Fresh Openings at Standard Bank Group

Job Description

• To act as a facilitative leader in the coaching and mentoring of multiple teams that solve complex problems, guided by the enterprise Agile framework and methodologies. Facilitate task and process to ensure agile ceremonies add value to the team.
• To engage and influence team members in realising their potential across all levels of seniority and driving a high-performance. To guide the team towards maturity in resolving challenges or issues and remove impediments faced by the team.

Qualifications

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

Experience Required
Delivery Facilitation / Agile Transformation

• Technology
• 5-7 years
• Experience in the full SDLC leading software teams (3-4 years a as a scrum master).Deep expertise in Jira and Confluence- planning and coordination using the organisation's enterprise tools is essential.

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Job Description

To provide end-to-end secretarial support to an Executive(s) by acting as the first point of contact to ensure all administrative requirements are handled within the required timeframes and standards.

• Provide proactive management of an Executive's diary, independently scheduling appointments where necessary and referring to the Executive on the prioritisation of appointments, therefore assisting in the management of their workload.
• Co-ordinate the end-to-end organisation of meetings by ensuring required attendees are available, all logistics and accesses are arranged, all meeting documentation is prepared and distributed as required and that all related issues are resolved independently.
• View the Executive's incoming mail on an ongoing basis. Flag items that need personal attention and direct selected emails to the Executive's direct reports or other departments for resolution.
• Respond or redirect staff, customer or other stakeholder issues relevant to the Executive and follow-up on closure or resolution of issues.
• Collate communications, articles, briefings and project proposals, board minutes, agendas, reports and other documents, as requested, to be distributed in the business within the required deadlines. Obtain approval from the Executive prior to distribution

Qualifications

• Diploma: Office Administration (required)

Additional Information

Experience Required: Secretarial Services & Business Support

• 5-7 years: Experience in all aspects of supporting a senior person in the management of their office or administrative requirements.
• Finance Acumen: Experience with Budgets and Income Statements (Preferrable)
• Excel (advanced)
• PowerPoint (advanced)

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Job Description

• To scope, plan, design and deliver end to end solutions against required standards and timelines. To oversee and participate in technical solutions delivery, interpreting business requirements, defining technical tasks, engineer quality software, performing end to end testing and supporting and troubleshooting technical questions, software and database issues. To lead, manage and mentor Software & Quality Engineers across identified delivery teams to build and improve Engineering capability.
• Accountable for end to end delivery of all technical solution delivery (engineering aspects) in the identified delivery teams(3 to 5 teams, 15 to 25 resources), adhering to set standards, practices and quality expectations
• Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer.
• Build, code and review user and system interfaces including menus, screen dialogues, inputs, reports, validation and error correction, processing rules, access, security, audit controls, recovery routines and contingency procedures to ensure they are as per agreed specification. Conduct quality assurance and approve developed code linked to supplied specifications for production deployment.
• Construct, interpret and execute end to end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems. Prepare test cases for unit testing purposes and review test cases as produced by other developers for unit testing purposes as required.
• Find ways to improve flow and teams' delivery, removing blockers and ensuring value through the improvement of quality of deliverables. Direct and participate in resolution of incidents and failures, putting in place remediation actions and ensuring appropriate technical support.

Qualifications

• Degree: Information Technology (Min)
• AWS Certification (Adv)

Additional Information

Experience Required: Software Engineering

• 5-7 years: Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment. Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required. Minimum 1-2 years' experience as a manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts
• 8-10 years: Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

Additional Experience Required:

• Open Source Technology (Required)
• Front End Java Script frameworks (Required)
• AWS Knowledge (Required)
• Banking experience (Required), Global Markets (Preferable)

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Job Description

• 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.
• Provide a central advisory role to the client and motivate and processes credit applications timeously.
• Grow and retain a portfolio of high value Premium 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.
• Ensuring that close personal attention is given to provide a full array of customized financial solutions tailored to meet the growth needs and potential of the clients within the portfolio.
• Providing effective relationship management, aimed at optimizing client profitability and value to the bank by accurately assessing the client’s current and future financial position.
• Ensuring client satisfaction across allocated portfolio of clients, through needs analysis and solution driven outcomes.
• 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.
• Responsible for 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

