Buhle Luthuli
Sandown
Summary
Dedicated Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Manager with almost a decade of experience leading successful BI initiatives in the financial services and banking industry. Possess a strong understanding of data analysis, data warehousing, data migration, data integration, and reporting tools, with proven expertise in data visualization, performance management, and data analytics. Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver data-driven insights that drive business growth and increase profitability. Seeking a challenging opportunity to leverage my skills and experience to advance the strategic goals of a forward-thinking organisation.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Co-Founding Partner
Imbhasha Group and Kendisa Consortium
06.2023 - Current
- Develop and execute a comprehensive business strategy to establish and grow the Business Intelligence segment and AI technology catering to spaza shops in South African townships to assist in bulk buying
- Design and implement the entire BI stack, including data acquisition, storage, analysis, visualization, and reporting functionalities
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, prioritize features, and ensure timely delivery of BI solutions
- Identify and onboard new clients onto the platform, fostering strong relationships and delivering exceptional customer service
- Implement robust measures to verify the legitimacy of products available on the platform, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and ethical sourcing practices
- Drive initiatives to digitize government institutions by leveraging business intelligence tools and strategies including Machine Learning to enhance efficiency and transparency
- Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and customer feedback to continuously improve the platform's offerings and stay ahead of the competition.
Senior Business Intelligence Specialist/Manager
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited
07.2016 - 05.2023
- Collaborate closely with business units to discern requirements and develop efficient data models capable of managing substantial data volumes during migration
- Collaborate with business users, technical architects, and application designers to define data migration requirements and structure
- Oversee database deliverables throughout development, ensuring alignment with requirements and adherence to quality management plans and standards
- Provide comprehensive understanding of requirements and designs to application and data migration developers
- Assist development and testing teams in generating test data that conforms to data security standards
- Own end-to-end design, development, and testing of data extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes
- Carrying out elicitation and collaboration activities to collect information from stakeholders
- Ensure transformed data quality and accuracy by collaborating with data owners for verification and approval
- Formulate data migration plans, including risk assessment, milestones, quality benchmarks, and business sign-off criteria
- Manage identified risks and monitor potential impacts within the data migration plan
- Document data transformation, de-duplication, extraction, and load functions through detailed data lineage models
- Develop ETL pipelines, conduct data analysis, and prepare raw data for cloud migration
- Construct data models and build cubes utilizing SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, and SQL Server
- Leverage visualization tools, such as Power BI, to narrate data insights effectively
- Process raw data by cleansing, organizing, and transforming it for analytical purposes
- Profile diverse data sources in formats like JSON and XML
- Employ Agile methodology (SCRUM) for project execution
- Contribute strategically to divisional business planning, ensuring alignment with annual strategy and financial targets
- Provide input for divisional budget formalization
- Participate in ongoing status meetings with the general manager, reviewing progress against deliverables
- Foster collaborative relationships with department heads and JSE executives
- Manage end-to-end internal client engagement for business intelligence initiatives
- Deliver outputs adhering to industry standards and procedures, contributing to JSE's success
- Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant reporting through status updates and meetings
- Oversee project deliverables within established timelines and budget
- Craft annual planning aligned with performance agreements to facilitate ongoing progress tracking
- Ensure system, product, or project delivery aimed at continuous improvement
- Provide complex statistical analysis, modelling, forecasting, and optimization for JSE's internal and external stakeholders, enhancing client service and revenue.
- Improved the accuracy of intelligence assessments by cross-referencing multiple sources and databases.
- Provided crucial support during high-stakes operations by delivering real-time intelligence updates to operational teams.
- Developed innovative methodologies for processing large volumes of raw data into actionable intelligence products.
- Mentored junior intelligence specialists, sharing valuable insights gleaned from years of experience in the field.
- Contributed to mission success by providing accurate and up-to-date targeting data for key assets.
