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Sabenza IT & Recruitment

Business Intelligence and Automation Specialist

Sabenza IT & Recruitment City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa

IT Services and IT Consulting · 11-50 employees

Oct 08
business-intelligence Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time South Africa
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About the role

The specialist will own and maintain the BI reporting environment, including data models, dashboards, and pipelines. They will also design and implement automation solutions across finance, operations, and commercial departments to improve efficiency and provide data-driven insights.

What they look for

Business Intelligence Automation Power BI Microsoft Fabric Power Automate SAP Data Modeling ETL Pipelines Data Governance Power Apps Systems Integration Reporting Analytical Views User Administration End-user Training

Requirements

Candidates must hold a relevant degree in IT, Computer Science, Finance, or Data Analytics and possess at least 5 years of experience in BI and automation. Strong proficiency in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Power Automate, and SAP data integration is required.

Full description

Role overview:

Own the established BI reporting environment and deliver the automation work independently. There is no team to manage.

The role covers maintenance, optimisation and improvement of data models, dashboards and reporting pipelines, and the build of automation that cuts manual work, improves efficiency, strengthens data governance and gives the executive team

usable insight. Reports to the Finance Executive.

Requirements

Key responsibilities:

  • Own the existing BI environment, including data models, dashboards and reporting pipelines.
  • Maintain, administer and monitor Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.
  • Build new reports, dashboards and analytical views as requirements change.
  • Design, build and implement automation across finance, operations and commercial to remove manual and repeat work.
  • Build Power Automate flows for approvals, document routing and notifications.
  • Run quarterly automation reviews and measure return on investment.
  • Automate user administration, including provisioning, access and licence allocation.
  • Train end users on BI tools, dashboards and self-service reporting.
  • Keep user guides, process documentation and the knowledge base up to date.
  • Support business users and act as first escalation for BI queries.
  • Build automated ETL pipelines between SAP and the BI environment.
  • Work with executive stakeholders to find automation opportunities and deliver data-driven insight.
  • Monitor uptime, stability and the effectiveness of reporting and automation, and keep improving both.

Requirements:

  • Relevant degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance, Data Analytics, or a related field.
  • Minimum 5 years in BI and automation.
  • Strong Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Power Automate.
  • Power Apps is preferred.
  • SAP data extraction and systems integration.
  • Experience managing BI reporting environments, dashboards and reporting pipelines.
  • Hands-on delivery of automation, working independently.
  • End-user training, support and documentation.

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