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CONSULTANT SLA COORDINATOR
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Locations: Johannesburg
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15955136

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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
To develop a functional procurement operating model and framework in a broadly defined group functional strategy; enabling horizontal implementation and adoption.

Job Description
Stakeholder management: Work collaboratively with SRM Manager and Sourcing consultants in the development and implementation of sourcing Technology solutions within the Hardware category e.g. PC's Laptops, Mainframe etc. Lead development and execution of Sourcing Strategies (agreed category plans)for all assigned initiatives. This would include reviewing of different commercial models/options, ensuring fit with service, relevant supplier strategies. Lead specific major sourcing initiatives or elements, which invoke a high degree of strategic and/or business risk and value by aligning to the Group Technology Strategy and Architectural roadmap. Support scope decisioning through ‘make versus buy’ assessment targeted at realising greater value for the Group. Work with other Group functions and/or Business Absa Financial Services, Allpay, Absa Capital to evaluate and define appropriate commercial model (e.g. alliance, Joint Venture or outsourcing) in support of appropriate business objectives by taking accountability for overall outcomes. Lead the development of Sourcing Strategy and category approach and its subsequent effective execution ensuring leading edge practice and that maximum value is derived by using market analysis and benchmarking scenarios Effective management / exploitation of commercial synergies and interdependencies across sourcing initiatives by way of commercial strategy, consistency of process and execution. | Category Management: Work collaboratively with SRM Manager and Sourcing consultants in the development and implementation of sourcing Technology solutions within the Hardware category e.g. PC's Laptops, Mainframe etc. Lead development and execution of Sourcing Strategies (agreed category plans) for all assigned initiatives. This would include reviewing of different commercial models/options, ensuring fit with service, relevant supplier strategies. Lead specific major sourcing initiatives or elements, which invoke a high degree of strategic and/or business risk and value by aligning to the Group Technology Strategy and Architectural roadmap. Support scope decisioning through ‘make versus buy’ assessment targeted at realising greater value for the Group. Work with other Group functions and/or Business Absa Financial Services, Allpay, Absa Capital to evaluate and define appropriate commercial model (e.g. alliance, Joint Venture or outsourcing) in support of appropriate business objectives by taking accountability for overall outcomes. Lead the development of Sourcing Strategy and category approach and its subsequent effective execution ensuring leading edge practice and that maximum value is derived by using market analysis and benchmarking scenarios Effective management / exploitation of commercial synergies and interdependencies across sourcing initiatives by way of commercial strategy, consistency of process and execution. | People Management: Ensure the development of a high-performing team through embedding formal Performance Development and informal coaching. Determine and analyse development needs for the team and ensure that identified training requirements are budgeted for and executed. Champion knowledge sharing across team and Group Sourcing and ensuring Sourcing team continues to develop and consistently implement best in class tools and techniques Lead, manage and develop direct reports to achieve high performance by providing focus, clarity on assignments, motivation, support and coaching .Practise appropriate leadership and management disciplines with direct reports to achieve Business goals e.g. Group Technology Strategy. Manage team performance by undertaking personal reviews to reflect achievements against targets by ensuring weekly/monthly one-on-one meetings and agree on continuous improvement. Analyse performance and skill gaps through continuous 360 feedback and evaluation of the agreed performance development objectives and targets Ensure Personal Development Plans are complete, training plans executed, and that training effectiveness is monitored. Provide input to Human Resources (HR) Account Executive on direct reports’ development and career aspirations and manage assignment allocation in conjunction with HR .Provide active leadership and support across wider commercial community within the Bank to enable effective team performance Support and contribute to team building events and team dynamics through personally displaying leadership and team attributes. Champion new ways of working with own team and wider community, ensuring new ways of working and cultural changes are embedded by attending appropriate forums and team meetings | Risk Management: Delivery of all commercial and contractual elements of major sourcing initiatives up to contract award by using the standard sourcing methodology Sourcing and Supply Management Policy (SSMP) ensuring all financial, risk, strategic and commercial considerations are optimised. Ensure sourcing is in line with organisational and external governance by using and implementing the current ERMF standards Ensure appropriate engagement of the Legal manager, i.e. manage legal input to meet business and sourcing needs by engaging with the sourcing legal team on all contracts. Coach team members on all the processes and controls that they have to execute in their daily work and ensure that they understand the reasons for the controls and the consequences for failing to adhere to prescribed processes. On a weekly basis, remind the team of their compliance requirements. If any team member does not understand their obligations, highlight to the manager to arrange briefings by the Compliance Officer. Make team members aware of all changes to policies, processes and procedures that are being planned for the area and ensure that they are able to incorporate the changes on the effective date. Ensure that team members read circulars that are relevant to the area and answer questions they may have | Supplier Management : Effective management of supply side dependencies and interactions up to executive level throughout the sourcing life cycle internally with clients and colleagues and externally with suppliers by ensuring monthly meeting with suppliers are arranged. Ensure that monthly meetings are held with High risk suppliers to ensure benchmarking, contract, market analysis are understood and communicated to Group Technology on a monthly basis. | Business Management: Coordinate the efforts of the different operational areas under management to ensure minimal duplication of efforts, maximum efficiency and to maximise value for money. Rebalance resources between different areas e.g. reallocating headcount or budgets, but within overall approved resources for the year. Rebalance resources between different areas e.g. reallocating headcount or budgets, but within overall approved resources for the year. Agree targets and take accountability for the overall achievement of performance objectives in the business area in:

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

ANALYST CREDIT COMMERCIAL
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Potchefstroom
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956946

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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
To support the credit risk process through carrying out comprehensive and quality credit risk functions within the credit lifecycle to create shared growth within the boundaries of internal policies and external regulations for Growth Business clients

Job Description
Risk Management: To conduct quality credit risk assessments and reviews, Proactively manage credit risks associated with clients, Develop data driven strategies, facilitate the credit sanctioning process to ensure responsible risk decisions | Data and Systems Management: To produce and analyse relevant management information and insights management | Governance: Ensure the bank's credit, philosophy and all relevant legislation is adhered to | Customer Management: Investigate and resolve all escalated customer complaints

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

ANALYST CREDIT COMMERCIAL
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Bellville
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956944

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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
To support the credit risk process through carrying out comprehensive and quality credit risk functions within the credit lifecycle to create shared growth within the boundaries of internal policies and external regulations for Growth Business clients.

Job Description
Risk Management: To conduct quality credit risk assessments and reviews, Proactively manage credit risks associated with clients, Develop data driven strategies, facilitate the credit sanctioning process to ensure responsible risk decisions | Data and Systems Management: To produce and analyse relevant management information and insights management | Governance: Ensure the bank's credit, philosophy and all relevant legislation is adhered to | Customer Management: Investigate and resolve all escalated customer complaints

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.

SPECIALIST: RISK
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956924

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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
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with
regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework
and internal Absa Financial Services Policies and Policy Standards
Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the
role.

Job Description
Accountability: Risk Management/Governance Support

Evaluate, monitor, challenge and advise on the adequacy of internal controls by conducting scheduled reviews based on risk frameworks, policies and standards.
Assist SM with framework and policy embedment (policies, framework, standards, including training)
Monitor progress on remediation activities, escalate concerns.
Monitor adherence to policies and report any identified risks, irregularities, shortcomings or other risk and/or control issues to the Senior Manager (SM).
Identify, analyse, evaluate, measure and monitor key risk areas to ensure corrective action occurs for all identified risks. This entails performing risk reviews on key operational processes and procedures to identify weaknesses and recommend solutions by escalating these to the SM.
Review the current risk and compliance processes and procedures, guide and advise on areas for improvement.
Act as a backup representative, as directed by the SM, on selected forums. This includes communicating outcomes and actions following the meetings with the appropriate written feedback regarding expectations which is provided promptly.
Assist the SM in the rollout of training as required in business.
Monitor Risk Events, ensure lessons learnt are documented where appropriate, and ensure actions are tracked with business.
Monitor the update of the Risk Management Information System with all required information.
Ensure information is of a sufficient quality and integrity.
Provide general administrative support to the SM as and when required.
Provide on the ground support when new ventures are set up or there are acquisitions.
Provide support and assistance to the business stakeholders when the SM is not available.
Assist SM with framework and policy embedment (policies, framework, standards, including training)

Accountability: Reports and Business Management Information

Co-ordination of risk reporting requirements as directed by the SM.
Assist the SM with the AFS Risk Operations, i.e. budgets, monthly expense checking, events calendar management, team communications.
Assist the SM with oversight for the Regulatory, Board and Management reporting activities
Assist SM with identifying reporting requirements across the Risk Management Universe for AFS Group.

