Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise the possibilities on our continent and beyond.
To deliver secretarial, general office, administrative, product approval, and product review support services to manager(s) and or team(s) through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Job Description
Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. | Dealing with Stakeholders: Taking responsibility for managing the expectations of stakeholders | 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 | Meeting deadlines: Completes tasks timeously | Verifying Information: Check different types of information for accuracy and inconsistency | Assisting with secretarial related duties to the Head of Operations | Drafting the minutes (within a 5- working day turnaround) of the BU Product Risk Governance Committee, being the relevant Product Approval Committee | Learning the practical product governance duties in the business | Supporting with assessment of new providers and new products through the identification and measurement of key inherent risks to the provider and/or product, the articulation of mitigating controls, as well as robust cross-functional challenge to enable the Product Approval Committee and the Funds Selection Committees to make well-informed decisions | Supporting with conducting the ongoing Product Family Reviews | Fulfil from time-to-time Product Owner related duties and support the Business in delivering the expected output | Perform tasks assigned related to the product family review process | Performing tasks as-and-when assigned in relation to Board Reporting which will include prompting the relevant parties to deliver their submissions on time, scrutinizing the quality of the submissions, and measure it against the ‘ask’ in the minutes, and providing the feedback to the Head of Product Governance and Reporting.
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