Senior Specialist: Business Analysis at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

• Drive enterprise productivity analysis aligned to standard methodologies (including Lean Six Sigma), identifying structural and systemic efficiency opportunities across Business Units and Functional value chains.
• Lead enterprise-wide diagnostic assessments, including as‑is and to‑be modelling, root-cause analysis, and value leakage assessments.
• Establish and maintain standard productivity artefacts, frameworks, templates and guardrails to ensure consistent adoption of ways of modelling, working and organising.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops (Show & Tell, Value Identification, Innovation & CI) to surface enterprise blockers, cross-cluster synergies and high‑value opportunities.
• Coordinate end‑to‑end value identification and tracking processes, ensuring opportunities progress through the hopper into executable initiatives with clear measurable outcomes.
• Partner with cluster Productivity Leads, Enterprise & Business Communities to integrate practices, enhance maturity and ensure alignment across the enterprise ecosystem.
• Support initiative execution through solution analysis, feasibility assessments, business case inputs and impact analysis (people, process, system).
• Act as an enterprise knowledge curator, strengthening the best‑practice repository and embedding continuous improvement culture.
• Provide advisory to senior stakeholders, synthesising insights from diagnostics, benchmarks and performance analytics to drive decision‑making.

Role / Person Specification

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Industrial Engineering, Informatics, or related field required, postgraduate qualification advantageous.
• 10+ years’ experience in business analysis, process architecture, productivity, transformation or enterprise optimisation roles.
• Strong experience applying structured methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, process engineering, operating model design).
• Experience leading cross-functional diagnostic and transformation efforts at enterprise scale.
• Ability to lead and facilitate value stream assessments across Business and Functional departments.

Knowledge & Skills

• Advanced business analysis and process architecture expertise (enterprise‑level).
• Strong data interpretation, analytics and structured problem‑solving capability.
• Deep understanding of productivity levers, structural efficiencies and value‑chain optimisation.
• Command of enterprise modelling techniques and toolsets.
• Ability to synthesise complex information and communicate insights to senior leadership.
• Exposure and knowledge in AI, Agentic AI and or other automation technologies will be advantageous.

Competencies

• Strategic Thinking & Enterprise Orientation
• Analytical & Conceptual Reasoning
• Influencing & Stakeholder Leadership
• Driving Innovation & Continuous Improvement
• Collaboration & Cross‑Functional Integration
• Delivering Results & Value Realisation

Education

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