Business Data Analyst

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

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.
• 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.
• Analyzing 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.

Minimum 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).

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.