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Job Summary

• Execute M&T review activities and issue validation to the highest quality in terms of the Group Compliance M&T methodology with minimum supervision from the line manager. Co-ordinate and report on the key focus areas across all ARO M&T team deliverables.

Job Description

The ARO Compliance Monitoring & Testing (M&T) team is looking for a team player with the following attributes:

• A strong governance mindset
• Great attention to detail with quality, timeous delivery
• Ability to analyse and interpret data
• Passionate about adding value to business and improving processes
• Ability to deal with stakeholders across different jurisdictions

Key Responsibilities

Governance, Monitoring and Reporting 

• Co-ordinate, consolidate and report on the key focus areas of the ARO M&T scorecard deliverables, notably:
• Delivery to the committed assurance plans.
• Tracking and monitoring of M&T assurance findings.
• Monitor compliance to the Group Compliance Assurance methodology
• Produce, analyse and interpret detailed reports explaining trends, discrepancies, and inconsistencies.  Use these to identify and recommend improvements and provide advice to ensure that solutions are appropriate and effective.
• Attend relevant forums, committees and structures related to area of specialisation as may be directed by line manager or business requirements or stakeholder expectations.
• In combination with each in-country M&T team providing input into the planning cycle by considering the risk and control profile, business strategy, regulatory changes and material conduct and reputation risks affecting the business.

Operational Efficiencies 

• Delivery of appropriate initiatives, training, applications, systems, and tools to enable knowledge, skills, robust application, and reporting. Particularly in respect of risk management tools, applications, and systems assurance methodologies; RICM; issues management etc. Provided guidelines and support to ensure consistency.
• Identify opportunities for using Data Analytics and enhanced automated monitoring and testing techniques.
• Implement the use of HighBond frameworks to create efficiencies and reduce the time taken.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends, regulatory changes and professional standard.
• Assurance Reviews and Issue Validations
• Conduct all assurance reviews and issue validations allocated to the highest quality and in line with the requirements of the Compliance Assurance Methodology.
• Actively participate in all the assurance phases - planning and scoping (identification of risks and controls), fieldwork (execution of design and operating effectiveness assessments) and reporting (ensure that any observations/issues and planned actions are agreed with management for factual accuracy).
• Display professional skepticism and apply a residual risk lens to potential issues with management and in final reporting
• Stakeholder Relationship Management and Teamwork
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder engagements across ARO and within the centre teams.
• Ensure proactive engagement to enable quality submissions of required deliverables.
• Contribute to ensuring commercially sound Compliance guidance and support in respect of regulatory requirements in a professional and helpful manner.
• Provide guidance to peers by sharing best practice methodology.
• Contribute towards positive employee engagement and culture through active collaboration, identifying improvements and efficiencies across the wider team.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies, preferably within Accounting / Audit
• Completed CIA / CFA/ CA(SA) with Articles or Extensive proven experience within Audit

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Start the new year with a bang and use your Commercial Asset Finance Sales experience in this role where you will provide specialist advice and support in the implementation/development of operational planning and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques.

Job Description

• 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 Summary

• We are looking for a Governance, Risk, and Control Specialist/Manager to play a pivotal role in driving and managing an effective fraud risk management culture for CIB fraud risk. You will ensure the efficiency of governance structures, effective stakeholder management, and meaningful reporting to internal and external stakeholders. Your role will involve maintaining and managing the overall Fraud Strategy Combined Assurance Plan, coordinating fraud threat assessments, and supporting in-country teams to identify, assess, and manage fraud risks

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

Translate Strategies into Action:

• Transform high-level strategies into actionable goals.
• Execute relevant projects and initiatives aligned with Fraud Strategic objectives.
• Implement specific performance measures and control systems to track progress.

Stay Ahead of Fraud Trends:

• Work closely with fraud analysts to identify current fraud threats.
• Analyze potential fraud trends, threats, and modus operandi
• Keep a vigilant eye across all products and channels.

Risk Mitigation:

• Protect the bank from inherent risks associated with fraud.
• Recommend robust and practical processes to bolster our defense
• Ensure effective communication of fraud intelligence to all stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Head of Fraud Operations to maintain fraud losses within the set risk appetite.

Operational Excellence:

• Manage and report on fraud-related operations.
• Champion change management initiatives.
• Uphold governance, risk, and control standards.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Foster strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance fraud prevention efforts.

Qualifications:

• NQF Level 8 (Equivalent): Required educational background.
• CIA / ACFE / IRMSA Certification would be an added Advantage
• Experience of 4-6 years in Audit, Risk and Fraud Risk

Skills and Attributes:

• Attention to Detail
• Fraud Risk Assessments
• Analytical Skills
• Effective Communication
• Interpersonal Skills
• Computer Literacy
• Assertive

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• Provide superior, seamless customer experience and offering suitable solutions to meet client needs. Utilise technology and leverage the virtual omni-channel environment, to deliver service in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Perform banking duties and oversee the financial activities for business and individual customers.

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

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

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Job Summary

• Provide superior, seamless customer experience and offering suitable solutions to meet client needs. Utilise technology and leverage the virtual omni-channel environment, to deliver service in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Perform banking duties and oversee the financial activities for business and individual customers.

