Fresh Jobs at Standard Bank Group

Job Description

• The Officer, Risk Execution is responsible for supporting the Risk Execution Manager in overseeing, assessing, and conducting physical sample testing on key risk, compliance, and regulatory controls within the assigned Area, Region, or Province.
• The role is pivotal in safeguarding the Bank by rigorously testing, evaluating, and continuously strengthening the risk control environment across cash and foreign exchange (forex) operations. It requires a strong technical understanding of Exchange Control (EXCON) regulations, South African Reserve Bank (SARB) cash-handling requirements, and branch-level forex processes—including teller operations, ATMs, bulk cash, forex drafts, traveller’s cheques, and forward contracts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Banking, Finance, Risk Management, Compliance, Internal Audit, or a related field.
• Formal training or certification in Exchange Control Regulations, SARB compliance, or Forex product knowledge will be advantageous.

Experience Required:

• 5–7 years’ branch banking experience in forex functions, including teller, treasury, and cash operations, with a deep understanding of exchange rates, Exchange Control (EXCON) regulations, and their impact on transactional banking.
• Strong knowledge of retail and commercial foreign exchange products (e.g., foreign currency accounts, bank drafts, traveller’s cheques, forward exchange contracts, international remittances) and the ability to interpret exchange control rulings and SARB circulars practically.
• Proven expertise in managing operational risk within the forex and cash environment, including control testing, compliance monitoring, exception reporting, and remediation of audit and assurance findings.
• Experience driving risk execution frameworks, conducting sample testing of critical controls, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g., KYC, FAIS, PoPI, data privacy) within Personal and Private Banking branch contexts.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to analyse risk data, provide actionable insights, embed standard operating procedures, and support operational excellence and business continuity.

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Job Description

• To lead and manage the Enterprise Direct capability in a Province; to deliver the Provincial Enterprise Direct capability value proposition for Enterprise Direct.
• To support the Head, Enterprise Direct to drive and deliver a value adding sales and service solutions directed by the Enterprise Direct value proposition, that will grow the customer base. To ensure the day-to-day Enterprise Direct operations managed through effective coordination between all value chain functions.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification

• First Degree: Business Commerce (FAIS Recognised)

Experience Required

• 8-10 years Proven successful sales track record in the financial services industry. Advanced product knowledge including specialized products and financial structures.
• Advanced experience and knowledge in Credit and Compliance matters.
• Negotiating skills and conflict handling. Significant people management experience, leading teams and motivating people.
• Enterprise Direct Propositions
• Business & Commercial Banking

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Job Description

• To deliver value in the form of business outcomes by collaborating within the feature team and key stakeholders. Responsible for ensuring that requirements map back to the business value and that the entire feature team knows what and how they are implementing towards the desired requirement.

Qualifications

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

Experience Required
Experience & Software Design
Technology

• 1-2 years
• Experience with requirements elicitation, gathering, documentation and management.

3-4 years

• Practical experience in working in a variety of business areas within IT. Understanding and experience of the various disciplines within IT and how they relate to each other.

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Job Description

• To lead, manage and guide an assigned team in the day-to-day operational duties an assigned reconciliations team, , and manage any complex breaks, queries or escalations, to ensure resources are effectively allocated, all entries are matched and breaks are timeously resolved. Perform reconciliations where required.

Qualifications

• Diploma: Finance and Accounting

Experience Required

3-4 years' experience in:

• Intermediate knowledge of financial instruments, and relevant experience within the CIS (Collective investment schemes) industry.
• Previous back-office experience working within a financial services industry, or asset manager.
• Previous experience in building relationships and engaging with clients to gather required information, documentation and resolve queries.
• Proven ability to lead and manage teams with the ability to prioritize and delegate tasks to meet daily / monthly targets.
• Relevant reconciliations knowledge and experience, with a broad understanding of fund accounting and reconciliations systems, processes and procedures to perform reconciliations, as well as understanding key financial concepts and practices.

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Job Description

• Software Engineer with a strong Java skillset who is AWS Certified. The role involves designing, coding, testing, debugging, and correcting programs within software engineering environments that support continuous delivery pipelines.
• The engineer will also be responsible for the support and maintenance of systems. Additionally, the role includes producing software specifications in line with technical requirements and adhering to software quality assurance standards.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology
• Certification Required: AWS

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.

