Mzoxolo Mbini

• Responsible for strategy and policy development of BI
• Understanding the Operations and Projects landscape
• Drafting and implementing organisation reports
• Stakeholder engagement
• Leading BI architecture
• Perform data analysis and analytics
• Responsible for project roll-outs
• Leading technical teams
• Drive legal and operational compliance
  

• Developed and implemented data governance policies and procedures.
• Developed and maintained data warehouses and data marts to support business operations.
• Deployed predictive analytics models to forecast future trends.
• Implemented business intelligence solutions to increase operational efficiency.
• Generated standard and custom reports to provide insights into business performance.
• Created dashboards to monitor and track key performance indicators.
• Provided technical support for troubleshooting analytics and reporting issues.

• Proactively work with business executives and various departmental heads across the business / geographies to provide advanced analytic data modeling systems.
• Work with developers and other functions for rapid data product development and automation within global bank projects.
• Work with key stakeholders (product/ segment heads) to ensure alignment of the objectives across business units and the action plans required to achieve the same.
• Design and launch innovative and complex analytic models, utilizing a blend of contemporary and traditional data mining technique, which he applied to both structured and unstructured data sets.
• Translate high level business requirements/problems into sound and comprehensive analytical framework through: appropriate usage of advanced statistical / mathematical techniques and responsible for successful delivery of the solutions.
• Lead the development of big data capabilities and utilization as well as the coordination. Should also be a good team player of who can work cross-functionally with other groups.
• Responsible for delivery of high quality projects on time and budget.
  

• Gather, explore and analyse data to develop models and scorecards that will support other business units in their daily functions.
• Model validation and deployment of validated models.
• Model monitoring to measure the effectiveness of existing models.
• Model recalibration to ensure that the models are aligned to the latest population and data distribution.
• Lead the Data Science and Modelling team to create models through advanced analytics and machine learning techniques.
• Train other team members and establish a strong back up system to ensure Business Continuity.
• Drive data driven recommendations to help clients to achieve strategic goals.
• Deployment of new versions of models, and continuous updates of existing models in accordance to data updates/changes and to align to client's specifications.
• Recommend process improvements that will help Data Science and Analytics team deliver tasks more efficiently and timely.
• Perform and deliver tasks that will bring positive impact to the departmental and country KPl's.

• Plan and implement the overall analytics and business intelligence strategy
• Conduct financial analysis on strategic alternatives, particularly the impact on shareholder value
• Act as the liaison between technical and functional resources to deliver a stable and highly available reporting platform
• Work with business owners to identify information needs and develop applicable reporting
• Develop effective presentations on complex ideas that can be communicated in a simple and straight forward manner
• Collaborate with a team of BI and analytical professionals that provide support for global company initiatives across key functional areas including marketing, sales, supply chain and retail organizations
• Assist in partnering with senior business leaders to drive an integrated BI strategy and shape opinions regarding BI solutions
• Establish standards that address the ETL process, how it flows, what tools will be used, the integration process, walk throughs and inspections and testing procedures
• Assist with the adoption and change management of the current and new BI & analytics efforts within the company
• Develop analytic skills and stay ahead of innovation and trends in the field of Business Intelligence & Analytics recommending best practices
• Assist with developing strategies to drive customer engagement and increase customer share of wallet including cost/benefit analysis, financial justification, program design and execution
• Hire, train, and supervise the analytics team and ensure that the team meets the reporting and analytical needs of the business users

• Leading pre-sales activities, assessments, and the delivery of the solution.
• Establishing and maintaining deal focused trusted relationships with clients and partners to scope, solution, propose, close and deliver complex Business Analytics projects.
• Business case development, project and program management, business development, proposal writing and management.
• Hands-on development of deliverables utilizing formal structured methodology.
• Assisting in the growth and development of the Business Analytics Industrial practice providing hands-on leadership and direction, contributing to the growth of intellectual capital in the industry and supporting the development of other consultants through mentoring and/or coaching activities.
• Ability to initiate and support demand creation activities within existing and new accounts.
• Provide overall leadership in the quality and execution of consulting engagements.
• Manage multiple, complex sales and delivery engagements simultaneously, oversee large program teams, and collaborate cross-functionally.
• Estimate complex program/projects - from a solution, resource needs, and budget perspective.
• Motivate teams (both internal and external) and build alignment around goals and objectives.

• Work as the primary interface between the Business and Technology in order to analyze and validate published Business Requirements and turn them into functional solutions.
• Define, analyze, evaluate and design large and complex solutions to meet technology and business needs.
• Translate business requirements into specific functional solutions, process flows, data flows, message data mapping, User & System Interface designs, Business Rule definitions, Use Case specifications, software and infrastructure component definition, etc.
• Collaborate with Systems Architect(s) and SMEs to develop high-level solution designs.
• Prepare Functional Design deliverables by analyzing requirements, constructing diagrams, studying system capabilities, and writing specifications.
• Responsible for coordinating the technical solution across several technology teams in a matrix organization.
• When applicable, interface with third-party vendors during design to ensure coverage of the business needs and compliant integration to meet our requirements.
• Apply existing guidelines and procedures to make varied decisions within a department.
• Use sound judgment and experience to solve moderately complex problems.
• Use some independent judgment to identify problems and recommend solutions.
• Understand when to escalate and/or collaborate with other teams to overcome hurdles.
• Broad/versatile knowledge of debit and credit products and services, and the business and technical processes used to enable those products and services.
• Understanding of infrastructure engineering with baseline knowledge of application architecture, integration architecture, security and data architecture.
• Knowledge of requirements engineering and familiarity with at least one software development lifecycle methodology.
• Baseline understanding of project management.
• Ability to independently facilitate complex data gathering and design collaboration meetings, as well as JAD sessions and Design walkthroughs.

• Take responsibility for business and systems analysis work on projects.
• Facilitate workshops and extract the business requirements from the various user groups and document those accurately.
• Convert high-level requirements into functional specifications that will form the basis for technical development.
• Identification of opportunities for applications to integrate with other applications currently used.
• Identification of new opportunities for enhancing/creating applications.
• Using innovation, business process awareness and technology to facilitate new user requirements.
• Investigating and resolving operational issues logged by operational areas.
• Interacting with the users of the systems.
• Specification of system functionality, using IDEF0, UML/USE Cases.
• Identification of supporting business processes to ensure successful initiatives.
• Full responsibility for implementation of initiatives and concepts.
• Liaison with other divisions and relationship building with other operational areas.
• Project Co-ordination.
• Implementation and Testing.
• Writing Use Cases.
• Writing and executing Test Plans.
• Modeling business processes

• Collaborated with project managers to select ambitious, but realistic coding milestones on pre-release software project development.
• Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
• Revised, modularized and updated old code bases to modern development standards, reducing operating costs, and improving functionality.
• Integrated constructive programs into cohesive product.
• Led version control efforts for organization, employing public and open source repositories.
• Architected data engineering pipelines to support machine learning performance.