Job Summary
Company:
University of Ghana
Category: Education / Training
Location: Accra
Job status: Full-Time
Salary: GH
Education: Degree
Experience: 6 years
Job expires: 30 Jun-2022
Position Title: Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst
Unit: Institutional Business Intelligence Unit
Reports To: Director, Institutional Research &
Planning Office
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Director, the mandate of the Business
Intelligence Unit is to lead a team to oversee the identification of the reporting
and analytic requirements of various units of the University. He will lead in
the development and deployment of business intelligence and analytic solutions
that will aid University units in making operational, tactical and strategic
data-driven decisions.
Duties:
• Collaborate with the Institutional Data Engineer to plan
data pipelines, dimensional modelling, and decide on required data
specifications that meet business intelligence and analytics requirements.
• Transform data into insights that can assist university
managers and executives to make data-driven operational, tactical, and
strategic decisions to modernise, drive business value, identify areas of
revenue loss and improve processes in the organisation through use of data
analytics, data visualisation and data modelling techniques and technologies.
• Conduct requirements gathering to gather university
requirements for business intelligence and analytics via data collection
methods such as interviews, workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits,
workflow story boards, use cases and scenarios.
• Develop and conduct reviews of the business intelligence
and analytics requirements to ensure that requirements specifications are
correctly interpreted.
• Analyse and verify business intelligence requirements for
completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to
standards.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to determine the
objectives, scope, parameters of requirements to define, outcome, metrics, and
relevant KPIs for business intelligence reports.
• Research and review the effectiveness and efficiency of
existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing
or further leveraging these processes.
• Develop framework for the development of BI reporting for
various units.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional
business intelligence and analytics requirements.
• Design, develop and deploy business intelligence reports
and dashboards using BI reporting tools, such as Power BI and Tableau.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Head, Institutional
Research and Planning Office.
Qualification Required & Experience
• Candidate must possess a relevant Bachelor’s & Masters
Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Studies,
Statistics, or related field.
• A minimum of six (6) years of experience in higher
education management.
• Proven experience with databases and programming for data
analysis.
• Demonstrated project management skills, including planning,
organising, and managing resources.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline environment, with
expert problem solving and analytical skills and a collaborative mind-set.
• A very good understanding of the organisation’s goals and
objectives.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and
strong organisational and interpersonal skills.
Knowledge, Skills & Attributes
• Able to exercise independent judgement and take action
• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative
problem-solving skills
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral
communication skills
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritise and execute task while
under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation and communication skills
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative
environment
• A good understanding of data profiling
• A very good understanding of database management systems
• An excellent understanding of dimensional modelling
• A very good understanding of the ETL process
• Data modelling
• Data mining
• Data Analysis
• Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, and data visualisation
• SQL, Python and Dax
• Business intelligence
• Microsoft Excel
Location: Accra
How To Apply For The Job
An applicant is required to submit the complete application
dossier to the
Registrar,
University of Ghana,
P. O. Box LG 25,
Legon, Accra, Ghana
(Hardcopy)
or vacancies@ug.edu.gh (Soft Copy).
The application pack should contain the following: ·
Completed application form for Senior Administrative and Professional Staff
Application: (UAB Form 1B) to be downloaded from the University’s website www.ug.edu.gh/hrodd
• a cover letter expressing interest,
• a detailed curriculum vitae
• copies of relevant academic and/or professional
certificates.
Closing Date: 30 June, 2022
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
