Senior Specialist Data Analytics & Intelligence

Absa Group; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Group is seeking a Senior Specialist Data Analytics & Intelligence to partner with business units, turning data into actionable insights. You will ensure high-quality MI/BI reporting, standardise data rules, and collaborate with Data Architecture and Data Products to deliver sustainable, scalable solutions.

You will mentor others, lead complex data projects, and develop analytics that support optimal decision making across the organization.

Qualifications

• Subject Matter Expert on management information and business intelligence reporting requirements and related solutions to enable increased throughput and better quality business decisions based on insights.
• Drives clear standardisation of business rules and creates sustainable channels for data flow within the business.
• Creates necessary channels and requirements to accommodate ingestion of new data from a range of sources.
• Creates relationships between business areas, enabling a better understanding of data and reporting.
• Sets a standard of reporting used across all business areas units built on sustainable solutions developed in conjunction with Data Architecture, MI/BI and Data Products
• Validate, Collaborate & Research - Continuously explore ways to enhance business performance by analysing key profit / cost / process efficiency drivers, key indicators, relationships and trends.
• Develop a thorough knowledge of products, systems, platforms and related reporting.
• Collaborates and manages across internal data pillars to deliver on complex projects.
• Takes accountability to assess, define and manage project deliverables, milestones, risks and issues.
• As Subject Matter Expert, the Senior MI / BI Analyst fulfils a mentoring role and guides delivery across layers within the business area.
• Analytical Insights - Guide and mentor team members on data manipulation and analytical techniques to provide analytical insights and recommendations that support decision making to the business.
• Design of sustainable BI solutions to address business needs, and driving opportunities to improve processes and strategies with technology solutions.
• Prioritise and oversee the implementation of identified development needs in order to improve and streamline operations.

Responsibilities

• Subject Matter Expert on MI/BI reporting requirements and solutions to enable increased throughput and better quality decisions.
• Standardise business rules and build sustainable data flow channels across business units.
• Ingest data from a range of sources and establish reporting standards with Data Architecture, MI/BI and Data Products.
• Build relationships between business areas to improve data understanding and reporting.
• Mentor team members in data manipulation and analytics to support decision making.
• Design sustainable BI solutions and drive process improvements with technology.

Skills

Data analysis

Business intelligence

Data visualization

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in BMI - Business Management and Informatics

Tools

Data Architecture

Job description

## Senior Specialist Data Analytics & IntelligenceApply: Hybrid: Johannesburg: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: September 17, 2026 (6 days left to apply): R-15990838### **Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together...one 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**SME specialists who engage with business units helping build out sustainable comprehensive reporting. Maintains a high standard acting as quality assurance as work is delivered. Delivers clearly defined asks to MI / BI / Visualisation teams Oversees and conducts the conversion of data into insights that will lead to informed business decisions. Works directly with stakeholders within the assigned departments. To support and enhance intellectual business performance modelling and create measures that drive an optimal value management strategy. To enhance information in order to support optimal decision making.\"**Job Description****Key accountabilities*** Subject Matter Expert on management information and business intelligence reporting requirements and related solutions to enable increased throughput and better quality business decisions based on insights. Drives clear standardisation of business rules and creates sustainable channels for data flow within the business. Creates necessary channels and requirements to accommodate ingestion of new data from a range of sources.* Creates relationships between business areas, enabling a better understanding of data and reporting. Sets a standard of reporting used across all business areas units built on sustainable solutions developed in conjunction with Data Architecture, MI/BI and Data Products* Validate, Collaborate & Research - Continuously explore ways to enhance business performance by analysing key profit / cost / process efficiency drivers, key indicators, relationships and trends. Develop a thorough knowledge of products, systems, platforms and related reporting.* Collaborates and manages across internal data pillars to deliver on complex projects. Takes accountability to assess, define and manage project deliverables, milestones, risks and issues.* As Subject Matter Expert, the Senior MI / BI Analyst fulfils a mentoring role and guides delivery across layers within the business area.* Analytical Insights - Guide and mentor team members on data manipulation and analytical techniques to provide analytical insights and recommendations that support decision making to the business. Design of sustainable BI solutions to address business needs, and driving opportunities to improve processes and strategies with technology solutions. Prioritise and oversee the implementation of identified development needs in order to improve and streamline operations.**Education**Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: BMI - Business Management and Informatics*Absa 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*