Current Jobs at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• In this role you will be responsible for delivering and administering all procedures pertaining to the processing of Trade Finance related products and services as received from Trade Middle Office post fit for processing checks and within required SLAs. This includes but is not limited to Letters of Credit, Documentary Collections, BGIs (Bonds, Guarantees and Indemnities), Open Accounts products e.g. RF, SRF, SF. FI Trade and Trade Loans, Irrevocable Reimbursement Undertakings (IRUs)

Job Description

Your key accountabilities will include;

• Performing transaction processing with a high degree of accuracy and in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Fulfilling all functions relating to reconciliations, settlements, monitoring and reporting requirements.
• Acting as a consultant or releaser for various transactions however would not be able to do and release its own transactions.
• Processing client instructions within agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Checking that all information received is in accordance with the required standards.
• Validating and obtaining an exchange rate where necessary
• Capturing Excon Rulings as received and in accordance with Central Bank requirements
• Capturing the correct Balance of Payments (BOP) category.
• Ensuring that signatories, indemnities and credit have been authorised
• Providing a high quality of service to all clients within agreed SLAs
• Ensuring high quality of communication to internal and external clients, both verbal and written.
• Ensuring adherence to quality standards to avoid risks to the Bank through effective & efficient management of transactions.
• Drawing Day End listings and action accordingly to ensure that all work received is and actioned on the same day.
• Providing suggestions to the line manager on improvements and solutions based on knowledge of the trade value chain.

Send in your application if you have;

• An applicable Degree or Diploma with 3 to 6 years related experience
• 3 to 5 years in Trade Finance Products
• Preferably with CDCS – Certified Documentary Credit Specialist (For FI and Documentary Trade)

Education

• Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
   

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Job Summary

• In this role you will be responsible for delivering and administering all procedures pertaining to the processing of Trade Finance related products and services as received from Trade Middle Office post fit for processing checks and within required SLAs. This includes but is not limited to Letters of Credit, Documentary Collections, BGIs (Bonds, Guarantees and Indemnities), Open Accounts products e.g. RF, SRF, SF. FI Trade and Trade Loans, Irrevocable Reimbursement Undertakings (IRUs)

Job Description

Your key accountabilities will include;

• Performing transaction processing with a high degree of accuracy and in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Fulfilling all functions relating to reconciliations, settlements, monitoring and reporting requirements.
• Acting as a consultant or releaser for various transactions however would not be able to do and release its own transactions.
• Processing client instructions within agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Checking that all information received is in accordance with the required standards.
• Validating and obtaining an exchange rate where necessary
• Capturing Excon Rulings as received and in accordance with Central Bank requirements
• Capturing the correct Balance of Payments (BOP) category.
• Ensuring that signatories, indemnities and credit have been authorised
• Providing a high quality of service to all clients within agreed SLAs
• Ensuring high quality of communication to internal and external clients, both verbal and written.
• Ensuring adherence to quality standards to avoid risks to the Bank through effective & efficient management of transactions.
• Drawing Day End listings and action accordingly to ensure that all work received is and actioned on the same day.
• Providing suggestions to the line manager on improvements and solutions based on knowledge of the trade value chain.

Send in your application if you have;

• An applicable Degree or Diploma with 3 to 6 years related experience
• 3 to 5 years in Trade Finance Products
• Preferably with CDCS – Certified Documentary Credit Specialist (For FI and Documentary Trade)

Education

• Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• Participate in an internship programme in order to maximise individual and organisational development, through the execution of predefined internship objectives.

Job Description

• Workplace experiences: Attend and participate in all workplace experiences against agreed development objectives | Learning:
• Attend and participate in all training and development interventions against agreed development objectives | Ad Hoc duties:
• Provide support to customers and team as required to ensure team performance on an ongoing basis |
• Administration: Effectively fulfil all required administrative duties, including tracking and reporting | : | : | : | :

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Are you known as a passionate UI UX design specialist? Do you have a keen eye for detail and able to understand user needs? If so, we invite you to join our dynamic team as a UI UX Design Specialist.

Job Description

In this role you will be responsible for;

• Gathering feedback from stakeholders and drive end-to-end user experience design from discovery to ideation, conception, detailed designs, prototypes, and validation across digital platforms.
• Creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visual designs that enhance the user experience.
• Ensuring all digital products are intuitive, accessible, and optimized for various digital platforms and channels (web, mobile, and others).
• Developing and maintaining a comprehensive design system and style guide to ensure consistency across all digital touchpoints.
• Leading the design process from concept to delivery, including ideation, wireframing, prototyping, visual design, and user testing.
• Managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
• If you are ready to take on new challenges and make a significant impact, we would love to hear from you. Apply now if you meet the role requirements and be a part of our innovative team!

