Data Analyst II at FNB South Africa

Job Description

• To develop and lead a team that understands the various data sources, how the data flows through the organization and provide expertise, thought leadership, guidance and support through translating business needs into long-term innovative architecture solutions by analyzing data, conducting root cause analysis, engaging with relevant stakeholders across the business and recommending improvements to data pipelines, data quality, metadata, master and reference data, data access management.

Are you someone who has:

• A deep understanding of the various data sources.
• Systems and data fields to analyse the quality of data.
• Ability to conduct root cause analysis and generate proposals to improve data quality, access, and management.
• A combination of analytical expertise, business acumen, strategic thinking, and project and relationship management skills, the incumbent will extract reporting requirements from business and deliver on this.

Key responsibilities:

• Understand business rules and requirements to solve specific use cases
• Query and connect data from disparate sources
• Provide transformation rules to Data Engineers
• Present findings clearly to stakeholders
• Map source systems to enterprise data models
• Understand data sources and map to target systems/ solutions.
• Provide transformation rules to Data Engineers.
• Understand business rules and requirements to solve specific use cases.
• Ensure that process conforms to business objectives and complies with Group Information Architecture.
• Provide relevant business management reports that are submitted to Exco and other relevant forums.
• Analyse and recommend changes to data pipelines of existing and new initiatives with the aim of aligning these to avoid duplication in data pipelines, inconsistent mappings, etc.
• Partner with stakeholders to grasp problem specifics - collects, processes and analyses data to quantify the scope, nature and severity of the problem.
• Engage with Data teams to understand the data landscape.
• Engage and drive conversations with relevant stakeholders to unpack project and requirements.
• Evaluate options based on business requirements and provide input into viable solution based on analysis

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Bachelor's Degree /Postgraduate Diploma / Advanced Diploma

Experience Required

• 3+ years data analysis experience.
• Solid understanding and working knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Teradata, Oracle, SQL, SAS, etc), data structure, data quality strategies and experience analysing large volumes of data. Exposure to the financial services industry and or banking products and related systems preferred.
• Tools required to be successful in this environment (Ab-initio, Metadata hub, ExpressIT)

End Date: April 28, 2026