MI & BI Consultant
Absa
08.2013 - Current
Current Job Type : Permanent
Current Job Level: AVP - Permanent Assistant Vice President in the Banking sector Johannesburg, South Africa (Gauteng)
Current Remuneration: R 665 000.00
Medical Aid, Pension Fund, Profit Share
Highest Education: Junior Diploma: Bookkeeping
Competencies:
- Excellent work ethic and precise attention to detail.
- Analytical and logical personality type.
- Time management skills with the ability to prioritize deliverables and manage stakeholder expectations, multitask, and perform well under pressure.
- Ability to take initiative and to take ownership of projects.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Ability to communicate simply and effectively and work well in a team.
- Ability to share ideas, listen and take on board others' ideas.
- Adapting and responding to change.
- Fast learner who takes pride in my work with willingness and desire to learn and grow.
- Administration.
- Customer Excellence.
- Digital familiarity.
- Enabling team success.
- Leading People.
- Openness to change.
- Planning and organizing.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Analysis & streamlining of existing MI processes.
- Enhance existing reporting and provide new reporting to identify issues that may result in risks or operational incidents.
- Transforming data into meaningful MI for analysis & effective decision making.
- Identify new and utilize existing reporting tools to enhance and improve MI delivery.
- Provisioning data to work towards end-to-end automated reporting.
- Document process flows for alO MI processes.
- Automation of processes that support BAU and reporting.
- SQL & SSIS knowledge share, mentorship, collaboration & enhance teamwork.
- Address ad hoc requests as required.
- Develop monitoring solutions to identify gaps within existing reporting and data feeds.
- Maintain data tables SQL environment, best practices, and standards to ensure new projects are built towards optimization, automation and user-friendly standards.
- Be the single point of reference / provider for all stakeholder MI requirements.
- Automation & Handover of all BAU run activities to the Run Team.
- Deliver BAU within SLA.
- Understand all MI requests communicated. Update Jira Kanban dashboard with all the tasks & requirements on a weekly basis to ensure the tasks are available for the weekly prioritisation sessions to be prioritised.
- Be aware of and agree stakeholder priorities, communicate, and agree priority with the stakeholder to make sure that developers have capacity to deliver the solution according to the agreed time.
- Proactive communication on progress and completion of MI requests.
- Exco / Manco representation.
- Prepare accurate and quality MI business performance packs.
- Understand the link between business outputs and key performance drivers.
- Utilise management information (MI) innovatively.
- Analyse performance of the business and deliver only relevant information.
- Compile monthly, weekly, and ad hoc reports as agreed with the stakeholder.
- Ensure availability of information to support the business objectives & ensure delivery to the high standards expected from the business.
- Provide MI for audit requests.
- Communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to deal with senior colleagues.
- Develop and maintain the SBU MI plans.
- Check all existing and new reports for accuracy and data integrity.
- Provide guidance to the team on methods to achieve world class standards of efficiency and service, continually striving to enhance existing processes.
- Support key initiatives and deliver results through an Agile workflow.
- Establish working relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
- Network internally and externally to better understand market trends.
- Analytical, numerical skills and a keen eye for detail.
- Planning and organisational skills.
- Ability to understand broader business issues.
- Invest time and effort in own development – through performance development process, training, networking, and seeking feedback.
