Eden Pillay

Experience

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  Massmart

  Feb 2010 - Jun 2016

  Business Intelligence Executive

  Provide decision support to Massmart holdings executives and the Massmart chain executives, through building appropriate relationships, managing the provision of robust, financial analytics, modelling and providing informed recommendations to the Massmart real estate decision making process. Liaise with key stakeholders within the business regarding potential new stores.Evaluate the economic feasibility of proposed stores at each division (Discounted Cash Flow Models, Financial Models etc.).Apply the store development methodology to potential stores in terms of financial modelling, sensitivity analyses, market research etc. Validate findings and make recommendations regarding store assumptions, catchments and estimates. Effectively build and manage relationships across the Massmart divisional real estate managers and executives. Show less

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  African Bank

  Jul 2016 - now

  Head Retail Analytics and Decision Support

  Leading technical teams to collaborate with multiple business functional areas and executives to identify opportunities to manage the implementation of retail operation analytics. Employing financial and quantitative models for gathering fiscal insights and evaluate outcomes of investment appraisals. Monitoring performance of analytics and models post-implementation to ensure their performance is meeting expectations. Prioritising of investments and highlighting their impact by developing NPV models to advise and make recommendations to Exco using analytical findings. Management of best practices and regulations for the application of analytics. Show less