- Johannesburg
- Salary: R45 000.00 - R50 000.00 Per Month (Negotiable)
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Accounting IT Market Research
- Reference: DA1
Vacancy Details
Employer: Careers In Motion
A Data Analyst is a professional who uses analytical, statistical and programming skills to collect and analyse large data sets and provide company insights. They develop data-driven solutions explicitly tailored toward the needs of an organization.
Responsibilities would include:
- Extract-, Transform-, Load data
- Undertaking data collection, data pre-processing, data engineering, feature selection and exploratory data analysis
- Interpreting data, analysing results using statistical techniques
- Building models to address business problems
- Presenting information using data visualization techniques
- Maintain and develop dashboards using business intelligence tools example Power Bi and Tableau
- Maintain and develop datasets on our BI Microsoft SQL server
- Manage a team of data analysts and monitoring performance
- Team yearly and quarterly KPI reviews
- Lead successful teams
Key Duties:
- Identify valuable data sources and automate collection processes
- Undertake pre-processing of structured and unstructured data
- Analyse large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns
- Build predictive models and machine-learning algorithms
- Combine models through ensemble modelling
- Evaluate model performance and use hyperparameter tuning or feature selection to improve models
- Implement object serialization (Storing variables and their values)
- Ensure model reproduce ability (environment dependencies and versions)
- Present information using data visualization techniques
- Propose solutions and strategies to business challenges
- Collaborate with engineering and product development teams
- Implement and drive new projects/models within the business
- Identify areas of improvement within the business and by involving the necessary personnel with the relevant skills, proposing the required solutions
- To provide instruction and guidance to other personnel within the Solutions team and company, and ultimately facilitating the achievement of goals
- Conduct and lead feasibility studies on various internal and external ventures
- Presentation of key findings to clients and the business
- Ensure the solutions team remains informed of the technologies and capabilities available in the market
- Keep Management informed of trends within the industry and business
- Offer guidance and support to the Business Analysts
Candidate Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
- Proven experience as a Manager/Leader in similar role
- Understanding of the logistics industry
- Proven experience as a Data Scientist or Data Analyst
- Experience in data mining
- Understanding of machine-learning and operations research
- Knowledge of SQL and Python
- Experience using business intelligence tools (e.g. Tableau and Power Bi)
- Analytical mind and business acumen
- Strong math skills (e.g. statistics, algebra)
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Excellent communication and presentation skills (Visual story telling)
- BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field; graduate degree in Data Science or another quantitative field is preferred
- Valid Code 08 driver’s license and own reliable transport
Technical Qualifications and Skills (Course/ Certificates and experience):
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Power BI Desktop
- Power Bi online
- Tableau Desktop
- Tableau Server and Online
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Python (Programming language)
- Experience with Pandas’ library - Python Data Analysis Library
- Data Analytics
- Data Science
- Experience with Machine Learning (Regression and classification)
- Project Management
- Information Technology: Systems development
- Lean Six Sigma
- Business Management
- Leadership
- Microsoft 365
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