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

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

Preferable / Advantages:

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

Experience Requirements:

7 Years experience in the following fields or similar:

• Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Management Accounting role or similar.
• Relationship Management, Credit Analyst, Financial Analyst role in Business Banking.
• Agric Specialist or Agric Economist.
• Agricultural Knowledge / Experience

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Job Description

• To lead accessibility & distribution of customer data/information from various SBG information systems for input into research projects, according to both internal & external policies & guidelines related to the use of customer information for business requirements.
• Conduct advanced data analytics & collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure correct customer data is accessed & utilised using innovation to create competitive advantage whilst fully complying with governance & compliance.

Qualifications

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

Experience Required
Market Research & Insights

• Brand & Marketing
• 3-4 years
• Must have prior experience of data analysis techniques and basic statistical concepts. Previous experience in the movement of data from the relevant source (e.g. SAS libraries, SQL, manual files, etc.) into a data mart using appropriate tools (e.g., SQL tools).

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Job Description

• To support the efficient day-to-day operations of SB Travel by tracking service performance, coordinating with travel partners, and helping resolve operational issues. The role plays a key part in ensuring that Private & Personal Banking clients receive exceptional service from SB Travel partners through diligent reporting, monitoring, and coordination.

Qualifications

• Business Commerce; Hospitality and Tourism

Experience Required

• 3-4 years experience in a junior analyst, client service, or operations support role.

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Job Description

• To lead and manage the end-to-end operations of SB Travel, ensuring seamless coordination between Standard Bank and its travel partners to deliver an exceptional experience for Private & Personal Banking clients.
• The role is responsible for maintaining service excellence through effective partner management, issue resolution, process optimisation, and operational risk oversight. SLA governance, timely incident handling, and data-driven decision-making across travel-related functions required

Qualifications

• Business Commerce

Experience Required

• 5-7 years experience in business and contract management, financial management and reporting and travel operations

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Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct pre-analysis of project scope, including deliverables and timelines to determine feasibility and the potential impact of overall strategic objectives to ensure suitable amendments can be made upfront.
• Develop project dashboards and reports that provide accurate information regarding the ongoing progress, risks and impact of the project to enable timely decision-making.
• Drive the development of the projects change plan and the planning and implementation mechanisms for communication, training, stakeholder engagement and monitoring of change impacts to ensure solutions are effectively implemented and there fore meet the required organisational benefits.
• Drive the implementation of the required information management processes and systems to ensure all project information and documents are managed according to organisation and regulatory standards and requirements.
• Drive the process of formal handover of the project into business as usual, including the handover of all required documentation, the completion and submission of a close-out report consisting of lessons learnt, final financial calculations and the realisation of project benefits.
• Engage regularly with project sponsors and senior project stakeholders to advise them on project scope, approach and progress to ensure they remain committed to the projects direction and have the opportunity to provide the necessary advice or guidance.
• Identify and advise on project risks through the delivery of risk reports to all stakeholders involved in the project to ensure that risk is managed appropriately. Engage with project and programme boards to ensure adequate understanding and buy in to resolve risk concerns.
• Identify the key project stakeholders and participate in constituting the project board. Engage with all stakeholders on their involvement to ensure effective participation. Identify the most appropriate project resources, coordinate and monitor their utilisation including business resources, external consultants, contractors and other vendor resources to ensure the effective execution of project deliverables against agreed standards and timelines.
• Lead project team members by conducting the required training and mentoring to ensure they are fully equipped to deliver their projects in-line with best practice.
• Oversee and drive proper project governance standards to ensure that changes and updates made to all aspects of the project remain governed and compliant with all regulations as set by Standard Bank Group (SBG).
• Oversee the formalisation of the project scope to ensure that it is formally documented, agreed and signed-off and that any changes during the project goes through the correct governance and change processes.
• Provide input into the definition and development of robust business cases to ensure the accuracy of resource forecasts and financial calculations.

