Foundational Skills Proficiency Required

• Strategic Planning & Thinking

• Ability to analyze the organization’s wider environment and draw conclusions about the impact of events and activities; guide the team to create solutions that deliver value in line with the business plans
• Develops and implements organization wide policy by determining target audience, building coalitions with the appropriate population, and developing a budget

• Critical Thinking

• Introduces new approaches that may have been tried elsewhere
• Examines situations from multiple or different perspectives
• Recognizes points for improvement and uses imagination to solve problems

• Analytical Thinking

• Organizes, classifies, and synthesizes the data into fundamental issues
• From the information, identifies the most probable causes of the problem.
• Reduces the information down into manageable components
• Identifies the logical outcomes from analyzing the data collected

• Decision Making based on Decision Modelling

• Must maintain the utmost integrity and always behave ethically. Identifies gaps in information and makes informed assumptions to take timely action.
• Addresses very complex issues and makes a judgment call on the need for additional analysis or the business necessity to take a timely decision, with the available information
• Demonstrates basic understanding of different decision models

• Integrated Analytics

• Leads the business insights strategy for the organization and makes a significant contribution to the overall strategic planning process
• Is considered highly influential and credible in providing customer, market, and business insights to inform and improve the quality of decision making across the organization

 Education

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Management/ Information Systems or related discipline
• Certifications/qualifications in any of ACCA, CA is a must
• Certifications/qualifications in any of CISA, CISM, CISSP, CIA is a plus