Plan and manage performance, skills development, employment equity, talent and culture of team in order to improve innovation, achieve efficiencies and increase competencies.Support and implement a cycle of improvements to drive profitability and strategic objectives through BI. Establish, align and manage target and budget goals whilst ensuring effective control of costs for a range of functional areas to increase cost efficiency. Develop a BI service culture which builds rewarding… Show more Plan and manage performance, skills development, employment equity, talent and culture of team in order to improve innovation, achieve efficiencies and increase competencies.Support and implement a cycle of improvements to drive profitability and strategic objectives through BI. Establish, align and manage target and budget goals whilst ensuring effective control of costs for a range of functional areas to increase cost efficiency. Develop a BI service culture which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service.Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members to ensure application of BI tools by facilitating sessions to collaborate with stakeholders about options for the solution.Provides high level input to vendor management and assists in expertly resolving any disputes. Define and implement the Information Management strategy to Business Intelligence and ensure execution of this strategy. Comply, understand and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements. Monitor changes in legislation, regulations, initiatives, and relevant industry practices. Ensure drafting and implementation of appropriate interventions. Lead the setting up of the intellectual agenda for the team (in consultation with the necessary stakeholders) and creating conceptual frameworks across multiple projects and manage the team's creation of project outputs. Analyse and develop business intelligence based on data analysed, data collected, reviewed, and incorporate all internal and external benchmarking data for future solutions. Facilitate the conversion of knowledge and ideas into new or improved products for the Business Intelligence environment. Show less

Establish relationships with business users.Understand business systems and their data flows and structures.Work with business users to gather and advise on appropriate reporting solutions.Build the solutions through the appropriate Microsoft BI technology.Assist users in understanding the outputs of the reporting and advise on business decisions using these insights.Participate in the full product life cycle from envisioning to the successful release of a product.Work… Show more Establish relationships with business users.Understand business systems and their data flows and structures.Work with business users to gather and advise on appropriate reporting solutions.Build the solutions through the appropriate Microsoft BI technology.Assist users in understanding the outputs of the reporting and advise on business decisions using these insights.Participate in the full product life cycle from envisioning to the successful release of a product.Work with the Product Development team to conduct effort estimation against all road map items.Assist in troubleshooting, debugging and implementing solutions for new and existing products.Communicate technical aspects of the job to both technical and non-technical audiences.Ensures that all products and deliverables are fully documented for internal and external usage, and assist with developing and administering training sessions for stakeholders.Establish and manage vendor relationships. Show less

Business and process analysis;Design, implementation and support of SharePoint, workflow and web-based business solutions;Manage relationships with all vendors running SharePoint projects; Business representative and technical advisor on projects with vendors on behalf of the business;Establish business relationships between various departments in order to effectively provide strategic objectives to the business; Investigate and provide recommendations on new software… Show more Business and process analysis;Design, implementation and support of SharePoint, workflow and web-based business solutions;Manage relationships with all vendors running SharePoint projects; Business representative and technical advisor on projects with vendors on behalf of the business;Establish business relationships between various departments in order to effectively provide strategic objectives to the business; Investigate and provide recommendations on new software solutions that business is looking to adopt/purchase/integrate; Aid business productivity and efficiency for all knowledge/information workers by promoting and encouraging the optimal use and development IT solutions; Primary subject matter expert for all Microsoft SharePoint, workflow solutions and development;Ensure appropriate execution on projects based on defined deliverables; Ensure appropriate documentation and reporting is in place;Facilitation of meetings, workshops, etc. to gather information;Supporting the business with regards to business and process improvement;Transfer of knowledge to up-skill and train business users, trainers, peers and technical users on various software platforms and tools; Manage stakeholder expectations to meet the business objectives and project goals. Show less

Provide the primary interface between the users, business and technology teams.Identify and document user, system or business requirements. Managing proposed solutions through to conclusion.Development and enhancement of business processes, reports and applications to support the service delivery chain.Support of new development to the operational and client teams.Development and enhancement of MIS capability.Analysis and planning of business process changes resulting… Show more Provide the primary interface between the users, business and technology teams.Identify and document user, system or business requirements. Managing proposed solutions through to conclusion.Development and enhancement of business processes, reports and applications to support the service delivery chain.Support of new development to the operational and client teams.Development and enhancement of MIS capability.Analysis and planning of business process changes resulting from compliance and strategy changes.I am responsible to ensure that tasks performed are executed efficiently, accurately and within deadlines.Create and update test cases from detailed business requirements and carry out test plans;Perform the various phases of testing;Creation and execution of automated tests;Work alongside developers during development phase to ensure unit testing is implemented;Log bugs found during testing directly to development and monitor their progress;Managing testing timelines and associated communication Show less

I sourced prices and analytical data from various pricing vendors, scrubbed those values and published it to at least 4 different systems for all instruments traded by clients of Maitland Fund Services.

Controlled the budget for various departments within the humanities faculty and for the humanties finance department

Migrated all their stock valuation systems to one valuation system (Murex).Taught staff how to use the new sytem.Convened conferences between JHB systems staff and SIM in Cape Town