Current Openings at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

Architecture

• Leverage a solid & deep understanding of the organization strategy to identify, design & deliver relevant, scalable, testable, re-usable technology solutions
• Work in collaboration with delivery teams to independently analyse customer requirements & varying business capabilities & leverage analysis to identify & accurately spec / frame ‘the complex business problems we are aiming to solve’ with each solution design or solution evolution
• Through the above processes, leverage emotional, social & business / commercial quotient to understand consumers and the broader range of stakeholders, their opinions & perspectives and reconcile these within the solution designs (negotiation skills and dealing with complex and divergent stakeholder opinions are a must)
• Leverage expertise in analytical & creative problem solving to synthesise a solution design (build a solution from its components) beyond the analysis of the problem
• Lead design thinking processes to successfully deliver solution blueprints & associated roadmaps
• Create end to end solution blueprints & ensure these can be implemented across all phases of the initiative life-cycle (ideation through to product launch & commercialization)
• Design & or contribute to the design & implementation of detailed feasibilities & business cases
• Leverage a strong engineering background to make the right choices in solution design – this knowledge includes but is not limited to: domain driven design, loosely coupled integration, microservices and other modern software design practices
• The above extends to identifying the best fit tools to be used for a particular solution, understanding those that would not be a good choice and leveraging researching skills to pivot towards something better
• Assume ‘one stop’ shop accountability for solution blueprint design & delivery decisions within an organization based on the above
• Work with project / program management teams to design solution roadmaps aligned to the strategic requirements of an organization and through which the solution can be implemented across all phases of the initiative life-cycle (ideation through to product launch and commercialization)
• Work embedded, as part of a delivery team, to ensure the successful design & implementation of solution blueprints
• Ensure that the detail of the solution (across all architecture domains) is accurate to the implementation of the initiative, true to the bank’s architectural principles/preferences, implementable by the different teams involved in the solution
• Work as part of embedded delivery teams to conduct solution reviews, code reviews, testing and other disciplines associated with solution design & delivery
• Attend various Group & Business specific architectural design forums and present solution designs and detailed business cases for approval
• Leverage synthesis & creative problem skills to identify risk (impending danger & challenges) and work with a cross functional group of stakeholders across the value chain for support & direction
• Conduct solution reviews against defined customer metrics and ensure the ongoing achievement of business results through solution implementation
• Ensure a solid understanding of emerging & evolving architectural principles and hold one stop shop accountability for the evolution of solutions in alignment with these principles (where it makes sense to do so)
• Build architectural capability across delivery teams in a business to ensure ongoing evolution of skills in solution delivery
• Contribute to the architecture body of knowledge
• Contribute to the design & evolution of architectural principles and preferences

People

• Participate in peer reviews (code, solution, testing etc.) and transfer knowledge and capability across delivery teams for improved solutioning & evolving architectural practices
• Set & Cascade solution direction across technology delivery teams
• Build & evolve the architectural capability of Delivery teams across the business – through active coaching & information / knowledge sharing
• As an SME, support the proactive attraction, recruitment, development, & retention of strong technology teams across an estate
• Leverage and embed agile practices in delivery teams and work to build strong self-directed, high performance teams through agile working practices (including daily, weekly, etc. sprint routines, regular & honest feedback etc.)

Financial & Vendor Management, Risk & Governance

• Carry the ‘one stop shop’ accountability for all risk associated with solution design (from ideation to deployment)
• Apply the organization risk & governance frameworks
• Ensure solution design alignment to Group guidelines & ensure solutions are sustainable for the enterprise
• Proactively involve / engage chapter & guild leads in solution decision making, applying an enterprise wide lens to product & service development
• Ensure solution design alignment to regulatory requirements and continuously update knowledge on regulatory requirements for the successful design of new & evolution of existing solutions
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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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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• Relationship Management: Establish and maintain professional relationships through networking with industry leaders, regulators and policy makers as well as business partners that are key in the development of new ventures 
• Delivery Business Development: Champion and manage business bulk acquisition strategic plan in line with Absa Business unit strategy 
• Market Intelligence: Collect market intelligence through research by reading articles, publications, internet, word of mouth and networking on a daily basis to keep abreast of market developments 
• People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development 
• Operations & Compliance: Actively keep up to date with all relevant knowledge, legislation and developments within the business unit and banking industry that may have an impact on the Business Advantage

