The South African Revenue Service (SARS)
Job Purpose
To be responsible for importing, cleansing, transforming, validating, aggregating and analysing data from various sources with the purpose of making conclusions about industry trends and best practices. To analyse and provide expert advice with regards to data analytics to achieve business objectives.
Education and Experience
Minimum Qualification & Experience Required
Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science or Statistics with 8 – 10 years’ experience in a data analysis environment, of which 3 – 4 years at operational specialist level.
Alternative #
Senior Certificate (NQF 4) with 15 years’ experience in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science or Statistics environment, of which 3 – 4 years at a junior specialist level
Minimum Functional Requirements
Basic Data Visualization in Microsoft Power BI & Microsoft Fabric
Business Intelligence Methodologies
Database Knowledge
Microsoft skills (Proficient in)– i.e. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
Advantageous Skills
Intermediate (practical application) Data warehouse knowledge.
Intermediate (practical application) Programming Skills – i.e. SQL, and/or Python, R, etc.
Job Outputs:
Process
Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures and associated area’s practice.
Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintaining databases, applying the knowledge of data extraction, transformation and business modelling.
Constantly monitor the integrity and quality of business data and processes to identify deficiencies and facilitate process improvements.
Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge and experience to identify and recommend tactical solutions to defined risks and problems in practices.
Conduct assessments and use information to advise, make recommendations and facilitate improvement.
Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
Note potential problems and obstacles, accumulate supporting data and initiate actions to prevent or overcome predicted problems as may be identified.
Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives, best practice implementation solutions.
Research and support workable recommendations/solutions that meet business needs through information analysis.
Review the effectiveness of related approaches and methodologies by conducting research, and best practice benchmarking initiatives.
Translate top-down policy in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
Undertake information gathering, research and analyse data within broad guidelines to produce accurate plans and / or recommendations for business issues
To design, develop and test complex / advance data analytics solutions like Reports, Dashboards, Analysis, Extracts, Models, etc.
Governance
Develop and /or align governance and compliance policies for own practice areas to identify and manage risk exposure liability.
People
Integrate new knowledge and transfer skills attained through formal and informal learning opportunities in the execution of your job.
Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.
Finance
Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.
Client
Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
Behavioural competencies
Accountability
Adaptability
Analytical thinking
Attention to details
Commitment to Continuous Learning
Conceptual Ability
Expertise in Context
Fairness and Transparency
Honesty & Integrity
Organisational Awareness
Problem Solving and Analysis
Respect
Trust
Technical competencies
Business Knowledge
Data Analytics
Data Integrity
Data Collection and Analysis
Data Governance
Efficiency improvement
Functional Policies & Procedures
Information Management
Knowledge Management
Reporting
Statistics & Mathematical Analysis
System Thinking
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