There is a New Job Advert At Absa Bank. The company is hiring an MI analyst.
Job Summary:
The Finance MI Analyst will be part of the Data Analytics team with the following main accountabilities:
- Develop an MI framework that will support the business with robust and reliable data to aid in management decision making with the objective of maximizing profitability.
- Assist in developing business insights that constructively challenge the organization to refine its “where to play” and “how to win” choices to drive growth, improve profitability, and sustain competitive advantage
- Produce daily, weekly and monthly reports which will cover all aspects of business and performance reporting
Job Description:
Business Analytics
Time split : 40%
- Applying analytics (descriptive, predictive, prescriptive) across functional reports
- Assist in developing business insights that constructively challenge the organization to refine its “where to play” and “how to win” choices to drive growth, improve profitability, and sustain competitive advantage
- Support in promoting data as a strategic asset for identifying growth opportunities as well as experimenting and testing new ideas with the aim of building new customers and revenue streams.
- To monitor actual performance against target and to analyse variances.
- Assist in the investigation of any anomalies in financial performance
- To understand the key drivers of income & cost and develop and report financial and other performance measures required by local management & ARO Finance to monitor profitability of major products and of individual functions.
- Providing input and assisting in the preparation and timely submission of Flash, Actual, MTP, STP and RAF to group.
- Produce periodic reports which will cover all the aspects of the product life cycle including acquisition, portfolio performance, product profitability, credit and collections performance and operational related reports
- Support in maintaining high quality of analysis and evaluation
- Analysis of competitor data and economic trends to monitor performance and identify critical areas of focus.
Management Information
30%
- Proactively identify the MI needs of business partners and develop the necessary tools to meet these needs.
- Provision of MI on an ongoing basis as and when requested by group and the local team.
- Assist in the review of business cases for all investment projects undertaken by your business and to monitor benefits by gathering data on costs, benefits and returns.
- Assist in the preparation of senior management presentations and decks
- Ensure the integrity of Management information and support in maintaining high data quality.
- Assist in ensuring correct mapping of product, segment and functional P & L and balance sheet in BRAINS and all Finance systems
- Assist in group reporting, data and system management (TMI, SAP and other)
- To respond to routine and ad hoc information requests.
- Participate in any finance related activity as and when requested by Finance.
- Ensure reports are completed within the specified requirements and the agreed SLAs and ensure the requestor understands any limitations
- Prioritisation of regular and ad hoc reporting to satisfy external and internal customers
Knowledge, Expertise and Experience
- Understands the business and is able to identify the information required to respond to business queries.
- Ability to articulate complex concepts into actionable packages of work
- Understanding of performance analysis and methodologies applied internally and externally.
- A minimum of two years working experience in a similar role
- A good understanding of the ARO performance tracking matrix.
- Good knowledge of the Bank’s systems and data sources.
- Is able to build and develop trust and rapport with other people.
- Ability to articulate complex concepts into actionable packages of work
- Actively planning and preparing communications materials and adapting them for different audiences
- Excellent Data manipulation skills in Advanced Excel
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Education:
Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
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