You must also have;

• A Bachelor's degree in Design, Digital Media, or a related field  and a certification in UX/UI design ideally
• 4 years or more experience in digital design, UX/UI design.
• A strong portfolio showcasing digital products and experiences.
• Experience in the financial services or banking sector is preferred.
• Strong expertise in creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity visual designs that enhance the user experience.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

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Job Summary

Job Description

• We are seeking an experienced credit strategist to join our fixed income and macro research team to bolster our existing research effort in this space.
•  The credit strategist provides top-rated client-focused research covering the rand denominated listed non-government debt market.
• This includes parastatals, municipalities, corporates, financials and securitizations.  
• The successful incumbent will have a passion for research, ideally with a minimum 5 years’ experience in credit research or a related field and prior experience with servicing institutional clients. However, other suitable candidates, for example seasoned credit analysts with financial modelling skills and technical report writing capability, will also be considered.
• Success in the role will depend on an ability to work closely within the broader research team as well as the markets trading and sales teams and colleagues across investment banking

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Support high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade application design & development in agile teams by producing, testing, documenting & reviewing source code.

Job Description

• DevOps
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Interpret analysis, problem definition & business requirements to identify solution requirements (e.g. features)
• Produce well-organised and documented source code for technical solutions
• Apply technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience in code development
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Study & apply Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines to all development work
• Support reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for exposure to Automation, Integration, Messaging, CI/CD etc.
• Update, create and appropriately store application documentation & technical specifications

Risk & Governance

• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
   

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Job Summary

• The role is a senior management role in the Regulatory Reporting team. This team is responsible for ensuring consistency and overall accuracy of returns, queries, commentary and supplementary data, submitted to the Prudential Authority.
• Production of the monthly and quarterly analytics pack, which will be presented at the Regulatory Review Committee (RRC) for discussion.
• Manage the team that produces the consolidated returns for submission to the Prudential Authority, and reports changes to the Regulatory Reporting Change Control Committee (RRCCC).
• Design, develop and implement robust review methodologies, analytical tools and processes to ensure appropriate, consistent and accurate information is provided in a timely manner.
• Frequent interaction with the regulatory risk and data production centres (such as Finance, Treasury, Credit Risk and Market Risk), in order to ensure compliance to service level agreements and implement efficient data flows that support the requirements mentioned above in a sustainable way.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Accountability: Technical Authority
• Maintain a high level of knowledge of the technical subject matter. Specifically, a good knowledge of the following is required:
• Regulatory Reporting including new developments and impact analysis
• Banking (Retail, Wealth, Investment Banking, Wholesale Banking, Treasury)
• Provide challenge to the technical subject matter experts in the risk and production centres
• Provide review and sign-off of team deliverables
• Perform and present financial analysis; prepare and present commentary
• Design, develop and maintain analytical processes and tools to ensure that it delivers accurate information
• Interact with senior leaders in the firm and the Prudential Authority
• Engage with outside key partners (e.g. auditors) where required
• Identifying and⁄or implementing projects by the teams necessary in improving wider risk and return production environment
• Accountability: Analytics
• The role will support senior internal stakeholders in the business and provide analytic insight based on business understanding to senior stakeholders.
• 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 regulatory reporting deliverables using business knowledge obtained through analytical processes
• Provide commentary to assist the Risk and Production centres to continuously evaluating the control framework and to enhance it as appropriate
• Accountability: Reporting
• Production of monthly and quarterly packs to the Prudential Authority. Production of consolidated returns.
• Designing, developing and implementing processes and systems which will enable the reporting of data to the Prudential Authority as well as to the Regulatory Review Committee (RCC) and Regulatory Reporting Change Control Committee (RRCCC)
• Implement controls to provide comfort that reporting is accurate
• Responsible for ensuring that all reporting is delivered on time and is accurate
• Reviewing of reporting and commentary received from Risk and Production areas to ensure that reporting is accurate
• Accountability: Project & Staff Management
• Providing leadership to junior team members in the area of implementing and 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
• 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

Role/Person Specification

Education and Experience Required

• B degree⁄similar qualification in a financial⁄related discipline or CA(SA)
• Non CA with 8 to 10 plus years relevant experience or CA with 6 to 8 plus years PQE
• Regulatory Reporting experience essential
• Management experience preferable
• Business experience in a banking environment gained from a Finance or Product

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 and 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

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

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Job Summary

• Work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements. Translate & document business requirements into user stories  & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes

Job Description

• CIB Payments Technology - Core Banking Multi-Currency is looking for a passionate, motivated and engaged Solution/System Analyst.
• We are a legacy application evolving to more modern applications, our area provides forex payments capabilities through various systems and processes.
• As a team we continuously strive to streamline our processes and ways of working, and creating room for innovation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analysis (including Business Case)
• Proactively build relationships, apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs ahead of demand
• Implement routines to get to know / become an expert in various business processes (e.g. spend time in business & with users)
• Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format that is immediately usable for DevOps teams
• Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions
• Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads (Technical Product / Service Owners) to build a roadmap & vision for the products and services (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)
• Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features
• Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)
• Support the development of detailed business cases (including defining solution characteristics, effort estimations etc.)
• Solution Design (within DevOps Context)
• Translate business requirements into detailed systems requirements.
• Build detailed user stories to be leveraged for system requirements design (modular)
• Leverage business analysis & modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML/BPMN to diagrammatically/visually document
• Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across the broad range of stakeholders to be impacted
• Understand & leverage knowledge on the organisations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to define integration points across tech stacks for various requirements
• Work collaboratively with project / program teams, squads, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog, release & DevOps / project planning implications of the requirements development & roadmap
• Continuously improve system requirements mapping (e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. ensuring continues improvement
• Work as part of the embedded DevOps team throughout the design process to review solution design (features and functionality)
• Facilitate resolution during development & testing phases for any change requirements
• Solution Delivery & Testing (manual)
• Define the manual testing strategy & test cases for various solutions (where it makes sense to do so)
• Define & validate quality & testing parameters (+/-) & plans for the solution (socialize & translate these to automation testing teams)
• Develop manual testing frameworks and patterns for the solution
• Lead the manual testing process for various solutions (e.g. execute test cases, analyse results)
• Provide real time feedback to the DevOps teams on change requirements identified throughout the testing process
• Review & monitor system stability, resilience etc. throughout the testing process (e.g. integration) & in production
• Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery
• Provide Developer & User

Technical Skills and Experience required:

• Min 5 year business & systems analysis experience in a tech environment
• Experience in software and business analysis and tools
• Proficiency in SQL for data querying and manipulation
• Knowledge of data modeling and database schemas
• Familiarity with ETL processes and data warehousing
• Experience in working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience in Agile Methodology & working embedded within an Agile team / teams
• Banking domain experience, preferred.
• Expertise in Systems Design & Integration, Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery

Payment Systems Knowledge beneficial:

• Understand ISO standards related to financial transactions.
• Familiarity with Swift payments and messaging protocols.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Summary

• Provide specialist advise and support for day-to-day work, in order to execute predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Job Description

• Source Utilisation: Obtain walk in client or data leads from the Bank staff in the branches. | Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction. | Risk and Control: Ensure that processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks that impact the area are documented and understood. | Manage Sales and Growth Targets: Capture the correct Policy Relevant Information (PRI) number on the EBankpac system on a monthly basis and check the accuracy of the commission statements received from the AIFA Commissions department. Verify that all the PRI numbers reconcile to the commission paid and reflected on the statements.

FAIS Fit and Proper Requirements Applicable to this Role (Advice and Intermediary Service):

• FSCA-Approved Qualification
• Regulatory Exam for Representatives (RE5)
• Experience As Per the FAIS Act
• Product Specific Training once Onboarded
• Class Of Business Training
• Continuous Professional Development
• Attest To Honesty, Integrity, and Good Standing

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Accounting, National Senior Certificate/ Matric (Grade 12)

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Job Summary

• To provide specialist advise & support in the collection & analysis of investment information that enables decision making & provide a sound basis for recommendation formulation, through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

• Download and organize financial reports and correspondence from Funds, managers, delivered to the team email account
• Maintain and organize client contact information in CRM
• Maintain storage and organization of client documents
• Undertake general administration duties including arranging meetings on behalf of the team and booking meeting rooms
• Review specific types of investment recommendations and determine the most appropriate action
• Enhance and build strong and long lasting relationships with beneficiaries/clients in relation to the transaction types providing excellent customer service
• Work is prepared and completed in line with the procedures, deadlines and policies in place
• Complete Investment subscriptions, redemptions and switches within and between fund managers and managed accounts including foreign exchange
• Actively manage the integrity of the data by implementing data scrubbing and consolidation procedures
• Assisting with the day-to-day queries from Front Office, escalating issues to relevant internal parties when necessary managing expectations to ensure any problems are addressed and solutions agreed
• Assist in developing controls and procedures and promote innovative methods/system approaches to meet business needs

Role / Person Specification

• 2 - 3 years of experience in a similar environment at junior specialist level
• Advanced Diploma or Bachelor's degree (Finance major)

Education

• Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)