Hot Jobs at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

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

• Execute & orchestrate operational processing (batch processing & scheduling) & monitoring services in alignment with customer expectations. Leverage experience to contribute to the optimisation, digitisation & automation of command centre services into the future.

Job Description

• Command Centre Operations
• Understand an aggregated view of all IT assets (includes technology stacks)
• Execute & orchestrate operational processing (batch processing & scheduling) & monitoring in alignment with customer expectations (& do this consistently)
• Take responsibility for operational processing & monitoring quality by meeting & or exceeding all SLA’s & defined targets for e.g. time, quality, cost
• Continuously evolve own knowledge & skills to assume responsibility for new and OR; refined monitoring & processing services to achieve efficiency & effectiveness objectives (e.g. centralised command centre)
• Review and analyse operational processing, monitoring & scheduling performance data and identify & proactively predict events & incidents (ahead of their occurrence)
• Provide support & information to business, problem management, DR, resilience & technology to identify & implement solutions that will prevent incidents, events & outages of critical business services
• Review operational processing, monitoring & scheduling performance data & provide recommendations for the continuous improvement of these services
• Participate in the testing processes for all new / optimised command centre operations
• Support reviews & ongoing optimization and maintenance on command centre technologies and associated tooling
• Participate in incident & problem management processes and provide critical data-driven insights & suggested remedial actions
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging operational processing, scheduling & monitoring technologies & practices and continuously leverage evolved knowledge & skill to influence the automation, optimisation, digitisation & predictive capabilities of the command centre
• Accountability: Finance, Risk, Governance & Compliance
• Participate in risk, governance & compliance review & manage, maintain & provide regular & accurate command centre information
• Ensure risk, governance & regulatory compliance (always!) of all processing, scheduling & operations activity (own )
• Accountability: People
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
   

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Job Summary

• Work as part of an integrated (run & build) tribe in lower complexity environments to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services).

Job Description

• Devops & Support
• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills to solve technical problems on existing applications
• Implement all configuration, optimization (e.g. upgrades) & maintenance activity (e.g. regular maintenance patches) for enterprise wide applications
• Provide efficient and effective support of applications including continued development of the application and security, software patches, reliability, disaster recovery and ensure the application meets the business needs
• Schedule and oversee planned maintenance tasks, such as backups and performance tuning, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
• Maintain correct and current application documentation and making it available to application users
• Oversee application implementation and configuration, patches, upgrades and maintenance, and ensure that application performance meets agreed SLAs and OLAs
• Ensure minimal business operations impact due to upgrades and maintenance activities
• Coordinate and execute unplanned maintenance tasks, such as disaster recovery procedures, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
• Manage applications throughout their lifecycle and assist in the application-related aspects of designing, testing, operating and improving technology products & services services
• Coordinate & communicate across Tribes & Squads (all businesses) to successfully complete application upgrades
• Coordinate with infrastructure & architecture teams to ensure that the impact of system / platform migrations on applications is minimised
• Develop and maintain knowledge in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes
• Develop sufficient knowledge of application infrastructure (server, network, security) & broader organization architecture to assist with application upgrades and troubleshoot issues
• Compile and maintain inventory of applications and related details
• Manage and provide support aligned to all SLA’s
• Develop the skills required to operate and maintain the technical products & services (applications)
• Ensure that a backup system for applications and files associated with business operations is in place
• Advise on software installation and upgrades, troubleshoot problems and provide resolutions.
• Work with Information Security teams to define and implement access permissions for applications
• Develop and maintain expertise in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes.
• Receive and screen user programming requests for new applications or modifications, and determine appropriate priority and response.
• Develop and communicate training and documentation for end users.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and customers, external solution providers, and IT stakeholders for application support specific requirements
• Develop and / or assist with the development and / or execution of project plans for application upgrades
• Provide input to current and future application requirements to meet the organization's needs
• Prepare assessments for proposed applications, projects, and define appropriate integration and access requirements
• Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement
• Identify and recommend application improvement to enhance capability and performance, and minimize costs.
• Ensure that application users are aware of the application capabilities for enabling their effective use
• Assess vendor proposals for appropriateness and compliance with organization and industry standards.
• Participate in development of Requests for Proposals (RFP) and vendor evaluation and contract management for IT applications services.
• Supervise and maintain the organization's repository of applications
• Help diagnose problems and resolve incidents / issues related to applications.
• Validate the known error database for application-related entries
• Work with Tech Centres of Enablement to define the operational activities related to the applications
• Application Monitoring & Performance Management
• Monitor application modification requests and ensure best practices are being utilised
• Conduct diagnostic investigations of program errors, and implement or recommend solutions or methodologies for resolution.
• Maintain metrics of operational performance and evaluate trends
• Analyse business systems to determine effectiveness, identify inadequacies, inefficiencies and problems and recommend solutions
• Governance, Risk & Control
• Enhance methods and procedures for collecting, analysing, and documenting application issues, and completing user change requests.
• Enhance IT processes for transitioning completed configurations from development to production.
• Plan and coordinate the processes for the provision of user applications and systems necessary for business operations.
• Define and maintain application assessment, development, and support standards, and work with other IT and business stakeholders to establish configuration and use guidelines.
• Provide inputs to availability and capacity management process for effective planning.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
   