Senior Data and Automation Analyst
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited
10.2014 - 06.2016
- Conducting elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders
- Develop ETL pipelines, perform data analysis, and prepare raw data for integration and migration
- Develop and implement migration and integration plans between JSE and STRATE - Non-Res Bond Data
- Build cubes and design data models using SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, and SQL Server
- Use visualizing tools to tell a story about data (Power BI)
- Engage in processing raw data by cleansing, organizing, and transforming it to make it suitable for analysis purposes
- Implement Agile methodology (SCRUM)
- Manage stakeholders and own delivery against delivery plan and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required in order to ensure timeous and cost-effective delivery
- Engage with the client to understand and evaluate their needs by assessing the rationale for the need, looking at return on investment and determining the priority in order to focus on projects with the highest business value
- Design solutions that meet agreed customer needs and/or add value by mapping out appropriate processes, database, report layout, models, and software solutions and validating these with the customer in order to simplify processes and optimize efficiencies
- Develop solutions that meet agreed customer needs and/or add the greatest value by writing appropriate software and validating it with the customer to verify functionality and relevance of the solution being developed
- Test the solution by validating its outputs against expected deliverables to ensure quality and reliability of the solution
- Implement the solution by installing the software, training end-users, and completing the initial data take on to meet customer needs
- Create technical documentation to ensure that there is an accessible reference detailing how the solution was designed, developed, and tested, thereby making it easy to support the solution in the future and train end-users
- Review and evaluate business cases and give expert advice or recommendations on possible solutions including automation as may be relevant
- Present proposed solution to internal and external clients by explaining the features of the solution, mechanics of implementation, and impact on stakeholders to enable necessary preparations for implementation
- Maintain ongoing collaborative relationships with business through structured processes and ad hoc customer contact to ensure proper understanding of customer needs and delivery of appropriate solutions.
Senior Business Development Analyst
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited
04.2013 - 04.2014
- Participate in educating, marketing, and promoting new and existing products
- Process design of the End of Day Valuations involved for all derivatives markets
- Application of Dividends, Interest rate curves, Complex Corporate Actions, and Volatility skews within derivative evaluation calculations, Cando Basket, Exotic Cando Basket evaluations
- Develop and automate daily valuations applying international asset valuation standards
- Develop and execute a migration strategy of valuation books from excel and access databases to more modern platforms like SQL Server and .NET (C#)
- Liaise and manage IT and 3rd party suppliers with regards to business requirements
- Interpret written business requirements and technical specification documents
- Requirements analysis, Software Design, Integration Testing (or Validation), Deployment (or Installation), and Maintenance
- Develop the guidance necessary to flexibly evolve and optimize the business dimensions (people, process, technology) to achieve change
- Foster a broad understanding of technologies relevant to JSE business strategies within the automation team
- Understand in detail the relationships between products/services and their architecture
- Develop ETL pipelines, perform data analysis, and prepare raw data
- Build cubes and design data models using SSAS, SSIS, SSRS, and SQL Server
- Engage in processing raw data by cleansing, organizing, and transforming it to make it suitable for analysis purposes
- Implement Agile methodology (SCRUM).
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions, enhancing company offerings.
- Presented findings from data-driven analyses to senior management, influencing strategic decision-making processes.
TEAM LEAD: System Developer and Support Analyst
ABSA CAPITAL
07.2011 - 04.2013
- Performing requirements analysis
- Interpret written business requirements and technical specification documents
- Writing and testing code with development tools
- Creating operating manuals and documentation
- Lead the data migration plan, analysis, design, and build effort
- Providing user training and technical support
- Diagnosing and fixing bugs and system risks
- Collaborating with relevant stakeholders to rectify any discrepancies programmatically, to reconcile the bank statement
- Ensuring that production-related issues are being tracked and followed
- Proactively prevent future occurrence of Incidents, Problems, and errors by establishing root cause, with a strong emphasis on the use of ITIL standards
- Comparing Broker Dealer Accounting (BDA) data from the JSE with the bank transaction data to create checks and balances for accuracy and audit purposes
- Manage, facilitate, and drive the extraction criteria, data cleansing, object mapping, field mapping, and value mapping for the ETL process
- Responsible for cleansing, data mapping, and migration of data for analytics and decision making
- Understanding SSIS packages as well as the Data Migration Framework with Batch handling
- Working closely with reconciliation analysts if there are any discrepancies to programmatically reconcile the bank statement
- Manage, facilitate, and drive the filling in of the templates by the Business for the Construct process
- Facilitate Issue resolution where there are load errors
- Overseeing the successful roll-out of new and changed software and associated hardware and documentation
- Managing Stakeholders, analyzing and suggesting ways of improving business-aligned IT service quality
- Helping to plan system growth to handle business volume growths through implementing active monitoring of system performance and growth patterns
- Taking a view across platforms used to maintain availability
- Coordinating Change and DR test communication
- Day-to-day business application support and management for production systems - handling system issues, answering user queries, and monitoring applications to ensure maximum system uptime
- Ensuring that ABSA Capital standards are adhered to in order to minimize the number of changes causing incidents in production environments.
Intermediate Software Engineer
Acuo Technologies, Subsidiary of Reunert Limited
05.2011 - 07.2011
- Conducting elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders
- Interpret written business requirements and technical specification documents
- Perform coding to written technical specifications in various software languages
- Investigate, analyze, and document reported defects
- Developing existing programs by analyzing and identifying areas for modification
- Perform maintenance programming and correction of identified defects
- Working closely with other staff, such as project managers
- Create, document, and implement unit test plans, scripts, and test cases
- Create and maintain technical documentation using defined technical documentation templates
- Performs related duties as assigned.