Accountability: Consultation

Promote risk and control awareness and work with stakeholders to develop and embed the understanding of the importance of risk and mitigation plans.

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

CREDIT ANALYST - NON-BANKING FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956986

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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
To support the credit risk process through carrying out comprehensive and quality credit risk functions within the credit lifecycle to create shared growth within the boundaries of internal policies and external regulations.

Job Description
Accountability: Risk Adjusted Management

To conduct quality credit risk assessments and reviews that present commercially minded solutions through analysis of financial, industry and economic information in support of the decision making process.
Pro-actively manage credit risks associated with a portfolio of clients with a key focus on the riskier clients within the portfolio.
Facilitate the credit sanctioning process to ensure responsible risk decisions.
Complete industry research and compile portfolio reviews and sensitivity analysis.
Actively interact with the client service team giving credit input to ensure responsible risk taking whilst retaining commercially minded solutions.
Ensure an efficient and timely risk delivery to clients.

Accountability: Data and System Management

To produce relevant management information and manage exposures including the accurate maintenance of the data on relevant risk systems.
Monitor adherence of covenants and conditions on a continuous basis and identify any deviations and possible concerns.
Create and maintain an accurate due diligence record of the client portfolio, detailing what facilities they have and the associated terms and conditions.
Manage and communicate the risks associated with outstanding securities.
Understand and manage the required inputs into the banks models ensuring validity and accuracy.
Monitor the client business performance and identify relevant risks to ensure early identification of change in the clients business or operating environment and watchlist accordingly.
Proactively utilise the systems and tools available for Credit Risk and partake in the ongoing development and feedback of these systems to deliver and enhanced automated credit function.
Manage all administrative and operational aspects of the relevant portfolio of clients ensuring completeness, accuracy and validity of data.

Accountability: Governance

Ensure that the Banks credit policies and philosophy are complied with.
Ensure understanding and adherence to relevant Legal requirements relevant to the Credit Lifecycle and specific industry.
Regulatory legislation and the changing environment require an up to date knowledge of changes and the impact on credit risk and capital adequacy.
Complete the necessary training requirements and Compliance processes in a timely manner.

Accountability: Stakeholder engagement

Attend team meetings and contribute fully, including suggestions for ways of improving risk delivery and management through ongoing projects.
Ensuring the right values and behaviours are portrayed in the achievement of the Risk Strategy
Develop relationships with colleagues and create a sense of engagement.
Communicate concerns or challenges faced in a constructive and positive manner.
Develop and maintain contacts with Specialists in other areas of the Group.
Embrace and adapt to the diversity and change within the current Banking environment.
Demonstrate the willingness and ability to perform to the very best levels to ensure personal alignment to the Credit Risk Strategy.

Education and Experience Required

B-degree in Business or Commerce (or similar)
Relevant postgraduate qualification such as CA / CFA/ MBA and/or 3 to 5 years experience within a credit risk environment.
Experience in the Non-Banking Financial Institution clients is preferred in sectors comprising insurance companies, asset managers, private equity funds, collective investments schemes, retirement funds, medical aid schemes and stock brokers.

PROJECT MANAGER
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Johannesburg
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15946553

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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
To provide project management services and to develop, maintain and enhance operational business relationships.

Responsible for and the successful delivery of one or more projects to plan, budget and
agreed quality and governance standards in support of the business strategy. Manages
project teams engaged throughout the full delivery lifecycle.

Job Description
Project Management
The management of projects involving the development and implementation of business processes to meet identified business needs, acquiring and utilising the necessary resources and skills, within agreed parameters of cost, timescales and quality.

Takes responsibility for the definition, documentation and satisfactory completion of complex finance transformation projects.
Identifies, assesses and manages project risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, escalating as appropriate to ensure the success of the project.
Ensures that sufficient level of detail project and quality plans are prepared and key external/internal lateral relationships) maintained for complex projects and provides regular and accurate reports to stakeholders as appropriate.
Ensure projects being managed are compliant with relevant governance methodologies and compliance standards.
Ensures that quality reviews occur on schedule and according to procedure.
Manages the change control procedure and ensures that project deliverables are completed within planned cost, timescale and resource budgets and are signed off.
Provides effective leadership to the project team and takes appropriate action where performance deviates from agreed tolerances.

Change Implementation, Planning & Management
Defining and managing the process of deploying change into the business in a way that is sensitive to, and fully compatible with, business operations.

Ensures that there is a business perspective on how the new technical capabilities will be delivered to the business, including planning around key business cycles, selecting appropriate customers for migration, etc.
Initiates and managed the business implementation plan, including all the activities that the business needs to do to prepare for new technical components and technologies or process/organisation changes.
Tracks and reports against these activities to ensure progress.
Defines and manages the activities to ensure achievement of the business case after delivery.
Outlines key business engagement messages that need to take place throughout the programme/project.
Oversee training/communication activities to ensure it is fit for purpose for level of business change.

Benefits Management
Monitoring for the emergence of anticipated policy benefits (typically specified as part of the business case for a change programme or project). Action (typically by the programme management team) to optimise the business impact of individual and combined benefits.

Promotes the change programme vision to staff at all levels of the business operation, brings order to complex situations and keeps a focus on business objectives.
Works with senior people responsible for the line business operation to ensure that maximum improvements are made in the business operations as groups of projects deliver their products into operational use.
Maintains the business case for funding the programme and confirms the continuing business viability of the programme at regular intervals. Stakeholder relationship management: The coordination of relationships with and between key stakeholders, during the design, management and implementation of business change.
Develops and manages one or more defined communication channels which facilitates open communication and discussion between stakeholders for multiple work 3 streams/projects.
Initiates communications between stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact for defined groups.
Communication to key stakeholders/groups to keep them informed of key changes and potential impact of the project outcome through published status reports.
Facilitates the negotiation/mediation between different stakeholders to aid decision making process.

Role/Person Specification
Education and Experience Required

NQF Level 6: B Degree.
Appropriate professional accreditation in Programme and or Project Management. PMP a requirement.
An appropriate university degree, with preference for a B Sc., B Sc (Eng), B Comp Sc
A post-graduate degree such as an MBA would be advantageous.
Minimum 2 - 5 years Banking /Financial Institution working experience.
2-3 years direct experience in managing successful business change projects.
Solid knowledge of project management methodologies.
Project Management experience gained in a complex Financial Service environment.

Knowledge & Skills

Proven Project Management and Change Management skills and expertise.
Experience of employing change management best Practices and disciplines.
Experience of managing activity across the whole of a project lifecycle, using current technology, structured methods and a quality process.
Exposure to governance, control and risk management.
Proven ability to effectively work across teams at all levels.
Ability to negotiate/influence at senior level.
Proven ability to manage direct reports: leadership, motivation, coaching and people[1]development.
Good verbal and written communication skills.

Competencies

Deciding and initiating action.
Learning and researching.
Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking.
Relating and networking.
Adapting and responding to change.
Persuading and influencing.
Creating and innovating.

