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BI Specialist / BI Reporting Specialist
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Our client is looking for an experienced BI / Reporting Specialist with strong SQL expertise and a solid understanding of financial principles. In this role, youll design, develop, and maintain business intelligence solutions, ensuring accurate and reliable reporting to support key business decisions. The position requires a balance of technical skill, analytical ability, and client-facing professionalism, with opportunities to work closely with both internal teams and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities- Design, develop, and maintain business intelligence solutions and reporting to support key business decisions.
- Ensure accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of BI and reporting deliverables.
- Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Strong proficiency in SQL / T-SQL development and debugging (core requirement).
- Hands-on experience with:
- SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
- SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
- Microsoft Analysis Services (SSAS)
- Solid understanding of financial principles and experience reconciling and balancing reports.
- Good communication skills in English and Afrikaans (written and verbal).
- Ability to work under pressure and deliver within tight deadlines.
- Must be presentable and comfortable engaging directly with clients.
- Own vehicle or reliable transport required for long hours or client visits.
Should you meet the requirements for this position, please email your CV to You can also contact the team on XXX-XXX or visit our website Correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates. Should you not hear from us within 3 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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Specialist Accountant
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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.
Job SummaryRole will be focused on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and reporting of management information within central CIB Financial Decision Support (FDS). This central team provides continuous decision support for Exco and senior management within CIB. The Finance Analyst performs financial planning, analysis and reporting in an accurate, complete and timely way; and continuously seeks to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes to doing deep dive and trend analyses to crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives. The Finance Analyst equips finance and business leadership with sound financial information to support decision making at all levels. The Finance Analyst of the business enables achieving the operational objectives of the business by building an agile finance enablement to transform, to bring stewardship, financial integrity & insights to the current state of the business & its future possibilities to deliver on the new operating model and to achieve the business objectives. The Finance Analyst co-creates Finance capabilities required to lead to exponential growth and business effectiveness.
Responsibilities- Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Planning and Management in the business area.
- Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end-to-end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work.
- Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives.
- Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams.
- Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views.
- Ensure that the CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management of the BU.
- Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function. Embrace digital solutions and adopt what’s ‘best for absa’ approach in finance practices.
- Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls.
- Have a holistic eco-system view of business, that is, geography, customer, channel and product in developing information views of business.
- Build innovative finance business case financial information, insights and benefits tracking solutions to continuously inform management decisions.
- Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes.
- Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of CIB in performance reporting.
- Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for CIB Finance (annual planning, forecasting, and reporting).
- Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate.
- Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.
- Be an active force for good in society through business execution.
- Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution.
- Build trust in the finance function through the creation of a single source of financial information which is corroborated by related management information sources and alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies, and underlying data are correctly applied.
- Generate innovative easy to comprehend progress reports for leaders on their strategic agenda, short-term and long-term plans and investments, operational success metrics, efficiencies, risks and mitigations.
- Interact with stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process.
- Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.
- Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions.
- Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.
- Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into performance reports.
- Generate finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions.
- Ensure appropriate, quality and timely delivery of accurate financial and non-financial management information to support business objectives and expectations, including appropriate financial and non-financial metrics, valid and insightful comments and packaging the information in a relevant and appropriate manner.
- Deliver reporting reflecting deep commercial, holistic understanding, coherency, clarity, and contextualisation. Tell the story with passion and conviction.
- Provide thought-leadership, insight, influence and challenge on evolving stakeholder information requirements and reporting processes to deliver analytics.
- Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the CIB finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group. Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and BU teams.
- Manage the production of regular, high quality, standardised financial and non-financial reporting and analytics to Business and Finance; and focus on effective collaborative stakeholder hand-offs in the production.
- Peer responsibility: Coach, inspire, engage, mentor and develop finance and business savvy leaders.
- Network with finance colleagues across GFD and create awareness of challenges, opportunities and issues and encourage collaboration
- Focus on Finance skills evolution and remaining relevant.
- CA (SA) or CIMA or MBA qualification preferred.
- 3+ years professional financial planning and/or management experience
- 2+ years Banking Experience
- Knowledge and skills: Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint essential, Compass system and Power BI experience is advantageous.
- Experience in executing finance processes (e.g. Reporting, Planning, Analysis etc).
- Experience in commercial innovation environments
- Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (Required)
Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
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The Specialist Network Services is responsible for all services related to the domestic and global network operations. The role is responsible for managing overall IT day to day operations to improve network services in terms of service delivery and fulfilment, costs, performance and end user satisfaction.
This is a service management role that entails service management, service strategy, customers, services, staff, vendor management, service level management and budget management.
Seniority level- Entry level
- Full-time
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SharePoint Specialist
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Industry: Scientific, Research & Development
Job category: System engineering / consultancy
Location: Randburg
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
IntroductionMintek has an exciting career opportunity for a SharePoint Specialist. The candidate will be responsible to provide technical and functional SharePoint support to Mintek users and designing, coding and implementing SharePoint applications as per documented business requirements. All suitably qualified and experienced candidates are invited to apply.
Key Performance Indicators- Provide technical and functional SharePoint support to Mintek users.
- Designing, coding and implementing SharePoint applications as per documented business requirements.
- Extend SharePoint functionality, test and implement new features in a SharePoint Online environment, as well as a SharePoint 2016 on-premises environment.
- Manage code migration, document configuration changes, and monitor system performance.
- Configure and administer SharePoint and automate tasks.
- Maintain and update SharePoint Applications.
- Monitor SharePoint interfaces with other systems to ensure healthy system integration.
- Design, configure and maintain enterprise taxonomy, terms, and keywords.
- Monitor SharePoint software for any faults or problems.
- Troubleshooting SharePoint application issues and testing and debugging code.
- Perform preventative maintenance of SharePoint.
- Manage, maintain, and revise the site layouts, site content, structure settings, site hierarchy, and site collection navigation.
- Work Closely with divisions and cross-functional divisions to communicate project statuses.
- Adhere to best SharePoint practices and ICT Governance.
- Consults with management to devise the most useful ways to apply SharePoint for business goals.
- Perform monthly reporting.
- Honours degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information technology, Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Computer Studies or equivalent
- 5 years minimum relevant experience
- Advanced SharePoint Skills
- Information Security
- Demonstrate specific knowledge of the function and makeup of Microsoft SharePoint
- Possesses knowledge of best practices for maintaining information security
- Ability to handle sensitive company information responsibly.
- Proficiency with SharePoint development tools for workflow and forms development (Microsoft Power Platform, Nintex, Infopath)
- Ability to solve complex issues
- Ability to conduct research independently
- Ability to prioritise, think and work quickly to remedy system shutdown or serious software problems
- Troubleshooting and support
- Maintain a high level of service to internal customers