Data Analyst (Senior)
DiscoverySandton, Gauteng, South Africa
Posted May 4, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Discovery is a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial planning, and life planning. The company focuses on enhancing lives through its Vitality programme, which incentivizes healthier living and delivers shared value. With operations across multiple countries, Discovery sets global standards and acts as a positive disruptor for sustainable change, driven by values of leadership, honesty, innovation, and fairness.
Job Description
Data Analyst (Senior) responsible for building frameworks and reporting for Distribution, analyzing data, and presenting insights to inform strategy. Areas of responsibility include statistical analysis, data integrity, and working with other departments to understand data needs. Competencies include strong analytical skills, ability to work with structured and unstructured data, and good communication skills.
Requirements
- Using statistical methods and tools to analyze data and identify trends, patterns, and insights
- Gather data from various sources, such as databases, surveys, and external datasets
- Ensuring the data integrity
- Solving Ad-hoc, analytical problems
- Analysing a broad range of datasets to interpret and derive insights, leading to great customer understanding
- Presenting and sharing data driven insights in a meaningful way, to inform strategy
- Mapping data linage
- Compiling reports that summarize findings and provide actionable recommendations to stakeholders
- Working with other departments to understand their data needs and provide insights that support their goals
- Guide business stakeholders in what data to extract
- Accessing multiple data bases across various companies to provide the relevant data
- Developing and implementing a framework that tracks key metrics related to the onboarding journey through Adviser 360, including completion rates, time to completion, and drop off rates.
- Build a range of automated dashboards, providing valuable insights into lead conversion rates per initiative, lead to sale conversion, quote to sale conversion, time to complete onboarding, pipeline measurement, conversion per adviser, and report at various levels within Sales and Distribution.
- Compare usage between support roles and adviser roles, and provide measurement of all features in Adviser 360, sharing trends and insights.
- Determining how to improve existing business processes
- Manage and assist staff
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
