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Job SummaryBusiness Performance & Analytics Manager
Job Purpose
The role involves business performance analysis and finance business partnering to the card business (Issuing, POS Acquiring and ATM Acquiring). This is achieved by:
Providing data analysis and financial modelling support for key projects and decision making within the business.
Carrying out analysis, summarizing performance and preparing presentations of financial and non-financial performance.
Providing insightful financial reporting monthly.
This role requires strong organizational, communication and analytical skills.
Job Description
- Key Accountabilities
Accountability: Business Performance Analysis
- Preparation of end month business performance reports (P&L, Key Value Drivers, and card balance sheet)
- Ad hoc requests from business leaders and portfolio managers
- Collecting and packaging data into usable and user-friendly management information for the relevant teams and stakeholders in the card business
- Continuously identifying opportunities to automate reports and to eliminate duplicate and manual report production
- Analyzing trends within the business data to reduce risks, optimize performance of the business and inform People Function decisions.
- Conducting Monthly reviews with the business for card business.
Accountability: Finance Business Partnering
- Working with card business holders as a consultant in finance related matters
- GL reporting, maintenance, and reconciliations
- Revenue and costs accruals monthly
- Card P&L Management
Accountability: Financial Control
- Branch must maintain the look and feel as per the Absa bank standards.
- To challenge plans to commit costs, identifying areas for cost efficiency and managing the delivery of benefits.
- Support production of specific technical elements of Management Accounts including Regulatory Reporting, the provision of core ongoing accounting operations, chart of accounts, etc
- To provide monthly cost performance reports to functions detailing actuals versus budget for their commentaries.
Accountability: Strategy & Planning
- Undertake key elements of strategic management activity, involving the identification of how value is created, destroyed, and driven in the function.
- To support the business in it MTP/STP processes
Accountability: Regulatory reporting
- EIR inputs
- CBK Portfolio Interest rates return (Table F
- CBK NPS 02_Acquirers and Issuers
- Interest rate spread
- Quarterly Scheme returns
Preferred Qualification
- Finance and data analysis related qualification
Preferred Experience
- Data analysis, finance, business, and product management
- Financial Modelling
- Banking experience (particularly important for RBB Product Profitability role)
- Good understanding of business strategic objectives
- Part qualified/ newly qualified accountant (those training towards accounting qualifications will be considered.
Knowledge and Skills
- Advanced excel
- Financial modelling
- Management accounting
- Data analytics tools (SQL, Excel, and Power BI)
- Product knowledge
- Presentation and communication of complex information
Behavioural Competencies
- Team player
- Analysis and judgment
- Proactive
- Information gathering
- Thoroughness
- Business awareness
- Persuasive
- Good communication, report writing and presentation skills
- Quality conscious
- Adaptability
Technical Competencies
- Strong Communication, Persuasion and Presentation
- Project Managements
- Financial Management
- Performance Management
- Strategy and Planning
- Performance Management
- Decision – making skills
- PC Skills specifically using advanced Excel
***Application feedback – 19th March 2026***
