Senior Manager: Data Analytics

**Job Requisition and Recruiter Specialist details**
- REQ: 139593
- Role: Senior Manager: Data Analytics & Insights
- Area: Sandton
- Specialist Recruiter: Lebohang Monate
- Advert closing date: 23/05/2025

**Job Family**
- Information Technology

**Career Stream**
- Data

**Job Purpose**
- To support and enable the NAR strategy by leveraging data and analytics to maximize value realization that will lead to increased growth, improved productivity and support risk and capital management. Drive framework and use of data platforms and systems to accelerate advanced analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities positioning the bank and its subsidiaries for a sustained competitive advantage.

**Responsibilities**:

- Transform NAR into a data-driven organisation by integrating scalable analytics solutions across the value chain and embedding them into operations.
- Enhance data accessibility and AI-powered insights to help subsidiaries drive innovation, market growth, cross-selling, and productivity improvements.
- Support skills development and collaboration by breaking down silos, integrating data efforts, and ensuring strategic alignment across subsidiaries.
- Accelerate growth and efficiency through close partnerships with subsidiaries, focusing on high-impact data and analytics use cases.
- Strengthen governance and data literacy by improving data management controls, ensuring compliance, and empowering employees to leverage data effectively
- Ensure work outputs are timely and of the highest quality and in conformance to standards in line with best practices
- Constantly look for opportunities to drive efficiencies and savings
- Ensure all stakeholder needs are met and understood through regular engagements
- Build and maintain of effective stakeholder relationships and establish credibility
- Function as Data analytics ambassador into business to ensure effective buy in
- Deliver great customer service through data driven insights
- Ensure team effectiveness through management of interpersonal relationships within own and across other teams
- Ensure task delivery by working on multiple projects simultaneously through effective resource management
- Ensure successful delivery of divisional goals
- Drive productivity improvement by making quality decisions
- Prepare documentation and complete administrative tasks required
- Mitigate risks by meeting audit requirements

**Job Responsibilities continued**
- Ensure appropriate change management takes place
- Tailor development needs as identified to ensure that business unit stays abreast in Data and analytics field of expertise and deliver on the expectations from stakeholders.
- Create environment of teamwork
- Build capability of self and staff by identifying current and future training and development needs.
- Managing adherence to compliance
- Supply feedback to system owners on anomalies process errors etc.
- Manage and mitigate business risk to ensure business continuity
- Drive business objectives and value through data products
- Drive efficiencies and standards through self service
- Manage priorities and business expectations
- Consult with business-on-business strategy supporting them utilising their data assists
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
- Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.)
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.

**Essential Qualifications - NQF Level**
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

**Preferred Qualification**
- CFA or Relevant Financial/ Data and Analytics Degree

**Preferred Certifications**
- Preferred - Tool certifications Microsoft BI certification, relevant Data Management certification, Agile, DMBOK
- Minimum Experience Level
- 7+ years experience in a Data & Analytics environment with at least 3 years in senior roles.
- Experience across functional teams

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Strategic planning
- Performance management
- Staff resource planning
- Employee training/development
- Agile Concepts
- Data analysis
- Change management
- Principles of project management
- Business writing skills
- Client Service Management
- Software Development
- Disaster Recovery & Business continuity standards
- Architecture Modeling
- Data modelling tool
- Engineering

**Behavioural Competencies**
- Courage
- Building talent
- Business Acumen
- Delegation and Empowerment
- Facilitating Change
- Strategic Planning
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_