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

• Initiative
• Innovation

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

• Initiative
• Innovation