Insights and Analytics Manager - JHB at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

Analytics and Insights (80%)

• Translate the business challenges into key questions that can be solved with data solutions
• Participate in the data acquisition, data mining, and data project management duties relating to projects
• Design fit for purpose data interpretation & analysis approaches & create customized data models, algorithms, machine learning tools and recommendation engines to achieve the desired business outcome
• Use advanced data science skills to mine & interpret data. These include but are not limited to advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering & predictive modeling, distributed computing, machine learning tools & data intuition.
• Analyse findings from research and analytics to generate insights into target customer segments.
• Assist users, technical staff and management to resolve issues on project implementation.
• Design market research projects in line with research objectives with qualitative and quantitative analysis teams.
• Develop analytical models for the testing of business hypotheses and data analysis.
• Develop business hypotheses with various business teams to create analytical models for generating insights from data.
• Develop goals and KPIs for media channels with other departments or stakeholders.
• Develop plans for data analytics and market research projects based on business objectives.
• Devise solutions to manage legal and regulatory restrictions on the collection and use of market and customer data.
• Identify data sources for data analytics and newer ways to leverage available data.
• Implement data quality control standards and methods.
• Manage project discipline to document scope changes, issues and risks.
• Manage project to meet schedules, budget, manpower and technical quality targets.
• Partner with stakeholders or departments to define measurements for campaigns.
• Produce analytics reports and data visualisation dashboards to enable business stakeholders to understand the data.
• Propose budgets for specific key analytics projects.
• Provide data and technology input to develop the organisation's data strategy.
• Provide input on existing customer measurement infrastructure to meet organisation's research objectives.
• Support regular project reviews to recommend schedule changes, and cost or resource adjustments.

Data Governance and Control (20%)

• Understand frameworks, sources of data and data flows
• Ensure accuracy of data collected and ensure data governance required is met and adhered to
• Drive data governance responsibilities across all pieces of work

Education

• Bachelor Honours Degree: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)