Business Intelligence Analyst: BluNova

Blue Label Telecoms

  • Sandton, Johannesburg
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 30 days ago
About The CompanyBluNOVA is the data consolidating, insight generating and decision-making business unit within SA Telecoms giant Blue Labels Telecoms (BLT), a company founded by Mark and Brett Levy in 2001 to bridge the gap in South Africa's economic inequality allowing everyone to interact and transact equally.BluNova is responsible for aggregating data originating from multiple companies within the Blue Label group and therefore holds a massive amount of telco and digital transactional voucher data. BluNOVA helps the Group and key partners grow through unique predictive algorithms. We deliver automated decisions on actionable, growth insights. Further, BluNOVA is the industry's aspiration for innovation, and is considered to be in the business is building businesses developing new data-driven digital business opportunities such as BluAdvance and AltBureau.BluAdvance, born out of BluNOVA is a cloud-enabled digital platform designed to provide product and cash-equivalent advances to eligible South African consumers swiftly and efficiently when they need it most. The debut service is Electricity Advances, which addresses the fundamental need for access to electricity across South Africa.AltBureau, also born out of BluNOVA is an innovative data bureau utilising Alternative Data, we offer insights into the transactional habits of 36 million South Africans, encompassing 68 million mobile numbers. Our platform is designed for high-volume yet remains efficient, easily accessible and cost-effective, delivering services ranging from risk assessment and credit scoring to micro-lending solutions, fraud detection, and enhancing marketing strategies.Across the BluNOVA association of companies, we leverage scalable AWS cloud technologies to deploy our solutions, with a strong emphasis on automation. Our data analysis is performed in a Snowflake, DataBricks and PowerBI and uses Matillion for ELT pipelines while our Decisioning is done in the world class FICO Cloud decision engine.At BluNOVA, we’re creating an environment that nurtures great thinkers. Our workplace is a collaborative environment that feeds of the thrill of innovation.Benefits of working at BluNova:We work on the most unique, challenging and thrilling use cases.Our work assignments deliver social good while contributing to economic growth.We offer a unique cloud native architecture based on AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, Matillion, PowerBI and FICO????Our employees get rewarded in recognition of their efforts????We create a fun-filled environment where people feel passionate, safe, valued and cared for. We treat each other with respect and operate with authenticity and integrity!??‍????Our employees' physical, mental, emotional & financial health is one of our priorities. We promote a healthy, balanced lifestyle by bringing various healthy initiatives to the workplace.????We encourage and promote social and teamwork relationships among our employees through frequent social events.????Annual leave days to take a well-deserved break????We offer competitive compensation that rewards high performance.We are based in Capital Hill in Morningside, contact us for more information on our company, offerings or partners, send an email to BluNovaInfo@blts.co.za or call 011 523 3000Job PurposeSupport business and strategic decisions, such as decisions about the future of services and the direction that Jisc takes
Support conversations with stakeholders, such as government, funding bodies and interest groups which will lead to highlighting areas of possible future work and sector trends
Enhance external reporting, to both members and funders, by allowing us to provide more detailed and meaningful figures on usage and trends
Provide timely and accurate information to users in a way that is user-friendly, usable and digestible
Allow more users across Jisc to find new ways to utilise their data to the benefit of Jisc and its membersRESPONSIBILITIESDesign and Development
  • Evaluates internal and external customers’ needs and abilities in order to provide appropriate solutions
  • Develops and writes business requirements for the design of solutions/reports
  • Identifies and provides input to new technology opportunities that will impact enterprise-wide BI systems
  • Advise generally on the potential for data use across the business, and also to make colleagues aware of the limitations of datasets and what decision-making that they can and cannot provide evidence for
  • Explores data and discovers patterns, meaningful relationships, anomalies and trends
  • Designs “views” and custom reports
  • Researches business problems and creates models that help analyze and inform these business problems
  • Develops best practices for report/dashboard deployments
  • Ensure that integrated data and ETL processes provide correct data which is of value and able to be processed.
  • Analysis, design, development, implementation, maintenance and system testing of Information systems.
  • Conduct research
Business Analysis
  • Develop internal business intelligence reports - including interactive business intelligence reports, strategic management reports and ad hoc reports - on a prioritised basis
  • Carry out data modelling and build scenarios to allow decision support
  • Performs analyses for a wide range of requests using data in different formats and from various platforms
  • Providing regular analysis and interpretation of data and trends to support decision making by the leadership team, including text, graphics and other statistical representations
  • Carry out detailed projects and studies, sometimes in collaboration with external consultants
  • Work closely with product managers and their team to identify performance
  • information that would help them, and to identify opportunities for using data in managing their operations effectively
  • Recommends quality metrics and ensures quality metrics are documented and tracked; creates data quality tickets as needed
  • Designs and delivers end-user training and training material
Self-Management
  • Set an example through personal quality and productivity standards and ways of working with others.
  • Demonstrate consistent application of internal procedures. Plan and prioritise, demonstrating abilities to manage competing demands.
  • Demonstrate abilities to anticipate and manage change. Demonstrate flexibility in balancing achievement of own objectives with abilities to understand and respond to organisational and team needs
  • Business Requirements Identification
  • Support collection of business requirements using a variety of methods such as interviews, document analysis, and workflow analysis to express requirements clearly and succinctly
Behavioural Competencies
  • Manages Complexity
  • Optimizes Work Processes
  • Ensures Accountability
  • Plans and Aligns
  • Action Oriented
  • Decision Quality
  • Business Insight
  • Cultivates Innovation
  • Nimble Learning
Skills
  • Data Collection and Analysis
  • Computer Skills
  • Action Planning
  • Analyze Alternatives and Recommend Solutions
  • Assessment
  • Business Requirements Analysis
  • Enterprise Readiness Assessment
  • Perform Gap Analysis
  • Planning and Organizing
  • Project Quality Management
  • Project Risk and Issue Management
  • Requirements Elicitation and Facilitation
  • Verbal Communication
  • Adaptive Mindset
  • Analyze Current State/AS-IS State
  • Business Case Contribution
  • Commercial Acumen
  • Compliance Management
  • Customer and Market Analysis
  • Data Control
  • Database Administration
  • Define Future State/TO-BE State
  • Document and Model User Requirements
  • Prioritizing
  • Project Change Management
  • Project Cost and Budget Management
  • Project Estimating
  • Project Scope Management
  • Project Testing
  • Requirements Traceability and Management
  • Review and Reporting
  • Validate Requirements
  • Verify Requirements
Education
  • Matric
  • Related Degree
Experience
  • Experienced practitioner able to work unsupervised (13 months to 3 years)

Blue Label Telecoms

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