Active Jobs at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• To process bank teller transactions accurately and timeously through the execution of predefined objectives, ensuring that customers are assisted promptly and in a friendly manner.. Selecting this role has a compensation & benefit impact in Kenya, TZ (NBC), Mozambique. Please contact Reward for details.

Job Description

• Execute cash & related transactions: Throughout each day, balance, control and manage the cash float by checking the amount of cash at the teller station and requesting the restocking or repatriation of cash when prescribed cash limits are reached Dispense and receive physical cash, cheques, travellers cheques, drafts and other financial instruments over the counter to walk in customers
• Process and encash cheques presented by customers for deposit or pay-out after checking identification, account details and other prescribed controls.
• Be vigilant for fraudulent or suspicious activities and report all concerns to the team leader or branch manager before processing the transaction or dispensing the cash Adherence to policies especially when handling with cheques, notes, ID’s, etc, under the 2 ID Buddy to prevent fraud.
• Refer any transactions in excess of teller mandate limits to a mandated official and / or line manager for authorisation
• Capture all transactions on the Bank system and ensure that all transactions are properly authorised before finalising the processing Carefully count all cash received or dispensed to ensure that errors are avoided by making use of the applicable cash counting equipment in your branch
• Reconcile own cash at the beginning and end of each day as well as when cash is restocked during the day.
• Prepare reconciliation reports for audit and management review purposes Ensure that journals are processed to recover charges for manual transactions processed for customers Ensure adherence to the SARB minimum requirements |
• Customer Service: Provide advice to customers on the cash and other transactions processes to ensure the smooth flow of transactions
• Exhaust all attempts to resolve customer enquiries before escalating to other departments or the line manager
• Provide Regular feedback to customers on the progress of their enquiries Explain the Bank’s procedures, security requirements (such as ID requirements when transacting) as well as service offerings available to customers
• Rep0rt customer complaints on the Bank’s Customer Care process (CCP) to facilitate feedback to improve service to customers Guide customers on how to correctly complete transaction documentation such as deposits, withdrawals, cheque requisition slips to ensure accuracy and completeness of these documents
• Ensure accuracy and efficiency when engaging with the customer.
• Ensure friendly, focussed customer interaction at all times Portray a professional image and ensure that personal appearance conforms to Absa Corporate Image standards Ensure adherence to the Corporate Wear policy
• Maintain a neat and tidy workstation at all times Pro-actively arrange your workspace to ensure sufficient stationary is in place prior to the branch opening.
• Regularly read the pricing documents relating to Teller transactions to assist clients with better solutions for their transactions and also benefit at the end of the day Adhere to the policy and procedure on the issuing of pins and statements in order to solution the customer at point of contact.
• Ensure migration of clients with CW transactions less than R4000 and CD of less than R8000 to Digital & Self-help channels and provide the necessary assistance. Maintain speed and agility at all times when assisting clients in order to minimise shortages and surpluses.
• Market products by giving out booklets or pamphlets to customers drawing large amounts of money and educate them of alternative ways on transacting.
• Educate customers on the use of the Internet Kiosk. |
• Identifying sales leads: Identify and action sales leads (teller prompts) and cross selling opportunities
• Explain the campaign details, during sales campaigns in brief and direct to clients to Sales Consultants for further information
• Effectively use of sales tools (e.g. teller prompts) in order to ensure the provision of leads to contribute to Branch Sales
• Take responsibility of own sales targets and assist daily by providing client solutioning according to their product needs Capture all other leads on SMD once agreed by client Follow up all leads with Sales Consultants on SMD to make sure clients are contacted |
• Compliance and Risk Management: Open & close the branch safe according to the Bank’s procedures, including physically securing the safe according to required procedures
• Conduct cash counts and visual checks as assigned by the line manager from time to time Ensure that all transaction records are kept and / or mailed in accordance with Bank procedures
• Keep transactions records available for control purposes Before processing transactions, verify that all information is accurate and complete in accordance with the Bank’s procedure.
• Refer any concerns to the line manager for follow up and decision making on whether to proceed Follow cash management procedures and limits as prescribed
• Familiarise with content of all communication, i.e. circulars, bulletins, risk day agenda’s and alerts, etc.
• Adhere to prescribed control measures to prevent fraud, losses and shortages Report suspicious transactions as per Money Laundering control frameworks
• Complete and maintain applicable registers (Teller and Key registers) Adhere to safety and security procedures and follow prescribed instructions in event of robbery Cubicles, teller drawers and workstations to be kept locked when leaving workstation
• Follow off-line procedures and comply with all regulatory and compliance requirements Manage security items i.e. Cash, Teller stamps, Safe keys, combinations and FBSS cards in line with policies and procedures Up skill your knowledge regularly with policies and procedures regarding your daily teller duties, cheques, Fraud, Foreign Exchange, this will help you also to prevent fraud Ensure up-skilling on fault reporting and testing processes & procedures of Equipment used at teller environment i.e. note & coin counters, TCR Machines, etc. Adhere to end of day procedures (ABSA 3368) Adhere to Branch Paper mandate when processing and / or authorising transactions, ensure processing within correct limits & mandates | :  | :  | :  | :

