Job Openings at Absa Group

Job Summary

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE SPECIFIC BUSINESS UNIT:
This role is within RBB: Everyday Banking in Consumer Card Issuing, reporting into Card Issuing Business Optimisation.

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:
An exciting role that focuses at optimisation opportunities within the Card business into digital solutions and channels such as Online or App. This specialist role allows a colleague to work independently, with a measure of autonomy, work in a multi- disciplinary team both in business and digital teams. This role will advise business on digital innovation and latest trends in digital platforms to improve efficiencies. In this role, you will have an opportunity to influence both business and the digital teams on new digital change programmes and implementation thereof to address business needs.

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The high-level duties of the role:

• Act as a conduit between the card business and the digital teams to deliver the best possible product that meet customer, colleague and business needs

• Proactively investigate, identify and implement business improvement and efficiencies within the business that is based on market research, competitor analysis and customer needs.

• Participate in various initiatives to support customer experience objectives, assessment of processes with a view to identify opportunities for automation as a stakeholder and act as subject matter expert to support continuous process improvement efforts

• Responsible from conceptualization to the implementation of projects and initiatives in conjunction with the digital teams

• Responsible for development of business cases; and post implementation monitoring, tracking and reporting of financial and non-financial benefits

• Responsible for efficient delivery of change programmes in line with Absa’s change management governance guidelines

• Play a role in supporting the business optimisation area as part of the team

• Responsible for successful digital optimisation channel strategy to support the business

• Responsible for stakeholder engagements in the card and digital value chain

 

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Relevant degree or equivalent NQF level 7 qualification

• B -degree in business ⁄ banking ⁄ accounting

• At least 3-5 years banking ⁄ technology/ financial services environment experience

• Project management training ⁄ qualification relevant technology qualification

• At least 3-5 years’ experience in business systems management or process optimisation

• Knowledge of process engineering methodologies

• Knowledge of artificial intelligence methodologies

• Innovative and commercial thinking

• Ability to navigate in a complex organization and work within a matrix structure

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Description

Commercial Finance Execution Accountabilities

• Responsible for tactical strategy and the navigation of multiple/complex leadership relevant across his/her function of the BU.

• Leveraging tactical and practice integration, accountable to optimise the function. Co-accountable with Cluster CFO and Executive Head for business growth and profitability.

• Ensure that the Cluster CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU.

• Deliver on our Customer Promise by creating unprecedented, seamless experiences.

• Embrace our distinctive brand aspiration and infuse in business.

• Implementation and creating of global best operating practices.

• Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls. Pioneer and implement Finance best practices, digital solutions and effective change enablement. Build a scalable, digitally-led business.

• Drive cost management objectives for function within the BU.

• Contribute to functional strategy, create a shared purpose and identity for function; one family doing what’s ‘best for Absa’.

• Adopt an eco-system mandate: (geography, customer, channel and product) of business area.

• Book of work contribution: Partner with leaders on financial decisions and implications of business strategies, investments, trade-offs, efficiency and scale initiatives, including process and systems transformation. Ensure alignment of core business with future business and technology changes and align vendor roadmaps to ensure the achievement thereof.

• Accountable for ensuring an optimal and compliant control environment within business unit that appropriately balances risk appetites and customer demand with the need to grow to achieve the financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of RBB.

• Lead all aspects of the core finance processes for RBB Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory and reporting), and partner with the business leaders to evaluate the productivity of operations, enable wise resource allocation, and drive intelligent scenario planning.

• Stimulate a leadership context of solid understanding of the markets/segments/customers/products to help drive financial growth, performs product and customer profitability analysis to assist with business decisions. Build capability to partner with business to identify opportunities to utilise relevant solutions to innovate new products and services with the intent of driving customer value and revenue.

• Whenever necessary, participate in negotiations with partners as well as suppliers or contractors within appropriate role scope.

• Foster strong relationships with business units by establishing a customer service culture within the commercial finance team.

• Influence integration of Treasury, Risk, and Finance from a BU perspective.

• Influence the build of a leading global payments hub, where applicable.

• Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.

• Leverage BU to help shape society by developing innovative solutions to societal challenges; and expand and augment existing capabilities.

• Integrate oversight of BCM & cybersecurity strategy for BU into Finance execution.

 

Financial Reporting Accountabilities

• Partner with leaders to define, optimize and monitor progress on their strategic agenda, short-term and long-term plans and investments, operational success metrics, efficiencies, risks and mitigations.

• Seek advanced modelling and analysis capability to provide actionable intelligence, beyond data within the function.

• Develop finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions.

• Ensure appropriate, quality and timeous delivery of accurate financial and non-financial management information to support business objectives and expectations, including appropriate financial and non-financial metrics, valid and insightful comments and packaging the information in a relevant and appropriate manner.

• Deliver reporting reflecting deep commercial, holistic understanding, coherency, clarity, and contextualisation. Tell the story with passion and conviction.

• Provide thought-leadership, insight, influence and challenge on evolving stakeholder information requirements and reporting processes to deliver analytics.

• Drive the stakeholder engagement and processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the RBB.  Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and BU teams.

• Integrate the production of regular, high quality, standardised financial and non-financial reporting and analytics to Business and Finance.  

 

People Investment Accountabilities

• Coach, inspire, engage, mentor and develop finance and business savvy leaders.

• Play to our A-Game culture of Culture of inclusivity, diversity, entrepreneurship, and ownership.

• People Promise will be integral to our business. Focus on Finance skills development and succession.

• Integrate Big Data and Advanced Analytics into the core of our business.

• Develop specialised Finance skills to support mergers and acquisitions, and partnership capabilities to drive opportunity.

