Current Jobs at Standard Bank Group

Develop and Maintain Scalable Data Infrastructure

• Assist in creating and maintaining optimal data pipeline architecture, assemble large and complex data sets, and create databases optimized for performance across Standard Bank platforms.

Enable Data-Driven Insights

• Build analytics tools that utilise data pipelines to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business metrics. Create data tools to support analytics and data science teams.

Support Data Migrations and Transformations

• Assist in enabling and running data migrations across different databases and servers, perform thorough testing and validation to support data transformation accuracy, and contribute to machine learning model development.

Design and Develop ETL and Big Data Solutions

• Design and develop scalable ETL packages and routines to populate databases, manage large-scale Hadoop platforms, and support growing data needs within the business.

Conduct Analysis and Optimisation

• Perform ad-hoc data analyses, write SQL scripts, stored procedures, and proactively evaluate databases to identify and recommend improvements and optimisation strategies.

Collaborate Across Data and Business Teams

• Liaise with the EDO team and collaborate with subject matter experts to select relevant data sources and translate business requirements into data mining and science outcomes.

Automate and Improve Internal Data Processes

• Utilise data under supervision to discover tasks that can be automated and identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, such as automating manual tasks and re-designing infrastructure for scalability.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Information Studies
• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required
Data Monetisation

• Data & Analytics

3-4 years

• Experience in working with unstructured data (e.g. Streams, images) Understanding of data flows, data architecture, ETL and processing of structured and unstructured data. Using data mining to discover new patterns from large datasets. Implement standard and proprietary algorithms for handling and processing data. Experience with common data science toolkits, such as SAS, R, SPSS, etc. Experience with data visualisation tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, etc.

3-4 years

• Proven development experience in software and software engineering. Understanding of financial services data processes, systems, and products. Experience in technical business intelligence. Knowledge of IT infrastructure and data principles. Project management experience. Experience in building models (credit scoring, propensity models, churn, etc.)

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Job Description

• To provide expertise, professional knowledge, and technical skills to automate building, testing and operating data ingestion systems. To operate and monitor the group's cyber security operational centre (CSOC) systems that collect and manages several terabytes of logs per day. To assist the cyber security incident response team and threat hunters by ingesting and providing access to log data. Any experience and interest in cyber security and/or data science is an advantage but not essential.

Qualifications

• A degree Information Technology is required.

Experience:

• 3+ years experience in system administration, programming and data collection/manipulation.
• 1+ years in automation engineering and CI/CD.
• 1+ years in operating services with cloud environments.
• 1+ years in data ingestion, engineering or analytic roles.

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Job Description

• To sell the Homeowners Insurance (HOC) and Home Loan Protection Plan (HLP) products to existing Standard Bank Home Loan customers, in accordance with business needs. Facilitate the development of customer loyalty through customer relationship management and to consistently portray a corporate image. To establish and maintain excellent business relationships with internal and external customers, in line with the Bank’s values 
• Guides customers to discover their specific needs and then offer the best possible solution to ensure their needs are fulfilled.  To ensure timeous and accurate validation and capture of policies and issue confirmations as per business requirements.

Qualifications

• Completed Matric
• Short term and long-term insurance products (min 2 years)
• Outbound Homeowners and Home Loan Protection Plan products (preference)
• RE 05
• FAIS credits min 120

Experience

• Outbound sales experience with a proven track record (min 2years)
• Both Long- and Short-Term Insurance experience 
• Experience in category 1.2, 1.22

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Develop and Implement Value Propositions

• Lead the design, development, and in-country implementation of client value propositions (CVPs) in alignment with Group and sub-segment objectives, ensuring approved customisations and integrated marketing with Group Marketing.

Drive Client Experience and Engagement

• Own and entrench a consistent, end-to-end client experience across all engagement platforms, addressing client life events and ensuring multi-product delivery through a client-centric platform.

Collaborate Across Teams for Delivery

• Work closely with Client Coverage (including Advisors and Coverage Teams), Client Solutions, Digital & eCommerce, and other Segment Heads to co-create solutions, improve service efficiencies, and deliver a world-class experience that reflects the CVP promise.

Monitor Adoption and Impact of CVPs

• Track and monitor CVP adoption and provide feedback to internal domains and capabilities, ensuring effective deployment, pricing coordination, rewards design, and alignment with client needs and life stages.

Enable Risk Management and Governance

• Ensure full compliance with risk, governance, and regulatory standards, manage business risks, support satisfactory audit outcomes, and drive implementation of remedial actions to protect the sub-segment.

Deliver on Financial and Non-Financial Outcomes

• Be accountable for the achievement of financial and non-financial metrics, including profit and client growth, ROI, NPS, and overall client experience, in collaboration with country, Segment Heads, and functional partners.

Inspire Teams and Build Capability

• Inspire and lead teams aligned to the Group's shared purpose, manage CVP portfolios, identify and close skills gaps in partnership with Human Capital, and drive integrated delivery through multi-functional squads.
• Oversee and Execute Entrenchment Capability within Money Management & Advisory

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Business Commerce

Experience Required
Main Market Clients

• Personal and Private Banking
• 8-10 years
• Experience in developing, designing and enabling segment value propositions. Strong understanding of digital, open banking and platform integrations. Knowledge of behavioural economics and its practical application. : Experience in managing an income statement, balance sheet, pricing strategies, risk management, people management, leading / developing teams and motivating people would be beneficial.