Education

• Higher Certificates and Advanced National (Vocational) Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• Data Analytics, Problem Solving, Model Building. Raise your hand if these excite.
• We are looking for someone to be part of a dynamic team that manages the development and continuous enhancement of Retail IFRS 9 and Regulatory models. You will be exposed to the entire credit risk model build, implementation and governance lifecycle.

Job Description

Accountability: Model development (50%)

• Develop models in-house by ensuring model build data are of sufficient quality, completing statistical data analysis and producing detailed model build documentation while conforming to the governance structures
• Ensure successful implementation of vendor models by assisting the model implementation team through answering technical questions around the model workings (inputs to the model, calculations performed, etc.) and helping out with testing (comparing implementation results with prototype results) to ensure the model is implemented correctly
• Develop theoretical understanding and practical application of model development methodology through model building and application experience. Ensure full governance processes for modelling are complied with from model inception and build through to validation and sign-off by completing all relevant documentation according to the Absa Model Risk Policy. This includes responding to Independent Review questions and reworking the model build to include issues raised.
• Provide and detail appropriateness, perform and report impact analysis and recommend the use of both internal existing corporate models as well as external industry standard models available e.g. KMV portfolio Manager, Credit Metrics, etc
• Provide directional expertise to enhance model building skills within the team, ensuring increased capacity to build models, by transferring knowledge and experience gained
• Ensure model compliance with Absa Group governance standards by following and adhering to standards
• Communicate results and recommendations from analysis and modeling undertaken to other areas of Group Credit Risk, SBUs & cluster by tailoring the interpretation to the audience and using appropriate presentation technology and templates
• Enhance model usage through strategy and policy recommendations to the Credit Risk team.

Accountability: Stakeholder management (15%):

• Actively engage stakeholders (model users, validation team, monitoring team, auditors, regulators) to be fully engaged in process and delivery through email discussions, group meetings and one-on-one discussions
• Generate appropriate challenge on model builds from around the cluster by discussing model build detail and ideas
• Manage key stakeholders across the business by ensuring their issues, objectives and priorities are reflected in the agreed solutions
• Convert data extracts into relevant reports and data sets as required. This includes compiling Management Information (MI) and ad-hoc queries while adhering to agreed deadlines.
• Explaining methodologies and data feeds to SARB and their representatives

Accountability: Consultancy (10%)

• Compile trend analysis for "AS IS" and "TO BE" scenarios by statistically comparing different scenarios. Use these analyses to make recommendations around next steps or decisions to be taken.
• Support business forecasting and extrapolations by assisting in analyses as required by business
• Create value added knowledge of data and process by analysing information obtained from the Risk Data Store

Accountability: Governance and Adherence (10%)

• Provide general consultancy for credit risk matters within the cluster, including validation and challenge models
• Ensure best practice modelling techniques are in place by liaising with other BUs and consulting with strategy software suppliers

Accountability: Leadership (10%)

• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant business units by understanding the business units' requirements and obtaining feedback.
• Work with stakeholders to create and maintain a portfolio of business MI by utilising consistent and validated data sources.
• Contribute to the development of a high-performance culture
• Participate in planning, resource allocation, training and team-building functions

Accountability: Continuous self-development and growth (5%)

• Stay abreast of knowledge and skills relevant to the level and area of work, and actively seek to attain those required for the next level of work.
• Improve corporate performance by considering influencing events, quantifying the impact on corporate performance and proactively finding.

Education: 

• Bachelors Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, BMI or Actuarial Sciences

Experience:

• We are seeking candidates with 2-3 years of experience at a junior specialist level in a similar environment. Knowledge of impairment modelling and proficiency in SAS would be highly advantageous.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• The overall purpose of the role is to be actively involved in the end-to-end life cycle of modelling data and implementation processes, performing designing and testing tasks, while also be closely involved in the analyses, construction, enhancement and documentation of modelling data and implementation processes. During the implementation phase, the role will be tasked to facilitate correct model use embedment within credit.

