Risk Data Manager

Absa Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 800 000 - 1 200 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a Risk Data Manager to oversee comprehensive risk data management. The role involves developing analysis, generating reports, and ensuring compliance while managing a team. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in data management, governance, and visualization tools, contributing to effective risk management strategies.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of relevant experience in data management and business intelligence.
• Minimum 4 years of management experience in banking.

Responsibilities

• Deliver daily, weekly, and monthly data to the Retail Risk teams.
• Create visual representations of official data reports.
• Lead, develop, and manage a team with data expertise.

Skills

Data Management

Data Visualization

Data Governance

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics

Bachelor’s degree in Statistics

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology

Bachelor’s degree in Informatics

Tools

MS PowerBI

QlikView

SQL Server

Oracle

Teradata

Hadoop

SAS

Azure

AWS

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and a strong position 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 to shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

The Risk Data Manager is responsible for end-to-end risk data management, including developing forward-thinking analysis, generating management reports, ensuring statutory and regulatory compliance, scaling and automating processes to deliver risk data timely, with quality, controls, and governance. This enables effective risk management reports, forecasts, and business performance analysis for Retail Risk teams.

Job Description

Data Management:

• Deliver daily, weekly, and monthly data to the Retail Risk teams, including:
• Acquisition data across Retail products for models, reporting, and scorecards
• Portfolio data for impairment, capital models, and risk strategy
• Collections data across Retail for models, reporting, and scorecards
• Maintain control environment for data delivery across platforms
• Manage batch bureau data delivery, ensuring data is fit for business and delivered on strategic platforms.
• Develop and implement risk data architecture and strategy for data platforms.
• Manage risk data migration, decommissioning projects, and assess impacts and re-points.
• Integrate platforms to meet business needs.
• Enable sustainable decommissioning of legacy infrastructure without impacting business operations.

Data Visualization / Reporting:

• Create visual representations of official data reports for better understanding.
• Clean, organize, and verify large datasets for analysis and visualization, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Develop dashboards, data quality monitors, interactive reports, charts, and graphs using tools like MS PowerBI and QlikView.
• Continuously seek innovative solutions for analysis, reporting, and data measurement.
• Oversee business intelligence data analysis and visualization.
• Improve processes using technology to ensure scalability with minimal human intervention.

Data Governance:

• Maintain control environment for bureau data.
• Implement effective governance frameworks supporting internal controls and alignment with AGL data policies.
• Ensure compliance with RDARR, support audit, and compliance teams.

People:

• Lead, develop, and manage a team with data expertise.
• Collaborate with technology and data teams across the organization to identify viable data solutions.
• Work with risk and data engineering teams to identify process improvements, system modifications, and develop data governance controls.

Preferred Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Informatics, or a related technical field.

Technical Knowledge and Preferred Experience:

• At least 8 years of relevant experience in data management and business intelligence.
• Minimum 4 years of management experience in banking.
• Experience performing root cause analysis on data and processes.
• Experience in data warehousing, architecture, governance, modeling, dashboard creation, and reporting tools.
• Knowledge of data infrastructure, platforms, ETL, and big data concepts.
• Experience leading projects such as migrations and decommissioning.
• Familiarity with reporting and BI tools like QlikView.
• Understanding of operating systems like UNIX and LINUX.
• Experience with database platforms such as SQL Server, Oracle, Teradata, Hadoop, and SAS.
• Exposure to cloud platforms like Azure and AWS.
• Knowledge of data management principles and data integration fundamentals.
• Ability to work with structured and unstructured data sources.
• Proficiency in managing the data lifecycle.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Education

Bachelor’s degrees and advanced diplomas in Information Systems, Mathematics, or related fields are required.

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity employer. In line with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to candidates from designated groups to promote demographic diversity.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to fill this position.