Education

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

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Job Description

Business Results

• Ensure implementation of Equator Principles requirements, to meet Equator Principles Association (EPA) Membership commitments and reporting requirements within Absa, providing guidance to deal teams across the Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) and Commercial Property Finance (CPF) operations and product areas.
• Provide guidance to Environmental and Social Risk Officers in Absa Regional Operations on wide remit of Environmental and Social Matters
• Confirm that lending facility requests are compliant with regulatory, legal and internal requirements
• Provide guidance to Absa CIB Legal teams on appropriate Environmental and Social language to address deal E and S Risks
• Identify the applicability of Environmental and Social requirements and standards and refer material matters to relevant governance and credit committees for further review or decisions
• Review and assess sector case referrals across CIB to establish environmental considerations and requirements and deliver clear, concise, and commercially aware recommendations to the business
• Conduct Environmental and Social Due Diligence (ESDD) in accordance with Absa Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS), meet applicable Absa funder requirements and provide recommendations for inclusion to credit / investment submissions
• Play a key role in the embedment of the ESMS across CIB operations and CPF to minimise operational disruptions
• Consider strategic Climate Change Risk impacts when recommending credit / investment applications
• Ensure adherence to Conduct Risk Framework, Reputational Risk Framework and all regulations associated to Environmental Risk
• Develop and implement requirements through business processes, collate information for reporting and serve as a CIB central point of specialist expertise contact for ES related queries
• Identify where applicability of IFC Performance Standards is required
• Support and provide input to sustainability and environmental policy development
• Recommend, implement and integrate environmental and social controls into credit procedures and processes
• Confirm compliance with applicable sustainability and environmental policies and standards. 
• Conduct client site visits, where required
• Provide specialist sustainability, environmental and social risk advice, input and guidance.
• Assist the businesses to become more familiar with the available environmental and social risk management assessment tools and techniques
• Support Group Sustainability Risk initiatives to implement the Principles for Responsible Banking Framework and Group Sustainability Framework
• Provide required support to Head ECRM on CIB projects
• Ensure Sustainability internal and external assurance providers requirements are met , and implement correcting actions to close out any findings timeously
• Actively contribute to Sustainability and Climate Projects and initiatives of CIB, supporting the Group Sustainability and Strategy, Group Sustainability Risk, Treasury and Deal Teams to secure sustainable business
• Support EMSM automation drive and enablement

Stakeholder Management and Reputational Enhancement 

• Act as an ambassador for Absa, representing the Bank’s position on environmental and social risk issues
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders and participate in applicable working groups
• Compile annual Environmental and Social (E&S) reports for reporting to Absa funders (supported by management of various stakeholders including HR, credit and other data providers) ensuring that Absa capital requirements met
• Lead on CIB entity related annual due diligence arrangements, co-ordinating Environmental and Social specialist submissions across CIB regional operations
• Contribute to the content of environmental and social reports for internal or external stakeholders thereby strategically positioning environmental and social credit risk management
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues across the lending value chain (e.g. frontline, legal, transaction managers etc) and provide expert support and guidance as appropriate. Manage turn around times to achieve delivery targets and objectives.
• Maintain dialogue and network with relevant opinion formers, to understand key areas of interest and expectation
• Represent Absa position on Environmental and Social risk matters to clients where required to do so

Business Transformation 

• Research, analyse and interpret developments in the environmental arena to understand the legal, ethical and practical implications to support benchmarking, tool development and world-class process improvements
• Proactively identify areas where business would benefit from additional guidance and identify opportunities for positive impact

Grow Talent and Capability 

• Upskill Environmental and Social Credit Risk Managers to enable promotion to Senior Environmental and Social Credit Risk Manager
• Raise credit and other banking staff awareness of environmental credit risk considerations and issues and help staff to bridge any internal process or other knowledge gaps
• Provide training to stakeholders across CIB on Absa environmental and social credit risk strategic approaches and requirements
• Ensure ongoing performance development to ensure generic personal skills are enhanced
• Research, develop and maintaining new tools, techniques and processes to enable business areas and risk teams to place greater reliance on self-analysis.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Environmental Science (Required)

