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Absa Bank Limited (Absa) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group Limited. Absa offers personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management as well as bancassurance.
Barclays Africa Group Limited is 62.3% owned by Barclays Bank PLC and is listed on the JSE Limited. The Group is one of A...
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Job Summary
Provide superior, seamless customer experience and offering suitable solutions to meet client needs. Utilise technology and leverage the virtual omni-channel environment, to deliver service in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Perform banking duties and oversee the financial activities for business and individual customers.
Job Description
- Income Growth and Financial Targets: Ensure a deep understanding of client's working capital cycle and business needs to provide appropriate solutions. Drive achievement of targets as per individual scorecard.
- Customer Focus: Proactively drive acquisition and cross-sell initiatives through re-engagement processes. Ensure service and complaints resolution are within acceptable service level agreements.
- Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards.
- 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
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
Provide superior, seamless customer experience and offering suitable solutions to meet client needs.Utilise technology and leverage the virtual omni-channel environment, to deliver service in an efficientand cost-effective manner. Perform banking duties and oversee the financial activities for business andindividual customers.
Job Description
- Income Growth and Financial Targets: Ensure a deep understanding of client's working capital cycle and business needs to provide appropriate solutions.
- Drive achievement of targets as per individual scorecard.
- Customer Focus: Proactively drive acquisition and cross-sell initiatives through re-engagement processes.
- Ensure service and complaints resolution are within acceptable service level agreements.
- Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards.
- 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
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
The role is a senior, full scope financial management role for the Absa Regional Operations (ARO) cluster. Stakeholder engagement and commercial understanding are key success factors and the successful applicant will support financial decision making and execute on internal and external reporting. Insurance and wealth management business knowledge is not a specific requirement for the role. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to upskill and learn about these more specialized businesses.
The successful applicant will also be expected to understand and contribute to the wider Financial Control strategy threads of process improvement and credible reporting. Credible, quality reporting will be a minimum business as usual expectation in the role. Alignment and participation in Financial Control’s continuing functionalization and process improvement imperatives will also be critical deliverables in the role.
Key Accountabilities
Job Description
Accountability: Analytics
Analytics accountabilities for the role span both internal and external reporting. The role will support senior internal stakeholders in the ARO business and the successful applicant will be expected to provide analytic insight based on commercial business understanding to senior stakeholders. Stakeholders include senior management of the ARO business and the Financial Controller for the ARO Cluster.
Specific accountabilities include :
- Designing, developing and implementing analytical tools which will provide comfort that internal and external reporting is accurate (including scenario analyses to anticipate and challenge reporting results)
- Ensuring that team members have a detailed understanding of products and businesses to enable relevant design and interpretation of analytics to enable accurate timeous commentary on reporting
- Provide input into external reporting deliverables using business knowledge obtained through analytical processes
- Provide commentary on external or internal reporting
- To assist the Financial Controllers to continuously evaluating the control framework in Financial Control and to enhance it as appropriate;
Accountability: Reporting
The reporting function for the role is supported by various teams. However, the successful applicant will have certain business as usual reporting responsibilities.
- Designing, developing and implementing processes and systems which will provide comfort that external reporting is accurate
- Responsible for ensuring that all external reporting is delivered on time and is accurate
- Reviewing internal and external reporting and commentary to ensure that reporting is accurate
- Assisting with the implementation of best practice financial disclosures and presentation;
Accountability: Product and process management
Successfully manage and deliver major projects from commencement to completion within the scope, budget and time agreed to;
- Manage project resources internally or externally to ensure that time lines are being met;
- Ensure quality of project implementation;
- Ensure that adequate documentation is delivered as part of the implementation to sustain the process;
- Responsibilities would include the co-ordination of different groups of people, from varying disciplines associated with the project.
Accountability: Project& Staff Management:
- Providing leadership to junior team members in the area of strategically improving reporting processes;
- Ensure that assigned projects are planned, staffed accordingly and successfully implemented within agreed timelines. Communicate if risks arise to successful implementation of assigned projects, and finalise and propose alternatives
- Help execute the people management strategy for Financial Control;
- Assist in embedding formal Performance Development and informal coaching in the team;
- Review training needs of team members and ensuring that team members receive the relevant training;
- Assist in the interviewing of junior team members;
Education And Experience Required
- Chartered Accountant (Financial Services/Insurance experience preferred),
- Given the technical nature of insurance accounting/valuations, additional postgraduate qualifications focused on insurance and/or additional quantitative qualificatons are preferred
- 4 - 6 Years of relevant reporting, analytics and or project management experience
- (insurance/banking preferred);
- Very strong academic track record.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong data analytical skills
- Banking Product Knowledge.