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Job Summary

• Lead and develop high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade application design, and agile development team by producing, testing, documenting and reviewing source code against CIB Salesforce standards. Support Salesforce in CIB Technology by means of Salesforce development and configuration, .NET development with the focus on enhancing and delivering quality end user experiences for internal and external users of the system.
• Work with the Business team on Architectural Designs to manage their business requirements, design and specify requirements for the Salesforce Platform. Management of team to develop and support architecture design, deployments, code reviews and mentoring of team members as well as level 2 Support on Incidents

Job Description

• Absa CIB Technology uses the Salesforce Platform to manage essential operations and client interaction, feedback and onboarding across many diverse business areas:
• Coverage Banking, Product houses and Markets businesses, Legal for integration to the iManage Legal case management system.  
• Compliance, The Client Service Centres, Credit, Marketing Cloud, Cash collections, Digital Partnerships etc.
• CIB Technology has a dedicated Salesforce team of Full-stack Developers, Data Engineers and Configuration Specialists who work to support the entire CIB business.  We develop custom functionality on top of the existing SF platform and configure Salesforce to meet the very challenging and diverse business needs.  Opportunities exist for ambitious technologists with almost any interest - from Architecture, Integration specialisation, or Full-stack Development to grow and enhance those skills within the CIB arena.

Skills and Experience required:

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application is evident
• 8 years Information Technology experience
• 5 + years Salesforce development experience
• Salesforce Qualification(s) – Domain Architect
• Salesforce DX
• Automated testing, building and designing
• Salesforce Cloud and Marketing Cloud experience
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
• Experience in specific coding / scripting languages
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
• Some understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience / understanding with appropriate unit testing framework(s)
• Affinity for debugging and problem-solving
• Technical and People Leadership, experience managing a team of engineers

Key Accountabilities:

• Design and Architecture on new projects
• Team code reviews
• Code and test software and applications in keeping with given design and specifications
• Automated testing embedment
• Use the detailed program design received from the team lead to develop programs that accommodate automated output
• Implement changes in line with defined standards
• Adhere to Salesforce default functionality and apply
• Deployment of software via CI/CD or manual approved processes
• Engagement with end users to understand requirements, train on new functionality, assist testing process, document all changes made to the PRD environment
• Utilise Agile Methodology and deliver on user stories as specified in the sprints allocated
• Technical scheduled maintenance required from all team members, clean data, clean processes, optimise the engineering side of the application
• Obtain relevant Salesforce qualifications in order to optimally perform
• Highlight processes that needs to be optimised
• Team participation in building Salesforce
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Interpret analysis, problem definition & business requirements to identify solution requirements (e.g. features)
• Produce well-organised and documented source code for technical solutions
• Apply technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience in code development
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Study & apply Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines to all development work
• Support 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 exposure to Automation, Integration, Messaging, CI/CD etc
• Update, create and appropriately store application documentation & technical specifications
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Team management, collaboration and mentoring​

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Job Summary

• Develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and ensure operational implementation and adoption i.t.o. finance & performance management methodology, governance and delivery objectives.

