Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Job Description
This role is individually accountable for developing and implementing adhoc and regular reports and dashboards. Additionally, performing data extraction, manipulation and descriptive/ exploratory data analysis This role is a supportive role to the individual accountable for turning data into actionable insights. The incumbent is relentlessly curious and uses advanced analytical skills, tools and platforms to present data as information and create analytical solutions that are interactive and easy to understand.
Duties and Responsibilities
Extracts data from various internal and external sources.
Performs data manipulation and descriptive/ exploratory data analysis
Performs data quality checks and validates results
Analyses data to support business requirements
Liaises with data delivery teams
Should be able to work without supervision for repetitive functions but requires supervision for more complex tasks.
Builds dashboards and reports to help answer business questions
Interprets and analyses data and presents internally
Accepts and lives the company values.
Accountable for service delivery through own efforts.
Collaborates effectively with others to achieve personal results.
Individually accountable for managing own time, tasks and output quality.
Makes increased contributions by broadening individual skills.
Skills, Knowledge, Experience
Minimum 2 years experience in a Data Analyst role
Meets with internal clients, understands their business requirements & analyses data to support the developing of business reports & data requirements on an ad-hoc and regular basis.
Assists in creating end to end solutions which includes problem definition, data acquisition, data exploration and visualization Performs data quality checks and validates results.
Liaises with data delivery teams.
Coordinates data extractions and input to strategic projects where integrated data sets are required.
Proactively seeks new knowledge in data analytics and
visualisation.
Generates and tests hypotheses and provides actionable and measurable insights.
Assists in building dashboards and reports to help answer business questions, interprets, and analyses data for reports or presentation to stakeholders.
Exposure to data focused problem solving.
Critical thinking.
Technical Skills
Experience of SQL.
Advanced Excel knowledge.
Experience with Visualisation Tools (Tableau/Power BI), Data Modelling, and the Alteryx system
Skills
Alteryx, Business Requirements, Critical Thinking, Dashboards Design, Data Analytics, Data Analytics Tools, Data Modeling, Tableau (Software)
Competencies
Action Oriented
Collaborates
Cultivates Innovation
Customer Focus
Drives Engagement
Drives Results
Manages Ambiguity
Manages Complexity
Education
Matriculation Certificate (Matric) (Required)
Closing Date
27 May 2026 , 23:59
The appointment will be made from the designated group in line with the Employment Equity Plan of Old Mutual South Africa and the specific business unit in question.
