Africa Talent by Deloitte – IRL Data Analytics – Consultant

Company Description

About Africa Talent

Africa Talent by Deloitte (Africa Talent) is a standalone division of Deloitte, owned by Deloitte Africa and Deloitte Netherlands, based in South Africa. Our goal is to meet the growing demand for Talent in Africa and Europe; by recruiting and developing Talent throughout Sub Saharan Africa in order to service the diverse needs to enable projects at our clients. Talent employed will have the full experience of Deloitte, while getting both local and international exposure to a diverse set of clients, working remotely from Africa.  It will take advantage of the demographic reality of Africa as a future source of talent for both Africa and Europe and at its core is the goal to create employment in Africa and invest in African talent.

The ethos of our organisation is characterised by vision, purpose beyond profit and an appetite to innovate and deliver creative, high impact solutions to urgent client challenges.

Every day, your work will make an impact that matters, while you thrive in a dynamic culture of inclusion, collaboration, and high performance. As the undisputed leader in professional services, Deloitte – Africa Talent – is where you will find unrivalled opportunities to succeed and realize your full potential.

This space is a true encapsulation of hybrid work, whereby individuals and teams gain access and exposure to learn from and engage with their global colleagues, while working virtually from their local Deloitte office or from home.

What’s in it for you?

• An ever dynamic and growing internal scaleup with a purpose
• The stability and trustworthiness of a purpose driven global brand, ready to build your own future and add to Africa’s prosperity
• Being the driver of Africa Talent’s day-to-day operations
• A competitive package of benefits
• A hybrid work environment with possibility to work at home some days.

Job Description

The Opportunity

As a member of the Data Analytics team, you will assist with applying data analytic techniques to increase an organisation’s capacity to anticipate risk and maximise business opportunities through data driven insights. Deloitte’s deep and thorough understanding of underlying risk and control issues, combined with our knowledge of technology and analytic skills, uniquely helps us to identify high priority risk areas in our client’s businesses and explore those risks using data analytics.
Successful candidates will have demonstrated their ability to carry out data analysis from initial requirements gathering through to production deployment and operations. They would have communicated a deep interest in solving analytics challenges using many different techniques and technologies and have demonstrated their ongoing commitment to personal learning and development in this discipline.  Excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to a wide audience is a must.
Expertise in data transformation and modelling analytic results, you’ll formulate conclusions and recommendations to client stakeholders, leveraging strong consulting, communication, visualization including storytelling skills.
•    Work in an agile, collaborative environment, partnering with other stakeholders including audit team and data analytics consultants to integrate the analytics with enterprise-level solution development with the aim of providing viable insights to clients.
•    Responsible for managing, building and optimizing data architectures and Convert into relevant insights using data analytics technologies and clear interpretations using data governance and data quality processes.
•    Design of data pipelines for data ingestion and data transformation and ensure the reconciliation and accuracy of the data
•    Development of data modelling and architecture documentation
•    Provide technical trainings on data analytics standards and procedures including mentorship to junior colleagues. 
•    Communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand and define business needs and translate them to a data science context
•    Contribute to the design and development of analytical solutions in response to these risks.
•    A passion for continuously improving yourself and how we best solve our clients’ problems
•    Interact cohesively with other members of the Financial Risk & Regulatory team, including being a buddy to new members of the team.
•    Open and honest communication to understand what is required of you and how you and others can improve.
•    Contribute to the analysis and interpretation of data towards relevant communications to explain the value of the work completed.
•    Assist in identifying and collecting data from financial systems and other related data sources
•    Assist in assessing and determining the techniques and tools to be used in collection, analysis and communication for a project
•    Apply selected analytical techniques and tools to achieve project outcomes
•    Ability to effectively work in technical cross-functional teams
•    Provide expertise on data analytics and digital transformation
•    Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks while maintaining project timelines
•    Understanding of ML and AI concepts and its applicability.
•    SAP experience an advantage.
•    Project management skills essential for this role.
•    Practical data engineering skillset is a basic requirement but fundamental domain experience in any field is a complimentary advantage
 

Qualifications

You are someone with:

• 2- 3 years experience with MS SQL Server and experience in visual communication of analysis (i.e. Tableau and Power BI)
• Experience extracting and analysing data from complex data sets and systems
• Strong attention to detail with a curiosity to understand data
• Ability to thrive working in a team environment and serving clients with distinction
• Ability to turn data into insights and communicate insights effectively with our clients 
• Ideally, experience in visual communication of analysis (e.g. Tableau, Qlik, Power BI)
• Strong Knowledge of Excel and VBA 

Additional Skills required for this role:
• Communication skills.  You are able to confidently communicate in both technical and non-technical teams as well as facilitate discussions within a different team, with potentially difficult dynamics. 
• Data analysis and synthesis. You understand data cleansing and transformation using SSIS, design build and test data products that are complex or large-scale.
• Data integration design. You know how to select and implement the appropriate technologies to deliver resilient, scalable and future-proofed data solutions.
• Data modelling. You understand the concepts and principles of data modelling and can produce relevant data models across multiple subject areas. You can compare and align different data models.
• Problem solving. You know how to respond to problems in databases, data processes, client’s data and services as they occur. You can initiate actions, monitor services and identify trends to resolve problems. You can determine the appropriate remedy and assist with implementation of it as well as preventative measures.
• Programming and build. You know how to use agreed standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document moderate-to-complex programs and scripts from agreed specifications and subsequent iterations. You can collaborate with others to review specifications where appropriate.
• Technical understanding. You understand core technical concepts related to the role and can apply them with guidance.
 

Additional Information

We are always interested in talking with professionals about their next career experience. If you have a passion for learning from talented people and benefit from the support of a global organisation and network, apply online now.

If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we encourage you to apply. Deloitte is an equal opportunities employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented as part of the recruitment and selection process.

At Africa Talent by Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonably accommodating persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

* Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.

Hybrid & Vaccination policy

“Deloitte Africa has successfully launched the Hybrid Working model. Aligned with this model is our commitment to maintain an environment for personnel, clients and visitors that is safe and, as far as reasonably practicable, free from health risks.

Medical evidence provides overwhelming and empirical evidence that vaccination is currently the most effective means of preventing the spread of COVID-19 and reducing the likelihood of serious illness, death, transmissions and infections. More information about our mandatory vaccination policy will be discussed during the recruitment process for this position.

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day. We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. We seek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.