• Job Description

  Req#: R-15966651

  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

  The Prism Administrator will be responsible for the Workday Prism Analytics tool, to administer and support users within the people function and business users in adopting and self-servicing the Prism analytics solution built. To ensure the enablement of authorised users through the Prism analytics tool to access people data with data from any accredited and authorized data source at any scale, to visualize and distribute insights to users within Absa.

  Job Description

  Key accountabilities

  Data Integration and Management

  • Transfer in data from any source via API, SFTP or browser-based file uploads
  • Access HR transactional data from Workday and other systems
  • Schedule automatic updates to keep data synced and current
  • Search, discover, and manage datasets in a single data catalog
  • Understand and ensure pipelines are constructed with data lineage

  Data Governance

  • Govern data using the Workday security framework
  • Apply role-based and contextual security for personalised access
  • Separate duties with different permissions for dataset creation and publishing
  • Set table-level security and sharing controls

  Self-Service Preparation

  • Create and maintain data transformation pipelines with an intuitive interface
  • Apply join, union, group-by, and filter functions to datasets
  • Build computed fields by leveraging a rich function library
  • Preview data transformations to ensure data is what was expected
  • Obtain a visual profile of fields in the dataset to understand statistics, such as distribution

  Production Insights

  • The query of large-scale datasets with an in-memory high-performance analytics engine
  • Usage of data sources from Workday Prism Analytics in Workday reports, dashboards, and scorecards
  • The Accessing of insights generated from Workday Prism Analytics from a desktop, tablet, or mobile device
  • The sharing of insights within the organization in alignment with security protocols

  • Stakeholder engagement:

  • Work with all stakeholders in the organization to ensure the effective execution of key deliverables in the Digital People Experience (DPX) portfolio (e.g., development of Prism Analytics capability).
  • Liaise with appropriate stakeholders within DPX (Functional Leads, Architects of digital platforms), PX (Service Managers, Product Owners) and People Function to foster alignment and integration with the Workday Prism Analytics Tool.
  • Build and sustain a network in the organization with the relevant data stewards, analytics user community and relevant stakeholders.
  • Liaise with Workday Community to align with developments, practices and future releases.

  Personal Continuous Improvement

  • Keeps up to date on Workday functionality and training.
  • Upskills and trains People Experience Tier 1 and team members in other functional disciplines / specialisations in Workday / Analytics user community.
  • Obtains relevant Workday certifications.

  Service Excellence

  • Adheres to the timelines and quality standards agreed to within the team and with clients.
  • Designs and delivers frameworks that are aligned to best practice and Absa’s governance and risk appetite.

  Compliance and data governance

  • Adheres to Absa and People Function data policies, legislation, regulation, quality, security and privacy.
  • Escalates issues timeously for resolution.

  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

• About the company

  Absa Group Limited, and originally Amalgamated Banks of South Africa, is a South African-based financial services group, offering personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, as well a...

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