- Strong technical accounting skills;
- Experience designing and implementing calculation tools
- Exceptional interpersonal and team-working skills and the ability to communicate at all levels;
- The ability to work in a pressured and unstructured environment and to cope with the demands of working to tight deadlines;
Competencies:
- The position requires a technically minded accountant with a passion for investment banking.
- Analysis skills & technical ability;
- Judgment / decision making – demonstrates logic, rationality and objectivity in decision making whilst balancing speed vs. thorough approach;
- Integrity – consistent, earns trust, fights fair, uses the facts;
- Team player – approachable, establishes collaborative relationships;
- Oral and Written Communications - fluency, clarity, precise, well organised communications;
- Resourcefulness – action oriented, goes “beyond the call of duty” to solve problems;
- Adaptability – adapts quickly to change and copes well with complexity;
- Experience – Designing and implementing project or system solutions
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (Required), Bachelor Honours Degree: Accounting (Required)
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Job Summary
Provide superior, seamless customer experience and offering suitable solutions to meet client needs. Utilise technology and leverage the virtual omni-channel environment, to deliver service in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Perform banking duties and oversee the financial activities for business and individual customers.
Job Description
- Income Growth and Financial Targets: Ensure a deep understanding of client's working capital cycle and business needs to provide appropriate solutions. Drive achievement of targets as per individual scorecard.
- Customer Focus: Proactively drive acquisition and cross-sell initiatives through re-engagement processes. Ensure service and complaints resolution are within acceptable service level agreements.
- Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards.
- 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)
Deadline: 25th, February 2022
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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
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
- Report 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
- Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Locations: Burgersfort
Deadline: 26th, February 2022
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Job Summary
Suitable candidates are expected to have 4-7 years industry experience having worked their way in a valuations control or middle office role with a top tier Investment Bank. Facing off with the trading desk candidates will need to demonstrate knowledge /experience of Price Testing, Yield Curve Analysis / Construction, Valuation Adjustments, Model Validation, Middle office, Documentation, Implementation of Processes / Procedures, Best Practices. An ideal candidate should be familiar with new derivatives valuation techniques like OIS/CSA Aware Discounting, Credit Valuation Adjustment etc…
Job Description
The overall job purpose is to independently verify the appropriateness of the Fair Valuation of the Trading Positions.
- Decomposing trades into various risk factors, providing alternative valuation methodologies when parameters aren’t
- observable and performing stress testing to quantify uncertainty ranges.
- Reviewing IPV methodology and implementing improvements and efficiencies.
- Reviewing valuation adjustment methodologies for their appropriateness to ensure positions are marked to fair value.
- Inventory valuation and control; which includes supervising the production quarterly disclosures, the reporting of Fair Value
Accountability
- Ensure that implications of Absa Group requirements and policies (including changes in accounting standards) are understood and communicated. Any new developments in IFRS/ accounting standards impacting valuations are being implemented. Review reporting for compliance with key external requirements and with audit requirements
Accountability: Valuations Control Core responsibilities
- Calculation and implementation of fair value adjustments of fair value adjustment calculations across all desks or product/asset class (i.e. Rates, FX, Commodities, Equities, Credit, XVAs, PVA)
- Price Testing
- XVAs (CVA, FVA, KVA, MVA)
- Bid Offer testing
- Day 1 PnL
- Challenge balance sheet numbers
- Prudential Valuation Adjustments
- Maintain awareness of country specific regulations and pricing realities, as well as ensuring compliance with regulations regarding valuation and reserving; analyse and research relevant products; and stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new development
- Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence, and negotiate to achieve win win outcomes.
- Preserves relationships despite airing conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
- Anticipates consequences and adapts problem solving based on continual feedback
- Act speedily to resolve problems, queries and complaints
- Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
- Innovation : Investigate new and better ways to enhance e processes by measuring the effectiveness of all procedures.