TRANSACTIONAL BANKER HIGH VALUE
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Locations: Nelspruit
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956003

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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
Support the Relationship Executive in the optimisation of profit and economic value for portfolios of Premium Business key account clients requiring high complexity commercial banking requirements by focusing: a) origination efforts to quire new clients; b) cross-sell to existing client base; c) coverage efforts to service clients in accordance to the segment CVP

Job Description

Portfolio Management: Ensure appropriate management of respective portfolios that includes but not limited to client engagement, portfolio performance management, reporting and executing of client requirements
Business Development: Agree financial targets/new business targets and set out tactical plans to achieve this on an annual basis
Risk Management: Ensure that portfolio meets the required risk management standards

Education
National Diplomas and Advanced Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies

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.

ANALYST FRAUD SOLUTIONS (FRAUD ASSURANCE)
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Johannesburg
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15952436

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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
To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist forensic expertise.

Job Description
Investigations: Investigate all theft, fraud and corruption cases allocated, end to end by ensuring that all investigative/operative methodologies and standards (e.g. planning, reporting) are adhered to within prescribed time limits Compile a comprehensive case report containing the factual findings of the investigation, recommendations addressing people, processes, procedures and system failures or internal and external threats and forward the final report to Stakeholders. Provide relevant findings and evidence for the use in disciplinary purposes and CCMA matters to Line Management and Employee Relations to ensure that appropriate and successful sanctions are handed down. Attend disciplinary / CCMA hearings when required. Attend criminal / civil court proceedings when summons to do so, to provide expert evidence in Court, relating to Absa's products, processes and flow of transactions to obtain successful prosecutions. | Risk Identification and Fraud Prevention: Identify fraud risks or emerging risks during the course of an investigation or interactions with internal and external stakeholders, escalated upon discovery, to the relevant business unit and the Fraud Defence/Strategy Recoveries and Remediation Department for assessment and closing of gaps related to processes, policies and systems. Conduct a proper risk assessment with each investigation, which includes quantification of the loss, insurance claims, media impact / exposure, blocking accounts, claims, provisions, risk mitigation and compliance reporting, Ombudsman queries and engaging with Group Legal Services etc. Identify high-risk Business areas, through feedback received from parties attending risk forums / investigations outcomes and perform specific fraud awareness presentations at the respective Business Units to the identified staff. Inform Heads of Business via e-mail of new trends / scams identified with further escalation to Stakeholders and Business Units for further actions. | Operational Requirements and Compliance: Identify areas of improvement, make suggestions/recommendations on ways of working, concerning the investigative and operating methodologies, to line management, for further consideration, to improve standards and workflow. Adhere and comply with the Group policies and procedures as set out on the Absa Intranet i.e. attestations, compulsory compliance training, via the Absa Learning system. Work co-operatively with colleagues, contributing positively and constructively to the achievement of the organizations’ objectives. | Stakeholder Management: Develop and maintain relationships (establish relevant networks) with all internal and external stakeholders such as however not limited to (Absa Business Units, SAPS, other Banks, SARS etc..) to ensure that their co-operation can be obtained when required for key operations (e.g. recovery actions, data mining). Interact with counterparts in the industry to share information, gain an understanding of the threats and risks and to ultimately keep abreast of changes in the field and in the industry. Actively participate in regular meetings with stakeholder / business, providing meaningful input and sharing information on best practices / investigation findings /risk identifications etc.

Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Law, Military Science and Security (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

MANAGER COMMERCIAL ASSET FINANCE (CIB) - JHB
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15955420

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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
Provide advice and support in the deployment of the sales and support function within the respective customer solutions portfolio to enable the execution and achievement of agreed business targets.

Job Description
PROCESS

Provide specialist advice and support in defining standard operating procedures (SOP's).
Conduct research and gather data to provide input to operational reporting and decision making processes.
Provide specialist advice to plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives and services to deliver on operational objectives.
Provide expertise to identify and develop solutions to improve quality of processes and services.
Oversee and keep abreast of compliance legislation and ensure the Regional Asset Finance team is kept abreast of the change and take accountability to remain compliant in customer facing roles.
Support the Regional Product Head through effective and accurate reporting on performance of operational team achievements of targets both through production volumes and margins.
Provide reports to Regional Product Head on market share growth and new business acquisition within the internal and external environment.
Hold regular meetings with all managed staff in portfolio to gather feedback on opportunities and threats within all active environments and provide accurate reports through to Regional Product Head.
Co-ordinate, manage and communicate the budget process within the portfolio and investigate any deviations in expense and income management through consistent governance.
Return incomplete or incorrect expenses. Sign – off and ensure payment of signed off expenses through expense tracking and payment tracking.
Escalate irregularities to the Regional Product Head when above a pre-agreed timeframe as outlined through the applicable policy and procedure.
Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders (e.g. Product, Segment, Operations, Absa Group Operations, etc.) to effectively co-ordinate the value chain thereby ensuring efficient workflows and optimal client service delivery.
Contract and manage Service Level Agreements with all relevant stakeholders including; across departments into segment as well as with support services. Action non-compliance and escalate to the Regional Product Head.
Ensure, monitor and enforce implementation of BPC requirements as well as changes in directives and that contracts and securities are generated within the agreed turn- around times between the BPC and the Fit for Processing centre.
Ensure, monitor and enforce implementation of Credit requirements routing and directives to meet agreed turn – around times.
Maintain a good understanding of all governance applicable to the Asset Finance area and have the ability to apply and coach the team on them.
Become the key point of contact for risk management in the portfolio and take responsibility to manage and resolve all governance and risk issues impacting the team.
Manage customer service delivery through the Asset Finance team in the portfolio and ensure that service level agreements and turnaround times are met and exceeded.
Build strategic relationships with key customers and groups that regularly request Tier2 solutions and manage these customer applications.

CLIENT / CUSTOMER and SUPPLIER

Provide support and contribute to a culture of customer service excellence that meets and exceeds exceptional service.
Build relationship with customers and suppliers that contribute to a culture of customer service excellence.

FINANCE

Contribute to the effective reduction of cost and financial wastage in line with organisational policies and procedures LEARNING & GROWTH
Participate in forums that positively contributes to knowledge improvement.
Provide advice and support in the management of change and offer operational support Where required

CONDUCT

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Policies and Policy Standards and internal Policies and Policy Standards.

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree (Commerce, Finance, Marketing, Business).
MBA/CA/CIMA advantageous
3-5 years in similar role of which 1-2 years at a junior specialist level
Commercial Asset Finance experience
Preferred: Credit Risk Assessment experience
Experienced manager of people

Competencies:
Technical competencies:
•   Compliance knowledge
•   Financial and Insurance Services
•   Reporting and Interpretation

Behavioural competencies:
•   Analytical Thinking
•   Change and Improvement Orientation
•   Customer Excellence
•   Ethics and Values
•   Influence/Persuasion
People Focus
•   People management
•   Leading, coaching and mentoring
Customer Focus
•   Extensive understanding of best practices for a customer focused culture and the management of customer experiences.
Collaboration and Influencing
•   Ability to build an extensive collaborative network amongst different stakeholders within and externally of the organization (at the most senior levels) that supports the achievement of business goals
Business Acumen
• The ability to understand financial and economic concepts/drivers; to identify, create and/or exploit opportunities.
Problem Solving Leadership
• The ability to analyse- and quickly grasp the implications of a situation, relating data from
different sources, critically evaluating and integrating information/facts, and diagnosing a
problem.

Education
Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: 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

LEAD PRODUCT ENGINEER
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15954082

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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 AIS team within CIB Transactional Banking Tech is looking for Lead Product Engineer to build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Job Description
Absa Investor Services (AIS) offers a holistic range of operational and administrative support solutions to institutional clients including asset managers, pension funds, stockbrokers, life insurers, government departments, global custodians and broker dealers. These solutions include Trustee Services, Derivatives Clearing, Investment Administration, Securities Lending, Issuance, Cash Management and Custody, Safekeeping, Settlements and Corporate Actions.
We require a senior Full-stack Developer who has experience with working in agile teams and with a strong focus on enabling business value through quality delivery.
You will be required to assist and lead a team to develop quality, error-free solutions based on business requirements to meet appropriate acceptance criteria.

