Reporting Analyst (Retail Sales)

You'll turn messy data into reports managers actually use, for a retail chain analytics team in Paarl. If you turn up on time and finish what you start, you'll fit in quickly.

Home base is a retail chain analytics team on the Paarl side of Western Cape. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Mask or remove personal information in data sets under POPIA
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and data models
• Build simple forecasting and segmentation models in Python or R
• Automate weekly reports that used to take hours in Excel
• Present findings to managers in plain language with clear charts
• Write SQL to pull, join and clean data from several sources
• Meet business users to turn their questions into report requirements

• Able to explain what the numbers mean, not just show them
• At least 2 years in a data or reporting role (not needed for graduate posts)
• Careful with sensitive customer data
• Strong SQL, including joins, window functions and CTEs

• Experience with Databricks, Snowflake or Fabric
• Industry knowledge in retail, insurance or credit

• Hybrid work with two office days
• Paid cloud and BI certifications
• Annual bonus tied to company performance

• Build one public portfolio dashboard on a South African open data set if you have no work samples to share.
• Show a before-and-after, like "replaced a 6-hour manual report with an automatic daily dashboard".