Job Title: Specialist: Advanced Data Analytics
South Africa , Innovation Centre
Job Mission
Design and ensure implementation of advanced data analytics and programs to create and establish a practice of importing, cleaning, transforming, validating or modeling data with the purpose of understanding or making conclusions from the data for decision making purposes. Maintain data and/or maps that can be combined with geographically referenced data. To build a unified interface for MTN SA that has the capability to relate different types internal data to external data such as socioeconomic, demographic, administrative or political boundaries, land use, land cover, environmental, infrastructure, and transportation networks.
KPA Duties
Role Complexity: Requirements consolidation and data analytics • Determine data definition Language or Data Manipulation Language SQL commands, be responsible for improving data quality and for designing or presenting conclusions gained from analyzing data using statistical tools like Microsoft Excel, SAS • Contribute toward the delivery using cutting edge explorative technologies like Big Data. • Administer the delivery of GIS based decision making environment. • Meet with users to define data needs, project requirements, required outputs, or to develop applications. • Conduct Research to locate and obtain existing databases. • Gather, analyze, and integrate spatial data from staff and determine how best the information can be utlisied. • Compile data from a variety of sources including censuses, field observation. • Contribute toward building algorithms that assist in finding new insights and drive the strategic intent of the organisation. • Analyze spatial data for geographic statistics to incorporate into documents and reports. • Analyze relationships among varying types of data. • Present information to users and answer questions. • Utilise macro, micro as well as internal factors of an organistion to build the platform of predefined analytics as well as predictive modelling Task Complexity: • Responsibility towards understanding the focus areas of MTN and various business units. This would involve an in depth understanding of the business plans of various business entities and proactively identify advanced analytics that can help business achieve their objectives. • Interacting with various stakeholders across the business to understand the business complexities. • Identifying problems, opportunities and/or gaps in the current advanced analytics area • Interact with the technology team to attain automation of the entire process of advanced analytics. • Provide value added actionable insights and recommendations to the business around setting required processes for information sourcing and analytics. Supervisory / Leadership / Managerial Complexity: ? Business Reporting services play a critical role in providing guidance on the use of tools and technologies for effective and efficient organisation wide decision making. ? Interact closely with all the business units to proactively identify and entrench decision making solutions ? Evaluate current functional issues with existing and new decision making tools ? Create new and alternative ways to interpret business critical information, which thereby assist the development of decision making tools. ? Due to the matrix nature of the points of contact, strong team working and communication skills are required ? Manage multiple (internal) customer needs and relationship ? Maintain alignment to MTN IS Enterprise Architecture strategic direction
Requirements
• University Degree in Commerce or Marketing BCom, Business/Information Science Degree, B.Soc Sc. With business courses
? Approximately 3 to 4 years experience in delivering advanced analytics environment preferablely in the Telecomes industry ? Good communication skills ? Analytical Skills - ? Experience in the field of statistical and accturial sciences. ? Experience in data warehousing or other decision support / business intelligence environment ? Experience in packaging and presenting information ? Experience in structuring and defining organisation wide business critical information needs. ? Project management experience. ? Vendor management experience ? Relationship development and management expertise (advantage)
Knowledge: ? Knowledge of business decision making tools and information visualisation tools. ? Knowledge of business analytics ? Knowledge of telecommunications industry ? Knowledge of business disciplines ? Knowledge of project management Skills / physical competencies: ? Business requirement analysis ? High level database design experience in a major RDBMS ? Understanding of web technologies and application server environments ? Sound understanding of Data Warehousing methodologies ? Sound understanding of analytical tools ? Presentation and communication skills ? Strong interpersonal skills ? Negotiation skills ? Customer Service Orientation Behavioural qualities: • Self motivated and confident • Initiative and drive • Logical/ Analytical thinking and problem solving • Confidentiality and integrity • Assertiveness • Ability to handle pressure • Team player • Service orientated • Innovative • Inclusive nature
Applications close 2012-05-11
PHYSICAL ADDRESS
MTN Group Limited
Innovation Centre
216 14th Avenue
Fairlands
POSTAL ADDRESS
Private Bag 9955
Cresta
2118
South Africa
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