Job Description

• Financial & Performance Reporting:
• Prepare financial and performance reports, both management and adhoc, by coordinating the execution of the day to day and general accounting functions in order to enable decision making.
• Present monthly reports by ensuring the completeness, accuracy and relevance of the information to be presented to enable Group Finance Management Team to make informed decisions.
• Prepare, sign off and discuss the short term plan (STP), medium term plan(MTP) and rolling forecast(RAF) and budgets with the relevant stakeholders to enable consolidation into Finance forecast and budget.
• Work with the team to consolidate the financial plans generated by MTP, STP and RAF and sense check the consolidations prior to recommending 2 approval by the Head of Group Finance
• Advisory Support: 
• Provide advice and support to management on financial risks that might have an impact on profitability by discussing at regular intervals all financial related matters | Financial Control and Compliance:
• Sign off on the quarterly supplementary schedules and attestation to Group Finance prepared by the relevant staff in the prescribed format.
• Maintain appropriate internal controls in line with Absa group policy by reviewing regularly all variance reports and other reports where applicable. Interact with the Internal and External Audit team and provide necessary information as and when required
• Ensure cost centre Managers comply with all regulations and policies when reflecting the financial position of the business
• Stakeholder Management:
• Communicate financial policies, procedures, standards and guidelines to the Senior Business Manager and Group Finance Management Team.
• Support projects by developing the financial component of the business case that is created by the management team to actively track and change benefits and costs of the project.
• Provide strong support to the operational team by having regular meetings with to share financial performance.
• Executive Administration:
• Prepare the key themes, presentations and reviews for the Senior Business Manager and assist with detailed content when required.
• Ensure that presentations are packaged to reflect the business unit's brand and the Senior Business Manager’s preferred style.
• Screen requests for meetings or events to be attended by the Senior Business Manager and determine which ones would be appropriate for personal attendance and which ones should be delegated to other managers in the business unit.
• Sign off proposals, quotes, invoices etc. based on the mandate delegated by the Senior Business Manager.
• Managing the Finance Environment
• Review and present monthly financials and variance commentary to CPF Manco team and where required support the Senior Finance Business Partner with presentation to EXCO Meetings.
• Engage with the Central Planning team to deliver monthly reports for Group reporting purposes
• Compile and present Financials to the relevant business owners on a monthly basis including financial actuals against forecasted trends and prior year performance.
• Conduct research and develop financial forecasts and indicators for the business to enable effective financial decision making and early warning systems.
• Actively engage with Capital Management team to review and ensure RWA reporting for CPF is correct
• Performing a consolidating function for BB, Wealth and ARO and CIB for finance manager as well as for CPF Head
• Actively manage a team to ensure internal deadlines are met and support business
• Accountability: Financial management and Business Partnering
• Monitor financial trends and identify gaps, based on gaps identified, advise business and finance on actions that can be taken
• Obtain a thorough understanding of the business unit’s strategy and explain it to team members in such a way that they understand the contribution they have to make and can relate that strategy to a forecast
• Provide financial advice and guidance to line managers and business owners on new initiatives, current budget management practices and trends in their areas of accountability.
• Explain targets and take accountability for the monitoring and achievement of front office performance down to a Headline Earnings Level including return metrics (RoRC, PARCC etc)
• Conduct basic statistical analysis to track performance variances and determine the root causes of errors. Make recommendations for productivity or process enhancements to process owners
• Populate balanced scorecards for the specific department on a monthly basis. Work with the team to address shortcomings during the next month. Escalate any major issues identified to the next level manager
• Participate in the measurement and reporting of internal and external Service Level Agreements on a monthly basis.
• Address any process failures specific to the department under management.
• Assist in preparing and consolidating monthly pack for BB , Wealth and ARO and CIB for finance manager as well as for CPF Head
• Accountability: Business Planning 
• Develop sound annual Financial Plans together with your Front Office Desk Heads within the agreed timeframes
• Review the 3 year forecast for Medium Term Plans (MTP's) for the area of accountability in accordance with BU strategy annually.
• Review the Revised Annual Forecast (RAF) for the area of accountability in accordance with BU strategy annually
• Review the income statement and balance sheet against budget with accountable managers on a monthly basis and engage on areas of under-performance.
• Performing a consolidating function for planning for BB , Wealth and ARO and CIB for finance manager as well as for CPF Head
• Accountability:  Governance
• Ensure that processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks that have been designed for the area are understood by all members of the team and that these are adhered to on a monthly basis.
• Complete compliance training undertaken within prescribed timelines.
• Implement required governance forums to support improved financial management practices within own area of responsibility. (e.g. monthly finance reporting and monthly finance meetings.)

