ABSA

Specialist Financial Analyst: Productivity & Effectiveness

Johannesburg Full time

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 Summary

Provides financial insights, performance analysis, and decision support to enable effective business and risk management. The role focuses on financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, profitability analysis, and management reporting, supporting strategic, operational, and regulatory outcomes.

Job Description

Drives cost optimisation, resource efficiency, and value realisation by translating operational activity into financial insights and measurable outcomes. The role partners closely with business leaders to identify productivity opportunities, quantify benefits, and track sustainable savings.

Key focus areas:

  • Analyse cost drivers, productivity metrics, and capacity utilisation

  • Build business cases for efficiency, automation, and simplification initiatives

  • Track benefits realisation against productivity targets and budgets

  • Provide insight into cost‑to‑serve, unit economics, and value leakage

  • Support executive decision‑making through clear, data‑driven reporting

Value delivered:
Enables disciplined cost management, improved operational efficiency, and measurable financial impact across the business.

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (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