Job Description

• The overall purpose of the role is to be actively involved in the end-to-end life cycle of modelling data and implementation processes, performing designing and testing tasks, while also be closely involved in the analyses, construction, enhancement and documentation of modelling data and implementation processes. During the implementation phase, the role will be tasked to facilitate correct model use embedment within credit.

Accountability: Modelling data and implementation processes/solutions (75%)

• Research and adhere to model implementation standards as well as other relevant policies and standards.
• Perform certain, predefined tasks to give effect to the controls within the modelling data and implementation environment.
• Perform investigative and analyses tasks identifying modelling data in the warehouse and authoritative sources.
• Design, manage and perform modelling data preparation processes.
• Investigate different methods and approaches to use during modelling data preparation.
• Analyse model build documentation and other modelling artefacts to understand, investigate and analyse modelling data requirements.
• Conduct modelling data testing and data quality assessment within the modelling context to provide assurance that the modelling data is fit for purpose.
• Create model implementation and control documentation (specifically implementation sign-off document and post implementation review document)
• Develop and test model implementation code and artefacts.
• Manage time across multiple initiatives.
• Review & understand credit policies and model usage.
• Assist model owners and credit model stakeholders to use the models correctly by providing model use guidance and training.

Accountability: Stakeholder management (10%):

• Clearly communicate progress, results of investigations and other tasks to line manager and/or initiative lead.
• Escalate delays to line manager and/or initiative lead.
• Present findings, designs documentation and other modelling data implementation documentation to line manager and/or internal stakeholders.

Accountability: Governance and Adherence (10%)

• Ensure model compliance with Absa Group Policies and Standards by staying updated with changes and ensuring that new model developments always adhere to the Policies and Standards.
• Notify management in case any non-adherence to Policies and Standards are identified. Participate in discussions aimed to resolve these gaps.

Accountability: People Management (5%)

• Contribute to the development of a high-performance culture within the team, while maintaining integrity.
• Lead by example, driving excellence.
• Participate in planning, resource allocation, training, and team-building functions.

Education:

• Bachelors Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, BMI or Actuarial Sciences

Experience:

• We are seeking candidates with 2-3 years of experience at a junior specialist level in a similar environment. Knowledge of impairment modelling and proficiency in SAS would be highly advantageous.​

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Optimise the profit and economic value of portfolios of Growth Business key account clients requiring medium to 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

• Drive Financial Targets: Maintain primary ownership of a portfolio of Growth Account clients, differentiated by the level of complexity of the client base
• Relationship and Service Management: Actively develop strong client relationships. Conduct regular client visits in accordance with the Commercial Growth Account Value Proposition and initiate changes to ABB Product by providing input into product development to better service our clients
• Manage Risk Assessment: Adhere to the bank's policies and procedures and ensure compliance. Take ultimate ownership of the portfolio's risk management by ensuring a good understanding of both the Bank's and the clients regulatory and compliance environments.
• Collaboration: Constantly seek to improve ways of working by challenging the status quo and supporting an empowering climate within the team, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and providing constructive feedback as required.

Education

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• Responsible for the overall management of Credit Risk within Global Markets, covering Structured Trading, Counterparty Risk Trading, Derivative Counterparty Exposure Management and Single Name issuer risk for South Africa and Africa.  
• The role spans both Market Risk and Credit Risk within Global markets, covering both the trading and banking books.  Specifically responsible for designing and operating within established frameworks, appetite, and limits by ensuring that market and credit risks are identified, measured, managed, reported and challenged. The individual will be the central point of contact for the business regarding the measurement, limit setting and monitoring of market and credit risk arising from the credit trading and derivative portfolios.

Job Description

• Responsible for the overall management of Credit Risk within Global Markets, covering Structured Trading, Counterparty Risk Trading, Derivative Counterparty Exposure Management and Single Name issuer risk for South Africa and Africa.  
• The role spans both Market Risk and Credit Risk within Global markets, covering both the trading and banking books.  Specifically responsible for designing and operating within established frameworks, appetite, and limits by ensuring that market and credit risks are identified, measured, managed, reported and challenged. The individual will be the central point of contact for the business regarding the measurement, limit setting and monitoring of market and credit risk arising from the credit trading and derivative portfolios. 
• The top priority for this position is providing a robust challenge to the business. The position will require an ability to directly challenge desk heads on their risk taking, trading/hedging strategies, PnL and portfolio mix. In addition, this position will need to assess the counterparty risk arising from the derivative portfolio, including advising business on credit risk mitigation strategies. 
• As a result, the incumbent will need clear and independent views with an excellent understanding of risk, PnL performance and stressed market conditions.  