Key critical skills and experience required:

Min 8 years software development skills
Technical skills / experience: C# .Net / HTML / Javascript / Angular / Postgres / Oracle
Domain knowledge beneficial (Custody / Lending)
Technical, Organizational and People / Leadership skills
Proven track record of leading a team of developers
Ability to adapt to change
Problem-solving skills, in order to deliver solutions by developing products that can be tested through automated unit testing
Working knowledge of Microsoft .Net framework and ability to develop scalable solutions using tools like angular
Team and stakeholder collaboration, you will be required to collaborate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders, understand the concept of using tests to drive their development

Key Accountabilities
DevOps

Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions
Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization

People

Lead a team of developers
Coach & mentor other engineers
Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
Deliver on time & on budget

Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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

ANALYST CREDIT PREMIUM
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Locations: Cape Town
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15953256

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Job Summary
To support the credit risk process through carrying out comprehensive and quality credit risk functions within the credit lifecycle to create shared growth within the boundaries of internal policies and external regulations for Premium Business clients

Job Description
Analysis and Research: - Conducts analysis and research in areas of specialisation/expertise, leveraging a variety of applicable information's sources; - Analyses information, generates and publishes written reports summarising findings and prepares recommendations within area of expertise; - Quality assures analysis and recommendations | Stakeholder Management: - Establish relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to source information and make recommendations to; - Build relationships with stakeholders spanning the enterprise in order to collaborate and share findings and recommendations. | Control: Accountable for complying with all risk management, regulatory and compliance frameworks within area of accountability; Where applicable ensures that colleagues managed are aware of and comply with all compliance requirements.

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

EXTERNAL REPORTING: NOTE OWNER
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Locations: Johannesburg
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956636

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Job Summary
To be part of the team that looks after the activities of financial reporting to internal and external stakeholders of the Absa Group and Absa Bank to ensure that financial reporting is performed accurately and timeously and complies with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), JSE Limited listing requirements and the Companies Act as well as specific requirements as communicated by analysts, the Group Audit and Compliance Committee and the Board of Directors for Absa Group Limited and Absa Bank Limited.

Job Description
Accountability: Monthly Reporting

Reviewing the financial results, obtaining commentary from Analytics and Balance sheet control for the various clusters.
Attendance to queries from internal reviews, external auditors, financial analysts and the JSE Limited by requesting information from the relevant team members and reviewing the responses for accuracy and validity.

Accountability: Projects

Be involved and contribute to improvement projects within the department including SAP 4 Hana, Hyperion Essbase and Planning, IFRS 17.

Accountability: External reporting

Review the team’s preparation/updates to CDM notes that are included reports for booklet, SENS and financial statements.
Perform an analysis, to ensure that any changes to the notes and accounting standards are taken into account. Ensuring accuracy of the disclosures through analysis and comparisons to annual financial statements. Taking into account note consistency across reporting levels.
Assist the team with HFM web form queries needed for external reports prior to release to ensure that all the relevant disclosure requirements are included in the web forms and that the necessary checks and validations are in place to ensure accurate submission by business units.
Assist the team with necessary escalations to ensure data is received timeously taking into account reporting deadlines.
Agree prior year figures to reported figures and following up on any and resolving discrepancies, taking into account re‐statements where applicable.
Confirming accuracy of disclosures through analysis and comparison to other reports within the team. Review all components of external reports to ensure reasonability, validity, accuracy and consistency across all. Ensure that financial information in other reports (included in the integrated report) agrees to financial information as reported in other external reports.
Obtain signoff from the team as notes are completed. Also provide signoff post review of note has been performed.
Ensure compliance to the Group's accounting policies, the Companies Act and King III.
Assist in preparing reports to the GACC and the Board alongside the Report Owners Manager.
Keep up to date with changes in accounting standards (IFRS) and other regulatory requirements to ensure proper and adequate disclosures.
Liaise with auditors regarding the review of financial statements and ensure that comments raised by auditors are being dealt with adequately. Meet with auditors to discuss audit budgets and possible fee overruns to be presented to the financial controller.

Accountability: Internal reporting

Check the accuracy between the Exco report, GACC report, Board report, Segment report, the financial results booklet, SENS announcements as well as the financial statements.

Education and Experience Required

Chartered Accountant CA(SA) strongly preferred
3 year Accounting articles (this includes supervision and review, passing the Board exams and completing recommended hours for the training contact)
Minimum B Com Accounting degree required, Honours in Accounting preferred together with IFRS reporting experience and banking industry experience

Knowledge & Skills:

Analytical skills
Stakeholder management (over reporting periods key stakeholders include direct team members, management and external audit)
Communication (verbal and written)
Report writing skills
Microsoft Office ‐ Excel, PowerPoint, Word
Hyperion Essbase and Planning exposure beneficial
Certent CDM exposure beneficial
Technical accounting knowledge
Specialist knowledge and skills – Banking exposure beneficial
Negotiation skills
Time management skills
Understanding group structures and chart of accounts

Competencies:

Deciding and initiating action proactively
Learning and researching
Commercial thinking and applies to work responsibilities
Relating and networking
Adapting and responding to change
Persuading and influencing
Creating and innovating
Drives efficiencies and automation in work responsibilities

Education
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

MANAGER SLA & SRM
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Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956994

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Job Summary
To plan, manage and monitor the implementation of contractual and service level management activities and processes in order to deliver on approved operational plans in an affective and efficient manner, that protects the Absa from threats and liabilities, whilst delivering commercial benefits.

Job Description
Contract Management: Ensure that contracts are renewed prior to their expiration date, by engaging business owners on requirements, and logging requests on Coupa. Drafting and negotiating contractual agreements in collaboration with legal and procurement teams to ensure that risks are mitigated, whilst simultaneously achieving cost savings and commercial benefits for Absa. Attending to the amendment of existing contractual agreements based on changing business needs and changes in regulatory frameworks, always ensuring that contracts are fit for purpose and compliant with prevailing laws. Attend to the periodic termination of suppliers and off-boarding processes where applicable. Assisting with RFX processes in an advisory capacity to ensure that strategic sourcing needs are met.
Supplier Relationship Management: Ensure that engagement models, exit strategies, and related due diligence is carried out and updated periodically, and that the relationships are effectively managed in line with the procurement policies at all times. Assisting with Supplier Assurance queries during audits and reviews as required from time to time.
SLA Management: Ensure the implementation of a robust service level management process including the formalised contracting of internal and external service level agreements, operational level agreements, and regular service reviews and remedial actions for poor service delivery, such as claiming service credits from suppliers and raising of breaches via group legal where required. Drafting SLAs, OLAs, and change control notes from time to time as the documents come up for renewal, or new business requirements are identified. Dealing with escalated matters from time to time, such as invoicing disputes and unresolved incidents.
Ensure appropriate governance, management information and reporting: Monitor operational plans and ensure that adequate management information is made available to measure performance against operational targets and scorecards. |Stakeholder Management: Continued pro-active stakeholder engagement and involvement on a legal, procurement, business, risk and compliance level, which may include executive stakeholders for approvals. | Query resolution: Perform detailed diagnostics and analytics in order to identify root cause problems impacting customer experience delivery and availability of the digital channels. | Team work: Forge strong partnerships within own function and collaborate across business areas, and demonstrate high level of self-awareness and ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

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.
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SPECIALIST SUPPORT ENGINEER
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Locations: Randburg
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956829

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Job Summary
Work as part of an integrated (run & build) tribe in lower complexity environments to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services).