- Developed scalable, efficient algorithms that improved overall application performance.
- Enhanced software performance by identifying and resolving coding inefficiencies.
- Participated in regular sprint planning sessions, ensuring alignment between project goals and engineering resources available.
- Implemented automated testing tools for increased efficiency in detecting bugs and other errors during development cycles.
C# Developer
Khanyisa Real Systems
03.2011 - 03.2011
- Interpret written business requirements and technical specification documents
- Perform coding to written technical specifications in various software languages
- Create, document, and implement unit test plans, scripts, and test harnesses
- SQL Server Development: Stored Procedures
- Test-driven development principles: Writing tests for all functions
- Agile Project Management: Sprint Planning, Daily stand-ups, use of burn-down chart and retrospectives (SCRUM)
- XP: Pair Programming.
Operations Coordinator
P.G. Bison, Subsidiary of Steinhoff International
10.2007 - 02.2010
- Designed the initial business processes for the Logistic Department
- Conducting elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders
- Continuous improvement of business processes in the department
- Trained employees to understand the business I.T
- System for future enhancement
- Responsible for all activities relating to stock movement
- Inbound logistics - Receiving, Checking, and Auditing
- Warehousing - Holding, Movement, and Control
- Outbound and Return logistics - Picking, Scheduling, and Return
- Coordinated all activities to achieve targets of customer satisfaction at the lowest operational costs
- Managed a team of between 26 people to 40 people.
Project Manager
Barnabas & Sons Construction
01.2006 - 10.2007
- Secured new projects for the order book - including making quotations for the projects, tendering
- Managed the projects and saw them through to completion
- Do payroll every two weeks
- Oversee health and safety matters on site
- Ensure a satisfactory teamwork operation for the effective execution.
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
- Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
- Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
- Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
- Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks.
Systems Analyst
UNICITY
02.2005 - 06.2005
- Analyzed their current system and implemented best business processes
- Conceptualized ideas and devised a blueprint for their integrated system
- Wrote up recommendations in a report to management on the way forward.
Education
MBA candidate -
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
Johannesburg, South Africa12.2024
Post Graduate Diploma in General Management -
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
Johannesburg, South Africa11.2023
Post Graduate Diploma in Management Practice -
University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
Cape Town, South Africa04.2023
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa12.2010
Skills
- Commercial mindset
- Leadership skills
- Technical & practical thinker
- Effective communication
- Dedicated innovator
- Complex problem solving
- Transformational Leader
- Operations Management
- Strategic Visioning
- Team Leadership
- Strategic Thinking
- Strategic Planning
- Trends Analysis
- Entrepreneurial and Innovative
- Problem-Solving
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Leadership and People Development
- Problem-solving abilities
- Analytical and Critical Thinker
Specialistskills
- C++
- Java
- C#
- JavaScript
- Visual Basic
- HTML
- Power BI
- Advanced Excel
- JSON
- XML
- Python
- Hadoop
- Azure
- SQL
- Oracle
- DB2
- Win SQL
- Microsoft SQL
- SSRS
- SSAS
- SSIS
- Agile scrum methodology
- Kanban Methodology
- Kimball Methodology
- DAMA
Personal Information
Title: Analysis and Project Management Specialist
References
Available on request
Work Preference
Work Type
Full TimePart TimeContract WorkGig WorkInternshipWork Location
On-SiteRemoteHybridImportant To Me
Company CultureLanguages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Timeline
Co-Founding Partner
Imbhasha Group and Kendisa Consortium
06.2023 - Current
Senior Business Intelligence Specialist/Manager
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited
07.2016 - 05.2023
Senior Data and Automation Analyst
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited
10.2014 - 06.2016
Senior Business Development Analyst
Johannesburg Stock Exchange Limited
04.2013 - 04.2014
TEAM LEAD: System Developer and Support Analyst
ABSA CAPITAL
07.2011 - 04.2013
Intermediate Software Engineer
Acuo Technologies, Subsidiary of Reunert Limited
05.2011 - 07.2011
C# Developer
Khanyisa Real Systems
03.2011 - 03.2011
Operations Coordinator
P.G. Bison, Subsidiary of Steinhoff International
10.2007 - 02.2010
Project Manager
Barnabas & Sons Construction
01.2006 - 10.2007
Systems Analyst
UNICITY
02.2005 - 06.2005
MBA candidate -
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
Post Graduate Diploma in General Management -
Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS)
Post Graduate Diploma in Management Practice -
University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Cape Town
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