Specifically the role will be accountable for:

• Senior risk officer with delegated mandate from credit to make risk decisions on CCR e.g. approvals and allocations of lines and management/responding to excesses working directly with frontline
• Ownership for all credit risk in markets (single name issuer risk (SNI), xVA, Potential future exposure, collateral and counterparty MTM reporting)
• Central team to provide complete view of credit risk exposure to a counterparty under crisis reporting
• Chair of SNI and CCR management forums
• Risk Metrics to incorporate – RDARR metrics on CCR exposure at default, RWAs, EC, EaR, etc
• Point person for SA-CVA, SA-CCR and non-cleared derivative regulations (regulatory engagement and responses)
• Strong ability to collaborate with cross function e.g. closely working with large derivatives user segments Financial Institutions Credit and Coverage Teams
• The individual will be a credit voter or sponsor for structured derivatives products in credit channels e.g.CIB, Group and Board Credit Committees.  
• Derive functional mandate from CIB CCO and maintain strong relationship with CIB CCO and Group CCO in a matrix environment
• Build and maintain CCR concentration risk management framew
• Build, maintain and co-ordinate CCR crisis reporting framework in compliance with RDARR principles  
• Will be required to provide oversight and development of prime brokerage risk framework/function
• Custody/Owner of CCR related policy and standards 
• Responsible for building a PAN Africa CCR monitoring framework using tools and systems available within CIB Risk/Global Markets
• Provide training and mentoring of risk, finance, and front office staff.

Requirements

• The position requires a thorough understanding of global markets, cross asset class products traded by an Investment Bank and their associated risk measurement methodologies (value at risk (VaR), stress testing, XVAs, risk mitigation and valuation).
• The job holder needs to have expert knowledge of risk management, credit products and second/third order sensitivities, including how these are hedged across all asset classes. 
• The role requires someone with big picture insight with an acute sense and appreciation for risk to ensure that the right balance between commercial interest and sound risk taking is achieved in support of both business growth and protection of the franchise from unexpected loss.
• The job holder should understand the CIB strategy and objectives of the wider group and continuously seek ways to contribute to these.
• The position is also responsible for the monitoring and reporting of counterparty credit risk arising from OTC and secured financing transactions.  A thorough understanding of credit mitigation strategies, ISDA, CSA, GMRA and GMSLA agreements is also required.  

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Provides financial services to meet client specific needs to promote, market and sell Financial Solutions in accordance with relevant legislation, to meet sales targets and achieve strategic business objectives.

Job Description

• Sales Target : Proactively make self-initiated contact with customers in order to deliver against the required sales targets | Collaboration : Constantly seek to improve ways of working by challenging the status quo and supporting an
• empowering climate within the team, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and
• providing constructive feedback as required. | Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards | Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction | : | : | : | :

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Business, Commerce and Management Studies

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Job Summary

• 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 CIB Corporate Technology is looking for skilled, senior developers and architects to join the Absa Access Platforms team based in Cape Town.  
• Absa Access is a Pan-African, single sign-on platform that gives clients standardised, secure, and near real-time access to their business portfolios and the banking services. This enables them to make informed decisions to drive the growth of their businesses, managing their finances with the speed and intelligence that the platform provides. 
• You will work on the award winning Absa Access Online platform, comprising of a core framework that offers services and an extensible application environment. The platform is underpinned primarily by .Net Core micro-services and open source technologies, deployed via Kubernetes, into a cloud-hosted environment. 
• We are currently in a significant phase of improvement and looking for strong, passionate software experts to join our team and make a real impact.   
• Our team builds primarily in .Net Core, on AWS, and with Agile approaches – our software needs to be fast, scalable, secure, and reliable. We want creative developers with this mindset to bring their experience and skills to this critical space within Absa!  

Competencies – What are the specific key competencies required?  