Job Description
Devops & Support
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills to solve technical problems on existing applications
• Implement all configuration, optimization (e.g. upgrades) & maintenance activity (e.g. regular maintenance patches) for enterprise wide applications
• Provide efficient and effective support of applications including continued development of the application and security, software patches, reliability, disaster recovery and ensure the application meets the business needs
• Schedule and oversee planned maintenance tasks, such as backups and performance tuning, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
• Maintain correct and current application documentation and making it available to application users
• Oversee application implementation and configuration, patches, upgrades and maintenance, and ensure that application performance meets agreed SLAs and OLAs
• Ensure minimal business operations impact due to upgrades and maintenance activities
• Coordinate and execute unplanned maintenance tasks, such as disaster recovery procedures, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
• Manage applications throughout their lifecycle and assist in the application-related aspects of designing, testing, operating and improving technology products & services
• Coordinate & communicate across Tribes & Squads (all businesses) to successfully complete application upgrades
• Coordinate with infrastructure & architecture teams to ensure that the impact of system / platform migrations on applications is minimised
• Develop and maintain knowledge in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes
• Develop sufficient knowledge of application infrastructure (server, network, security) & broader organization architecture to assist with application upgrades and troubleshoot issues
• Compile and maintain inventory of applications and related details
• Manage and provide support aligned to all SLA’s
• Develop the skills required to operate and maintain the technical products & services (applications)
• Ensure that a backup system for applications and files associated with business operations is in place
• Advise on software installation and upgrades, troubleshoot problems and provide resolutions.
• Work with Information Security teams to define and implement access permissions for applications
• Develop and maintain expertise in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes.
• Receive and screen user programming requests for new applications or modifications, and determine appropriate priority and response.
• Develop and communicate training and documentation for end users.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and customers, external solution providers, and IT stakeholders for application support specific requirements
• Develop and / or assist with the development and / or execution of project plans for application upgrades
• Provide input to current and future application requirements to meet the organization's needs
• Prepare assessments for proposed applications, projects, and define appropriate integration and access requirements
• Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement
• Identify and recommend application improvement to enhance capability and performance, and minimize costs.
• Ensure that application users are aware of the application capabilities for enabling their effective use
• Assess vendor proposals for appropriateness and compliance with organization and industry standards.
• Participate in development of Requests for Proposals (RFP) and vendor evaluation and contract management for IT applications services.
• Supervise and maintain the organization's repository of applications
• Help diagnose problems and resolve incidents / issues related to applications.
• Validate the known error database for application-related entries
• Work with Tech Centres of Enablement to define the operational activities related to the applications
Application Monitoring & Performance Management
• Monitor application modification requests and ensure best practices are being utilised
• Conduct diagnostic investigations of program errors, and implement or recommend solutions or methodologies for resolution.
• Maintain metrics of operational performance and evaluate trends
• Analyse business systems to determine effectiveness, identify inadequacies, inefficiencies and problems and recommend solutions
Governance, Risk & Control
• Enhance methods and procedures for collecting, analysing, and documenting application issues, and completing user change requests.
• Enhance IT processes for transitioning completed configurations from development to production.
• Plan and coordinate the processes for the provision of user applications and systems necessary for business operations.
• Define and maintain application assessment, development, and support standards, and work with other IT and business stakeholders to establish configuration and use guidelines.
• Provide inputs to availability and capacity management process for effective planning.

Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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

SENIOR MANAGER: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956558

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Job Summary
Investment Bank Technology services three critical business areas in CIB, namely Markets, CPF & Investment Banking. There are critical strategic investment programmes in flight that require an experienced and strategic Project Manager to support with the execution of the projects, provide advanced project management services and to develop, maintain and enhance operational business relationships.

Job Description
Key critical requirements:

Min 5 years Senior Project Management experience (managing long-term projects i.e at least 12 months in duration or multi-year projects)
Project Management certification
Knowledge of both waterfall and agile methodologies
Project Steerco execution
Stakeholder engagement at all levels
Leadership potential

Preferred attributes:

Banking industry experience
IT project experience, or at least a working knowledge
Knowledge of the Global Markets industry
Resilience
Ability to work independently, but also as a collaborative team-player

Key Accountabilities:
Project Management:

Monitors the progression of a project at every stage and ensure that the objectives of a project are meet

Quality Assurance:

Maintain a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or production

Ensure that timelines are met:

Manage team in such a way that deadlines are met

Stakeholder management:

Ensure that stakeholders are identified and engaged

GLOBAL MARKETS GRADUATE
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Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15955815

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Job Summary
Participate in a professional development programme in order to maximise individual and organisational development, through the execution of predefined training objectives.

Job Description
Workplace experiences: Attend and participate in all workplace experiences against agreed development objectives | Learning: Attend and participate in all training and development interventions against agreed development objectives | Ad Hoc duties: Provide support to customers and team as required to ensure team performance on an ongoing basis | Administration: Effectively fulfil all required administrative duties, including tracking and reporting
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Education
Bachelor’s Degree and Professional Qualifications: 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.
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LEAD SOLUTION ARCHITECT
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Locations: Johannesburg
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15945974

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Job Summary
Drive the design and delivery of complex fit for purpose, business strategy-aligned, high impact, cross domain technology solution blueprints & associated solutions & build architectural capability in Dev teams across an estate.

Job Description
Architecture
• Leverage a solid & deep understanding of the organization strategy to identify, design & deliver relevant, scalable, testable, re-usable technology solutions
• Work in collaboration with delivery teams to independently analyse customer requirements & varying business capabilities & leverage analysis to identify & accurately spec / frame ‘the complex business problems we are aiming to solve’ with each solution design or solution evolution
• Through the above processes, leverage emotional, social & business / commercial quotient to understand consumers and the broader range of stakeholders, their opinions & perspectives and reconcile these within the solution designs (negotiation skills and dealing with complex and divergent stakeholder opinions are a must)
• Leverage expertise in analytical & creative problem solving to synthesise a solution design (build a solution from its components) beyond the analysis of the problem
• Lead design thinking processes to successfully deliver solution blueprints & associated roadmaps
• Create end to end solution blueprints & ensure these can be implemented across all phases of the initiative life-cycle (ideation through to product launch & commercialization)
• Design & or contribute to the design & implementation of detailed feasibilities & business cases
• Leverage a strong engineering background to make the right choices in solution design – this knowledge includes but is not limited to: domain driven design, loosely coupled integration, microservices and other modern software design practices
• The above extends to identifying the best fit tools to be used for a particular solution, understanding those that would not be a good choice and leveraging researching skills to pivot towards something better
• Assume ‘one stop’ shop accountability for solution blueprint design & delivery decisions within an organization based on the above
• Work with project / program management teams to design solution roadmaps aligned to the strategic requirements of an organization and through which the solution can be implemented across all phases of the initiative life-cycle (ideation through to product launch and commercialization)
• Work embedded, as part of a delivery team, to ensure the successful design & implementation of solution blueprints
• Ensure that the detail of the solution (across all architecture domains) is accurate to the implementation of the initiative, true to the bank’s architectural principles/preferences, implementable by the different teams involved in the solution
• Work as part of embedded delivery teams to conduct solution reviews, code reviews, testing and other disciplines associated with solution design & delivery
• Attend various Group & Business specific architectural design forums and present solution designs and detailed business cases for approval
• Leverage synthesis & creative problem skills to identify risk (impending danger & challenges) and work with a cross functional group of stakeholders across the value chain for support & direction
• Conduct solution reviews against defined customer metrics and ensure the ongoing achievement of business results through solution implementation
• Ensure a solid understanding of emerging & evolving architectural principles and hold one stop shop accountability for the evolution of solutions in alignment with these principles (where it makes sense to do so)
• Build architectural capability across delivery teams in a business to ensure ongoing evolution of skills in solution delivery
• Contribute to the architecture body of knowledge
• Contribute to the design & evolution of architectural principles and preferences

People
• Participate in peer reviews (code, solution, testing etc.) and transfer knowledge and capability across delivery teams for improved solutioning & evolving architectural practices
• Set & Cascade solution direction across technology delivery teams
• Build & evolve the architectural capability of Delivery teams across the business – through active coaching & information / knowledge sharing
• As an SME, support the proactive attraction, recruitment, development, & retention of strong technology teams across an estate
• Leverage and embed agile practices in delivery teams and work to build strong self-directed, high performance teams through agile working practices (including daily, weekly, etc. sprint routines, regular & honest feedback etc.)

