About the position
Job Purpose:
The purpose of this position is to manage and develop a central data source for Business Intelligence across the company.
Key Performance Areas
System development and management
- Plans and develop a single automated platform for all Business Intelligence across the company.
- Analyzes business requirements and ensures the database platform is stable, functional, and available.
- Equips all operations to utilize the system and interpret the information it provides.
- Documents all system processes, policies and procedures related to databases and statistical information ensuring standardisation across the company.
Reporting
- Develops and automates reports that indicate the company’s organisations performance.
- Creates reports which facilitate decision-making for the company.
- Facilitates the process of information analysis and report development for the business units.
- Identifies best practices in report design and automation.
- Researches business intelligence tools that are appropriate for the company
- Provides business intelligence support to enable Business Improvement
People Management
Leadership
- Leads by example in living the values of the organisation.
- Ensures the department is fully equipped to handle the workload and distribute workflow.
- Coaches to ensure a full understanding of consequences of errors.
- Creates an environment that fosters teamwork and co-operation amongst team members.
- Creates awareness of the company’s strategic objectives and their alignment to the department and company objectives.
- Communicate effectively, building and maintaining relationships.
- Ensures consistent compliance to company policies and procedures, corporate governance, and relevant legislation.
Attraction & Selection
- Ensures appropriate staffing and action accordingly.
- Identifies need for creation of position and forward recommendation to direct manager and HR
- Selects and places candidates in terms of agreed recruitment and selection process.
Retention
- Develops and empowers people, recognizing and rewarding value-added performance.
Training and Development
- Continually strives to up-skill and motivate staff through effective leadership, mentoring, coaching, performance improvement and the creation and implementation of individual development plans.
- Monitors implementation of training needs as per individual development plans
Career Pathing and Succession Planning
- Identifies, manages, and develops talent.
Performance Management
- Sets direct reports quantitative and qualitative performance objectives and ensure individual performance objectives are in place and reviewed to meet organisational and individual needs.
- Ensures bi-annual performance reviews take place with direct reports, identifies poor performance and takes corrective action.
Key Internal and External Relationships
Internal
- Business Unit Heads - Collaboration on delivery of development requirements
External
- Company Client base - Delivery of Requirement
Organogram
Head of IT &Facilities
This position
Competencies
Knowledge
- BCom Information Systems or BSc Computer Science
- 5-8 years Business Intelligence design experience including 2 yrs Data warehousing automation experience and 3 yrs SQL experience
Skills
- Analysis
- Business writing (L3)
- Knowledge sharing (L3)
- Technical expertise (L4)
- Concern for excellence
- Influence (L3)
- Problem Solving(L4)
- Leadership (L2)
Attributes
Job Purpose:
The purpose of this position is to manage and develop a central data source for Business Intelligence across the company.
Key Performance Areas
System development and management
- Plans and develop a single automated platform for all Business Intelligence across the company.
- Analyzes business requirements and ensures the database platform is stable, functional, and available.
- Equips all operations to utilize the system and interpret the information it provides.
- Documents all system processes, policies and procedures related to databases and statistical information ensuring standardisation across the company
Reporting
- Develops and automates reports that indicate the company’s organisations performance.
- Creates reports which facilitate decision-making for the company.
- Facilitates the process of information analysis and report development for the business units.
- Identifies best practices in report design and automation.
- Researches business intelligence tools that are appropriate for the company
- Provides business intelligence support to enable Business Improvement
People Management
Leadership
- Leads by example in living the values of the organisation.
- Ensures the department is fully equipped to handle the workload and distribute workflow.
- Coaches to ensure a full understanding of consequences of errors.
- Creates an environment that fosters teamwork and co-operation amongst team members.
- Creates awareness of the company’s strategic objectives and their alignment to the department and company objectives.
- Communicate effectively, building and maintaining relationships.
- Ensures consistent compliance to company policies and procedures, corporate governance, and relevant legislation.
Attraction & Selection
- Ensures appropriate staffing and action accordingly.
- Identifies need for creation of position and forward recommendation to direct manager and HR
- Selects and places candidates in terms of agreed recruitment and selection process.
Retention
- Develops and empowers people, recognizing and rewarding value-added performance.
Training and Development
- Continually strives to up-skill and motivate staff through effective leadership, mentoring, coaching, performance improvement and the creation and implementation of individual development plans.
- Monitors implementation of training needs as per individual development plans
Career Pathing and Succession Planning
- Identifies, manages, and develops talent.
Performance Management
- Sets direct reports quantitative and qualitative performance objectives and ensure individual performance objectives are in place and reviewed to meet organisational and individual needs.
- Ensures bi-annual performance reviews take place with direct reports, identifies poor performance and takes corrective action.
Key Internal and External Relationships
Internal
- Business Unit Heads - Collaboration on delivery of development requirement
External
- Company Client base - Delivery of Requirement
Organogram
Head of IT &Facilities
This position
Competencies
Knowledge
- BCom Information Systems or BSc Computer Science
- 5-8 years Business Intelligence design experience including 2 yrs Data warehousing automation experience and 3 yrs SQL experience
Skills
- Analysis
- Business writing (L3)
- Knowledge sharing (L3)
- Technical expertise (L4)
- Concern for excellence
- Influence (L3)
- Problem Solving(L4)
- Leadership (L2
Attributes
Desired Skills:
- Degree
- 5-8 years Business Intelligence design
- 2 yrs Data warehousing automation
- 3 yrs SQL experience