• Minimum 10 years development experience. 
• Strong C# .Net Core experience and understanding, both practical and theoretical. 
• Extensive practical experience of microservice architectures and containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher, ECS, EKS, etc. 
• Experience with various database paradigms, particularly relational. (PostgreSQL and MongoDB experience advantageous). Must have experience in and knowledge of appropriate data model design concepts. 
• Practical experience and knowledge of Cloud computing (current experience with AWS highly advantageous). 
• Proven track record of building for performance, scalability, resilience, and security is critical. Must be able to demonstrate proficiency (practice and theory) in all these concepts. 
• A pragmatic understanding and real-world experience of OOP, SOLID, and Clean Code principles, as well as modern architectural patterns (including CQRS+ES). 
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail.  
• Proven track record of being able to rapidly adapt to, and lead the way in, new technologies and patterns. 
• Passion for producing pragmatic software of the highest quality, in an extremely complex environment. 
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for all audiences. 
• Critical: willingness to teach, and be taught. 

 Advantageous: 

• Experience with Azure DevOps and Pipelines, Terraform / CloudFormation, Helm, AWS CodeDeploy / CodePipeline etc. 
• DevOps / DevSecOps, SRE concepts & exposure 
• Experience in caching technologies (e.g. Elasticache, Redis), as well as queuing and/or event streaming tools (e.g. Kafka) 
• Experience in Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript 
• Practical experience in various testing approaches and paradigms 
• Experience in Banking and FinTech industries very beneficial. 
• Outputs – What are the key performance areas and daily responsibilities?  
• Design, Build, and Run software systems according to Absa and industry best practices, across multiple projects, with a deep-seated focus on world-class performance, scalability, resilience, and security. 
• Document and present system and architectural designs to both technical and non-technical audiences, and engage in robust discussions on unfamiliar designs & technologies.  
• Analyse, diagnose and resolve errors related to their applications, often in high pressure situations. 
• Perform root cause analyses when required. 
• Proactively participate in the growth and Continuous Improvement of your team, through self-learning, team code reviews, mentoring juniors, and so on. 
• Keep abreast of technical and industry developments.  
• Work closely with and support our product stakeholders (which includes other Absa development teams as well as Absa’s clients and partners) to promote and educate, and thereby further the success of the Absa Access Platform. ​

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Summary

• To grow the Absa customer base through acquisition and increased customer profitability of the identified portfolio. Gain new customers and increase port folios of current customers through proactive attraction, cross selling, retention and contributing towards the achievement of the branch’s sales targets.

Job Description

• Financial Goals Business Risk Customer Satisfaction Colleague Support

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC)

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Job Summary

• To plan, manage and monitor the implementation of marketing management activities and processes in order to deliver on approved operational plans in an effective and efficient manner.

Job Description

• Marketing Strategy: Execute business unit market strategies to drive consideration and business outcomes. Develop business unit marketing plans with a clear focus to meeting business objectives. | Campaign proposition marketing execution: Execute 360 integrated marketing and sponsorship campaigns that change consumer perception, improve consideration and drive business outcomes. | Team management: Manage a team | : | : | : | : | :

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Marketing (Required)

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Job Summary

• Contribute to tactical planning from an operational perspective. Implement and deliver approved operational plans. Accountable for management in terms of: people, process, applied technology, budget.

Job Description

• Business Planning, Business Performance Monitoring & Revenue Generation: Business Planning, Business Performance Monitoring & Revenue Generation | Leading the commercial, sales and service agenda for the branch: Leading the commercial, sales and service agenda for the branch (as part of a broader area); &
• Owning and delivering on all performance targets for the allocated branch (end to end accountability across scorecard
• elements) | Customer Experience and Service: : Proactively manage and build relationships to enhance the Absa Brand in the area as well as | Managing cost & efficiencies: : Apply effective & balanced cost management practices that ensures sales & service
• standards are within benchmark & aligned to best practice | : | : | : | :

Education

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

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Job Summary

• To support and educate line managers in the execution of finance related activities and monitor line adherence to Finance best practice and principles.

Job Description

Accountability: Managing the Finance Environment

• Execute strategic objectives as articulated by the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Business Unit (BU) explaining key focus areas to Executives and line managers.
• Review and present monthly financials and variance commentary at Business Unit Manco meetings and where required support the Senior Finance Business Partners with presentation to EXCO Meetings.
• Implement and monitor cost control initiatives within the different functional areas within the Business Units to achieve overall Business Unit cost targets.
• Track cost savings benefits for the different centres within the business unit for which the role is responsible as and when required.
• Implement programmes and financial systems and policies as may be directed by the Senior Finance Business Partner for the financial year.
• Compile and present Financials to the relevant business owners monthly including financial actuals against forecasted trends.
• Conduct research and develop financial forecasts and indicators for the business to enable effective financial decision making and early warning systems.
• Participate in business initiatives or Group and Cluster financial initiatives on behalf of the business unit where required and ensure deliverables and frameworks are effectively implemented in own area of responsibility. (e.g. financial transfers between business units, group financial projects and business unit level financial drives and programmes).