Education and Experience Required

• NQF Level 7: Honours/Master’s Degree BCom Accounts
• Minimum 3 years financial management experience

Education

• Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)
   

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Job Summary

• Optimise the profit and economic value of portfolios of Growth Business key account clients requiring medium to high complexity commercial banking requirements by focusing: a) origination efforts to quire new clients; b) cross-sell to existing client base; c) coverage efforts to service clients in accordance to the segment CVP

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

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: 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

• Absa’s CIB Technology team provides technology support to the organization’s Corporate and Investment Banking business.  This technology team is specifically dedicated to our Markets business area and is responsible for the building, support, enhancement and maintenance of all trade and post trade activities for vendor-based and bespoke application suites that fall within the Markets business area. 
• We are looking for a Lead Product Engineer/Developer with experience in Financial Markets (trading) and with a balance of quantitative knowledge vs technical knowledge to join the Front Arena team. 

Key critical requirements: 

• 8+ years of experience in Banking / Investment Banking / Capital Markets IT domain 
• 8-10 years of experience in Information Technology / Software Development.
• Front Arena (or equivalent system) development / consulting projects experience is preferrable
• Strong technical skills: Software design and development, Business analysis, quality assurance, release management
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and stakeholder’s management skills 
• Experience in Front Arena AEF: ACM, AEL, ADFL, ASQL is preferable, alternatively strong Python experience to support with upskilling on Front Arena
• Understanding, experience in other development languages: C# .net, C++, MS SQL, XSLT
• Deep knowledge of FA components such as PRIME, ADS, AMB, AMBA, ATS, AMWI, PACE, APS, AFG-AMB, SWIFT adapters, Adaptiv Docs etc. (Preferable) 
• Functional skills required: In depth understanding of asset classes such as Equities, Fixed Income, Credit, FX, their valuation models and product lifecycle, Financial Risk Management, Regulatory and Risk reporting, Trading and Position Management. (Preferable) 
• Ability to perform in a challenging and dynamic environment. 

​Key accountabilities: 

• 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 
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets. 
• 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 and 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
• 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) 

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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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

Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach & mentor other engineers
• Research design and deliver Salesforce solutions for multiple lines of business, collaborating with analysts, business owners and team members to deliver results in a timely manner.
• Apply configuration solutions, write code and where necessary create customizations that meet business needs.
• Follow applicable standards, procedures, guidelines, and methodologies in the support, documentation and/or maintenance of systems.
• Perform end user training as well as internal cross training to other team members.
• Conduct peer reviews, code 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
• 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
• 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)

Requirements:

• 5+ years developing applications for the Salesforce.com platform.
• Must have 10+ years development experience in IT.
• Must have led a development team as Senior Developer or Lead Developer.
• Familiar with VS Code IDE and Azure DevOps.
• Worked on the Sales, Financial Service, and Service clouds
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages (APEX, Lightning Components, JavaScript, SOQL, HTML5, CSS etc.).
• Strong ability to interface with end users to solve issues and elicit requirements.
• Solid understanding of key SFDC architectural concepts (e.g. API and governor limits) and how they influence design.
• Salesforce Certified Administrator, Certified App Builder and Certified Platform Developer 1
• Experience working on an agile development team.
• LWC and Omni Studio experience will be an advantage
• Candidate must have experience in Lightning Components, Visual Force pages, Apex development in creating Objects, Triggers, Apex Classes, Standard Controllers, Custom Controllers and Controller Extensions.
• They must also have experience in Salesforce setup menu, configuration options, custom application development, administration, communities, data migration and deployment of applications to Force.com platform.
• Must understand roles, profiles and users, and have knowledge of security and sharing rules on objects, fields, and record level for different users at different levels of organization. Worked with Page Layouts, Workflows, Actions, Alerts, Reports, Approval Processes, Pick-lists, Custom Formula Fields, Field Dependencies and Validation Rules.
• Experience with Marketing Cloud advantageous.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Summary

• We are looking for an experienced Model Data Analyst with a background as quantitative analysts implementing PD, LGD and EAD models for Regulatory Capital and Impairments (IFRS9) models in a banking environment.

