The Foschini Group: Data Analyst Internship Programme 2024 / 2025

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist business teams and management with the development and implementation of operational metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
• Use visualization tools to understand and manipulate complex datasets in a simple and intuitive format to rapidly generate impactful, interactive visualizations.
• Provide and support ad-hoc reporting services for non-standard issues and analyses.
• Continually evaluate, develop, and implement new, meaningful methods for data analysis to inform the business teams about its performance.
• Analyze historical figures to identify trends and help define strategies.
• Develop and work with prediction models.
• Extract, transform, and load data from an extremely wide field of data sources into staging datasets and ultimately into visualization tools.

Qualification and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in a related field of study (Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Mathematics, Accountancy, etc.).
• Storytelling ability through visual presentations and dashboards.
• Ability to create data models to bring together datasets from multiple disparate systems in order to support data analysis.
• Ability to analyze large datasets.
• The ability to communicate complex concepts in a clear and concise manner to audiences from staff to senior executive level.
• Familiarity with data warehousing architecture and processes.
• An analytical mind and inclination for problem-solving.
• Experience with visualization tools such as PowerBI, Tableau, QlikView, and/or Pyramid.
• Data manipulation/wrangling skills (SQL and NoSQL technologies, such as KNIME or SSIS).
• Experience delivering prescriptive and predictive analytics.
• Expertise in R and Python is advantageous.

Skills and Competencies:

• Organised and thorough  
• Administratively strong with high attention to detail and accuracy  
• Computer proficiency in MS office (Excel, Word & Outlook)  
• Business Case Contribution 
• In-Depth Questioning 
• Perform Gap Analysis 
• Data control   
• Document management   
• Digital Library Management 
• Presentation Creation 3