Accountability: Financial management and Business Partnering

• Allocate duties to team members where required to execute and coordinate finance activities required within the business unit to ensure adherence to sound financial management and accounting practices within Business Unit.
• Monitor financial trends and identify gaps, based on gaps identified, motivate requests and new ways of work to the Senior Business Partner for additional resources including people, budget and equipment
• Obtain a thorough understanding of the business unit’s strategy and explain it to team members in such a way that they understand the contribution they must make
• Provide financial advice and guidance to line managers and business owners on new initiatives, current budget management practices and trends in expenditure in their areas of accountability.
• Explain targets and take accountability for the monitoring and achievement of own and team performance objectives in the department in terms of return on investments, financial risk, financial planning and governance. Create and present quarterly and monthly plans to ensure delivery for the year.
• Manage departmental budgets including signing off invoices and quotes within mandate. Escalate out of budgets or items higher than approved mandate to the next level manager.
• Rigorously monitor expenditure against approved budgets for the areas of accountability and put measures in place to address variances. Continuously identify areas for improved efficiency and reduced cost.
• Conduct basic statistical analysis to track performance variances and determine the root causes of errors. Make recommendations for productivity or process enhancements to process owners
• Implement productivity improvement measures by coaching line managers on any new processes or on their areas for improvement.
• Populate balanced scorecards for the specific department monthly. Work with the team to address shortcomings during the next month. Escalate any major issues identified to the next level manager
• Participate in the measurement and reporting of internal and external Service Level Agreements monthly.
• Address any process failures specific to the department under management.

Accountability: Business Planning

• Partner with the departments and the BU line managers to complete sound annual financial plans within the agreed timeframes.
• Review the 3 year forecast for Medium Term Plans (MTP's) for the area of accountability in accordance with BU strategy annually.
• Review the 3 year forecast for Short Term Plans (STP's) for the area of accountability in accordance with BU strategy annually
• Review the 3 year forecast for Revised Annual Forecast (RAF) for the area of accountability in accordance with BU strategy annually
• Review the expenditure against budget with accountable managers monthly and engage on areas of over expenditure or cost opportunities and help line managers to implement initiatives where budget savings can be made.

Accountability: Governance

• Authorise the reconciliations submitted in terms of the GL Framework from the Finance Business Partner (FBP) monthly.
• Ensure that processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks that have been designed for the area are understood by all members of the team and that these are adhered to monthly.
• Monitor compliance training undertaken by team members and ensure that they complete the required training within prescribed timelines.
•  Implement required governance forums to support improved financial management practices within own area of responsibility. (e.g. monthly finance reporting, monthly finance meetings.

Education and Experience Required

• NQF Level 7 / BCom Accounts
• CA (SA) / CIMA/ Honours / Master’s Degree
• Minimum 3 years financial management experience

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 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: Financial Sciences (Required)

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Job Summary

• To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice and to ensure operational implementation and adoption across a single practice i.t.o. Finance methodology, governance and delivery objectives

Job Description

Financial Reporting:

• Prepare financial reports, both management and adhoc, by coordinating the execution of the day to day and general accounting functions in order to enable decision making.
• Present monthly reports by ensuring the completeness, accuracy and relevance of the information to be presented to enable Group Finance Management Team to make informed decisions.
• Prepare, sign off and discuss the short term plan (STP), medium term plan(MTP) and rolling forecast(RAF) and budgets with the relevant stakeholders to enable consolidation into Finance forecast and budget. Work with the team to consolidate the financial plans generated by MTP, STP and RAF and sense check the consolidations prior to recommending 2 approval by the Head of Group Finance

Advisory Support:

• Provide advice and support to management on financial risks that might have an impact on profitability by discussing at regular intervals all financial related matters

Financial Control and Compliance:

• Sign off on the quarterly supplementary schedules and attestation to Group Finance prepared by the relevant staff in the prescribed format.
• Maintain appropriate internal controls in line with Absa group policy by reviewing regularly all variance reports and other reports where applicable. Interact with the Internal and External Audit team and provide necessary information as and when required Ensure cost centre Managers comply with all regulations and policies when reflecting the financial position of the business

Stakeholder Management:

• Communicate financial policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to the Senior Business Manager and Group Finance Management Team.
• Support projects by developing the financial component of the business case that is created by the management team to actively track and change benefits and costs of the project. Provide strong support to the operational team by having regular meetings with to share financial performance.

