Reporting Analyst

**Business Unit**:
Discovery Employee Benefits**Function**:
Data Analysis**Date**:
6 Oct 2023Achieve more than** **YOU BELIEVE**
- Discovery - Employee Benefits- Reporting Analyst**About Discovery**
- Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
- **About Discovery Employee Benefits**
- Discovery Employee Benefits is the first and only employee benefits provider to be shaping employee behaviour, creating healthier and wealthier workforces. It is an exciting business to be in as we reimagine the way retirement savings and life insurance is brought to companies and employees.**Key Purpose**
- The main purpose of this role is to enable the business to have high-quality Analysis and Reporting. This will be achieved through vigorous analysis of Group Risk data and all other available data to create meaningful insights that support our Core Purpose.
- **Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to**
- Retrieving of data from various business units.
- Create a report template and source of data.
- Analysing the applicable data accuracy as well as the system design and/or operating procedures where data issues are identified.
- Building tools to identify data issues in an automated manner.
- Communicating the results of findings will be key. This is achieved by putting together visualizations like charts and graphs, writing reports, and presenting information to interested parties.
- Assisting with ad-hoc investigations and analyses including playing a supportive role in quantifying the financial impact of possible misalignment of actuarial specification and system implementation.
- Developing and implementing data analyses, data collection systems and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
- Personal Attributes
- Accountable, analytical and problem solving
- Good written and verbal communication
- Customer Focus
- Integrity
- Attention to detail
- Planning, prioritising and organising
- Teamwork/Collaboration
- Stress Tolerance
- Ability to manage conflicting tasks.
- Results and solutions driven;
execution focused and deadline driven
- Problem-solver and Process driven
**Education and Experience**
- University or technical degree/diploma in Accounting/Finance/Economics/Econometrics/Statistics
- 1-3 years’ experience working in a data analysis or reporting role
- Database and/or statistical software experience (SQL, R, Python etc)
- Knowledge of administration systems/processes in the Life insurance industry
- Preferred Industry experience working with large sets of Life insurance data.
- Experience in creating Insights and Management reports using various tools (e.G., Power BI)
- Advanced Computer Literacy
- Advanced Excel knowledge (Lookup functions, pivot tables, charts and chart analysis, conditional formatting, data Validation, IF &
Match functions)
- Advanced MIS reporting and Data Visualization knowledge
- Basic SQL Experience (Knowledge on Databases and Back-End Tables)
**Employment Equity**
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
- EMPLOYMENT EQUITY
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.