Job Description

Empowering Africaxe2x80x99s tomorrow, togetherxe2x80xa6one story at a time.With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary As a senior member of the Everyday Banking (EB) Business Transformation and Portfolio Management team, the incumbent has accountability for providing key management information and business intelligence to unlock tactical and strategic data insights, enabling data-driven strategies.Accountability: Portfolio Analytics and Insights:Develop and implement analytical models and algorithms to support the central change portfolio team and continuously improve these models and algorithms through experimentation and testing.Ensure that the financial data management., statistics, run rate, benefits management, current forecastingxe2x80x99s is incorporated in the monthly reporting views and continuously upon.Ensure that the appropriate performance metrics aligned to the EB scorecard, BU performance is catered for as part of the data provisioning, analysis, and insights processes.Set strategic analytics direction through the development of an analytics roadmap and delivery plan.Operationalize the data analytics function with immediate focus on establishing and maturing descriptive and diagnostic analytics.Expand standard business intelligence to provide insights that drive strategic decision making as opposed to only the provisioning of reporting and datasets.Continuously explore ways to enhance business performance by using data together with analytical techniques to analyse key indicators.Development of sustainable MI solutions to address business needs and identify opportunities to improve processes with technology solutions.Communicate clear, concise, commercially valuable, data-driven insights and recommendations to business in support of operational efficiency improvement.Accountability: Portfolio Reporting and Communication:Partner with the central portfolio team to define requirements informing the build of sustainable, comprehensive analytics & reporting.Set a standard of reporting used across EB Change.Use available technologies to drive efficient/ streamlined analytics, monitoring & reporting e.g., automated triggers & alerts in the recommended tool.Create sustainable channels and communication platforms for data flow within EB Change to drive data analytics integration & consumption.Analyse the data to support the central portfolio team in the day-to-day reporting needs using Advanced Excel and visualisation tools and any other tool that may be identified for analysis from time to time.Manage data management exceptions and alerts within acceptable levels of performance and tolerances.Ensure that all applicable data management standards and policies are adhered to.Play an active role in the creation, implementation, and maintenance of robust analytics model governance to ensure uniformity, sustainability and scalability of all data models produced.Collaborate and partner with the central portfolio team to solve challenges through analytics and enable better understanding of data & reporting.Develop strong collaborative interlocks with the central portfolio team to ensure that all strategic delivery is data-led and commercially viable.Maintain a high standard of data analytics by ensuring that outputs are constantly quality assuredSupport with the design, development and, enhancement activities and balancing procedures to ensure integrity of dataAccountability: Portfolio Quality AssuranceGenerate appropriate challenge on model builds by discussing model build detail and ideas.Accountability: Stakeholder Management

• Manage key stakeholders across the business by ensuring their issues, objectives and priorities are reflected in the agreed solutions.

Work with stakeholders to create and maintain a portfolio of business MI by utilising consistent and validated data sources.Contribute to the development of a high-performance culture.EducationBachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: BMI - Business Management and InformaticsAbsa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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