Qualifications

• A degree in either Business Commerce or Project Management is required.

Experience Required:

• 8-10 years significant experience required in the end-to end management of large-scale strategic projects through the leadership and coordination of a large project team.

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Job Description

• To lead and drive the Liquidity Risk and Assets & Liability Management (ALM) production cycle for the bank utilising the applicable liquidity, interest rate risk in the banking book and funds transfer pricing calculation engine whilst maintaining high quality of data in order to comply with the applicable regulatory requirements. Design and validate inputs and configurations of the calculation engine and drive projects in line with regional requirements to enable efficient functionality.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Finance and Accounting, Mathematical Sciences

Experience Required
Treasury Capital Management

• Finance & Value Management

6-8 years

• Experience in applying mathematical and statistical skills in designing and reviewing models. Ability to automate models using SQL, SAS and or VB. Understanding of OLAB and ability to design multiple dimension analyses.

6-8 years

• Experience in working with a risk calculation engine, leading the design in line with business requirements. Overseeing the validity and quality of data inputs into the calculation engine and leading the implementation of projects.

6-8 years

• Knowledge of, and experience in, market risk, credit risk, liquidity risk or other risk disciplines. Specialist Asset and Liability Management (ALM) experience gained from a large complex, international organisation. Experience specifically in understanding the Liquidity Risk and Assets and Liability Management (ALM) production cycle.

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Job Description

• To implement the Business Banking value proposition and life journeys at a local market level. To be accountable for client Coverage, business clients relationships, and associated financial and non-financial outcomes aligned to the strategic value drivers. Accountable for the delivery of Standard Bank Group (SBG) and 3rd party products and services to this segment through the client engagement platform.

Qualifications

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

Experience Required
Relationship Banking (Client Coverage)

• Business & Commercial Banking
• 8-10 years
• Significant coverage and branch banking experience as well as experience in managing a portfolio of business banking clients. Experience in managing an income statement and balance sheet. Understanding of digital, open banking and platform integration.

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Job Description

• To lead and execute the client retention strategy across Business Banking by driving proactive engagement, reducing client attrition, and enhancing lifetime value through data-driven insights, strategic interventions, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Is accountable for embedding a culture of client-centricity, service excellence, and continuous improvement to ensure sustainable growth.

Qualification

• Business Commerce Degree

Experience 

• 8-10 years Experience in client retention, customer experience, or strategic marketing—preferably within financial services or banking
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive client-centric strategies
• Strong background in data analytics, with experience in identifying attrition risks and measuring campaign effectiveness
• Demonstrated success in service recovery, client lifecycle management, and regulatory compliance
• Skilled in stakeholder engagement and influencing at executive level

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Job Description

• To lead the implementation of the Experience Design within the area of specialization and to drive alignment of business outcomes within the areas of responsibility. To plan for, execute and deliver a seamless, end to end experience design for clients.
• To ideate, give guidance and lead a team. Foster, manage and review quality of design output and ensures that the design thinking methodology is being adhered to. 

Qualifications

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

Experience:

• Experience with regards to managing a team of UX-designers, strategy development, strong workshop facilitation with senior stakeholders, as well as developing UX-standards and monitoring adherence to these standards.

Requirements:

