios.
- Prepared credit performance reports for discussion at credit review committees.
- Worked effectively in fast-paced environment.
Business Analyst
First National Bank
06.2018 - 03.2022
- Set sales targets to drive accelerated revenue growth.
- Inspired and mentored the team to drive achievement of sales targets.
- Reported on business performance and made recommendations for increased sales achievements.
- Developed sales data reporting of Bank on Wheels which gave insights on new market opportunities.
- Advised and gave inputs into the Shakawe Branch set up.
- Worked with SQL databases to extract and analyze data.
- Applied honed problem-solving skills to analyze and resolve issues impacting business operations and goal achievement.
- Built relationships with BI teams at FNB Points of Presence SA, FNB Africa, and Rest of Africa.
- Collaborated with FNB Africa reporting and solutioning for business reporting improvements.
- Analyzed key aspects of business to evaluate factors driving results and summarized into presentations.
- Provided guidance on value and benefits management and frameworks
- Applied strategic long term planning for channels
- Provided guidance and input on development of the organization strategy
- Inspired a data driven decision making department at Channels through accurate and actionable reporting on the business performance and long term forecasting.
- Managed and reported on the digital banking business performance
- Helped to develop the FNB Botswana Data strategy
- Grew our digital sales penetration by over 40% in 2019/2020 from 15% penetration.
- Managed a team of over 30 sales and service consultants.
Business Intelligence Analyst
First National Bank South Africa
01.2017 - 05.2018
- Liaised with DevOps team to integrate business intelligence assets into future development lifecycles.
- Designed customized data collection models for specific visualization tasks.
- Generated ad-hoc reports to evaluate specific business requirements.
- Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.
- Built networks internally and externally
- Collaborated with multiple business units to design and achieve strategic business initiatives and key business drivers.
Sales Engineer
Solahart Botswana
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Prepared cost estimates and bid documents by studying customer RFPs and consulting with project managers.
- Delivered technical sales presentations to prospects and presented benefits and value of products.
- Provided input to tender documents submissions
- I analyzed the requirements for installation of solar energy systems for houses,
boreholes and other electrical lighting.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Double Major Mathematics And Physics
University of Botswana
Gaborone, Botswana 08.2010 - 05.2015
Skills
Business Development
Business planning
Strategy Development
Data Analytics
Dashboard development for performance reporting
Financial Modelling
Statistical modelling
Decision making
Adaptable
Results oriented
Team player and collaboration
Influential leader
Accomplishments
- Top Performer ( First National Bank Botswana Oct 2021) For the 2nd year running i was awarded top performer at the FNBB Staff awards in the Channels department.
- Top Performer (First National Bank Botswana Nov 2020) I was awarded top performer at the FNBB Staff awards as top performer in the Channels division.
- FNB Junior Exco Member July 2019 -Jun 2022 I sat on the bank's Junior executive committee representing channels department. This is a committee that has a pool of top young talent in the bank earmarked for leadership roles in the bank. In my current role, i look after the Channels strategy as well as other arms of the bank wide strategy.
Certification
Data Science for Investment Professionals: CFA - Currently underway
Referees
- Tumelo Bethuelson (Data Science Manager) Cell: (267) 75722623 Email: tbethuelson@fnbbotswana.co.bw
- Shaun Letswee (Senior Credit Analytics Manager) Cell : (267) 75978122 Email: shaun.letswee@fnbotswana.co.bw
- Thapelo Mokgatle (Channels Finance Manager ) Cell: (267) 75713030 Email: tmokgatle@fnbbotswana.co.bw
- Elisha Matenanga (Retail Finance Manager ) Cell: (267) 71777148 Email: ematenanga@fnbbotswana.co.bw
Timeline
Senior Planning Analyst
De Beers Group
05.2023 - Current
Strategic Business Analyst
Mascom
09.2022 - 03.2023
Business Analyst -Credit
First National Bank
04.2022 - 09.2022
Business Analyst
First National Bank
06.2018 - 03.2022
Business Intelligence Analyst
First National Bank South Africa
01.2017 - 05.2018
Sales Engineer
Solahart Botswana
01.2016 - 12.2016
Bachelor of Science - Double Major Mathematics And Physics
University of Botswana
08.2010 - 05.2015