Fresh Job Opportunities at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

• Solutioning & Advisory: Provide ongoing support to senior advisors in driving business development and subsequently business targets through monitoring and identifying opportunities within the portfolio (cross selling and up-selling)
• Client Engagement: On a regular basis engage with clients around current product requirements and future product requirements to ensure client expectations are met and ultimately value created for business and client
• Risk and Control: Ensure that all risk and control requirements relating to the portfolio are met and/or implemented as required

Education

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

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Job Description

• Sales Target : Proactively make self-initiated contact with customers in order to deliver against the required sales targets
• 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. 
• Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards
• Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction

Education

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

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Skill requirements are:

• Certified Cisco specialist.
• Experience of NAC, WAF, network diagnostics, DNS, security management, firewalls, vulnerability management, remote access, VPN, IPS, 
• The role is within the Converged Security Office your responsibilities will include the following:
• Review of proposed security technical designs and provide technical expertise
• Evaluate, test and pilot new security tools following the formal engagement of Security Risk and/or business drivers
• Install, operate, automate and troubleshoot network security related controls such as IPS, NAC, WAF, Firewalls, Proxy, etc. 
• Analyze network traffic, log files and create risk-related stories
• Perform system upgrades, patching and vulnerability remediation
• Remediate incidents, including outside of working hours
• Perform standby duties
• Implement automation on network security controls & analysis
• Develop detailed technical configuration documents, working closely with the security architecture and standards group
• Support of Security Risk and Architecture in the secure delivery of products both emerging and updating of existing solutions as per business needs
• Review and evaluation of new security architectures and designs
• Combine the knowledge of security technology evaluations and emerging products with security business needs
• Ability to work with other engineers both internally and external to Absa; learning and evaluating emerging technologies
• Ability to manage vendor relationships knowing due diligence goes beyond just the technology and engaging with the right business people to ensure Absa fully leverages vendor relationships

What do you need to get in?

• NQF level 6 B Degree
• 8 years (technical/lead) experience in technology
• 6 years Security Engineering experience preferably within a large financial institution
• Industry & Vendor certifications – NAC, WAF, SANS, ISACA, Checkpoint, Cisco, RSA etc. preferred
• Excellent understanding of security strategies and technologies including but not limited to secure global network designs, routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, etc.
• Knowledge in multiple information security technologies and their strengths and shortcomings
• Experience with securing information for cross-functional, cross-platform applications
• Monitors marketplace trends, vulnerabilities, emergent threats and audit/control issues
• Knows what should be communicated and when
• Actively seeks ways to understand and mitigate risk
• Able to shift well from task to task

Education

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

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Job Description

Business Management:

• Providing Head of Engineering with advice on Energy and Demand management as well Retail Branch Portfolio Electrical , Mechanical and Fire design overlay and compliances this will includes, issues, and costs for portfolio planning options, as and when engaged through verbal communication or written communication using available tools.
• Ensure implementation of energy efficiency initiatives in all Absa Retail portfolio and or facilities, identified by Engineering management contractor or consultant, by engaging all stakeholders and setting up engineering resources needed to implement identified and agreed initiatives.
• Develop and manage the Ensure Environmental Assessment plans and Targets to ensure and align to the overall sustainability strategy
• Develop annual costed plan of upcoming electrical/mechanical and fire in engineering projects within the Retail Branch portfolio external cost consultants or references in conjunction and consultation with Engineering team and assist with technical input on electrical/mechanical and fire engineering requirements in the Retail Branch Portfolio (SA) or any of the Absa Corporate buildings as part of project tender documentation.
• Identify need for new or revised electrical/mechanical and fire engineering supplier relationships by reviewing and formulating maintenance specifications and checking the market for suitable service providers or suppliers.
• Provide technical electrical/mechanical and fire engineering input to the rest of the Engineering team, CRES clients and CRES project managers, evaluating bidder proposals, as and when engaged.
• Provide technical contribution to risk management strategy for CRES organisation by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Provide technical input into compliance mechanisms to Engineering management (e.g. South African National Standards (SANS) in energy management) Research, own, and disseminate technical knowledge to Health, Safety, & Risk Functions for compliance within all your areas of responsibility

Operations Management :

• Analyse fit for purpose solutions and provide corrective actions required for the energy centre, by monitoring performance and analyzing results against targets and making necessary adjustments and implementation of ideas to achieve targeted results.
• Research alternative systems and make recommendations to Head of Engineering , review, and approve maintenance requirements for the Retail Branch Portfolio and Absa Corporate campus building.
• Coordinate and manage projects, making detailed plans to accomplish goals and managing the integration of technical activities in Retail Branch Portfolio and Absa Corporate campus building.
• Compliance: Ensure that the Retail Branch Portfolio assets have appropriate policy and standard level requirements and are up to date on compliance by commissioning a process of writing and reviewing policies to be approved and signed off by CRES leadership. Ensure that all Absa campus buildings are in compliance with the Occupational Health and Safety Act, SA wiring regulations (SANS 10142), SA Energy Standards: SANS 204:2008 and Absa Engineering Design Standards, by commissioning.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical Planning and Construction (Required)

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Job Description

• Drive Financial Targets: Maintain primary ownership of a portfolio of Growth Account clients, differentiated by the level of complexity of the client base
• Relationship and Service Management: Actively develop strong client relationships. Conduct regular client visits in accordance with the Commercial Growth Account Value Proposition and initiate changes to ABB Product by providing input into product development to better service our clients
• Manage Risk Assessment: Adhere to the bank's policies and procedures and ensure compliance. Take ultimate ownership of the portfolio's risk management by ensuring a good understanding of both the Bank's and the clients regulatory and compliance environments.
• 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

• National Diplomas and Advanced Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies

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Key Accountabilities

Accountability: Stakeholder management 

• Design, manage and solve issues in the AFS Group PCG team.
• Manage the Regulatory Production in Accounting Control.  Design and implement efficiencies.
• Manage the Reconciliations production in Accounting Control focusing on control environment and process efficiency and automation
• Support Head of Accounting Control for all necessary requirements.
• Manage all key relationships in support of internal and external group audits, provide feedback on any queries raised.
• Support Financial Controllers and other areas of FC in managing and resolving issues in relevant Accounting Control processes.

Accountability: Process and operating model design 

• Act as the process lead for Group financial accounting and reporting, including AFS PCG, Reconciliation and Regulatory reporting.
• Manage effective delivery of outputs to ensure high quality and efficient process,.
• Work with process owners to unpack and redesign processes to obtain optimal efficiency in Accounting Control and Financial Control.
• Oversee execution and review of AC processes
• Resolve issues and attend meetings related to process
• Represent accounting control on operations committee for projects related to process
• Support head of Accounting Control with strategic view for the function

Accountability: Functional leadership and development 

• Lead a team of financial specialists to achieve excellent operational results through continuous people development and mentoring activities.
• With the support from the HR Business Partner, interview and recruit direct reports. Second interview sub-subordinates where necessary.
• Approve leave requests for direct reports and ensure that the team manage the leave effectively.
• Motivate employees in the department and ensure that their efforts are recognised.
• Manage resource requirements and motivate additional requirements where needed.
• Manage training requirements of team members.

Role/Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

• IFRS, accounting and reporting 
• Coaching 
• SAP or similar ERP system 
• Problem solving 
• Interpersonal skills 
• Management and leadership 

Education and Experience

• Honours/Masters-degree in (Accounting) (NQF level 7); 
• CA SA/CIMA;
• Experience managing large processes and process improvement 
• Control environment monitoring experience
• Previous people management experience;
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience management of a large team.