• Partner with Solution Owners, Technical Leads and eCommerce Category Managers to understand the product or platform  vision, and align the business goals to the user needs. Partake in PI pre-planning and planning discussions to ensure the Design work is understood and incorporated.
• Define clear priorities for design work and initiatives based on factors such as business impact, user needs and resource availability. Proactively identify and flag dependencies and edge cases and question requirements when these do not support the defined product vision and client needs
• Challenge insights and assumptions around user insights and guide the team to alternative and/or additional means of deriving client insights. Articulate and simplify the understanding of defined business goals and ensure continuous review of goals against outcomes including design metrics
• Drive the adoption of established design thinking processes, frameworks, tools and standards and ways of work standards. Identify gaps and opportunities for frameworks and models that could enhance the design thinking process and ways of work and work with the Group Domain team to update the standards
• Encourage innovative thinking and guide staff creativity to ensure effective and appropriate client experiences. Devise methods to grow staff creativity and innovation whilst fostering a culture cross-functional collaboration.
• Ensure that all key milestones along the ED value chain are delivered in accordance with ED governance and business requirements e.g. (Discovery, Ideation, product Design, Content Design, Testing, Implementation and Monitoring). Develop specific activities as input into the PI planning and work allocation in the squads.
• Continuously monitor and review the relevance of past implementations in order to identify improvement opportunities obtain inputs from NPS, sales funnel, social media, best practice, customer insights, customer feedback and analytics etc  .  Track the sales funnel, NPS sentiments, social media, best practice, customer insights, customer feedback and analytics in order to make the necessary enhancements for improved client experience within area of specialisation
• Conduct innovative approaches to design (data driven design approach) to ensure customer centricity at the centre of the solution that have been tested with customers.
• Create user interfaces for digital platforms while adhering to the design system in place. Conduct usability testing of all designed user interfaces and ensure stakeholders (product owners, project managers, executives) attend the testing sessions in order to view prototypes being used by customers.

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Job Description

• To define and develop complex architecture roadmaps, practices, and processes that embed strategic applications across an entire Business Unit / Group scope.
• To link the business mission, vision, strategy, and processes for a dedicated Business Unit to its IT strategy, documenting this using multiple architectural models or views that demonstrate how the current and future needs of the Business Unit will be met in an integrated, efficient, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: First Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology
• Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
• Field of Study: Information Technology (Preferred)

Experience Required

• Significant experience as an Architect ideally with time in an Enterprise capacity. Track record in IT disciplines including data management, integration and large scale solution architectures. Experience with the complete information system life cycle. Architecture/Solution design delivery in large domestic or global institutions. Ability to deal with all levels of the business and technology stakeholders across large organisations:
• Align the IT strategy with the business strategy and define the technology architecture to support that strategy. Link the business mission, vision, strategy, and processes to the IT strategy, documenting this using multiple architectural models or views that demonstrate how the current and future needs of the organisation will be met in an integrated, efficient, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner.
• Develop complex business unit-wide architecture, roadmaps, and processes to embed strategic applications across all domains and solutions for the entire Business Unit.
• Set strategies, policies, standards, and practices to facilitate alignment and integration between business strategies, technology strategies, and enterprise transformation activities.
• Develop and maintain the architecture vision and strategy for an entire Business Unit / Group, ensuring it aligns with business goals and strategic objectives.
• Assess technical integrity by evaluating the solution's architecture to ensure it meets the required technical standards and best practices.
• Verify that the solution is robust, scalable, and maintainable.
• Evaluate coherence to ensure that the solution aligns with the overall enterprise architecture and integrates seamlessly with existing systems and processes.
• Check for consistency in design and implementation across different components of the solution.
• Lead and drive all risk assessment processes to identify potential risks associated with the solution, including technical, operational, and strategic risks. Assess the likelihood and impact of these risks and develop mitigation strategies. 
• Lead security assessment by evaluating the solution's security measures to ensure they protect against threats and vulnerabilities.
• Ensure compliance with relevant security standards and regulations.
• Lead agility assessment through assessing the solution's ability to adapt to changing business requirements and technological advancements.
• Ensure that the solution is flexible and can accommodate future growth and changes.
• Lead capacity assessments to evaluate the solution's capacity to handle the expected workload and performance requirements.
• Ensure that the solutions can scale to meet future demands.
• Provide recommendations and findings for all enterprise architecture solutions. Document the assessment findings and provide actionable recommendations to address any identified issues or gaps.
• Define strategic initiatives and map out strategic execution plans that satisfy Business Unit objectives for desirable outcomes.
• Lead transformation consulting engagements to support the roadmap and business case development for Enterprise Architecture services and assist the Business Unit in architecting next generation platforms including capabilities.