Hot Jobs at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

Job Description

• We are seeking an experienced credit strategist to join our fixed income and macro research team to bolster our existing research effort in this space.  
• The credit strategist provides top-rated client-focused research covering the rand denominated listed non-government debt market.
• This includes parastatals, municipalities, corporates, financials and securitizations.  
• The successful incumbent will have a passion for research, ideally with a minimum 5 years’ experience in credit research or a related field and prior experience with servicing institutional clients. However, other suitable candidates, for example seasoned credit analysts with financial modelling skills and technical report writing capability, will also be considered.
• Success in the role will depend on an ability to work closely within the broader research team as well as the markets trading and sales teams and colleagues across investment banking

Education

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

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• Are you a visionary with a systems mindset and a passion for creating exceptional digital experiences? Absa CIB is seeking a dynamic Design System Lead to drive the vision, strategy, roadmap, build, and implementation of our comprehensive Design System. This role will encompass UI components, icons, language, and interaction patterns across both mobile and desktop platforms.

Job Description

Your key responsibilities will include;

• Leading the design and development of Absa CIB’s Design System throughout its maturity stages for both desktop and mobile environments.
• Enhancing and maintaining contributions to the Design System.
• Managing feature and enhancement requests to streamline the process for multiple product teams building systematized components.
• Presenting the system's mission, library, and processes to varied groups including product managers, content specialists, QA, and other design and development teams across the organization.
• Ensuring ongoing tracking and monitoring of the usage of design system elements, conducting audits, and reporting progress to key stakeholders and the broader organization.
• Be a part of transforming digital experiences for our colleagues and clients. Join Absa CIB and lead the way in innovative design system development.
• Send in your application if you meet the role requirements.
• We look forward to receiving it!
• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Digital Media, or a related field. Engineering degrees in built environment, process engineering, or architecture are also welcome.
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and rolling out design systems within large corporate environments.
• Ability to translate business requirements into day-to-day design system initiatives supporting the digital experience strategy.
• Understanding of applying risk management and controls within design for digital platforms.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• There is a vacancy in the Treasury Non-Zar Short Term Funding team for the role of Product Controller. 
• The overall responsibility of this role includes, but is not limited to, daily Profit and Loss production and balance sheet substantiation, reconciliations, financial reporting, Annual Financial Statement preparation, tax calculations, forecasts and involvement in broader initiatives. 
• Products on the desk are: Foreign loan and deposits, Bonds , Interest rate swaps , currency swaps, Nostro’s , Currency Investment Account and Customer Foreign Currency Accounts.

Job Description

• Production related responsibilities:
• Accounting – posting to the General Ledger accurate and timely information, in accordance with IFRS
• Substantiation of the trading balance sheet – ensuring the full balance sheet can be substantiated
• Regulatory reporting alignment - ensuring the Balance sheet is aligned to reports send to regulators
• Data ownership – Ensuring the quality and accuracy of the data going downstream to other infrastructure areas
• Control environment – Overseeing the control environment in which the business operates
• Profit and Loss review – understanding and providing commentary on the Profit and Loss; displaying an understanding of the applicable Greeks (attribution) to explain Profit and Loss moves and the respective products on the desk. Being able to relate the said moves to Market trends or behavior.
• In the process of production, focus is needed on:
• Reporting – Ensuring reporting is accurate and timely
• Control – Ensure a robust control environment and report any deficiencies or issues to managers/relevant stakeholders

Key Accountabilities:

• Profit and Loss production and BS substantiation
• Reconciliations including timely resolution of breaks/issues
• Financial reporting, including but not limited to monthly management packs.
• Interaction with key stakeholders
• Process Owner
• Regulatory reporting
• Strategic and/or Project and /or Change related Initiatives
• Role/Person Specification
• CA or CFA qualification/candidacy
• Financial Accounting (including IFRS) knowledge
• Investment banking or Product Control experience
• Product specific knowledge is an added advantage
• Individual must be strong with regards attention to detail/accuracy, and able to operate within a complex environment
• Experience in creating and maintaining an effective control environment
• Experience with Projects and / or Strategic Initiatives and / or Change Management

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (Required)

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Job Summary

• Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

• 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

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Job Summary

• Provide specialist advise and support for day-to-day work, in order to execute predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Job Description

• Source Utilisation: Obtain walk in client or data leads from the Bank staff in the branches. | Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction. | Risk and Control: Ensure that processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks that impact the area are documented and understood. | Manage Sales and Growth Targets: Capture the correct Policy Relevant Information (PRI) number on the EBankpac system on a monthly basis and 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.
• FAIS Fit and Proper Requirements Applicable to this Role (Advice and Intermediary Service):
• FSCA-Approved Qualification
• Regulatory Exam for Representatives (RE5)
• Experience As Per the FAIS Act
• Product Specific Training once Onboarded
• Class Of Business Training
• Continuous Professional Development
• Attest To Honesty, Integrity, and Good Standing

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Accounting, National Senior Certificate/ Matric (Grade 12)

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Job Summary

• To provide specialist advice & support in the development & implementation of IT security service delivery processes, methods and techniques enabling secure management & control of IT access, in alignment with governance requirements.

