Business Analyst

In brief

**Overview** This role as a Business Analyst at Sasol is dedicated to supporting and enabling the Commercial Sales (CS) teams across both Commercial Marketing & Sales and Gas Marketing & Sales portfolios. The primary purpose is to lead or support the monitoring, analysis, and improvement of CS business performance. Key activities include conducting research, interpreting data, and making recommendations based on findings. The role involves leading analysis, economic modeling, project management/execution support, and market/industry research to advance CS’s growth ambitions and performance improvement initiatives. Additionally, the Business Analyst supports CS strategy development through the analysis of strategy-related opportunities and threats across Sasol's business portfolio of assets and products, ensuring alignment across all integrated business elements such as commercial, supply chain/planning, technical, financial, legal, and regulatory. **What you will do** * Provide business improvement support to the CS Marketing and Sales teams, management, and relevant internal stakeholders. * Lead the full CS strategy-related formulation, implementation, and tracking, including Customer Value Proposition (CVP) development. * Monitor and observe activities, trends, and developments in different market segments and product applications. * Compile and provide business and market intelligence in relevant segments, interpret information, and offer thought leadership through updates on competitors and overviews for key products/geographies. * Lead or partake in strategic initiatives for CS. * Deliver on continuous improvement initiatives when required and identify ways to add value to the CS environment. * Lead or support the development and maintenance of Business Improvement Tools, Processes, and Procedures. * Lead or support the integration of Sustainability and new value pool initiatives for CS. * Lead or support CS related projects in various roles, either as a project member, project lead, advisor, or coordinator. * Prepare required reports, approval documents, and presentations for use in project-related meetings. * Support the tender management process, including tender submissions, monthly reporting, and improvements. * Follow through on customer enquiries, requests, and complaints. * Develop metrics, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and dashboards. * Perform profound data analysis and apply understanding of key financial ratios and sufficient financial basics. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Formal Education:** * Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Science, Business, Finance, or equivalent (Postgraduate qualification an advantage). * **Experience:** * 6+ relevant years of experience with significant exposure in Strategy development, Business Analysis, Market/Industry Intelligence analysis, and Project Management. * Experience in development of metrics, KPIs and dashboards. * Profound data analysis experience and understanding of key financial ratios; sufficient understanding of financial basics. * Experience in identifying/supporting/developing/implementing Sustainability products/solutions. * **Skills & Abilities:** * Must be analytical and be able to think critically. * Proficiency with MS Office Suite to include Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint. * Proficiency with understanding PowerBI. * Proficient in Report writing and presentations. * Proven self-starter with high integrity, energy, enthusiasm and tenacity. * Excellent verbal and written communication/presentation skills. * Ability to translate questions into actionable analysis. * Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently. * Approach to doing work which focuses on providing a positive customer experience. * **Competencies:** * Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills. * Attention to detail: Thoroughness in accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small. Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently. * Partnership Leadership: Persuades and influences stakeholders; builds relationships and partnerships for win-win outcomes. Builds teams and creates synergies through working across boundaries. * Business Acumen: An intuitive and applicable understanding of how a company or unit makes money. Displays a thorough understanding of what drives profitability. Maintains a market-focused approach to business. Keeps an overall big picture understanding of the business and its interrelationships enabling a person to make better business decisions. The ability to make good business judgments and quick decisions in a manner that is likely to lead to a good outcome. * Critical Reasoning: The action of critically thinking about something in a logical, sensible way and taking all factors into consideration. * Influencing: Influencing is an ability to garner support for initiatives by gaining the respect of others and inspiring trust and confidence. Strong integrator. Managing cross functional teams. * Customer Focus: A continuing focus on the needs and requirements of customers and clients, anticipating their needs, remaining sensitive to customers while performing services for them, responsive to customer needs. * Agility: Way of planning and doing work in which it is understood that making changes as they are needed is an important part of the job and that small but continuous improvement with a comprehensive view delivered frequently is more important than a final deliverable at end state which potential could be late or not meet the customer expectation. * Collaboration: Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together for a common purpose to achieve business benefit. Collaboration enables individuals to work together to achieve a defined and common business purpose. * Problem Solving: Is a step-by-step process of defining a problem, searching for information, and testing a series of solutions until the problem is solved. In involves critical thinking, analysis and persistence. **Who should apply** The ideal candidate for this Business Analyst position at Sasol is a highly analytical and critically thinking individual with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Science, Business, or Finance (postgraduate an advantage). They should possess at least six years of relevant experience specifically in strategy development, business analysis, market/industry intelligence analysis, and project management. This person must be a proven self-starter with high integrity, energy, enthusiasm, and tenacity, demonstrating excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly in report writing and presentations. Proficiency in MS Office Suite (including Advanced Excel and PowerPoint) and PowerBI is essential. The successful candidate will have a strong customer focus, attention to detail, and a collaborative approach. They should be capable of partnership leadership, influencing stakeholders, and exhibiting strong business acumen with an agile mindset. Experience in data analysis, understanding financial basics, developing metrics/KPIs/dashboards, and identifying/implementing sustainability products/solutions is required, along with a proven ability to translate questions into actionable analysis and effectively solve problems. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/business-analyst-sasol-2 Source: myjobmag

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• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Project management

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