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Job Description

• To lead and ensure optimal performance and reporting of the Business and Commercial’s credit portfolio, that the allocated portfolio performs within risk appetite, budgets are set appropriately and that strategic portfolio decisions are optimised across the 14 countries in Africa Regions.
• Drive effective execution of the credit risk strategy and framework in line with the risk appetite statements, the Group Credit Risk Governance Standard and Global Credit Policy.
• To provide leadership, support and quality assurance to the team to execute all Credit Risk process activities in order to manage risk, achieve targets and align to best practices. 

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Mathematical/ Business Sciences/ Finance/Accounting is essential.
• Type of Qualification : Post Graduate Degree
• Field of Study : Mathematical/ Business Sciences/ Finance/Accounting is preferred.

Experience Required
Credit Risk – PPB

• Risk & Corporate Affairs
• 8-10 yearsThe role requires an individual with a proven capability leading people across the full dimension of the Credit Risk field, including originations, evaluation, account management, collections and payments. Banking experience, portfolio analysis and/or credit risk management. Legal, Regulatory, Compliance proficiency in supervising and managing fore closure process.

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Job Description

• Credit assessment and evaluation of structured / specialised senior debt applications for businesses within Business and Commercial Banking leveraging deep financial, legal and debt structuring skills, whilst ensuring application of sound credit risk principles and risk policies to manage credit losses and support asset book growth within risk appetite.
• Apply and engage in dealmaking to support dealmakers in lending origination.
• Manage and continuously assess the credit risk of the allocated portfolio through the credit life cycle, proactively managing the credit risk of the asset book within Bank risk appetite.
• The jobholder may operate in one or more of the segments as required by business needs.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Business Commerce, Finance and Accounting, Mathematical Sciences, Risk Management, Quantitative Studies

Experience Required
Credit Risk - BCB
5-10 years

• Credit risk assessment as a mandate holder in Business or Commercial Banking.

3-5 years

• Debt structuring for complex, structured or large transactions such as LAF, management buy outs, etc

2-3 years

• Debt structuring exposure such as LAF, MBOs, M&A.

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Job Description

• Credit assessment and evaluation of specialised senior debt and/or mezzanine and junior debt lending applications for businesses within Business and Commercial Banking leveraging deep financial, legal and debt structuring skills, whilst ensuring application of sound credit risk principles and risk policies to manage credit losses and support asset book growth within risk appetite.
• Apply and engage in dealmaking to support dealmakers in lending origination.
• Manage and continuously assess the credit risk of the allocated portfolio through the credit life cycle, proactively managing the credit risk of the asset book within Bank risk appetite.
• The jobholder may operate in one or more of the segments as required by business needs.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: CA (SA)
• Field of Study: Accounting

Experience Required

• Credit Risk – BCB

5-10 years

• Credit risk assessment as a mandate holder in Business or Commercial Banking

3-5 years

• Experience in mezzanine and junior debt instruments, as well as quasi-equity transactions.

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Key responsibilities:

• To support the Relationship Manager with the day-to-day administrative functions, portfolio management, entrenchment, and operational functions for an allocated portfolio.
• To ensure that all compliance requirements within the portfolio are met and act as a central contact point for the client, providing sales and service fulfilment aligned to segment targets.
• Is accountable for assisting Relationship Manager in the day-to-day execution of their credit portfolio.
• To support the Relationship manager to grow and retain a portfolio of high value Premium & Growth Business Segment relationships by performing a proactive, mobile, value adding financial partnership role.
• Ensures deep understanding of Customer’s business through regular interaction with clients, including their place of business.
• Employs the use of client value chain analysis to understand customer needs and deploy banking and financial solutions to meet those needs.
• To do complex financial analysis on annual financial statements, management accounts and cash flow projections.
• To write and motivate agricultural and business finance applications and to successfully present the case to a business and credit lending committee.
• Managing the credit process from start to end including the collateral and the monitoring as well as annual review of all clients with credit facilities.
• To build trust, credibility and confidence with Agricultural and Business Clients.

Qualifications

FAIS accredited Undergraduate or Honours qualification in: 

• BCom Management Accounting
• BCom Accounting
• BCom Agricultural Economics
• BSc Agricultural Economics
• SAICA Articles/CA(SA) (advantageous)
• CIMA Qualified (advantageous)

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Job Description

• To design, code, verify, test, document, amend, and secure data pipelines and data stores according to agreed architecture, solution designs, standards, policies and governance requirements. To monitor and report on own progress and proactively identify issues related to data engineering activities. To collaborate in reviews of work with others where appropriate

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required
Software Engineering

• Technology

5-7 years

• Experience in building databases, warehouses, reporting and data integration solutions. Experience building and optimising big data data-pipelines, architectures and data sets. Experience in creating and integrating APIs. Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement

5-7 years

• Experience in database programming languages including SQL, PL/SQL, SPARK and or appropriate data tooling. Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools

5-7 years

• Understanding of data pipelining and performance optimisation, data principles, how data fits in an organisation, including customers, products and transactional information. Knowledge of integration patterns, styles, protocols and systems theory

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Job Description

• To design, code, test, debug, and maintain programs in development environments. Apply agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineers result. Work within a strict framework of programming standards under supervision of senior technical resources.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology

Experience Required
Software Engineering

• Technology

5-7 years

• Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

8-10 years

• Proven experience in modern engineering practices i.e. dev ops, agile etc., Proven experience across multiple, broad IT Engineering disciplines, with demonstrated specialisation in at least one. Experience within the required scope of expertise.