Job Description

Are you ready to make a difference? 

• Our Converged Security Office prides itself in its unique structure that sees an integration and collaboration model between our Information Risk, Cyber, Resilience, Physical Security & Forensics teams to ensure effective risk management across all disciplines.
• You will be a member of the Cybersecurity Operations team with primary responsibility for responding to security events, acting as part of a 24x7 team in relation to identified events for the relevant technical support groups, businesses at risk and Service Recovery teams both internally and externally  Your responsibility includes the identification, management and mitigation of security events as detected by monitoring, internal and external intelligence, vulnerability assessment and internal problem management tools and procedures.

What you’ll get to do:

The role is within the Chief Security Office and your responsibilities will include the following:

• Works as part of a multidisciplinary global & regional team in the delivery of information security and privacy response services to the global retail and commercial enterprise
• Responsible for the management of incidents, including notification, escalation response and post incident review
• Contributes to the execution of triage controls to detect and prevent attackers from infiltrating company information or jeopardising e-commerce programs
• Escalates as per defined incident response guidelines regarding the negative impact on the business caused by theft, destruction, alteration or denial of access to information
• Delivers recommendations and actions to improve the detection, escalation, containment and resolution of data security incidents
• Incident management on the Bank's incident management platform
• Investigates using the organisation’s stack of technology tools
• Improves and challenges existing processes and procedures in a very agile and fast moving environment
• Communicates and coordinates with other cybersecurity teams, internal business units and upper management
• Identify new threats and trends
• Improve detection of threats
• Prepare technical reports
• Stays current with global developments in the industry through research, periodicals,
• seminars, training, vendor site visits, and memberships

What do you need to get in?

• Grade 12 (NQF level 4)
• Must have completed 3 year Cyber Academy Qualification
• Technology savvy
• Stakeholder management
• Analytical skills
• Mechanical aptitude
   

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Job Summary

• Provide specialist advice and support in the implementation/development of operational planning and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques.

Job Description

• Stakeholder Management: Actively promote and manage the collaborative engagement of internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, suppliers, clients, service providers, business partners and other Absa entities. | Sales Target: Proactively make self-initiated contact with customers in order to deliver against the required sales targets | Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction. | Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards. | Management of Commission Earnings: Ensure that accuracy of the commission statement on a monthly basis by checking the relevant statements received from the Commissions department. | Practice Manage: Ensure that staff members (Broker Assistants an Interns as relevant) have a clear.

FAIS Fit and Proper Requirements Applicable to this Role (Advice and Intermediary Service):

• FSCA-Approved Qualification
• Regulatory Exam for Representatives (RE5)
• Experience As Per the FAIS Act
• Product Specific Training once Onboarded
• Class Of Business Training
• Continuous Professional Development
• Attest To Honesty, Integrity, and Good Standing

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Work as part of a tech team utilizing specialist analysis, tools and techniques, and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements into solution designs. Translate & document business requirements into user stories and technical specifications detailing integration points, translation and data mapping, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realized. And following this analysis, work collaboratively with the team during design & delivery activity. Assist with creation of test cases and testing, frameworks & outcomes. To be able to design, implement and support end to end designs/solutions. The specialist solution analyst must be able to write up business requirements when necessary and support the complete process until sign off

