Data Analytics & BI Director

Job Purpose

Key Responsibilities

• Set business intelligence (BI) strategy
• Outline the organizations BI vision and strategy
• Oversee ongoing development and operations of BI architecture
• Establish an approach for identifying business and information needs to enhance decisionmaking, policies, and processes
• Provide rationale, business cases, and return on investment (ROI) models
• Provide thought leadership to stakeholders in determining which BI solutions will enable the enterprise to achieve defined business goals
• Define the analysis process for BI
• Establish guidelines and criteria to direct historical data analytics, architecture, and technology
• Advise on processes and procedures for gathering operational data to examine past business performance
• Set guidelines for appropriate structuring and enrichment of data Present insights
• Provide BI insight updates and tactical, actionable recommendations to senior leaders and clients
• Determine key messages to communicate from analyses and oversee the creation of a narrative for storytelling
• Define the structure and tools to be applied in the conceptualization, design, and building of visual dashboards and graphs Establish BI standards and governance
• Develop standards, policies, and procedures for the form, structure, and attributes of the BI tools and systems
• Create long-term data governance initiatives that serve to improve data quality across all systems over time
• Guide best practices related to BI data governance
• Manage people and organization
• Review operational strategies, policies, and targets across teams and projects
• Develop strategies for resource planning and utilization
• Review the utilization of resources
• Oversee the development of learning roadmaps for teams and functions
• Enforce, incorporate, and comply with all necessary controls and related information security policies, procedures, practices, training, reporting, personal due diligence, and vigilance,
• within departmental/unit activities and operations.

Qualifications, Experience And Competencies

• Preferred Qualifications
• A tertiary-level qualification from an internationally recognized institution Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar field.

Years & Nature of Experience

• Would have at least 10 years of equivalent experience, where at least three have been in a lead role.
• Has led a key department comprising multiple processes or programs; has been part of their functions leadership team and has delivered on strategy formulation and implementation of strategic actions for their function
• Has had operational responsibility for their department; managing multiple processes, department outcomes, and resources

• Business Performance Management

• Data Analytics
• Data Visualisation