Career Opportunities at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• The overall responsibility of Product Control includes P&L reporting, balance sheet substantiation, and/or responsibility for process ownership within an asset class, and/or involvement in broader, floor wide Product Control initiatives

Job Description

Reporting & Substantiation related responsibilities include:

• Accounting – posting to the General Ledger accurate and timely information
• Substantiation of the trading balance sheet – ensuring the full trading balance sheet can be substantiated
• Regulatory reporting alignment - ensuring the Balance sheet is aligned to reports send to regulators
• Data ownership – Ensuring the quality and accuracy of the data going downstream to other infrastructure areas
• Control environment – Overseeing the control environment in which the business operates
• P&L review – understanding and providing commentary on the P&L
• In the process of production focus is needed on:
• Reporting – Ensuring reporting is accurate and timely
• Control – Continue to implement the on-going control environment and report any deficiencies or issues to managers

Critical to your responsibilities:

• P&L reporting and BS substantiation
• Interaction with key stakeholders
• Process Owner
• Strategic and/or Project and /or Change related Initiatives
• Preferred education, qualification & skills:

Preferred education, qualification & skills:

• B degree/similar qualification in a financial/related discipline with 5 years relevant experience or CA(SA)
• Investment banking or Product Control experience
• Product specific knowledge

Experience in creating and maintaining an effective control environment

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Provide complex advice and support in the positioning of legal operating models and frameworks in a broadly defined business functional strategy; enabling operating model, strategy and value chain formulation and alignment.

Job Description

• Leadership & Management: Design and implement change, providing support and momentum for others, and addresses conflicts effectively and, deliver difficult messages and decisions | Leadership and Management: Continuously mentor the team and drives proactive people management techniques. | Commercial: Drive achievement of business strategy and, understands future client needs and develops proposals to meet them | Commercial: Establish and build relationships with external Legal Counsel and make recommendations on which external firm/s to use for which legal component. | Risk and Control: Foster an atmosphere of compliance and an ability to challenge and escalate issues | Risk and Control: Drive understanding in team of the risk and control framework, and own the Legal Principal Risk Framework and ensure it is properly embedded and accurately interpreted | Team work: Develop strong partnerships between team and business, and make use of appropriate communication channels to ensure that there is a broad understanding within the business unit for the services provided | Technical: Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders and participate in any applicable sub-committees and, drives excellent performance in team

Education

• Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Law, Military Science and Security (Required)

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Job Summary

• Join Global Markets team in senior FIC Fundamental Sales role. Suited to a candidate with at least 10 years’ experience in SA markets, either in a Sales or Research role. Will need to have the relevant markets relationship. A CFA designation would be preferable.

Job Description

Key roles will include:

Client coverage

• Marketing of our FIC research views via regular engagement with Absolute, Balanced and FIC Portfolio Managers buyside firms
• Cross asset ideas generation with the Equities Team on stocks
• Hosting clients events covering National Treasury, SARB and political engagements Thought leadership generation
• Hosting relevant conferences

Desk Coverage

• Client feedback to Sales and Structured Trading
• Weekly meetings with FIC trading to discuss macro and market views
• Intraday comments on market news and events including politics
• Generate data on client positioning
• Collaboration with Coverage Bankers and Syndicate on opportunities round NBFI clientsProvide feedback on macro research client meetings where possible

Education

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

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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 High Value 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)

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Job Summary

• To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialization enabling the effective implementation of risk frameworks.

Job Description

• Integrate ESG and climate data across various climate data sources, e.g. IEA, CDP, IPCC, Bloomberg, Moody’s and sustainability reports etc.
• Build the required infrastructure and pipeline for optimal ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) of data from various data sources using various data technologies.
• Design and implement processes including designing ESG and climate data infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes.
• Identify and address ESG data matters, such as approaches to missing data, data quality issues, and leveraging structured/unstructured data.
• Leverage data science tools and libraries to perform data mining, prediction, and analytics.
• Develop analytical reports using data query and data analytical/reporting tools, e.g., SAS, SQL, PowerBI, QlikView, etc., per business requirements.
• Develop data governance practices in line with head office guidelines.
• Produce proprietary and unique data-driven ESG insights and approaches, particularly with respect to climate and scenario analysis approaches.
• Timely identification and escalation of problem items.
• Ongoing maintenance of climate risk data repositories.
• Analyze internal and externally sourced climate data and reports to provide detailed views, risk insights and propose differentiated approaches.

Education

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