Company: Old Mutual Bank (OM Bank)
Industry: Banking, Financial Services, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence
Locations: Johannesburg (Gauteng) or Cape Town (Western Cape)
Position Type: Full-Time Permanent
Job Requisition ID: JR-81916
Posted Date: 28 July 2026
Closing Date: Tuesday, 04 August 2026 at 23:59
About OM Bank & The Data Analytics Team
Old Mutual is expanding its footprint in the South African banking sector with OM Bank, a fast-growing, innovative digital banking initiative rooted in customer-centric financial empowerment.
As a Data Analyst at OM Bank, you will play a key role in driving evidence-based decision-making across the business. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, you will extract, validate, and analyze data to create high-impact dashboards, track key performance indicators (KPIs), and reveal actionable insights that optimize customer experience, operational efficiency, and financial growth.
Key Result Areas & Core Responsibilities
In this role, your deliverables span seven core performance pillars:
1. Data Analysis & Insights
- Pattern Discovery: Analyze multi-source datasets to identify trends, operational risks, and growth opportunities.
- Exploratory Analytics: Perform exploratory data analysis to answer critical business questions and guide executive decisions.
- Insight Translation: Convert raw data findings into clear, actionable business recommendations.
2. Reporting & Data Visualization
- Dashboard Development: Design, build, and maintain automated Power BI dashboards, scorecards, and management reports.
- Data Accuracy: Ensure reporting outputs comply with business definitions and data quality metrics.
- Stakeholder Presentation: Communicate analytical insights clearly to both technical teams and non-technical business leaders.
3. Data Collection, Preparation & Quality
- ETL & Wrangling: Clean, validate, transform, and aggregate data for downstream reporting.
- Data Integrity: Identify data anomalies, gaps, or inconsistencies and collaborate with data owners to resolve root causes.
4. Business Requirements & Analytics Support
- Requirements Gathering: Translate business needs into formal reporting specifications and KPI measurement frameworks.
- Performance Tracking: Monitor key business performance metrics and highlight emerging operational trends.
5. Data Governance & Compliance
- Policy Compliance: Adhere strictly to data governance, privacy standards (POPIA), and network security protocols.
- Documentation: Maintain up-to-date documentation covering data lineage, metrics, and report definitions.
Candidate Profile & Minimum Entry Requirements
To qualify for this data analytics position, candidates must meet the following criteria:
- Academic Qualification: A completed Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent NQF Level 7 qualification) in:
- Data Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics
- Computer Science, Information Systems
- Economics, Finance (or a related quantitative field).
- Work Experience: 1 to 2 years of practical experience in a Data Analyst, Reporting Analyst, or Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst role.
- Technical Stack:
- SQL: Strong hands-on experience using SQL for data extraction, querying, and manipulation.
- Power BI: Demonstrated experience in building, maintaining, and publishing interactive Power BI dashboards.
- Advantageous Skills: Exposure to Python or R for statistical modeling/data manipulation, alongside prior experience within banking or financial services.
- Employment Equity: Appointments align with the Employment Equity (EE) Plan of Old Mutual South Africa.
Career Advice for OM Bank Applicants
- Highlight Power BI & SQL Projects: Old Mutual explicitly screens for Power BI and SQL. Feature specific projects on your CV detailing how you queried databases using SQL and transformed data into interactive Power BI dashboards.
- Quantify Your Business Impact: When describing your 1–2 years of experience, explain how your data analysis helped the business (e.g., “Automated weekly reporting using SQL/Power BI, reducing reporting cycle time by 40%”).
- Emphasize Data Governance Knowledge: Financial institutions prioritize regulatory compliance. Mentioning your familiarity with data controls, accuracy validation, and POPIA will differentiate your application.
Sample Interview Preparation Questions
Technical & Analytics Questions
- Question (SQL): “How do you handle complex data aggregations and joins when extracting data from multiple normalized relational tables for reporting?”
- Question (Power BI): “How do you optimize a Power BI model for performance when handling large datasets with complex measures?”
Business Scenarios & Stakeholders
- Question (Requirement Translation): “How do you approach a situation where a business stakeholder requests a dashboard, but their underlying requirements or metrics are unclear?”
How to Apply
Submit your application through the official Old Mutual / OM Bank recruitment portal prior to the closing deadline:
- Job Requisition ID:
JR-81916 - Application Closing Date: 04 August 2026 at 23:59