BI and Reporting Specialist 

SUMMARY:
A leading Short term insurance company has a position for a BI and Reporting Specialist. Must have Short-term insurance industry!

POSITION INFO:
POSITION  : BI AND REPORTING SPECIALIST
AREA         : JOHANNESBURG CENTRAL
SALARY     : MARKET RELATED

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:
Responsible for improving profitability by supporting the Company''s IT Strategy through business intelligence, reporting creation and dashboard development and in turn to support in their decision making. Responsible for Report development, Dashboard solution and Views creation. 

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:

• CompletedDegree in BSc Computer Science / Informatics/ Data Analytics/ Statistics/ Information Management or any other related 
• Short-term Insurance knowledge is a key ESSENTIAL requirement and NON NEGOTIABLE
• Min. 5 years’ in MIS / Business Intelligence (BI), Reporting, analytical or quantitative environment within the Insurance and/or Financial services industry  
• Min. 5 years’ experience in the creation of MI, BI and Reporting, as well as Customer segmentation, product, sales, scorecard and measurement analysis.
• Experience in the use of insights, analytics and information visualisation tools such as:
• Microsoft SQL Integration Services, Microsoft SQL Analysis Services, Microsoft SQL Reporting Services, Advanced Microsoft PowerBI, Qlikview, R / Pythion Programming languages, Informatica (Power-center)
• SSRS/SSAS/SSIS, ETL (Extract, Transform, Load), Report Builder
• Microsoft Business Intelligence certification – advantageous 
• Knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices will be advantageous
• Knowledge of Cloud services preferably Azure though AWS will also be advantageous 

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Business as Usual BI:
Sources data and consults with various stakeholders as needed, to ensure the availability and accuracy of data required for the development of the necessary BI and the development of
standard reports and bespoke reports as required by the business. Develop, implements, and oversee post implementation support and maintenance and BI tools and solutions to solve applicable BI business challenges.  

Reporting:
Enable the provision of the required data and information for further analytics and insights required. Create useful and accessible reports and dashboard to help business in decision making. Oversee the collection, analysis, and reporting of sales related data performed by the Junior BI & Reporting Analysts. Take the lead in development of new business reports and analysis tools. Ensure the month-end reporting process is efficient and delivered as per the agreed timelines 

Regulatory Reporting:
Reports to the Regulator and is responsible for the timely and accurate preparation and filing of various regulatory reports in compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements. Required to represent the Company in various regulatory forums, to keep abreast on the essential regulatory requirements from a short-term insurance reporting perspective 

Business Intelligence:
Leverages software tools to transform data into useful information, by applying intelligence on the information and presenting the findings in reports, summaries, dashboards, graphs, charts to provide users with detailed intelligence about the state of business 

Data Governance:
Ensure by working closely with the Data Governance & Data Quality data stream to ensure that the quality and the integrity of the data used for reporting can be trusted, by adhering to the Data Governance principles 

Business rule definition:
Ensure that business intelligence & reporting business rules are well defined, to minimise confusion. Ensure that all data rules align with business requirements and are aligned to the Company’s BU strategies. 

Data Extraction and validation:
Ensure that all necessary validations are in place and that data is reconciled through the data value chain. 
 
Stakeholder management:
Take ownership of escalated complaints or queries and offer possible solution to stakeholders / clients and ensure all are resolved and feedback given to relevant parties.  


Should you feel that you meet all the minimum requirements for the role please email an updated CV to:
sabera.rehman@------

Please note that if you have not received a response within 7 days of submitting your application that your application was unsuccessful. However, please keep a lookout on our website, www.------ for available positions which may be inline with your career aspirations.

 

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