Business and Reporting Analyst

About this job

As Business and Reporting Analyst, you will be accountable for one or more of the many functional data domains within JUMO. Working closely with the various business stakeholders to gather requirements as well asBI developers and data engineers to build scalable solutions. You will be responsible for owning and expanding any data models, analytical models and reporting datamarts in your domains. You will report to the Data Modelling & Reporting Team Lead.

You will 

• Work closely with technology platform Product Owners, Data & Prediction teams, Finance, Marketing and external partners to perform investigations on JUMO data platform to  understand and assist with the real-world problems we're trying to solve.
• Need to understand the needs and requirements of your functional domain and provide direction and solutions in areas where value can be added within our data platform or where expansion is required.
• Need to be able to clearly translate business requirements into technical requirements to data engineers for build.
• Perform quality assurance on new and existing data sets and pipelines to discover inconsistencies, anomalies to guide problem resolution and data cleansing exercises.
• Use advanced data query and discovery skills for ad hoc analysis and support for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Use your data analytics skill to design and implement data domain performance metrics.
• Need to be able to clearly define reporting requirements to BI Developers for build.

You will need

• 5+ years experience with data and/or systems analysis experience, majority within a formal data warehouse  environment.
• University degree in either Business, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, Informatics or equivalent industry training and experience.
• Proven ability in analytics, business process analysis and presenting / communicating recommendations across all organization levels.
• Real-world understanding of data processing and storage.
• Relational database management systems experience in any relevant technology such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redshift and SQL Server.
• Experience writing advanced queries (SQL, PL/SQL) or stored procedures on RDBMS.
• Advanced Excel skills.
• Understanding of Data Governance, Agile methodologies and QA standards.
• Critical thinking under pressure.

Bonus if you have 

• Experience in data environments making use of big data, data lakes, event-based streaming and API integrations.
• Experience with reporting and business intelligence software such as Tableau, Power BI, Grafana, Superset.
• Experience with tools such as AWS, Airflow and NiFi.
• Experience working with Github.
• Experience with end-to-end BI solution design and build.
• Experience in the FinTech industry.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too. 

You will love

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment
• Working as one team towards our goal of financial inclusion
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Flexible work practices enabling your best delivery
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead
• Using AI for good, ensuring more value for more customers
• A stack of leading-edge technologies 

Remote First

This position is based in South Africa.  We operate a remote first working approach, where working remotely is our default way of working.  Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. We have co-working spaces available in Cape Town for collaboration and connection and for the use of those who value and want to work out of an office. You have flexibility where to work from, as long as you are set up to work remotely and have access to data with a strong and reliable connection as we value online facetime for collaboration at JUMO.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.