Job Description

• Analysis 
• Proactively build relationships, apply analytical techniques to elicit and validate business (product & service) needs ahead of demand
• Implement routines to get to know / become an expert in various business processes (e.g. spend time in business & with users)
• Conduct business analysis and elicitation when applicable
• Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format that is immediately usable for DevOps teams (right language, format for building & testing)
• Prepare and prioritize the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions
• Work collaboratively with Tribe Leads (Technical Product / Service Owners) to build a roadmap & vision for the products and services (including detailed analysis requirements & solution scope)
• Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria for all features
• Define testing requirements (pass or fail test cases)
• Support the development of detailed business cases (including defining solution characteristics, effort estimations etc.)
• Solution Design
• Translate business requirements into detailed systems requirements.
• Gather and analyze system requirements
• Design and document systems
• Detailed system requirements must include all capabilities, interfaces and functionalities within and across technologies.
• Build detailed user stories to be leveraged for system requirements design (modular)
• Leverage business analysis & modeling tools and apply notation standards such as UML/BPMN to diagrammatically/visually document: business requirements, business processes, system processes & integration
• Facilitate processes to ensure integrated requirements are socialized, understood & approved across the broad range of stakeholders to be impacted (this includes various processes e.g. risk / governance forums and solution design sessions etc.)
• Understand & leverage knowledge on the organizations technical landscape, environment and broader architecture to define integration points across tech stacks for various requirements
• Work collaboratively with project / program teams, scrum masters and engineers to define backlog
• Continuously improve system requirements mapping (e.g. leverage input from questions asked etc. to consistently improve the quality of the requirements analysis for easier interpretation by the development teams)
• Facilitate resolution during development & testing phases for any change requirements
• Build new systems that address and fix any issues shown in the current systems
• Stay up-to-date with current technologies and technical developments
• Solution Delivery and Support Testing
• Assist in creating the testing strategy & test cases for various solution
• Provide feedback to the team on change requirements identified throughout the testing process
• Review & monitor system stability, resilience etc. throughout the testing process (e.g. integration) & in production
• Define & monitor overall backlog planning for effective solution delivery
• Provide Developer & User support during user acceptance testing
• Validate changes by testing programs
• People:
• Conduct peer reviews and problem solving within and across the broader team
• Collaborate with employees and department heads to determine which system requirements are necessary to remain efficient
• Assist with training users on the new operation systems and provide support

Requirements and Skills:

• Excellent Analysis Skills
• Attention to detail
• Communication
• Interpersonal skills
• Adaptability
• Critical thinking
• Multi-tasking
• Time Management
• Technical skills
• Proven work experience as a system analyst
• Hands on experience with software development and documentation
• Solid knowledge of business information systems
• Familiarity with programming languages
• Ability to explain technical details
• A good problem-solving attitude
• A degree in Computer Science or relevant field
• 3 years or more system analysis experience
• An understanding of collections and recoveries
• SF experience an added benefit

Additional Job Description

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and Absa Policies and Policy Standards.
• Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Summary

• Join Absa's Commercial Asset Finance as a  Business Analyst Asset Finance. The overall job purpose of a Business Analyst Asset Finance is to ensure that credit applications and dealer approvals are of an acceptable risk profile, appropriate quality and conforms to Absa Credit’s lending policy and that applications are timeously compiled and submitted for credit assessment. The Asset Finance Analyst also supports the front-end sales team’s short and long-term objectives and deals with a range of credit requests even in the absence of the Asset Finance Consultant.

Job Description

• Liaise with Business Development Officer (BDO) / Relationship Executive (RE), clients and other stakeholders to understand the process or requirements of credit applications for all clients concerned.
• Conduct research on the industry in which the client operates to understand the industries overall profitability, industry trends and client’s market standing relative to its competitors.
• Perform robust financial and non-financial analysis on the client that will support and underpin all new proposals for commercial asset finance in terms of the clients’ credit risk implications.
• Maker use of clients’ historical data for example, its financial statements to forecast the clients potential growth and sustainability. Conduct a sensitivity/scenario analysis to determine the impact that a change, in for example the economy, political situation, consumer demand, etc. will have on the clients’ financial health.
• Based on analysis conducted structure a commercial asset finance lending solution for the client, that will account for the potential threats to the client and that is within set credit limits and the Bank’s credit lending policies and appetite.
• Ensure that all of the Bank’s credit policies and philosophy are fully complied with at all times, and that any policy breaches have been suitably addressed and mitigated against.
• Ensure adherence to the Absa Business Bank credit Policy and other relevant legislation, for example during the application preparation process.
• Communicate to the RE / BDO Consultants the credit committee’s decision either through e-mail or a written document, where required.
• Provide weekly status report to the Regional Managers indicating completed work, work in progress and pending credit applications, as well as approval ratios.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Job Description

• DevOps
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
• 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
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
• Work with 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 e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization
• People
• Coach & mentor other engineers
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)
• Risk & Governance
• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Key Requirements:

• Java Springboot
• Quarkus
• Messaging
• Kafka
• REST
• IBM MQ
• Docker
• Kubernetes (not required, nice to have)
• Github
• Jenkins
• Understand application architecture
• Ability to mentor junior engineers
• Document the application in terms of application diagrams

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology