Current New Job Openings at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Key Accountabilities:

Monitoring & Incident Management:

• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging systems.
• Respond to and troubleshoot incidents, ensuring minimal downtime and quick recovery.
• Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support as needed.

System Maintenance & Optimization:

• Assist in the maintenance and optimization of our cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.).
• Perform routine system updates, patches, and configuration changes.
• Conduct regular performance testing and capacity planning.

Automation & Scripting:

• Develop and maintain scripts to automate routine tasks and improve system reliability.
• Contribute to the development of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Work closely with development teams to ensure the seamless deployment and operation of applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement SRE best practices.
• Document processes, incident reports, and system configurations clearly and comprehensively.

Continuous Improvement:

• Participate in post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement preventive measures.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and proactively suggest improvements to our systems.

Qualifications and Experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Technical skills:

• 3 years relevant experience.
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix systems and basic system administration tasks.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS).
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git).

Soft skills:

• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Attention to detail and the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously.

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Job Description

Accountability:  Management and oversight of immediate team performing P&L production and BS substantiation

• Expert knowledge of products traded on the desks and their impact across the finance sector
• Thorough understanding of the risk and P&L drivers for the products coupled with an understanding of external markets and changes in market parameters
• Needs to maintain an excellent understanding of processes and procedures to be able to pick up production where necessary.
• The capacity to work, manage and deliver under pressure.
• Presentation of consolidated financial information for FO and Finance Management
• Interact with other infrastructure areas, specifically Operations and Financial Control, for issue resolutions
• Ultimate escalation point, including the facilitation of issue resolution.
• Ambassador of immediate team to rest of the organisation
• Involvement in any Product Control specific initiatives

Accountability:  Interaction with key stakeholders

• Interaction with various areas across the Absa Group in order to obtain and understanding of the impact these areas have on Product Control as well as providing both formal reporting as well as ad hoc query resolution to these areas. Areas include:
• Absa CIB Finance, including Financial Control, Balance Sheet Control and Financial Decision Support.
• Absa CIB Front Office, including head of Markets;
• Absa CIB Capital Management
• Absa Product Control

Accountability: People Management

• Management of a medium sized team (5-10 people – direct & indirect)
• Ownership of all the people related issues (development, performance management, recruitment, compensation)
• Team Management – recruiting, succession planning, ensuring staff are skilled up via training, performance review, career development, secondments, re-structures.

Accountability: Projects/Change

• Efficiency – looking for continuous improvement in the efficiency by which the desk carries out its work.
• Reporting – looking for continuous improvement in the reporting ability and performance of the desk
• Control - looking for continuous improvement in the ability of the desk to control the business

Knowledge & Skills: 

• Strong technical accounting skills
• Exceptional academic track record
• Good 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
• Maturity – able to deal with managers
• Business acumen
• An understanding of financial mathematics
• Performance orientated and client service driven
• Report writing and presentation skills
• Understanding of Economics
• Knowledge of financial markets
• Excellent numeric ability
• Bank Valuations skills
• Investment banking product knowledge
• Ability to manage and develop a medium sized team

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 and Experience Required

• B degree/similar qualification in a financial/related discipline with 7-10  years relevant experience or CA(SA) with 5-8 years PQE experience
• Extensive management experience (3-5 years)
• Investment banking or Product Control experience preferred
• Fixed Income Product Specific knowledge preferable
• Experience in creating and maintaining an effective control environment

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Job Description

Accountability: Risk Oversight

• Ownership and support of monthly product area market risk forums for Group Treasury, developing key relationships with stakeholders to improve management of market risk. 
• Assessment and monitoring of other related market risks impacting fair value volatility, AFS and FX market risk.
• Work with and influence Product teams to structure products and identify effective hedging solutions to new products, within agreed risk appetite including structural hedging strategy review.
• Perform daily, monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc risk and control assessments front to back for allocated businesses.
• Facilitating and/or providing input to Business related committees and forums as well as any other Absa Capital and/or Group committee to run and support regular internal meetings and producing MI. 
• Develop supplementary risk models to ensure a comprehensive assessment of all market risks, and continued improvement to modeling methodologies and measure quantification.
• Support the NPA and STR process within the requirements of the NTMR policy and risk appetite framework.