Job Description

• Accountability:  Modelling data and implementation processes/solutions (70%)
• Research model implementation standards as well as other relevant policies and standards.
• Perform certain tasks to give effect to the controls within the modelling data and implementation environment.
• Perform investigative and analyses tasks identifying modelling data in the warehouse as well as other sources
• Accountability:  Stakeholder Engagement (30%)
• Stay abreast of industry trends and role players and ensure that the function is well positioned to provide competitive and industry leading services.
• Clearly communicate progress, results of investigations and other tasks to line manager and/or initiative lead.
• Escalate delays to line manager and/or initiative lead.
• Communicate clearly with other support teams (e.g. BIIS) to enable timely delivery of modelling data and model implementation projects. Present findings, designs documentation and other modelling data   implementation documentation to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Facilitate model embedment into credit operational processes ensuring correct model usage.
• Review and influence the quality of delivery within the team to encourage alignment to policies and standards.
• Transform, manage and prepare data for modelling purposes.
• Design, manage and perform modelling data preparation processes.
• Investigate different methods and approaches to use during modelling data preparation.
• Analyze model build documentation and other modelling artefacts to understand, investigate and analyse modelling data requirements.
• Create model implementation and control documentation (specifically implementation sign-off document and post implementation review document)
• Develop model implementation code and artefacts using Base SAS.
• Proficiency in Base SAS or SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS data steps, SAS procedures, SAS SQL, SAS Macros
• Manage time across multiple initiatives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors of Science in Information Technology

Education

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

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Job Summary

• The Human Capital Strategic Programme Office is seeking to employ a full-time contractor Business Analyst for a 12-month contract renewable at the end of the term subject to business need and performance. The Analyst must have at least five years’ experience working on projects and have strong Design Thinking skills and experience

Job Description

• Accountability: Feasibility Analysis:
• Author Business Cases and feasibility studies in partnership with Project Sponsors to justify (or not) the investment for a business initiative.
• Identify opportunities to improve current business processes.
• Provide consultancy and advice on functionality, applicability and usability of technology solutions to project requirements.
• Recognise and manage business trade-offs, conflicts and market pressures.
• Accountability: Detailed Business Analysis & Design:
• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Gathering requirements from business.
• Leading ongoing reviews of end user experiences and developing optimization strategies.
• Staying up to date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Assisting project leadership in identifying potential project plan variances.
• Writing requirement specifications and developing business process and data models that define the business need.
• Consulting with business stakeholders on business needs, issues and concerns.
• Creating and/or reviewing manuals, procedure and related user documentation – ensuring documentation is targeted to the appropriate audience.
• Leading Design Thinking activities and monitoring and managing requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
• Conducting requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organise, specify and model requirements and designs, validate and verify information, identify solution options that meet business needs, and estimate the potential value that could be realised for each solution option.
• Conducting strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution.
• Overseeing the collaboration between business analysis team members and project team members during conceptual design phase and requirements documentation.
• Partnering with Architects to ensure business representation during vendor selection process and interfaces with vendors to understand whether vendor products meet business requirements.
• Accountability: People and Practice Development:
• Act as Lead Business Analyst on any size project, directing and coordinating Business Analysis team members and activities related to requirements gathering and documentation.
• Act as a champion to changes within the business analysis profession and to motivate business analysts in continuous development
• Monitor industry activities and identify and recommend potential solutions and opportunities.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to other business analysts.
• Accountability: Stakeholder Management:
• Help business stakeholders identify and clarify their goals and requirements by conducting meetings/interviews and facilitating brainstorming sessions across large group and/or cross-functional groups.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs.
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery, elicitation, analysis and documentation, dependencies and delivery across teams.
• Perform all other duties as reasonable assigned.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree (NQF 7)
• A Business Analysis certification is preferred
• A Design Thinking certification is advantageous

Experience Required:

• At least 5 years business analysis experience
• A proven ability to rigorously analyze and solve complex issues.
• At least 2 years’ experience practicing-applying Design Thinking in a project or operational environment with proven results.

Competencies:

• Design Thinking as a philosophy
• Design Thinking as an approach-method
• Clear and effective capture and documentation of Business Requirements
• Excellent facilitator at requirements workshops, brainstorming sessions and JAD workshop to operate at senior executive levels
• Creative and innovative thinker
• Excellent probing, interviewing and influencing skills
• Effectively deals with ambiguity
• Ability to take and give constructive feedback
• Problem and solution oriented
• Self-motivated, independent and resourceful
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Subtle influencer/persuader and negotiator

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Monitor and continuously evaluate fraud controls within designated responsibility areas within the PSC Absa Financial Services/A&I (Advice, Investments) environment to ensure that fraud losses are minimized, fraud risks are controlled on a proactive basis whilst complying with internal policies and procedures as well as rules regulations.  
• Identify fraud vulnerabilities in the end-to-end process and assist in initiating remediation programs as required. 
• Drive Fraud Threat Assessments and Strategy drafting as well as execution for the A&I Portfolio.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities:

• Strategy and Execution of Strategy
• Support roll out and execute on signed-off fraud strategies in PSC Advice and Investments
• Perform and drive a Fraud Threat Assessments
• Support the fraud strategy manager in aligning the strategy to Fraud Threat Assessment outcomes;
• Ensure (influence) strategy execution to enable business to comply with following layers:
• Real-time monitoring (catch net controls);
• Transaction authorization; (verifications and preventative controls)
• Customer authentication; (ID & V)
• Track fraud losses to identify defined controls being challenged;
• Manage fraud controls where challenged (risk mitigation);
• Projects and Book of work – requires fraud strategy managers to lead projects where Fraud Strategy owns the projects, fraud strategy support manager to support these initiatives
• Risk and Control Management
• Adhere to governance criteria
• Monthly and Quarterly risk meeting feedback
• Monthly and Quarterly risk decks
• Internal audit support
• NAPA’s (New Product Assessments)
• CPA findings
• DWB (Dispensations, waivers and breaches)
• Analytics and anti-fraud rules:
• Support and inform fraud rulesets based on threat assessments, emerging modus operandi, significant event discovery as well as industry trends
• Support in ongoing review of rulesets in use to ensure alignment to strategy and Threat assessments
• Collaborate with Strategic and Tactical Analytics teams to absorb lessons learned into analytics approaches
• Stakeholder management
• Meet Business stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss strategy, performance and threats
• Meet Execution teams on a regular basis to discuss execution and alignment to the strategy
• MI
• Drive collation of monthly loss and prevention MI for group reporting
• Ensure that losses are identified tracked and written off in line with group policy
• Ensure that Significant Fraud event governance is initiated as and where required
• Ensure that business remediation is defined, agreed and executed for Significant Fraud losses
• Anti-fraud assurance and control testing
• Engage on an ongoing basis with business teams responsible for manual fraud control assurance to ensure that:
• Key control failures are identified and remediated timeously
• That emerging threats are identified and mitigated as controls are identified as being tested / compromised
• Inform enhancements or additions to manual control assurance based on threat assessments, emerging trends and industry trends.
• Industry engagement
• Actively engage with industry bodies to stay abreast of emerging fraud threats as well as new modus operandi
• Support Strategy Manager in collating industry MI for benchmarking exercises
• Support Strategy Manager as stand in at Industry forums when required

Preferred Requirements:

• Communication and Team skills (Advanced).
• Networking Skills & Influencing Skills (Advanced).
• Knowledge of Fraud Risk Principles and Practices (Advanced).
• Understanding of Risk and Compliance concepts (Advanced).
• Analytical Skills (Moderate).
• Interpersonal and Conflict Management Skills (Advanced).
• Ability to both Drive an objective and Deliver (Advanced).

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Job Summary

• We are seeking a highly motivated NBFI Trade Specialist to join our team. The primary purpose of this role is to generate, drive, and execute sales opportunities through existing, new to bank, and new to NBFI Trade clients. In this role you will find and assess opportunities within the marketplace, develop new revenue streams, and be responsible for pricing to ensure threshold returns are met. As an NBFI Trade specialist, you will display in-depth knowledge and understanding of the risk profile of relevant products and services, whilst acting as the senior sales representative on opportunities with key clients and deals. This is an exciting opportunity to drive best practices in lending and risk policies and to drive NBFI Trade thought leadership within responsible sectors, segments, and geographies.

Job Description

Description:

Your key accountabilities will include;

• Maximising revenue growth through business development
• Developing effective strategies for winning new clients in order to generate new income for the
• Group.
• Managing senior stakeholders across Coverage, Middle Office, Operations, Credit and Portfolio Management.
• Working together with other product houses in closing out major deals providing product expertise and attending client meetings/presentations.
• Meeting and exceeding all targets as set
• Striving to improve customer relations.
• Achieving the profitability hurdle rate as agreed with Customer Groups
• Managing pipeline of new customers and follow end to end sales process • Work closely with sales colleagues to promote awareness of NBFI Trade products, strategies and competitor information amongst the RM and other strategic business communities
• Maintaining a high-performance environment and effective teamworking.

Send in your application if you have the following;

• Bachelor’s degree in commerce
• 5 years or more sales and banking experience
• A good understanding of NBFI Trade needs including excellent working knowledge of
• client accounting and Treasury.
• Excellent knowledge of International Banking, Treasury, Trade & Working Capital and
• broader Transactional Banking to ensure one can provide sound advice and specialized
• solutions to the client and gain the position of trusted adviser.
• Sound banking knowledge.

Education

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