Executive Administration:

• Prepare the key themes, presentations and reviews for the Senior Business Manager and assist with detailed content when required. Ensure that presentations are packaged to reflect the business unit's brand and the Senior Business Manager’s preferred style.
• Screen requests for meetings or events to be attended by the Senior Business Manager and determine which ones would be appropriate for personal attendance and which ones should be delegated to other managers in the business unit.
• Sign off proposals, quotes, invoices etc. based on the mandate delegated by the Senior Business Manager.

Qualifications:

• Chartered Accountant with more than 3 years post qualification experience
• Product system knowledge, especially, cheque and savings chassis is required  banking experience is required 
• Very strong auditing, financial control, product control background is required

Education

• Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)

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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

The suitable candidate must have demonstrable skills in the following:

• Strong understanding and practical experience in routing, subnetting and OSI model.
• Strong understanding and practical experience in of network hardware and network infrastructure
• Strong understanding of desktop support and specifically supporting all devices that utilize network infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of VPN connectivity and toolsets such as but not limited to Zscaler and Cisco VPN.
• Network routing – demonstrable Cisco CCNP equivalent experience in multi-area OSPF and BGP, route filtering and mutual redistribution of routing protocols, both IGP and BGP, use of VRF’s for traffic separation, route tagging, prefix-maps, etc.
• Network switching and wireless - demonstrable Cisco CCNP equivalent experience in VLAN’s, VxLAN, Spanning-Tree (RSTP, MST, etc.), 802.1Q trunk links, LACP, MLAG, VPC, P2P Ethernet links, QinQ, Wireless LAN, etc.
• Network monitoring and alerting - demonstrable experience in the use of SolarWinds, Arista CVP, Cisco DNA, Wireshark, NetScout, OpsGenie or equivalent tools is compulsory.
• Experience in managing Metro-E circuits for national and international campus connectivity.
• Experience in the use of incident and problem management ticketing systems (e.g., ServiceNow).
• Participating actively on Event and Incident teams, to remediate the issues and return the service to expected service levels as quickly as possible.
• Participation in root cause analysis and reporting.
• The incumbent must be able to provide, maintain and troubleshoot networking for all devices connected to the network whether via LAN, WAN, Wireless, trusted, or untrusted network and vpns and other. Priorities will be defined by Absa.

Duties Include:

• Installing and configuring network equipment to update or fix hardware or software issues.
• Communicating networking issues to other employees and management.
• Fixing software and hardware configuration issues for users on incident or from inspection of the network.
• Performing problem-solving tasks when alerted by a user or monitoring system.
• Plans, designs, and implements local and wide-area network solutions.
• Supports and troubleshoots network issues and coordinates with vendors.
• Perform hands-on installation and maintenance tasks on network components such as switches and routers.
• Monitor network activity and configure network systems using tools.
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving hardware, software, and other network and system problems.
• Monitoring network performance to determine if adjustments need to be made.
• Responsible for assisting in the day-to-day support and networking functions.
• Manage implementation projects and roll outs of network equipment and systems.
• Manage vendor/stakeholder relationships and SLAs relating to network services.
• Responsible for network related incidents assigned to the network team.
• Regularly performing network software upgrades.

Skillsets:

• Ability to analyze, problem solve and think critically and pays attention to details.
• Strong team player, highly collaborative, effectively transfer knowledge.
• Calm and resilient in a high-pressure environment and manage stress effectively.
• Ability to multi-task, work on different streams and problems simultaneously.
• Keep communication channels open while troubleshooting
• Adaptable, curious with a high learning agility and high in self-motivation.
• Adaptable, curious, and self-motivated
• Strong and effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills, mindful and self-aware with self-management being key.
• Flexible hours due to 24-hour support model.
• Ability to travel regionally, nationally, and internationally
• Own car essential – reliable and insured for daily travel
• Hybrid working model. Please note role is based in Gauteng with regular travel to branch locations and regular onsite interaction.