- Plan and manage own workflow, anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed timeframes and according to quality standards
- Take ownership of personal career development, leveraging formal and informal opportunities
- Continually share, debate and communicate learning's
- Assist with Projects and Firm wide initiatives
- Interaction with Key Stakeholders:
- Interaction with various areas across the Absa in order to obtain and understanding of the impact these areas have on Valuations Control as well as providing both formal reporting as well as ad hoc query resolution to these areas. Areas include:
- Absa CIB Finance & ARO Finance, including Financial Control and Financial Decision Support.
- Absa CIB & ARO Front Office
- Absa Group
Product Control Line Support
- Provide technical valuation assistance to the product controllers on each desk to ensure that all valuations control requirements are optimally met.
Complex Trade Reviews
- Prepare complex trade reviews across various products and desks
Education And Experience Required
- Qualification in Mathematical Finance or any other quantitative discipline
- Preferably banking experience
Technical Knowledge
- Sound knowledge of financial instruments and the pricing principles underlying these
- Financial modelling
- Proficient in Microsoft Office with advanced Excel
- 5+ years financial services, preferably banking experience
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Computational and Applied Mathematics (Required)
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Job Summary
Leads program execution by taking overall responsibility for the successful delivery of programs, projects, and agile releases according to plan, budget, and agreed on quality and governance standards. The program manager is responsible for planning, scoping, costing, quality management, communication, stakeholder management, risk management, procurement management, program increment planning, integration, and team management. Must be a thought leader and critical thinker on best practice program, project, and agile standards, providing valuable insights to improve decision-making on change initiatives.
Job Description
- Accountable for planning, managing, and controlling programs according to best practice and Absa standards.
- Accountable for program delivery and execution using program management and agile tools and techniques. This includes, amongst others, the managing of schedules on Microsoft Online, updating statuses, milestones, risks and issues, resourcing plans, and business cases on the company project management tool (PlanEx).
- Accountable for managing change requests, ensuring that the impact of the change is reflected on the schedule, resourcing plan, and risk and issue log (if required).
- Accountable for content for all governance and program forums. Must ensure reporting for the change governance capability is completed, adhering to the quality and timelines set out.
- Accountable for stakeholder management related to program execution. Must gain alignment with key stakeholders on risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and decisions.
- Accountable for implementing the delivery strategy in a way that maximizes the business value of the program.
- Accountable for documenting risks and issues related to the delivery of non-financial and financial benefits.
- Effectively manage third-party and vendor relationships. Forge strategic partnerships to leverage resources that create measurable added value for both parties, where appropriate.
- A basic understanding of Product Management, Lean-Agile frameworks, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile budgeting, and Agile metrics is required.
Agile Methodologies; Analytical Thinking; Budgeting; Collaborative Leadership; Communication Management; Critical Thinking; Excellent Stakeholder Management; Managing Change Requests; People Management; Problem Solving Training; Programme Project Management; Project Programme Management; Risk Management; Scoping; Strategic Planning; Teamwork; Time Management
The following skills are optional:
- Agile Framework; Change Management; Lean Agile; Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe); Workforce Planning
The following qualifications and certifications are required
- Bachelors Degree
- Project Management Professional (PMP) from PMI
The following certifications are advantageous
- Any Agile Frameworks Certification or Agile Certified Professional
- Advanced ScrumMaster (ASM), or Scaled Agilist (SA), or SAFe Program Consultant
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Deadline: 7th,March 2022
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Job Summary
The role is a senior, full scope financial management role for the Corporate Investment Bank and Treasury (CIBT) cluster. Stakeholder engagement and commercial understanding are key success factors and the successful applicant will support financial decision making and execute on internal and external reporting. Insurance and wealth management business knowledge is not a specific requirement for the role. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to upskill and learn about these more specialized businesses.
The successful applicant will also be expected to understand and contribute to the wider Financial Control strategy threads of process improvement and credible reporting. Credible, quality reporting will be a minimum business as usual expectation in the role. Alignment and participation in Financial Control’s continuing functionalization and process improvement imperatives will also be critical deliverables in the role.
