Senior Manager: Business Analytics and Insights

4 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- 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.

**Job Description**:
Portfolio Analytics and Insights 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 forecasting’s 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.

Portfolio Reporting and Communication
- Communicate clear, concise, commercially valuable, data-driven insights and recommendations to business in support of operational efficiency improvement.
- 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.

Portfolio Quality Assurance
- Maintain a high standard of data analytics by ensuring that outputs are constantly quality assured
- Support with the design, development and, enhancement activities and balancing procedures to ensure integrity of data
- Leverage available training & development opportunities to advance specialist data analytics skillset into data science

Stakeholder Management
- Generate appropriate challenge on model builds by discussing model build detail and ideas.
- 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.

Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in business, Commerce and Management Studies and/or Computer sciences, Information Management and/or BM Knowledge & Skills: (Maximum of 6)
- Understanding of basic data warehousing concepts (Querying, table relationships etc.)
- Analytical tools e.g., SAS, SQL, Power BI
- Microsoft Suite (Advanced Excel, Power Point.)
- Systematic Reasoning
- Analytical thinking
- Interpretation of analytic results and translating them into management information

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (required)
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