Absa Group

Business Intelligence Analyst

Kenya
SQL Power BI JIRA Azure DevOps SharePoint
Description

Business intelligence Analyst

Location: Absa Headquarters (KE)

Remote Type: Hybrid

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job Summary

The role holder is responsible for making use of tools to analyse data and report on business operations. The holder will be required to engage with business teams regularly to identify and document requirements on opportunities for automation through better use of data and analytics. The role holder will also be required to use low code analytics tools to create quick solutions centred around organisational data and deliver self-service solutions for business users.

Job Description

Key accountabilities/Deliverables/Outcomes

  • Engage business stakeholders to understand business requirements, create and validate use cases, user stories and wireframes.

  • Participate in business initiatives to provide insights on opportunities for automation and enhanced data use.

  • Prepare project plans to support analytics and automation projects

  • Manage business intelligence projects using agile to deliver value to stakeholders.

  • Create, maintain, and use low code data tools to respond to business ad-hoc data requests

  • Assess, respond, and log cases assigned to them by the data Helpdesk from time to time

  • Design and refine reports and dashboards to solve business use cases using bank approved low code solutions

  • Develop data collection tools using PowerApps, Sharepoint and other development platforms standardise ingestion of data in support of data led business solution.

  • Work with Developers to create and maintain complex analytics solutions by providing clear business requirements and rallying stakeholders to test and approve results.

  • Develop and maintain documentation/manuals on reports, dashboards, and portals

  • Carry out regular user training to enable users extract insights from data solutions

  • Train business power users on basic data visualisation and data literacy skills for no code solutions.

  • Develop training solutions for end users and junior analysts on use of BI tools and solutions

  • Undertake research and development and actively challenge status quo with ideas to improve operations and existing solutions deployed by colleagues

  • Identify and escalate data quality issues to the governance team for action

Role/person specification

Qualification

  • A Bachelor’s degree is mandatory, preferably in IT, technology, data science, business analytics, mathematics, or a related field.

Preferred Experience

  • Minimum 1-3 years technical experience
  • Experience in working within a complex organization with multiple stakeholders

Knowledge and Skills

  • Strong analytical and diagnostic skills with focus on financial sector
  • Strong presentation and communication skills
  • Great interpersonal skills and ability to work remotely
  • Strong experience in working within a large complex organization with multiple stakeholders
  • Knowledge of technology project management tools such as JIRA, Planner, Azure DevOps

Absa Bank Kenya is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. Preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards the achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Application deadline: May 6, 2026.

Education

Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)
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