Finance Data Analyst – (Contract)
Posted on 2025-02-16
Job Summary
The Finance Data Analyst is a skilled individual with a mature understanding of Data Management best practices and recognition of data as an asset. In understanding and using data appropriately, solutions are designed and built to assist stakeholders with producing reports and dashboards that will enable informed business decisions. This role requires a committed, analytical individual with excellent communication skills. An accounting qualification with experience working in a finance function will be required for this role.
Finance / Accounting / Data analysis
Finance data reconciliations
Update Finance Data mappings
Identify gaps in the data
Liaise with the business to get the data signed off
Consolidate data mappings to work more efficiently
Stakeholder management and communication skills
Execution to data analysis methodology
Applying and anticipating data expertise
Data Impact Assessment
Process and data integrity
Project Skills
Strong Analytical Skills
Skills and Qualification
Insurance or Financial Services experience or Finance/financial reporting processes and systems
Financial accounting / Financial reporting capability
Group consolidation and finance data preferable.
Finance experience & background
Exposure to a complex organisational structure at Group level
CA(SA) / CIMA beneficial
Technologies: SQL, PowerBI, Data Warehousing, Tabular cubes
Advantageous: Tertiary qualification in Information Systems, or related field
Advantageous: Analytical and BI experience in financial reporting
Competencies:
Build trusted relationship with stakeholders and ensure that business challenges, needs, and processes are understood
Gather, clarify, and document data and reporting requirements
Perform data profiling and analysis to ensure thorough understanding of data, relationships, and quality
Independently or collaboratively design data models to meet business requirement
Produce clear and comprehensive analysis and design artefacts such as data flows, source to target mappings, data models, sample reports/dashboards
Build proof-of-concept or mock-ups to illustrate functionality and/or output
Engage with technical team and support the development process
Test and monitor testing to ensure quality final delivery
Build output e.g. Power BI reports and/or dashboards
Prepare and present regular progress updates to stakeholders
Follow Data Management best practices, particularly ensuring Data Governance is in place
Kindly regard your application as unsuccessful if you have not heard from the agency within 2 weeks.
Finance Data Analyst – (Contract) position available in Western Cape, Cape Town. This job position was posted by PM Connection. The job has been posted as a premium ad on 2025-02-16 at 13:01:11 in the Finance Accounting category
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