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Job Description

• Lead and manage the Settlement of financial transactions originating on the Securities Lending and Borrowing Desk in line with market rules, directives, policies and deadlines to achieve defined targets and quality standards and minimise risk whilst maintaining a positive client experience to give effect to the contractual and regulatory obligations of SLB during the term of the GMSLA.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
• Field of Study: Banking
• Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
• Field of Study: Finance and Accounting

Experience Required
Settlements

• Operations
• 8-10 years
• Advanced financial markets experience in a Custody environment. Advanced knowledge of relevant SLB systems and trends in the industry. Demonstrated ability to identify and mitigate risk using appropriate risk management methodology / tools. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team and projects.

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Job Description

• We are seeking an experienced Salesforce Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate must have a strong foundation in Salesforce development and configuration, capable of designing and implementing scalable solutions on the Salesforce platform. This role involves collaboration with stakeholders to enhance Salesforce functionality and improve business processes.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology/Computer Science or related field

Experience Required

• 5 years of experience as a Salesforce Developer or related role.
• Salesforce certifications preferred (Salesforce Platform Developer I, App Builder).
• Proficient in Apex, Visualforce, Lightning Components, and SOQL.
• Experience with Salesforce DX, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with Salesforce data management tools (Data Loader, Workbench).

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Job Description

• To enable the execution of Compliance Risk Management processes and activities within a specific business unit and across all its jursidictions to ensure that the area is undertaken in a compliant manner to avoid operational losses, fines, penalties or reputational damage to the organisation and enable the competitive advantage of the organisation.

Qualifications

• Degree in Audit, Business Commerce, Legal or related 
• FAIS RE exams and SAIFM exams would be an advantage 

Experience Required
Business Enablement

• Compliance
• 5-10 years - The role requires a seasoned expert in Compliance with a sound knowledge of the relevant regulatory requirements and upcoming developments applicable to a specific business area as well as a solid understanding of banking products and activities.

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Job Description

• To ensure the effective execution of the Insurance sales through the external Sales Contact Centre, whilst creating and maintaining new partnerships aligned to the full end to end sales strategy.
• Focus on increasing revenue through relationship management, training, marketing and sales initiatives with current and potential third party partnerships, in support of Business growth and strengthened relationships.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Business Commerce
• Licenses & Certifications: FAIS Representative

Experience Required
Client Coverage

• Personal and Private Banking
• 8-10 years
• Experience in managing a contact centre environment; experience in managing external vendors/ partners, experience in implementing projects from an operations perspective; understands risk and controls. Exposure to driving sales and service. Understands the banks processes, procedures and systems (e.g., procurement). Demonstrated track record of delivering revenue growth, supplemented by experience in Client and Sales Experience.

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Job Description

• Coach, Train and Motivate your team of Relationship Managers, Credit Analysts and Transactional Bankers to ensure the highest levels of financial solutioning, technical know-how, efficiency and effectiveness.  Having a deep understanding of the types of farming in this geography is critical to enable effective technical coaching to the team members.
• Provide a central advisory and support role to your team and assist with, client relationships, credit application motivations and arbitrations.
• Ensuring that close personal attention is given to ensure the team provide a full array of customized financial solutions tailored to meet the growth needs and potential of our clients within the portfolios.
• Act as a trusted advisor by developing a deep understanding of client’s business through regular interaction with clients at their place of business as per segment value proposition guidelines.
• To motivate agricultural and business finance applications and to successfully present the case to a business and credit lending committee.
• Analyse and understand your operational areas to design, implement and execute on successful acquisition strategies and tactics through your team.
• Plan and Execute a Contact Management Strategy for existing and new to bank clients.
• To build trust, credibility and confidence with Agricultural and Business Clients.

Qualifications

Minimum Degree Requirements, one of the below qualifications or similar:

Preferable:

• B.Comm (Agricultural Economics)
• BSc. (Agricultural Economics)

Or

• B.Comm (Management Accounting)
• B.Comm (Accounting)

Preferable / Advantages:

• Honours Degree
• SAICA Articles / CA(SA)
• CIMA Qualified / (ACMA)

Experience Requirements:

10 Years experience in the following fields or similar:

• Business Centre Manager, Agric Area Manager, Agric Relationship Manager or an Agric Specialist role in Business and Commercial Banking.
• Agricultural Knowledge and Experience of the types of farming in the area is essential
• At least 5 years’ experience in managing teams.