Financial & Vendor Management, Risk & Governance
• Carry the ‘one stop shop’ accountability for all risk associated with solution design (from ideation to deployment)
• Apply the organization risk & governance frameworks
• Ensure solution design alignment to Group guidelines & ensure solutions are sustainable for the enterprise
• Proactively involve / engage chapter & guild leads in solution decision making, applying an enterprise wide lens to product & service development
• Ensure solution design alignment to regulatory requirements and continuously update knowledge on regulatory requirements for the successful design of new & evolution of existing solutions
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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

COUNTRY AND SOVEREIGN RISK MANAGER
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Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956982

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Job Summary
To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adoption i.t.o. credit risk management methodology, practice, governance and delivery objectives.

Job Description

Develop and provide input for (country and sovereign) risk models (i.e. understanding sovereign PD models) as well as giving input in deal structuring to mitigate risks.
Conduct meetings with multilateral organisations, governments and key clients across African countries
Conduct high quality research and analysis, covering political, macro-economic and business trends and forecasts for the Africa and Emerging Markets region.
Prepare country and sovereign rating reports for Sub-Saharan African countries
Conduct relevant country visits to hold risk related meeting with IMF, government agencies etc.
Undertake industry/sector analysis for the purpose of enhanced analysis of countries and the sovereign
Provide support to business in developing prudent strategies given the country risk profile
Develop and maintain sovereign and country risk rating models.
Engage with Wholesale Credit Stakeholders to ensure full understanding of their business strategies into Africa, building credible relationships both globally and locally.
Provide Management information on the performance of business to key stakeholders Group wide. Drive and participate in Wholesale Credit projects and initiatives outside of immediate areas of responsibility.

INTERNAL AUDIT MANAGER - CHANGE ASSURANCE
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Locations: Johannesburg
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956917

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Job Summary
To plan, execute and manage audit assignments in accordance with the country and Group Audit plan and relevant policies, procedures and quality standards. The Audit Manager is responsible for the quality of the audit work performed and the efficiency and effectiveness of the audit team.

Job Description
Audit Planning

Participate in the 6+6 audit planning cycle; provide input by taking into account the risk and control profile, business strategy and material risks affecting the business.

Assurance

Plan the delivery of Project and Change audit related assigned audits to a high quality and in line with Key Performance Indicators as per the methodology. This will include adequate resourcing scheduling, meeting key deliverables in terms of audit timelines and review of audit work to confirm that the minimum requirements as per methodology are met.
Manage the execution of Design Effectiveness Testing (DEA) and Operational Effectiveness Testing (OET) of the audit team in line with methodology requirements and as per the requirements of the QA scorecard.
Ensure audits and issues assurance within Key Performance timelines and resource budget

Leadership and Management

Mentor and coach less experienced team members by providing guidance around the methodology and audit process, and manage the teams that assigned to the audit effectively by delegating audit work to empower each individual team member
Develop a high performing team by embedding formal performance development and informal coaching. Encourage frequent knowledge sharing between team members

Teamwork

Support IA management team to identify, attract, develop and retain talent on an ongoing basis.
Engage proactively with Internal Audit colleagues during assignments and request technical assistance where required and based on knowledge of business areas, provide guidance to other auditors and peers by sharing best practice so that their work meets and sometimes exceeds quality standards.

Relationship Management

Present effectively at stakeholder meetings and forums (e.g.: Risk and Governance Forums etc.) by sharing knowledge and information, including methodology, standards, changes and new developments, with business stakeholders on an ongoing basis, and develop and maintain relationships with accountable stakeholder management on each audit.
Build effective relationships with CoE counterparts and fully engage them during audit reporting

Reporting

Use business knowledge to assess evolving risks, write high quality reports with observations which are insightful, address the root cause, have agreed actions that fully mitigate the risk, support the Issues Assurance process and require no further audit work to support them

Knowledge Management

Continuous upskilling on both technical and other core competencies. This includes auditing, project management and change management.
Keeping up to date with industry trends, regulatory changes and professional standards
Develop an in-depth knowledge of the methodology, by attending training sessions and using knowledge gained during audits, use this proactively in executing audit activities.
Based on knowledge of business areas, provide guidance to other auditors and peers by sharing best practice so that their work meets and sometimes exceeds quality standards

Education and Experience Required

NQF Level 6: B Degree
B Degree (Information Systems, Computer Science)
CISA or international equivalents
Relevant banking industry qualification (e.g. SA Institute of Bankers)

Essential:

5 years’ experience of performing technology and cyber security related work in Internal/External audit or commensurate experience in a major financial institution
5 years’ experience in Change Assurance auditing
2 years’ experience of managing a team
Banking or Financial Services experience either gained through auditing

Preferred:

Experience working in a Big 4 auditing institution
International experience either gained through working overseas or substantial assignment based international experience

Knowledge & Skills:

Experience in drafting test strategies and testing IT general controls, application controls, cyber and information security risks and controls.
Ability to articulate complex issues clearly
Displays good knowledge of Insurance and Banking processes
Awareness of regulatory and compliance environment Level
Manage time, resources and budget effectively Level
Industry and product knowledge

Competencies:

Deciding and initiating action
Learning and researching
Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
Relating and networking
Adapting and responding to change
Persuading and influencing
Creating and innovating

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

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

FINANCIAL ADVISER AIFA (FAIS)
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Locations: Greytown
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956585

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Job Summary
Provide specialist advise and support for day-to-day work, in order to execute predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Job Description
Source Utilisation: Obtain walk in client or data leads from the Bank staff in the branches (Consultants, | Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction | Risk & Control: Ensure that staff members where applicable, i.e. Planner Assistants have a clear | Manage Sales & Growth Targets: Capture the correct Policy Relevant Information (PRI) number on the EBankpac system On a monthly basis, check the accuracy of the commission statements received from the AIFA Commissions department. Verify that all the PRI numbers reconcile to the commission paid and reflected on the statements

Education
Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): 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

CLOUD ENGINEER
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Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956649

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Job Summary
Recognized internationally, this Leading Financial Institution is scouting for Talented Cloud Engineers to join their amazing space. Known for its innovation and cutting-edge technology, this would be an excellent opportunity for someone looking to expand their industry knowledge and work with leading technology years ahead of its competitors.

This is a brilliant opportunity to work in SA’s best-rated banking environment with SA’s highly skilled Cloud professionals.

A cloud engineer is responsible for the setup and maintenance of cloud environments that enable our developers and product owners/senior users to experience mature and integrated development and deployment. The work of a cloud engineer brings full automation of the development to deployment production pipeline and rapid deployment of code to the team. It includes automation of code pulls, code integration and container builds, quality assurance, infrastructure, as well as the controls necessary for an appropriately administered delivery of code into production.

Job Description
Experience and qualifications

Must Have:

Relevant degree
Certification in the AWS Cloud Platform
Experience as a cloud engineer (or equivalent) in a large organisation;
Familiarity with program languages including .Net, PHP, Python and Selenium (Jscript)
Experience with:
Openstack, Linux, Amazon Webservices, Docker and Kubernetes
APIs, orchestration, automation, DevOps, and databases
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a- Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
Proven technical troubleshooting and performance-tuning experience.

