Senior Specialist: Portfolio Enablement and Reporting at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• To support and enhance intellectual business performance modelling and create measures that drive an optimal value management strategy. To enhance information in order to support optimal decision making."

Job Description

Key accountabilities 

• Subject Matter Expert on management information and business intelligence reporting requirements and related solutions to enable increased throughput and better quality business decisions based on insights. Drives clear standardisation of business rules and creates sustainable channels for data flow within the business. Creates necessary channels and requirements to accommodate ingestion of new data from a range of sources.
• Creates relationships between business areas, enabling a better understanding of data and reporting. Sets a standard of reporting used across all business areas units built on sustainable solutions developed in conjunction with Data Architecture, MI/BI and Data Products
• Validate, Collaborate & Research - Continuously explore ways to enhance business performance by analysing key profit / cost / process efficiency drivers, key indicators, relationships and trends.  Develop a thorough knowledge of products, systems, platforms and related reporting.
• Collaborates and manages across internal data pillars to deliver on complex projects.  Takes accountability to assess, define and manage project deliverables, milestones, risks and issues.
• 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.
• Review delivery, check & challenge and identify trends for analysis and pro-active actioning
• Ensure data accuracy and integrity through monitoring of data exceptions and ensuring that project data is updated and accurate
• Produce the portfolio reporting and provide data analysis/modelling and strategic insights
• Provide reporting and data analysis across demand, capacity, and resourcing to drive effective decision making
• Proactively work to automate and use tooling wherever possible to drive efficiencies and optimize value

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: BMI - Business Management and Informatics