Job Description

Our client, Franchisee for a well-known Fast-food brand, is looking for a BI & Reporting Analyst to join their team.
Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree or National Diploma (Commerce or IT) from an accredited university or college
• 2+ years' Data mining experience
• 2+ years in a reporting/analyst role or related field
• Required experience & skills:

• Experience in FMCG
• Experience with Power BI / SQL
• Experience with Point-of-Sale Systems (e.g. GAAP)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively and work as part of a team
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work with stakeholders to assess potential risks
• Ability to analyse existing tools and databases and provide software solution recommendations
• Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical, lay terms
• High-level experience in methodologies and processes for managing large scale databases
• Demonstrated experience in handling large data sets and relational databases
• Understanding of addressing and metadata standards
• High-level written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities:

• Weekly & monthly reporting to Franchisor, Finance and Operations Departments
• Use statistical methods to analyse data and generate useful business reports
• Work with management team to create a prioritized list of needs for each business segment
• Identify and recommend new ways to save money by streamlining business processes
• Use data to create models that depict trends in the consumer population as a whole
• Work with departmental managers to outline the specific data needs for each business method analysis project
• Provide quality assurance of imported data
• Commissioning and decommissioning of data sets
• Processing confidential data and information according to guidelines
• Helping develop reports and analysis.
• Maintain Power BI reports by sourcing data sets from POS, using SQL
• Managing and designing the reporting environment, including data sources, security, and metadata
• Supporting the data warehouse in identifying and revising reporting requirements
• Supporting initiatives for data integrity and normalization
• Generating reports from single or multiple systems
• Troubleshooting the reporting database environment and reports
• Evaluating changes and updates to source production systems
• Training end users on new reports and dashboards
• Providing technical expertise on data storage structures, data mining, and data cleansing
• Ad hoc reporting

More information about the role:

• As the BI Analyst you will work with large amounts of data: facts, figures, and number crunching.
• You will need to source data from POS database and process to presentable format
• You will need to see through the data and analyse it to find conclusions.
• You will often be called to present your findings, or translate the data into an understandable document
• You will need to write and speak clearly, easily communicating complex ideas.
• You will look at the numbers, trends, and data and come to new conclusions based on their findings.
• You will have to be vigilant in your analysis and pay attention to detail come to correct conclusions.
• You will need math skills to estimate and process numerical data.
• Ad hoc reporting forms a major part of this role.
• You will report to the IT/Digital Lead, and expect regular requests for information from the COO, CFO & CEO.