Senior BI Analyst / Developer

Recruiter: IDBASE SOFTWARE

Job Ref: 739176

Date posted: Thursday, August 20, 2026

Location: Cape Town, South Africa

SUMMARY: POSITION INFO: Key Responsibilities Act as the senior technical authority for BI, setting best practices, standards, and design principles across the BI estate. Coordinate and guide a small team of BI Analysts, balancing hands-on delivery with review, mentoring, and technical direction. Remain an active contributor, owning and delivering complex, high-impact dashboards, reports, and data models. Review and assure BI outputs to ensure they meet agreed standards for accuracy, performance, usability, and consistency. Facilitate effective ways of working across the BI team, including prioritization, estimation, and delivery cadence. Support skills development and knowledge sharing to uplift overall team capability. Own the end-to-end delivery of BI solutions, from requirement definition through to deployment and ongoing enhancement. Partner closely with investment, risk, finance, and operations stakeholders to prioritize BI initiatives and manage demand. Translate complex business requirements into scalable, well-designed BI solutions. Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, using data and insights to influence decision-making. Oversee the design, build, and maintenance of dashboards and reports covering portfolio performance, cash flows, risk, and credit metrics. Drive standardization and reusability of reports, data models, and metrics across the organization. Ensure high levels of data accuracy, consistency, and transparency in all BI outputs. Champion automation of recurring reporting to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk. Work closely with IT and data engineering teams to shape data models, pipelines, and BI architecture. Define and enforce BI best practices, including data modelling standards, naming conventions, and documentation. Identify opportunities to improve BI tooling, processes, and performance. Stay abreast of developments in BI tools, analytics techniques, and data visualisation best practices, and apply them pragmatically.