Head of Risk Distribution, Syndications, and Insurance Sales at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for driving financial solutions and optimizing balance sheets?
• Do you have a proven track record in risk distribution, syndication, and insurance sales?
• If so, we invite you to join our team as the Head of Risk Distribution, Syndications, and Insurance Sales in our Trade and Working Capital team within CIB Transactional Banking.
• In this role, you will lead our Risk Distribution, Syndication, and Insurance (“DSI”) function, working with financial institutions, non-bank financial institutions, insurance companies, and institutional investors across all markets where ABSA has appetite in. Your mission will be to support our goal of becoming the leading Corporate Bank in Africa.

Job Description

As the Head of Risk Distribution, Syndications, and Insurance Sales, you will be responsible for:

• Balance sheet optimization,
• Ensuring that Trade and Working Capital achieves its performance matrix through implementation and application of various strategies, 
• Bed-down syndication capability (mandate covering primary and secondary roles) and
• Continue to create depth in the market to fully enable originate to distribute model to support the overall Transactional Banking objectives, enabling the business to achieve the TXB objective of becoming the leading Corporate Bank in Africa.

The primary purpose of the role is to lead the risk distribution, Syndication and Insurance function by:

• Delivering innovative solutions to drive the set business outcomes
• Developing liquidity management strategies to drive business outcomes 
• Developing and instilling the best-of-breed sales practices within the team
• Focusing on and driving customer value propositions (CVPs), client solutions and structuring, pricing management, deal support, credit risk management, relationship management, marketing, and impairments
• Developing the team through creating a platform for learning and growth
• Leading the team to achieve the agreed financial and non-financial objectives
• Managing stakeholder relationships across the bank to ensure the maximum effectiveness of the risk distribution, syndication and Insurance models.
• Driving thought leadership across sectors, segments and geographies

Kindly send us your CV if you have the above-mentioned experience as well as meet below the below criteria;

• Bachelor’s degree or a Post Graduate degree or MBA preferably
• 10 plus years Sales and Banking experience in CIB
• Working knowledge  of FI trade products, transactional banking, risk distribution, syndications and Insurance
• Working knowledge of corporate banking

Education

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

End Date: June 18, 2025