Business Data Analyst at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

Purpose:

• Come join the Digital Data Products Team at Absa Corporate Investment Banking (CIB), reporting to the Head of Data Products.
• In this role as a Business Data Analyst, you will bridge the gap between business and technical stakeholders, ensuring seamless collaboration to develop solutions that turn data into meaningful, actionable insights.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Consulting with data product teams to identify challenges, opportunities, and business needs.
• Defining requirements for new or enhanced products, features, services, and optimized business processes.
• Collaborating with product managers, technical leads, and business technology specialists to develop tailored solutions that align with business and client objectives.
• This role also offers a dynamic opportunity to drive data-driven innovation within CIB while shaping the future of digital data products.

Job Description

• Communicating with data suppliers and various stakeholders to gather information around data sources (existing and potential)
• Importing/Collecting, cleaning, converting and analyzing the data for the purpose of finding insights and making conclusions.
• Developing and maintaining documentation related to the data analysis process
• Analysing processes to determine how to improve the automation of data processes (including Extract – Transform – Load jobs ETL)
• Implementing organizational policies related to data governance.
• Preparing documentation to communicate findings and recommendations to team / management for decision making
• Presenting data in graphs, charts, tables, etc and designing and developing relational databases for collecting data.
• Send us your CV if you have the required experience as well as having the below requirements;
• A Bachelor’s Degree in data science, information science, behavioral science, computer science, commerce or business administration 
• 4 to 6+ years business & systems analysis experience
• Ability & aptitude for working in integrated multi-disciplinary teams 
• Knowledge of Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)