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Job Description

Command Centre Operations

• Deeply understand an aggregated view of all IT assets (includes technology stacks)
• Oversee, Execute & orchestrate operational processing (batch processing & scheduling) & monitoring in alignment with customer expectations
• Oversee operational processing & monitoring quality – taking accountability for meeting & or exceeding all SLA’s
• Implement centralised processing & batch scheduling services & deliver on the efficiency & effectiveness gains & targets for the organisation
• Leverage customer knowledge & understanding to recommend & implement new & or refined monitoring & processing services including collaborating with the engineering teams to configure command centre tooling & systems to deliver on new requirements
• Participate in the testing processes for all new / optimised command centre operations
• Provide a complete view of aggregated monitoring & service performance data including but not limited to (alerts, outages, past incidents etc.)
• Apply problem solving & critical thinking skills in analysing aggregated operational processing & monitoring information
• Translate analysis into key insights for business, Command Centre Operations & IT (e.g. predictive analytics) & provide recommendations for services, operational processes & technology optimisation, digitisation & automation
• Work with the data science & engineering teams to optimise monitoring & service performance data to further enable predictive capabilities
• Implement Digitization, Automation and Orchestration tools to drive efficiency in Command Centre operations and processing
• Facilitate incident resolution & participate in incident & problem management processes and provide critical data-driven insights & suggested remedial actions
• Leveraging technical expertise & data insights & analysis conducted, execute on the transformational agenda for the future of command centre by contributing to the design & implementation of automation strategies
• Achieve operational processing & monitoring (predictive capability) targets and objectives and continuously improve these aligned to progress along the transformation journey
• Act as the custodian of operations, processing & monitoring policies, practices, SLA’s and standards & implement effective document & knowledge management associated with these (updates, storage, communication etc.)
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging operational processing, scheduling & monitoring technologies & practices and continuously leverage evolved knowledge & skill to influence the automation, optimisation, digitisation & predictive capabilities of the command centre

Accountability: Finance, Risk, Governance & Compliance

• Participate in risk, governance & compliance review & manage, maintain & provide regular & accurate command centre information
• Ensure risk, governance & regulatory compliance (always!) of all processing, scheduling & operations activity (own & coach & guide others)

Accountability: People

• Coach & mentor the broader command centre team
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Description

Command Centre Operations

• Understand an aggregated view of all IT assets (includes technology stacks)
• Execute & orchestrate operational processing (batch processing & scheduling) & monitoring in alignment with customer expectations (& do this consistently)
• Take responsibility for operational processing & monitoring quality by meeting & or exceeding all SLA’s & defined targets for e.g. time, quality, cost
• Continuously evolve own knowledge & skills to assume responsibility for new and OR; refined monitoring & processing services to achieve efficiency & effectiveness objectives (e.g. centralised command centre)
• Review and analyse operational processing, monitoring & scheduling performance data and identify & proactively predict events & incidents (ahead of their occurrence)
• Provide support & information to business, problem management, DR, resilience & technology to identify & implement solutions that will prevent incidents, events & outages of critical business services
• Review operational processing, monitoring & scheduling performance data & provide recommendations for the continuous improvement of these services
• Participate in the testing processes for all new / optimised command centre operations
• Support reviews & ongoing optimization and maintenance on command centre technologies and associated tooling
• Participate in incident & problem management processes and provide critical data-driven insights & suggested remedial actions
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging operational processing, scheduling & monitoring technologies & practices and continuously leverage evolved knowledge & skill to influence the automation, optimisation, digitisation & predictive capabilities of the command centre

Accountability: Finance, Risk, Governance & Compliance

• Participate in risk, governance & compliance review & manage, maintain & provide regular & accurate command centre information
• Ensure risk, governance & regulatory compliance (always!) of all processing, scheduling & operations activity (own )

Accountability: People

• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Description

• Execute all of the monitoring/audit phases - planning and scoping (identification of risks and controls), fieldwork (execution of design and operating effectiveness assessments) and reporting (ensure audit observations and planned actions are agreed with management for factual accuracy).
• Ensure that delivery adheres to the Compliance Assurance Methodology and quality standards.
• Prepare monitoring/audit observations and make sure that they are concise, factually accurate and cover all of the significant issues. The observations must be insightful, address the root causes, and have agreed actions that fully mitigate the risk.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of testing procedures, results, and recommendations.
• Prepare and present regular reports to senior management and relevant stakeholders outlining compliance testing findings and recommended actions.
• Provide suggestions to stakeholder management on how they can address the control issues identified.
• Display professional scepticism, raising and discussing contentious observations with management and provide evidence to support all issues identified.
• Provide timely feedback to the Monitoring & Testing Manager and team members with progress on identified issues and observations raised.
• Draft all findings and reports so that they are concise and factually accurate.
• Support the development and implementation of data analytics driven business-monitoring programmes to support the Compliance Monitoring & Testing team.

Stakeholder engagement and Portfolio management

• Develop and maintain relationships with business (including 1and 2 Line of Defence) and actively monitor the compliance risk profile of the business to inform assurance planning, reporting and delivery.
• Support the Combined Assurance effort across the 3 LOD to strengthen the control environment.
• Provide input into Risk and Committee reporting, clear messaging and impact on the risk and control environment of the business.
• Work closely with compliance officers, legal teams, and business units to address compliance issues.
• Implement ongoing monitoring processes to ensure sustained compliance.