Should Have:

Bachelor of Science degree in computer science
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Certification in additional cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure
Minimum of 5 years’ experience with cloud services and practices, including:
Cloud infrastructure management tools such as CloudFormation and Terraform
Hashicorp packer image building tool
Automation/configuration management using puppet or chef

Could Have:

Evidence of experience in:
Automation
Ansible
Jenkins
Chef
Puppet

Education
Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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

MANAGER: GOVERNANCE & SECRETARIAT
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956951

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Job Summary
Give effect to the CIB Executive Risk Committee structure as approved by CIB Exco, focusing on supporting the CIB Level 1 & 2 Risk Committees. Documenting and/or reviewing Terms of Reference for the relevant committees.
Guide and support the Chairpersons and/or Responsible Persons in the operational and governance effectiveness of the Committees.
Drive and Give effect to GovSec set objectives and ensure that GovSec maintains high quality standards and improves speed of execution.
Give guidance to Committee Secretaries on the execution of their duties.
Support the Head: Transaction Administration to execute on overall GovSec strategy and set objectives.
Ensure alignment between CIB Secretariat and Absa Group Secretariat.

Job Description
Accountability: Governance

To produce, on an annual basis, the updated Terms of Reference for all Committees.
Advise on and give effect to changes to Committee memberships including ensuring compliance with all relevant legal and regulatory risk.
Ensure that the Committee reviews / evaluation and the composition of the Committee succession planning is conducted annually.
Advise the Committees on the proper application of KING IV requirements and on other matters of corporate governance.
In the capacity of Specialist, create an awareness of all law and legislation relevant to and/or affecting the Committees
Act as custodian of the CIB Signing Mandate Framework.
Act as custodian of all governance related matters pertaining to the Transaction Administration team.

Accountability: Legal & Regulatory

Ensure, in conjunction with the Group Secretariat and CIB Legal, compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory matters.
Liaise with CIB Compliance and the Knowledge Management and Regulatory Team to develop suitable frameworks to further enhance regulatory and policy compliance.
Work with the Committee Secretaries, Risk and Legal to ensure appropriate Committee member rotation and composition.
Work with the Committee Secretaries, Risk and Legal to deliver on high quality Induction and Orientation Programme for new Committee members.

Accountability: Stakeholder Management

Communicate effectively, efficiently, and professionally with all stakeholders within CIB and the broader Absa Group Limited.
Effectively communicate developments within areas of activity to all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
Develop and maintain good working relationships with internal and external business partners.
Liaise with all business partners to ensure all management information they require is provided to them timeously.

Accountability: People, Talent & Culture

Mentor and develop team with focus on talent management, development, resourcing, and retention.
Plan for future staff requirements and ensure that appropriate depth of team to cover any key roles.
Establish and maintain succession plans for key roles, identify, groom and develop talent to support this succession plan.
Approve leave requests for team members and create leave plan to ensure adequate coverage.
When required, initiate disciplinary processes for team members.
Resolve grievances lodged by team members and escalate only if required.
Address poor performance of any team member through the formal Performance Accelerator programme and ensure that continued poor performance is appropriately dealt with.
Motivate team members and ensure that their efforts are recognised.
Develop a high performing team by embedding formal performance development and informal coaching.
Encourage frequent knowledge sharing between team members.
Determine and analyse development needs for the team and ensure that identified training requirements are budgeted and executed.

Preferred Education

A recognized degree as a minimum – with Legal, Risk or Compliance as Majors.
Preference will be given to an Admitted Attorney and/or Corporate Secretary and/or Risk and Compliance specialist.
Chartered Governance Institute of Southern Africa accreditation will be advantageous.

Preferred Experience

5 – 10 years Governance and/or Company Secretariat experience.
5 – 10 years People Manger Experience.
An understanding of corporate investment banking.

SENIOR SPECIALIST: BUSINESS ANALYSIS
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Johannesburg
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15948284

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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
To provide specialist advice and support in the development and implementation of business analysis and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques. Responsible for working with business functions to identify, investigate and analyze problems faced by business/product owners. Based on this analysis, the Business Analyst needs to propose a solution to address the business requirements in full, as needed to optimize the business.

Job Description
Accountability: Project Establishment Initiation Activities

Develop design principles based on the initial brief and scope provided to guide the project's implementation activities, including the requirements planning stage and the management of change requests.
Assist and support business operations, with the ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ process mapping on projects and also when changes to operational policies, procedures and processes occur.
Build and maintain relationships with key role players by communicating regularly and working closely with them to elicit business requirements, evaluate and recommend possible business solutions, make assessments and produce feasibility analysis.
Proactively identify project risks and issues through consultation with key stakeholders and communicating these with the Project Manager (PM).
Assist the Business Analyst Lead with ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is obtained by facilitating a project definition workshop.
Develop hypotheses to achieve project goals based on the outcomes of the project definition workshop and use these to guide the fact gathering and analysis.
Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of possible business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented, circulated and signed off by the relevant stakeholders, and handed over to the PM for use in defining and designing the project.
Facilitate workshops in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project so that the project is suitably defined, designed and implemented.
Assist the PM with defining timelines and milestones for expected deliverables.

Accountability: Business Requirements Activities

Analyse the “as is” “business architectures”, to identify any issues, opportunities, etc. This includes the analysis of all existing products & services, the procedures and business rules, the organisation structures, functions, roles & responsibilities, the business processes & procedures, the IT systems functionalities, data, performance and measurement metrics.
Investigate and perform a business needs analysis, by interviewing the product or business process owners, to determine business requirements and identify possible alternatives and or solutions to achieve these requirements.
Perform “root cause” issues analysis with key stakeholders by either conducting interviews or workshop to further evaluate and identify solutions and/or alternatives to meet the business requirements and document all findings to assist with project definition, design and build.
Set up and facilitate workshops with relevant stakeholders to gather, identify and document the project and business owner requirements to be used in the project definition, design and build.
Investigate options available and provide recommendations, best practices, alternatives etc. and obtain up to date information in relation to the project requirements / objectives by referring to internal and external parties to ensure the best solution is considered and identified for the project.

Accountability: Solution Analysis and Documentation

Design the “to be” “business architectures” by using the identified design principles and document the ideas by working through increasing levels of design detail (i.e. conceptual/high level/detailed design levels).
Identify and design new and/or improved business process systems and/or procedures to deliver project goals by ensuring that the best solution is considered and identified for the project.
Undertake a feasibility and impact analysis of solutions identified (people, process, data and system infrastructure) with key stakeholders, internal, external and technology staff to further define project requirements for the definition, design and build of the project.
Able to perform and apply advanced level requirements analysis and relevant data analysis and data quality principles.
Identify IT interfaces, IT integration points to ensure integration into functional specifications, by consulting and workshopping with the IT System Analysis teams, Group Strategy, Enterprise Architect, Vendors, etc).
Develop IT-systems functional, non-functional and service level requirements, reporting requirements, Business Requirement Definition documents (BRDs), use cases, etc. based on the evaluations, meetings, assessments and requirements analysis undertaken during the earlier stages of the project analysis stages, for use by the PM and project team to design, build, test and implement the project.
Develop a functional decomposition of identified requirements through consultation with stakeholders to ensure that the business requirements will be developed and delivered by the project.
Validate documented solutions in a walk-through workshop with stakeholders to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

Accountability: Assessment and Validation of Solutions

Assist the systems-management function with setting up and undertaking the IT-systems user-acceptance tests by both business users and IT staff to ensure that the technology solution meets the business requirements.
Co-ordinate all user acceptance testing with regard to securing test users, the test location, the relevant access rights and by documenting all results and where required perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as undertaken and stipulated by the Absa Group Technology IT methodology.
Develop relevant training material and conduct relevant training or refresher sessions with business/project stakeholders.
Assess the solution/s by benchmarking with industry standards to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.
Evaluate the vendors' products/solutions and the integration capability of the products / solutions to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.
Ensure post-implementation support and produce relevant documentation for Business As Usual (BAU).

Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life 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

SPECIALIST: BUSINESS ANALYSIS
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Johannesburg
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15950345

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us
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
To provide specialist advice and support in the development and implementation of business analysis and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques.

Job Description
Responsible for working with business functions to identify, investigate and analyse problems faced by business/product owners. Based on this analysis, the Business Analyst needs to propose a solution to address the business requirements in full, as needed to optimise the business.
The senior Business Analyst must have the ability to work on multiple project simultaneously and will be responsible for delegating and overseeing tasks assigned to the junior Business Analyst.
Accountability: Project Establishment Initiation Activities

Develop design principles based on the initial brief and scope provided to guide the project's implementation activities, including the requirements planning stage and the management of change requests.
Assist and support business operations, with the ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ process mapping on projects and also when changes to operational policies, procedures and processes occur.
Build and maintain relationships with key role players by communicating regularly and working closely with them to elicit business requirements, evaluate and recommend possible business solutions, make assessments and produce feasibility analysis.
Proactively identify project risks and issues through consultation with key stakeholders and communicating these with the Project Manager (PM).
Assist the Business Analyst Lead with ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is obtained by facilitating a project definition workshop.
Develop hypotheses to achieve project goals based on the outcomes of the project definition workshop and use these to guide the fact gathering and analysis.
Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of possible business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented, circulated and signed off by the relevant stakeholders, and handed over to the PM for use in defining and designing the project.
Facilitate workshops in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project so that the project is suitably defined, designed and implemented.
Assist the PM with defining timelines and milestones for expected deliverables.

Accountability: Business Requirements Activities

Analyse the “as is” “business architectures”, to identify any issues, opportunities, etc. This includes the analysis of all existing products & services, the procedures and business rules, the organisation structures, functions, roles & responsibilities, the business processes & procedures, the IT systems functionalities, data, performance and measurement metrics.
Investigate and perform a business needs analysis, by interviewing the product or business process owners, to determine business requirements and identify possible alternatives and or solutions to achieve these requirements.
Perform “root cause” issues analysis with key stakeholders by either conducting interviews or workshop to further evaluate and identify solutions and/or alternatives to meet the business requirements and document all findings to assist with project definition, design and build.
Set up and facilitate workshops with relevant stakeholders to gather, identify and document the project and business owner requirements to be used in the project definition, design and build.
Investigate options available, best practices, alternatives etc. and obtain up to date information in relation to the project requirements / objectives by referring to internal and external parties to ensure the best solution is considered and identified for the project.

Accountability: Solution Analysis and Documentation

Design the “to be” “business architectures” by using the identified design principles and document the ideas by working through increasing levels of design detail (i.e. conceptual/high level/detailed design levels).
Identify and design new and/or improved business process systems and/or procedures to deliver project goals by ensuring that the best solution is considered and identified for the project.
Undertake a feasibility and impact analysis of solutions identified (people, process, data and system infrastructure) with key stakeholders, internal, external and technology staff to further define project requirements for the definition, design and build of the project.
Able to perform and apply intermediate to advanced level data analysis and data quality principles.
Identify IT interfaces, IT integration points to ensure integration into functional specifications, by consulting and workshopping with the IT System Analysis teams, Group Strategy, Enterprise Architect, Vendors, etc).
Develop IT-systems functional, non-functional and service level requirements, reporting requirements, Business Requirement Definition documents (BRDs), use cases, etc. based on the evaluations, meetings, assessments and requirements analysis undertaken during the earlier stages of the project analysis stages, for use by the PM and project team to design, build, test and implement the project.
Develop a functional decomposition of identified requirements through consultation with stakeholders to ensure that the business requirements will be developed and delivered by the project.
Validate documented solutions in a walk-through workshop with stakeholders to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

Accountability: Assessment and Validation of Solutions

Assist the systems-management function with setting up and undertaking the IT-systems user-acceptance tests by both business users and IT staff to ensure that the technology solution meets the business requirements.
Co-ordinate all user acceptance testing with regard to securing test users, the test location, the relevant access rights and by documenting all results and where required perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as undertaken and stipulated by the Absa Group Technology IT methodology.
Assess the solution/s by benchmarking with industry standards to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.
Evaluate the vendors' products/solutions and the integration capability of the products / solutions to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

SENIOR CREDIT RISK ANALYST - VP
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Remote type: Hybrid
Locations: Sandton
Time type: Full time
Job requisition id: R-15956933

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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
Manage a portfolio of clients within the Resources & Project Finance Credit Risk team.
- To conduct quality credit risk assessments and reviews that present commercially minded solutions through analysis of financial, industry and economic information in support of the decision-making process.
- Facilitate the credit sanctioning process to ensure responsible risk decisions. This will include the preparation of credit applications and the presentation of recommendations to the relevant risk committees.
• Accountability for the full credit lifecycle of the portfolio including granting of facilities, implementation, systems, post-implementation monitoring.
- Ongoing management of the portfolio through portfolio reviews and management information.
- Independently building and managing relationships with key relevant business partners to ensure delivery under the organization’s strategy.
- Ensure an efficient and timely risk delivery to clients.

Job Description
Accountability: Credit Risk Management:

To take ownership and control of credit risk related work on a defined portfolio of Resource & Project Finance clients against which Absa Group Ltd has credit facilities.
The candidate is to carry out comprehensive and quality credit risk functions. Functions cut across the credit lifecycle (i.e. granting, implementing, managing and restructuring).
Representing Credit to Senior Management in various committees, presenting analysis of the aggregate portfolio risk and composition.
Presentation of portfolio risk analysis to the relevant risk committees.
Developing and delivering relevant Monthly Risk MI for Senior Management, including analysis and commentary, ensuring risk issues on the defined portfolio are well understood and presented transparently.
Manage exposures including the accurate maintenance of the data on relevant risk systems.
Create presentations and technical documents designed to articulate key risks to various forums and credit committees.
Monitor adherence of covenants and conditions on a continuous basis and identify any deviations and possible concerns.
Create and maintain an accurate due diligence record of the client portfolio, detailing what facilities they have and the associated terms and conditions.
Manage and communicate the risks associated with outstanding securities.
Understand and manage the required inputs into the banks models ensuring validity and accuracy.
Monitor the client business performance and identify relevant risks to ensure early identification of change in the client’s business or operating environment and watchlist accordingly.
Proactively utilise the systems and tools available for Credit Risk and partake in the ongoing development and feedback of these systems to deliver and enhanced automated credit function.
Manage all administrative and operational aspects of the relevant portfolio of clients ensuring completeness, accuracy and validity of data.
Build and manage relationships with key relevant business partners.
Maintain and manage the relevant portfolio within the defined appetite levels.

Accountability: Governance

Ensure that the Bank’s credit policies and philosophy are complied with.
Ensure understanding and adherence to relevant Legal requirements relevant to the Credit Lifecycle and specific industry.
Complete the necessary training requirements and Compliance processes in a timely manner.

Accountability: Other

Support in creating a high-performance culture of individuals who are engaged.
Contribute fully, including suggestions for ways of improving risk delivery and management through ongoing projects.
Portraying the right values and behaviours in the achievement of the Risk Strategy.
Contribute to ongoing projects to improve risk delivery.
Develop relationships with colleagues and create a sense of engagement.
Communicate concerns or challenges faced in a constructive and positive manner.
Develop and maintain contacts with Specialists in other areas of the Group.
Embrace and adapt to the diversity and change within the current Banking environment.
Demonstrate the willingness and ability to perform to the very best levels to ensure personal alignment to the Credit Risk Strategy.

Education and Experience Required

B-degree in Business or Commerce (or similar)
Relevant postgraduate qualification such as CA(SA) / CFA preferable with 5 years’ experience within a credit risk environment or relevant sector experience (Mining, Oil & Gas, Project Finance).

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