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Absa Group
Absa Group
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Absa Group is an African financial services company operating across banking, finance, and fintech. Its business spans Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia, with additional offices and entities in China, Namibia, Nigeria, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The group also maintains technology support operations in the Czech Republic and serves its markets with an outlook that extends beyond the African continent.
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BI Data Analyst – Johannesburg Hybrid

Join Absa Group as a BI Data Analyst supporting Power BI sustainability reporting and data insights for African banking operations. The role focuses on environmental data validation, dashboards, KPIs, reporting governance, and assurance.

ZASouth AfricaHybridFull-timeMiddleSeniorEnglish RequiredData Analyst

Description

  • Collect environmental sustainability data monthly from internal and external providers
  • Track reporting deadlines and follow up on missing or incomplete environmental data submissions
  • Assess source data for completeness, consistency, plausibility, and accuracy
  • Document validation procedures and retain evidence for reporting and assurance activities
  • Create reports, reporting templates, and standards across multiple technologies
  • Interpret data to generate insights and uncover improvement opportunities
  • Produce tailored and recurring performance reports for the business sales force
  • Find ways to automate reporting and remove duplicated or manual report production
  • Work with stakeholders to understand business problems and uncover analytics opportunities
  • Provide reliable management information to support new product business cases
  • Recommend monitoring approaches and KPIs, then validate the underlying data
  • Use trend analysis to reduce risk, improve performance, and support People Function decisions
  • Review, test, and confirm the accuracy of Power BI dashboards and visualisations
  • Investigate dashboard discrepancies and coordinate resolutions with reporting teams, system administrators, and stakeholders
  • Complete monthly validation and quality assurance checks on environmental sustainability data
  • Conduct trend, variance, and reasonableness analyses
  • Maintain audit trails and supporting records for environmental data
  • Confirm environmental data follows approved methodologies and governance requirements
  • Escalate significant data quality concerns, reporting risks, and compliance issues to management
  • Review and approve environmental reporting outputs before publication
  • Develop trusted stakeholder relationships and provide analytics consultancy
  • Present findings and guide stakeholders on implementing recommended actions
  • Train users on solution design and effective utilisation
  • Assess the reporting impact of proposed management information changes
  • Contribute to new business initiatives and Group stakeholder engagements
  • Keep current with relevant practices while strengthening business and domain expertise
  • Examine business drivers, indicators, relationships, and emerging trends
  • Measure the effects of influencing events and proactively develop solutions
  • Create or modify reports in Workday

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in information technology, statistics, environmental management, environmental science, or business analytics
  • Three to five years of experience in data analysis, business intelligence, sustainability reporting, environmental reporting, or data governance
  • Hands-on experience with detailed data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance
  • Experience handling large, complex datasets from multiple source systems
  • Experience creating, reviewing, or maintaining Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions
  • Experience supporting audit, assurance, or regulatory reporting is advantageous
  • Knowledge of environmental sustainability or ESG reporting metrics and methodologies is advantageous
  • Analytical thinking
  • Attention to detail
  • Courageous challenge
  • Driving execution
  • Accountability
  • Risk and control mindset
  • Stakeholder management
  • Data quality management
  • Data validation and reconciliation
  • Power BI reporting
  • Root cause analysis
  • Environmental sustainability data management
  • Reporting governance and controls
  • Audit and assurance support
  • Report writing
  • Ability to create or modify reports in Workday

Benefits

  • Absa Group is an equal opportunity employer
  • Reasonable accommodation is available throughout the recruitment process
  • Preference may be given to applicants from underrepresented designated groups, including people with disabilities

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