Key Accountabilities
Job Description
Accountability: Analytics
Analytics accountabilities for the role span both internal and external reporting. The role will support senior internal stakeholders in the CIBT business and the successful applicant will be expected to provide analytic insight based on commercial business understanding to senior stakeholders. Stakeholders include senior management of the CIBT business and the Financial Controller for the CIBT Cluster.
Specific Accountabilities Include
- Designing, developing and implementing analytical tools which will provide comfort that internal and external reporting is accurate (including scenario analyses to anticipate and challenge reporting results)
- Ensuring that team members have a detailed understanding of products and businesses to enable relevant design and interpretation of analytics to enable accurate timeous commentary on reporting
- Provide input into external reporting deliverables using business knowledge obtained through analytical processes
- Provide commentary on external or internal reporting
- To assist the Financial Controllers to continuously evaluating the control framework in Financial Control and to enhance it as appropriate;
Accountability: Reporting
- The reporting function for the role is supported by various teams. However, the successful applicant will have certain business as usual reporting responsibilities.
- Designing, developing and implementing processes and systems which will provide comfort that external reporting is accurate
- Responsible for ensuring that all external reporting is delivered on time and is accurate
- Reviewing internal and external reporting and commentary to ensure that reporting is accurate
- Assisting with the implementation of best practice financial disclosures and presentation;
Accountability: Product and process management
- Successfully manage and deliver major projects from commencement to completion within the scope, budget and time agreed to;
- Manage project resources internally or externally to ensure that time lines are being met;
- Ensure quality of project implementation;
- Ensure that adequate documentation is delivered as part of the implementation to sustain the process;
- Responsibilities would include the co-ordination of different groups of people, from varying disciplines associated with the project.
Accountability: Project& Staff Management:
- Providing leadership to junior team members in the area of strategically improving reporting processes;
- Ensure that assigned projects are planned, staffed accordingly and successfully implemented within agreed timelines. Communicate if risks arise to successful implementation of assigned projects, and finalise and propose alternatives
- Help execute the people management strategy for Financial Control;
- Assist in embedding formal Performance Development and informal coaching in the team;
- Review training needs of team members and ensuring that team members receive the relevant training;
- Assist in the interviewing of junior team members;
Education & Experience Required
- Chartered Accountant (Financial Services/Insurance experience preferred),
- Given the technical nature of insurance accounting/valuations, additional postgraduate qualifications focused on insurance and/or additional quantitative qualificatons are preferred
- 4 - 6 Years of relevant reporting, analytics and or project management experience
- (insurance/banking preferred);
- Very strong academic track record.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong data analytical skills
- Banking Product Knowledge.
- Strong technical accounting skills;
- Experience designing and implementing calculation tools
- Exceptional interpersonal and team-working skills and the ability to communicate at all levels;
- The ability to work in a pressured and unstructured environment and to cope with the demands of working to tight deadlines;
Competencies
- The position requires a technically minded accountant with a passion for investment banking.
- Analysis skills & technical ability;
- Judgment / decision making – demonstrates logic, rationality and objectivity in decision making whilst balancing speed vs. thorough approach;
- Integrity – consistent, earns trust, fights fair, uses the facts;
- Team player – approachable, establishes collaborative relationships;
- Oral and Written Communications - fluency, clarity, precise, well organised communications;
- Resourcefulness – action oriented, goes “beyond the call of duty” to solve problems;
- Adaptability – adapts quickly to change and copes well with complexity;
- Experience – Designing and implementing project or system solutions
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. risk methodology, governance and delivery objectives
Job Description
- Strategy Formulation and Execution: Development and implementation of strategy
- People Management: Develop a high performing Team
- Stakeholder and Relationship Management: Management of Stakeholders | Risk and Control: Adherence to Policies, Procedures and Regulations
- Financial Management: Management of Budgets | : Key reporting and analysis
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Location: Sandton
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Job Summary
To plan, manage and monitor the implementation of operational and administrative activities and processes in order to deliver on approved operational plans in an effective and efficient manner.
Job Description
- People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development
- Stakeholder Management: Actively engage internal and external stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction
- Business Performance: Ensure own and team performance against business, efficiency and continuous improvement targets, as well as customer outcomes
- Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure that all team activities are in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards
- Administration: Effectively fulfil all required administrative duties, including tracking and reporting
Education
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Location: Sandton
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