Specialist Solution Analyst

2 weeks ago


Vanderbijlpark, South Africa Absa Bank Full time

Specialist Solution Analyst

Remote Type: Hybrid

Location: Sandton

Time Type: Full time

Posted On: Posted Yesterday

Time Left to Apply: End Date: November 12, 2024 (5 days left to apply)

Job Requisition ID: R-15969110

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

The Investment Banking Technology team (IB Tech) is looking for a Solution Analyst to join the IBD Technology team in supporting vendor and in-house solutions. The Solution Analyst is responsible for supporting the area’s applications, vendor support engagement, managing BAU improvements, and will be assigned on projects when required.

Job Description

Required Education:

- Any relevant tertiary qualification (degree) in Finance/Actuarial Science/Information Systems/Computer Science/ Certificate in Business Analysis

Required Experience/Skills:

- 5+ years business & systems analysis experience

- Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams

- Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team/teams

- Banking domain experience, preferred

- Expertise in Systems Design and Integration

- A good grasp of fundamental business analysis techniques and project methodologies

- Microsoft Office

- Visio

- Experience in Corporate and Investment Banking, preferred

- Good understanding of financial products in the South African market

- Experience with data analytic tools such as Qlikview/Power BI

- Functional experience with ACBS and/or Front Arena

- Jira/Azure DevOps or related

- Apache Hadoop, Hive, Linux, Bash, Spark

- Version control tools, like Git

- Working with Hadoop; creation of data ingestion pipelines

Advantageous Experience/Skills:

- Power Automate

- Python coding or being able to read and interpret Python code

- Experience with Loans product

Required Soft Skills:

- Strong analytical skills

- High quality and delivery focused

- Resilience and drive with the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment

- Customer focused

- Collaborative team player

- Strong organisational skills

- Strong communication skills including conflict resolution

- Meetings and Presentation skills

- Avid learner

- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills

Key Accountabilities:

- Provide functional support to IBD business areas for applications used such as Front Arena, ACBS etc.

- Keep data systems up to date such as Jira, Confluence, Change process systems.

- Engage with various IBD teams to clean data and streamline processes.

- Management of Hadoop feeds and processes.

- Creation and/or maintenance of Power BI dashboards/reports using different sources such as Hadoop, MyMI, file reports.

- Participate in projects assigned as per role.

- Apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business needs using frameworks and tools as required. Capture business requirements in required format (formal BRD/User Story etc.) gaining appropriate approvals from key stakeholders.

- Ensure cohesion across business requirements, business processes, system processes and integration tracing impact of changes.

- Participate in peer reviews and problem solving.

- Define, execute and track test cases validating that requirements have been met.

- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand their needs and communicate regularly keeping them informed of work statuses.

- Collaborate with development team to ensure understanding of requirements.

- Documentation of processes/guides, providing training and handover to business/support teams.

- Proactively learn & leverage knowledge on business, technical landscape and industry trends.

- Adherence and compliance to the banks policies & standards regarding technology and info security measures.

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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.

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