Sanlam Data Analyst - Data Management
Who are we?
The Sanlam Retail Affluent business (SRA) is dedicated to empower South Africans in the middle- and upper-income segments to be financially confident, secure and prosperous. With deep client understanding and a focus on excellence in technology, client and intermediary experiences, SRA delivers financial solutions including comprehensive financial planning, life- and disability insurance, credit solutions, savings and investments, retirement and fiduciary services that can be accessed through various platforms.
Role Purpose Working with data stewards, you will support the Data Governance Lead with driving the data governance implementation across Sanlam Retail Affluent, Sanlam Retail Mass and Sanlam Corporate. Expectations are that you foster a data service-oriented culture to enable data driven decisions.
In this role, you will contribute to the implementation of the data strategy and roadmap and execute on the overall improvement of accurate, valid, secure and available data. You will collaborate with peers and stakeholders to identify data quality needs and recommend remediation actions to improve data quality. This is an individual contributor role.
This role will also ask that the individual can mentor more junior analysts and take responsibility of stakeholder engagement.
What will you do? Data Governance and Management
- Assist business stakeholders with maturing their data quality, metadata, data sharing and data privacy capabilities.
- Work with business data stewards across the SLS cluster to establish, monitor and improve data quality metrics within their business, while ensuring compliance with data related policies and standards.
- Support data owners, data stewards and data custodians around active management of key data issues. Provide oversight and guidance to identification of key data sets.
- Own and maintain dashboards and reports for data governance and data quality.
- Present dashboard information at Operational working groups and forums.
- Actively coordinate and administer Data Stewards Community site content.
- Support the governance of shared data assets, applying process improvements as required.
- Work with Sanlam Group Technology to review access across shared data assets.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Work directly with data stewards and other business users to gather data governance requirements, provide status updates, and build relationships.
- Facilitate and foster a culture of data stewardship across the business units.
- Promote the adoption and implementation of Group Data policies, standards, guidelines and data management tools. Provide guidance and assist business with implementation.
- Communicate effectively (verbal and written) with all stakeholders, draft reports and present findings for stakeholder use.
- Work independently with light to moderate supervision in various areas of responsibility.
What will make you successful in this role? Qualification and experience
- Diploma/bachelor’s degree (Information Systems; Statistics; Data or Computer Science; Engineering) or equivalent (preferred but not essential)
- Minimum 3 years of Data Quality or Data Governance operations.
- Experience of Data Quality concepts such as business rules, Dashboarding, Data Quality dimensions, Data Quality metrics, Data Profiling, and Data Remediation
- Experience in drafting artefacts such as process maps, decision-trees, Standard operating procedures, frameworks and guidelines.
- Knowledge of SAP HANA, Informatica IDQ, Axon will be advantageous
- Knowledge of South Legislation, namely PPR, PDD and POPI is a plus
- Knowledge of Data Management frameworks
- Business experience in financial services would be advantageous
Role competencies
- Decision Quality: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
- Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.
- Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
Skills
- Ability to translate business requirements into non-technical terms
- Strong analytical-thinking and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information
- Attention to detail and accuracy
Personal Attributes Interpersonal savvy - Contributing independentlyDecision quality - Contributing independentlyOptimises work processes - Contributing independentlyPlans and aligns - Contributing independently
Build a successful career with us We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies Being resilient - Contributing independentlyCollaborates - Contributing independentlyCultivates innovation - Contributing independentlyCustomer focus - Contributing independentlyDrives results - Contributing independently
Turnaround time The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
Closing Date : 31 May 2022
Our commitment to transformation The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.
closing date: Not Specified
location: Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa How To Apply