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Banking
full time

Senior Specialist: Data Insights & Intelligence MI/BI

AbsaJohannesburg

Salary

Not disclosed

Job Type

full time

Posted

6 days ago

Closing date

7 Jul 2026

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Job Description

SME specialist within Data Insights and Intelligence MI/BI subject matter, who engages 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 modelling and create measures that drive an optimal value management strategy. To enhance information in order to support optimal decision making.

Key Responsibilities

  • 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 relationships between business areas, enabling a better understanding of data and reporting.
  • Validates, collaborates and researches continuously to enhance business performance by analysing key profit/cost/process efficiency drivers, key indicators, relationships and trends.
  • Collaborates and manages across internal data pillars to deliver on complex projects.
  • As Subject Matter Expert, the Senior MI / BI Analyst fulfills a mentoring role and guides delivery across layers within the business area.
  • Guides and mentors team members on data manipulation and analytical techniques to provide insights and recommendations that support decision making.
  • Designs sustainable BI solutions to address business needs, and drives opportunities to improve processes and strategies with technology solutions.

Requirements

  • 5 to 10+ years working in Data Insights, Intelligence, MI/BI and business analytics.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field: Data Analytics / Data Science, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics / Mathematics.
  • High-level Qlik Sense, Power BI, and SQL development skills.
  • Expertise in using business intelligence and data visualization software.

About the employer

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Absa

Absa is a hiring organisation operating in Johannesburg within the banking sector. They are currently recruiting for the Senior Specialist: Data Insights & Intelligence MI/BI role advertised on this page. Visit the official application link for more about the company, its culture and the team you would be joining.

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