Knowledge Management

• Display professional scepticism and apply a residual risk lens to potential audit issues with management and in final reporting.
• Continuous upskilling on both technical and other core competencies.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends, regulatory changes and professional standards.
• Stay informed about changes in regulations and industry best practices, adjusting monitoring processes accordingly.

Teamwork: 

• Engage proactively with Monitoring & Testing colleagues during assignments and request technical assistance where required and based on knowledge of business areas, provide guidance to other team members and peers by sharing best practice so that their work meets and sometimes exceeds quality standards.

Knowledge and skills

• Practical experience of development and execution of IT General and Application Controls, analytics programs to assess risk and related control environments as part of an internal or external audit role/function, or as part of a risk management function
• In-depth working knowledge of GRC systems and integration with Data Lakes (e.g. Auditbond, Archer GRC, Hadoop & AWS Data Lakes)
• In-depth knowledge of relevant financial regulations and industry best practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Detail orientated and thorough
• Ability to work independently and as a part of a team
• Strong ethical standards and integrity

Advantageous:

• Practical knowledge of data mining, data analysis and visualization techniques
• Advantageous - Cyber security skill and experience such as security assessments, firewall wall configuration, DevSecOps, etc.
• Experience doing technology or cyber security audit or assurance work

Education

• B Degree (e.g. Commercial, Informatics, Statistics, Computer Science, Audit)
• Programming / software development experience
• Min of 5 years in compliance, risk management or audit within a financial institution

Advantageous

• CISA - Certified Information Systems Auditor; CIA - Certified Internal Auditor;  CFSA - Certified Financial Services Auditor; CCSA - Certification in Control Self-Assessment
• Cyber security industry accreditation/certification (e.g. CND, S+, CEH, ISO 27000)
• Knowledge of data Visualisation/Dashboards tools/RPA

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• Planning and delivery of business services activity: Solve all incoming sourcing queries e.g. obtain documents to get vendor approved on Absa system, enquiries whether vendor is approved by following the guidelines on approval. Develop and maintain relationships with relevant SBU’s e.g. Absa Group Sourcing; Drake & Scull; BTB Forum on a regular basis so that AIC is up to date on any new procurement methodology from Group Procurement. 
• Develop and implement administrative change initiatives to improve the sourcing and procurement activities within the CRES environment by updating supplier records documents on time and to do follow up on all outstanding documents. Monitor compliance to source policies by analysing data supplied and take corrective action by contacting each user that followed incorrect sourcing method or used non-approved suppliers. Propose cost-saving initiatives e.g. replacing old equipment in AIC sites and branch sites within AIC. 
• Assist with audits of vendors to check if they are still approved and BEEE compliant. Obtain documentation from non-approved vendors to apply for vendor approval via Absa Group sourcing. 
• Ensure that all outstanding documents i.e. BEE Certificates and Public Liability Certificates, are received from the supplier and updated on the system to comply with the policy requires. Ensure that required documents are correct by checking that it is certified and legible. Ensure that correct names of suppliers are used on the system by comparing them to the original Business Registration documents of the supplier. Change suppliers' banking details on receipt of documentary proof from the supplier on ASTI. 
• Process all procurement vendor invoices by getting sign-off from management and processing the payment on SAP system. File and keep all communication documents between AIC and suppliers in the suppliers files for reference purposes 
• Team Work: Attend regular meetings with business units to address the procurement needs of the business unit. Contribute to the embedment of compliance awareness of service providers in the business unit by loading preferred suppliers on the ASTI system and advising CRES of new suppliers that have been loaded for future utilisation and this will speed up the complaints turn around time. Manage and control supplier files by storing them in a safe lockable cabinet, to protect their information. Authorise and approve requests on the system when CRES requests such services. Attend to your colleague’s files if not available so that business continuity is not hampered. Attend to complaints or queries as quickly as possible. Arrange retrieval and sending of filing to Metrofile in accordance with policies and procedures when files are not utilised anymore. Monitor and keep on checking the supplier performance so that we may know those that do not perform to our required standard. 
• Knowledge Management: Provide timely and effective information about spend of Clients on reports. Provide a presentation about the funds spend on project/supplier when required. Align with Clients, Absa best practises or expand on good ideas of other SBU's, be aware of what's going on in Absa by doing own investigations on Absa website or Absa Employee portal or networking with employees in other divisions. Manage and report maverick spending to the SBU head, so that CRES can make use suppliers on the panel. Report any incidents of suspect fraudulent activities by whistle blowing or to the relevant Team within BU regions. Advise suppliers to comply with all supplier compliance requirements

Education

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