Senior Decision Support Analyst (Cape Town)
| Remuneration: | Market related |
| Location: | Cape Town |
| Job level: | Senior |
| Type: | Permanent |
| Reference: | #CF-530 |
| Company: | Capfin |
Job description
Capfin is a data driven financial services company, with a strong focus on digital migration and enhancing our data and advanced analytics capabilities. We have an exciting position in the Analytics department for an analytical person with a passion for business analytics and driving business value by using data, decision support tools and advanced analytical solutions.
This role is in the Account Management Analytics team that is responsible to drive business value in the Payment, Collections, Finance and Recoveries business areas.
If you are an analytical, business minded, passionate and collaborative person who loves driving meaningful change and seeing the results and are not afraid to be challenged and challenging others and want to be part of a world class analytics team, this role is for you.
Requirements
Key Performance Areas:
Business Analytics
- Work closely with business stakeholders to drive business efficiency and enhancing business decisions by using data.
- Monitor and analyse real time and historic data to identify trends, issues and/or opportunities.
- Identify opportunities for advanced analytics and automated decision solutions.
- Enhance the use of data, reports and analytical tools for decision making by educating and influencing stakeholders
Decision Support Solutions
- Work closely with business to identify opportunities for monitoring and decision support solutions.
- Gather requirements, design and implement decision support solutions.
- Work closely with data team and information and analytics architect to implement data solutions in the data warehouse.
- Work with data science team to develop appropriate predictive analytics solutions.
- Work with IT, business and data science to implement embedded automated decision solutions.
New Business Functionality
- Ensure data and analytics requirements are considered in new business solutions.
- Do impact assessment on changes to existing functionality.
Project management
- Effective planning and prioritising of own work.
- Provide progress feedback to business stakeholders and line management.
Teamwork
- Contribute proactively to all aspects related to the optimal performance and wellbeing of a small analyst team.
- Coach and mentor junior team members.
Stakeholder management
- Effective internal stakeholder management within the Analytics team.
- Effectively represent the data and analytics team in the organisation. Listen, influence, collaborate, communicate in a way that enhances the efficiency and decision-making capabilities of the organisation.
Qualifications:
- Degree in finance / mathematics / statistics / actuarial / business management / engineering or related discipline
Experience
- 5+ years in an analytical role, preferably in a formal analytics or business intelligence environment
Functional Competencies:
- Advanced Excel
- Data analysis
- Data visualisation
- Financial services knowledge, specifically personal or unsecured loans
- Collection business process knowledge
- Financial background
- Decision Support Principles & Best practice
- Microsoft business intelligence technologies (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS, SQL Server) (advantageous)
- Data warehouse, business intelligence and decision support concepts (advantageous)
- Advanced data modelling (advantageous)
- Statistical techniques (advantageous)
- Analytical tools (e.g. SAS, R) (advantageous)
Behavioural Competencies:
- Information gathering and problem analysis
- Applying professional / specialist / technical expertise
- Creating and innovating
- Quality & Detail orientation
- Planning and organising
- Presenting and Communicating information
The closing date for applications is 13 June 2019
Posted on 18 Jul 07:45
Capfin
Capfin is the South African brand of the global Southern View Finance (SVF) group of companies, based in the northern suburbs of the Western Cape. The SVF Group of companies conducts an international unsecured lending business, offering technologically driven, responsible and friendly loan products to the mass market.
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