Certifications:

• CCNA
• CCNP
• CompTIA S+
• CompTIA N+
• CompTIA A+
• Modern Desktop Administrator
• ITIL 4 Foundation (beneficial)
• FortiGate NSE-4 (beneficial)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Summary

• Work as part of an agile team to provide application support for specified tech products & services. This includes first line support & basic optimization, administration, configuration, maintenance & trouble shooting / problem solving with end users of these tech products & services.

Job Description

Devops & Support

• Apply problem solving skills to solve technical problems on existing applications
• Take ownership for developing advanced design thinking and problem solving skills in preparation for greater complexity / changing / evolving tech
• Implement configuration, optimization (e.g. upgrades) & maintenance activity (e.g. regular maintenance patches) for enterprise wide applications
• Schedule and oversee planned maintenance tasks, such as backups and performance tuning, in production for tech products & Services
• Provide inputs into application documentation for end users
• Leverage application documentation to guide users through application support processes
• Leverage knowledge gained on support / trouble shooting processes to make recommendations for user documentation and or application changes / enhancements
• Execute unplanned maintenance tasks, such as disaster recovery procedures, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
• Follow governance & risk procedures for all application support e.g. upgrades, maintenance etc.
• Work as part of an integrated application / product / service team throughout their lifecycle and assist in the application-related aspects of designing, testing, operating and improving technology products & services
• Identify stakeholder & communication dependencies / interdependencies & requirements in all application support processes & ensure these are followed prior to any application support implementation
• Proactively identify any risks ahead of application support processes e.g. changes, optimization, maintenance, batch uploads etc.
• Develop and maintain knowledge in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes to improve level of support provision on an ongoing basis
• Develop sufficient knowledge of application infrastructure (server, network, security) to improve application support inputs
• Compile and maintain inventory of applications and related details
• Meet all SLA requirements associated with application support being provided
• Follow identified risk, governance & control procedures for all application support provided e.g. backup, documentation etc.
• Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Summary

• To support the Security Validations Manager in running the daily SV operations. 
• This role will be responsible will be responsible for the execution of the security validation strategy and ensure execution thereof. 
• The Security Validation Consultant is responsible for facilitating the identification, analysis, and exploitation of vulnerabilities in Absa’s systems, networks, and applications. 
• This involves simulating real-world cyber-attacks to assess the security posture of Absa and requesting actionable recommendations from management to mitigate risks. The consultant will work closely with stakeholders to understand their security needs, deliver high-quality Security Validation services, and contribute to the overall improvement of the bank's cybersecurity profile.
• Keep abreast of the latest security threats and malware.

Job Description

Accountability: Vendor management 

• Ensure that vendors are on boarded timeously to avoid delays in the execution of the work.
• Manage a team of third-party vendors conducting security validation tests to ensure that they deliver on the agreed scope and within timelines
• Set the quality requirements for the vendors
• Attend the quarterly business review sessions where vendor performance is discussed

Stakeholder Management 

• Build effective working relationship/information flow with key stakeholders.
• Hold regular communication sessions with relevant stakeholders. Interface with stakeholders (Risk Assurance team, Risk Control Officers, Risk Managers and CIOs) in a constructive and professional manner.
• Become the escalation point in the event of any blockers during an assessment.
• Provide cyber security SME services as and when required by stakeholders.

Financial Management

• Allocate funds to vendors based on the assigned book of work
• Ensure that Pos are allocated for the vendors
• Ensure invoices are processed correctly and on time
• Monitor expenditure against the overall available budget

Accountability: Planning Security testing

• Assist the SV Manager with the formulation of the annual security validation testing book pf work as part of the combined assurance plan in conjunction with the stakeholders
• Schedule scoping sessions with all the relevant stakeholders to commence a pentest
• Work closely with the stakeholders in defining the scope and goals of a test.
• Document and socialize the announcement memo for the scheduled work from the agreed scope of work (SoW) produced by the vendor.

Accountability: Execution

• Coordinate the requirements for the assessment
• Serve as the escalation point of contact for the assessment

Accountability: Reporting

• Socialize the technical report with identified issues for the assessment from the vendor
• Schedule a triage session to discuss the identified issues
• Document the report in the Absa report template
• Obtain management comments for the identified issues
• Obtain AE approval for the report
• Issue final report timeously as the defined
• Provide the required SV information to the Combined Assurance Coordinator for various committees when required

Accountability: Issue Management

• Perform issue validation as per issue management standard

Accountability: Governance

• Contribute to the definition and maintenance of all processes and standards linked to SV testing.
• Support in the development and maintenance of security testing programmes.
• Uphold all documents relevant to the assessment on the allocated system

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Information Technology (Required)