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

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

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Job Summary

• Responsible for collation and preparation of regulatory information to the Prudential Authority (PA) according to regulatory guidelines and procedures.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Accountability:  Preparation and completion of BA returns

• Primary responsible for the production and review of the Financial and Capital returns.
• Timeously communicate the risk owners and GRR stages in the production process.
• Collect information from various sources, i.e., Finance, Credit, Treasury, and business units, Corporate and Investment Bank, Retail and Business Bank and Absa Regional Operations for the compilation and preparation of BA returns to the PA.
• Coordinate resources from other areas of the Group, planning and managing the timetable for data collection, consolidation and review of data and information and ensuring that deadlines are met in respect of data submissions to the PA.
• Calculate the relevant sections required of returns, such as Non-Standard Asset, Securitisation etc., for submission to the PA within set deadlines, drawing from source data and own financial and Basel knowledge and expertise.
• Prepare, calculate, and compile the working sheets in support of the relevant BA returns to the PA for review by the reviewer and management.
• Maintain the mappings from the IFRS balance sheet and income statement line items to ensure that results are correctly reported in terms of the regulations.
• Prepare and maintain the relevant working papers, calculations and or reconciliation in support of the BA return and other submissions to the PA.
• Upload the BA returns after review into the PA submission tool (DIX).
• Run validation checks on DIX and present for sign off by reviewer.
• Investigate queries and draft responses thereto as received from the PA on an ad-hoc basis.
• Meet reporting deadlines as set internally per working day timetables
• Prepare the monthly management information and analysis packs on the BA returns for internal review.
• Prepare the commentary and Executive Summary for the monthly management information packs.
• Identify enhancements to current reporting processes and policies to achieve optimal efficiency.
• Build relationships with all the relevant stakeholders in the process.
• Respond/communicate to the Prudential Authority and BASA queries and letters.
• Maintain process documents and be a key input in the CPA requirements.
• Co-ordinate and participate in the Reg 46 audit process
• Play a key role in the implementation of Basel IV

Accountability: System maintenance and development

• To drive and oversee projects which involve system development and automation.
• Maintain process maps which should include critical controls and process performance measures.
• Document the enhancements for these projects for future reference according to Absa requirements and on Absa template documents.
• Test the automated solution for adequacy, effectiveness, and reliability prior to implementation
• To assist the system owners in the implementation of this automated solution, including roll out to business units where necessary.
• Identify processes for automation to increase effectiveness and efficiency in the team and present the proposed solution for review to GRR management

Role/Person Specification

Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of local/ international regulatory requirements
• Strong computer skills, e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Knowledge of SA / IFRS accounting standards
• Product knowledge in the banking industry
• Good report-writing skills
• Sound values and judgement
• Analytical
• Logical Thinker
• Attention to detail
• Work well in the team and across teams
• Self-starter

Education and Experience Required 

• Minimum Chartered Accountant (SA) or equivalent experienced accountant with tertiary accounting qualifications and demonstratable technical expertise or.
• 3 years banking experience
• 3 years’ experience in the compilation of risk data and or financial returns to the PA would be preferred
• Strong academic track record

Competencies:  

The position requires an accountable person with a passion for banking regulations, investment banking, treasury, and more complex banking activities. The following competencies are required:

• Analysing: Analyses numerical data, verbal data, and all other sources of information.
• Applying expertise and technology applies specialist and detailed technical expertise; uses technology to achieve work objectives.
• Writing and reporting: Writes clearly, succinctly, and correctly.
• Deciding and initiating action: Takes responsibility for actions, projects, and people; initiates and generates activity.
• Planning and organising: Plans activities and projects well in advance and takes account of possible changing circumstances; monitors performance against deadlines and milestones.
• Communication with multiple stakeholders
• Coping with pressure and setbacks: Works productively in a pressurised environment; Handles criticism well and learns from it

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Provide superior, seamless customer experience and offering suitable solutions to meet client needs. Utilise technology and leverage the virtual omni-channel environment, to deliver service in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Perform banking duties and oversee the financial activities for business and individual customers.

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

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

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Job Summary

• To provide banking services accurately and timeously through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs). Selecting this role has a compensation & benefit impact in TZ (NBC), Botswana, Kenya. Please contact Reward for details.

Job Description

• Customer service: Deliver customer service at first point of contact | Capturing financial transactions: Capture all financial transactions on the Bank system and ensure that all transactions are properly authorised by a mandated official before finalising the processing | Fraud prevention: Identify potential fraudulent transactions and report these and other suspicious transactions as per the Money Laundering control framework to management | Capture customer data: Update demographics such as address changes, name changes and standing order instructions based on information supplied by customer. | : | : | : | :

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Join our dynamic team at ABSA CIB, a leader in Corporate Investment Banking. We are committed to excellence and innovation. We are looking for a dedicated and experienced professional to join us as a Senior Manager in Governance, Control & Risk also looking after our CIB international Offices.
• As the Senior Manager: Governance, Control & Risk, you will be responsible for overseeing the governance and control landscape for our International Offices. This includes managing all related risk activities, ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal policies, and driving improvements across the risk and control environment.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate risk and control activities across International Offices.
• Ensure compliance with the Group Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
• Implement and execute against the Group Operational & Resilience Risk Management and Compliance frameworks.
• Conduct ongoing assessments and monitoring of control effectiveness.
• Provide specialist advice and support on risk management and control procedures.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure quality submissions and effective communication.
• Manage Internal Audit, Regulatory, and assurance provider engagements.
• Develop and deliver training programs on risk management principles.

Qualifications:

• B Degree in Business Science, Commerce, Legal, Engineering, or Banking, or CA (SA).
• Postgraduate Qualification in Management, Business Science, or Applied Risk Management is preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience in a senior role within the financial services industry.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks and risk management practices.
• Experience in a multinational, multi-segment environment with matrix reporting.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Skills and Competencies:

• Advanced risk management reporting and management skills.
• Ability to work independently and take initiative.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficiency in engaging with senior business stakeholders and executives.
• Demonstrated objectivity, integrity, and independence.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Provides financial services to meet client specific needs to promote, market and sell Financial Solutions in accordance with relevant legislation, to meet sales targets and achieve strategic business objectives.

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