Specialist: MI & Reporting Analysis (Collections) at Absa South Africa

Job Summary

"SME specialists who engage with business units helping build out sustainable comprehensive reporting. Maintains a high standard acting as quality assurance as work is delivered. Delivers clearly defined asks to MI / BI / Visualisation teams

Oversees and conducts the conversion of data into insights that will lead to informed business decisions. Works directly with stakeholders within the assigned departments. 

To support and enhance intellectual business performance MI/reports and create measures that drive an optimal value management in operations. To enhance information in order to support optimal decision making for business area heads of collections & recoveries operations, through data and insights.

Job Description

• To be part of a team that creates reporting including dashboards and datasets for consumption within the collections and recoveries business unit in Everyday Banking.
• As Subject Matter Expert, the MI / BI Analyst fulfils a mentoring role and guides delivery across layers within the business area. 
• Analytical Insights - Guide and mentor team members on data manipulation and analytical techniques to provide analytical insights and recommendations that support decision making to the business.  Design of sustainable BI solutions to address business needs, and driving opportunities to improve processes and strategies with technology solutions.  Prioritise and oversee the implementation of identified development needs in order to improve and streamline operations.
• Partnership with business intelligence and data management teams to create a strategic community and a business intelligence roadmap that covers technologies, techniques and standards to ensure uniformity in the provision of business intelligence across Voice and Service Enablement (VSE).
• Expansion of standard business intelligence to provide insights that drive strategic decision making as opposed to provision of reporting and datasets. Set priorities for data analysts and data visualisation experts within the team in support of this.
• Partner with business areas to define requirements, and to provide insights and analytics to enable decision making.
• Creation and maintenance of datasets via strategic platforms while adhering to data governance policies and procedures, and providing guidance to broader business intelligence teams to ensure uniformity and trust in golden sources of information.

Experience (minimum):

• 5-8 years at management level
• Qualification (minimum):
• 3-year degree (Honors preferable)

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)