SARS Jobs for Students – Data Analytics

Job Description:

To ensure effective management of the information life cycle or value chain that includes the identification, analysis and development of information assets and the assessment of business information needs.

Job Responsibilities:

• Communication of situational interpretation and judgement of work outputs and queries in area of specialisation.
• Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives.
• Provide specialist input through the investigation of opportunities for operational and process product and risk optimisation.
• Initiate process and procedural change, implement the change and provide guidelines and support related to new requirements because of the change.
• Execute specialist input through investigation &opportunities within the product process including risk concern.
• Apply practical and applied knowledge and act authoritatively on methods, systems and procedures to identify trends and potential risks.
• To acquiring data from primary or secondary data sources and maintaining databases, applying the knowledge of data extraction, transformation and business modelling.
• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities.
• Correctly apply policies, practices, standards, procedures and legislation in the delivery of work outputs.
• Draw on own knowledge and experience to diagnose symptoms, causes and possible effects in order to solve emerging problems.

Job Requirements:

• Intermediate (practical application) Data warehouse knowledge
• Knowledge of and experience with reporting packages (SQL or equivalent, etc), databases (SQL etc.), programming (SQL, R, Python, etc.)
• Experience in Data Engineering / Business Data Intelligence / Data Science
• Intermediate (practical application) knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analysing datasets (Excel, SPSS, SAS, R etc.)
• Intermediate (practical application) Programming Skills ¡V i.e. SQL, and/or Python, R, etc.
• Microsoft skills (Proficient in)¡V i.e. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree / Advanced Diploma: Information System/ Statistics (NQF 7) AND 5-
• 7 years’ experience  in Data Engineering / Business Data Intelligence / Data Science , of which 2-3 years ideally at functional specialist level OR Senior Certificate (NQF 4) AND 10 years in experience in Data Engineering / Business Data Intelligence / Data Science, of which 2-3 years ideally at functional specialist level
• Intermediate (practical application) technical expertise regarding data processes, data cleaning, analysis, reporting, data models, and database design and testing

Job Details:

Company: South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Location: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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