Senior Specialist: Data Insights and Intelligence MI/BI

1001 Absa Bank; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Bank in South Africa seeks a Senior MI / BI Analyst to translate data into insights and support decision making with robust reporting. You will work with MI/BI, Data Architecture, and Data Products teams to standardise processes and deliver value-driven campaigns and dashboards across business units.

The role focuses on strategic insights, trends analysis, and governance of data workflows to sustain high-quality business intelligence across the group.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Insights Generation—Analyzing trends, audience engagement, and customer journeys to determine campaign effectiveness and optimization opportunities.
• Campaign Execution—Manage leads generation across Card Issuing portfolio and drive campaign performance improvements.
• Subject Matter Expert on management information and BI reporting to enable higher throughput and better decision making.
• Design of sustainable BI solutions addressing business needs and driving process improvements with technology solutions.

Job description

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. Belonging at Absa Absa is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from suitably qualified individuals from diverse backgrounds. In support of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) commitments and Employment Equity objectives, preference may be given to candidates from underrepresented designated groups, including persons with disabilities. We encourage applicants who may require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process to let us know so that appropriate support can be provided.

Job Summary

SME specialists who partners with business units to create value adding campaigns and 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 Strategic Insights Generation- Analysing trends, audience engagement, and customer journeys to determine which campaigns are effective and optimization opportunities. Campaign Execution – Manage leads generation across Card Issuing portfolio. Drive improvement of campaign performance and successes regarding target market, quality of data, relevance of offer, customer experience, and customer requirements. Track and report on client campaigns and initiatives. 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

At Absa, our story is not a single narrative. It’s thousands of individual journeys unfolding across Africa and beyond. From colleagues serving customers in local communities to teams shaping financial solutions across borders, Absa is built on people who bring their lived experiences, ambitions and perspectives into the workplace every day. Whether you’re starting your career, a seasoned leader or somewhere in between, your contribution is seen, valued and connected to something bigger. Our presence across Africa – which spans personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, and insurance – exists because of the people who show up in their roles with purpose. Across Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, our colleagues are shaping what Absa becomes in each market. Beyond the continent, teams in global offices and a technology hub support and extend the stories that prove that African talent can lead, influence and innovate on the global stage. At Absa, your story matters because progress is driven by human experience, not hierarchy. When people are enabled to bring their whole selves to work, they don’t just build careers. They help shape the future of Africa’s financial services landscape.