Accountability: Risk Appetite and Infrastructure

• Support NTMR and ALM requirements within in the Group QRM rollout project.
• Ensure businesses are aligned to governance framework and define risk appetite. 
• Ad hoc projects e.g. Review of Absa Group-wide MRMF and NTMR policy documents.
• Be a part of the benchmarking process and cutting-edge implementation of worldwide regulatory change as required for the risk area
• Full and detailed engagement with regards to Regulatory Change (such as The Fundamental Review of the Trading Book).

Accountability: Risk Measurement

• SME expert in understanding and application of risk measures (e.g. PV01, VaR, EVE, EaR and EC)
• Management of drivers and development of new market risk measures and controls where appropriate.
• Measurement of market risk within the NTMR risk appetite framework
• Embedding and maintaining a monitoring and risk management framework and controls team wide. 
• Develop supplementary risk models to ensure a comprehensive assessment of all market risks, and to ensure continuous enhancement on models and measures.
• Governance - understand the policies and frameworks impacting NTMR; challenge and enhance the existing framework, customize for Absa Group, and obtain approvals where necessary; ensure adherence to Group Policies
• Deliverables (co-ordination, timing, quality assurance, submission within deadlines etc.).
• Reporting on framework elements
• Ensure training and awareness across the area of influence escalating concerns supplemented by a thorough front-to-back investigation with an impact analysis and recommendation.
• Maintain a training material, policies, and process documents library up to date and readily accessible for team continuity.   

Accountability: Communication

• Add value through market risk management throughout the business through pro-active stakeholder management and credible representation at regular senior level committee/meetings. 
• Maintain a professional relationship with all stakeholders, inter alia, Absa Group Risk, Absa Group Regulatory Reporting, Finance, PCG and other Absa stakeholders. 
• Engagement with Group Technology.
• Proactively find and exploit value-adds to the market risk team and business. 
• Timely escalation of potential issues to relevant stakeholders

Accountability:  Stakeholder Management

•  Lead by example in building strong internal and external relationships, displaying excellent abilities to initiate strategic dialogue and listen, advise, influence, negotiate and make presentations at all levels.
• Manage business needs and expectations by managing satisfaction levels and being available, affable, and able to honor commitments without over-promising (ensure optimal balance between response time and quality of work in circumstances where this is agreed with the business) 
• Work in a department with a focus on proactive approaches to add value to Treasury.
• Timely escalation of potential issues to relevant stakeholders with follow-ups until resolution.
• Design, maintain and enhance a Risk Framework that complies with the requirements of the various internal (e.g. senior management) and external stakeholders to ensure continued compliance and relevance. The framework should contain all the components that are required by the various regulatory requirements.
• Develop, maintain and enhance methodologies, tools, systems, procedures, processes, standards and guidelines in line with the above requirements. 
• Review all documentation on an annual basis to maintain the changing stakeholder requirements. 
• Continuously conduct research and review the framework, including all its components, to ensure that best practices are built into the framework and that the framework always remains relevant. 
• Socialize, review and/or validate the framework and changes to the framework, including all components thereof with the relevant stakeholders whenever changes occur. 
• Where changes to the framework are of such a nature that they materially impact the framework, inform the relevant regulator and where relevant, seek approval from the relevant stakeholders, prior to implementation.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree is Commerce: Finance, Risk Management, mathematical statistics and/or financial mathematics. Post graduate degree and computer science preferential. 
• FRM/PRM/CFA designation would be advantages.
• 2-3 yrs experience in Market Risk modelling, quantitative/financial engineering, Middle Office or CIB Finance/Product in an Investment Bank (preferential) 
• High level of numeracy and lateral innovative thinker able to apply, substantiate and extract value from quantitative theories to real world problems and solution for these ad hoc/on the fly.
• The ability to review and assess market risks and recommend appropriate risk management techniques.
• Pricing and testing of (linear and non) derivatives products across different asset classes with a strong focus on Fixed Income, Treasury, Credit and FOREX.
• Programming in VBA (required), R, Python (preferential

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Job Description

• Source Utilisation: Obtain walk in client or data leads from the Bank staff in the branches (Consultants, 
• Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction 
• Risk & Control: Ensure that staff members where applicable, i.e. Planner Assistants have a clear 
• Manage Sales & Growth Targets: Capture the correct Policy Relevant Information (PRI) number on the EBankpac system On a monthly basis, 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

Education

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

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Job Description

• 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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DevOps

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct 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 cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• 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