• Provide thought leadership to the industry and aim to create industry benchmark standards.

• Be an enabler of capabilities, talent and service level to fulfil business and functional responsibilities in an innovative efficient manner.

• Lead the Finance team in obtaining a holistic view of RBB, whilst ensuring that each direct report maintains an in-depth understanding of his/her own functional area.

• Regularly engage with the other finance and BU teams regarding the process surrounding demand management, ensuring that adequate controls are in place to ensure effective utilisation of the Finance team’s resources.

• Embed the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions.

• Build BU leadership capability by influencing deep understanding of income statement, balance sheet, margin returns, variance analysis, capital and liquidity requirements, revenues, assets, liabilities and capital, expenses, headcount analytics and other key ratios through relevant engagement. Hold BU managers accountable for ensuring adaptability of the team to changes in external regulatory requirements and business performance outlook.

 

Role / Person Specification

• Minimum B-degree (NQF level no.7) Desired Post Graduate Degree (NQF level no.8+), CA (SA) or CIMA or MBA qualification preferred.

• 5+ years professional financial management experience

• 5+ years Banking Experience at a management level

• Preferred team lead in Finance Function teams or in professional sales environments

• Knowledge and skills:

• Experience in business transformation contexts related to exponential business growth

• Experience in commercial innovation environments

• Broad Finance including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects

• Ability to build, develop & lead professional level teams 

• Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment

• Knowledge of people change management

Education

Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

Support the Senior Manager: Governance drive and execute on the agreed Combined Assurance coverage plan. Assist in the improvement of the control environment for the Group People & Culture Function through assurance activities in alignment with the assurance methodology, governance and delivery objectives.

 

 

Job Description

 

 

Accountability: Planning Assurance Reviews

• Assist the Senior Manager: Governance develop the Assurance Plan through consultation with the respective Risk Leads, Senior Manager Assurance and Governance Lead.

• Plan the delivery of assigned assurance activities to a high quality and in line with Key Performance Indicators as per the methodology which includes adequate project scheduling, preparation of the announcement memo and meeting key deliverables in terms of assurance timelines.

 

Accountability: Executing Assurance Reviews

• Develop an in-depth knowledge of the centres of excellence in the Group People & Culture Function and various business areas and use this knowledge to assess risks and controls through identifying, assessing and documenting risks and controls within these processes.

• Provide consulting services to implement lasting change and sustained improvements around critical processes to support the bank’s top priorities.

• Support the Risk teams in validating effective controls as per the Control Self-Assessment (CSA) and (CPA) Critical Process Assessment for the business units.

• Coordinate and conduct special assurance, investigations, and/or ad hoc projects with supervision and direction from the Senior Manager: Governance.

• Execute on the Design Effectiveness Testing (DEA) and Operational Effectiveness Testing (OET) in line with methodology requirements based on the detailed working papers.

• Perform and proactively participate in the timely clearing of review notes raised by the Senior Manager: Governance to ensure overall high quality of work performed.

• Perform business process analysis (BPAs) and control deep dives on specific control themes as defined by the Senior Manager: Governance.

• Identify opportunities for using Data Analytics and enhanced automated monitoring and testing techniques.

 

Accountability: Reporting

• Use business knowledge to assess evolving risks that support the identified observations which are insightful, address the root cause, have agreed actions that fully mitigate the risk, support the Issues Assurance process and require no further audit work to support them.

• Anticipate potential barriers, issues, and management concerns and create action plans which include escalation to Senior Manager: Governance and recommendations to address these concerns in a timeous manner.

• Capture the findings on Connected Risk in a timely manner.

• Ensure appropriate tracking is kept updated with the progress made on remediation of 1, 2 and 3 Line of Defense Audit observations and overdue findings are escalated in line with relevant standard.  

• Support management in validation of 2 and 3 of defence issues.

 

Accountability: Stakeholder Engagement

• Develop and maintain relationships with key assurance contacts on each review by attending continuous stakeholder meetings. In addition, engage closely with stakeholders during assignments and encourage open discussion and interaction with business on the risks associated in their environment.

• Business Monitoring and stakeholder engagement - Develop and maintain relationships with business (including 1and 2 Line of Defense) and actively monitor the risk profile of the business to inform assurance planning, reporting and delivery.

• Provide input into Risk and Committee reporting (MCA & CE), clear messaging and impact on the risk and control environment of the business.

 

Education and experience required

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

• Professional certification, such as, CIA, CISA, CISSP, CISM or any other related qualification.

• 3 - 6 years Audit/Assurance experience / information systems audit experience.

 

Knowledge and skills: (Maximum of 6)

• Display professional skepticism and apply a residual risk lens to potential audit issues with management and in final reporting.

• Understanding of the control, regulatory changes and risk issues in business.

• Continuous upskilling on both technical and other core competencies.

• Good understanding of technology and its application including knowledge of current and emerging technologies.

• Demonstrates understanding of IT general and application controls.

 

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

• Learning and researching

• Delivering results and meeting stakeholder’s expectations.

• Relating and networking

• Adapting and responding to change

• Persuading and influencing

• Planning and organising

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Accountability: Analytics

Analytics accountabilities for the role span both internal and external reporting. The role will support senior internal stakeholders in the CIBT business and the successful applicant will be expected to provide analytic insight based on commercial business understanding to senior stakeholders. Stakeholders include senior management of the CIBT business and the Financial Controller for the CIBT Cluster.

Specific accountabilities include :

• Designing, developing and implementing analytical tools which will provide comfort that internal and external reporting is accurate (including scenario analyses to anticipate and challenge reporting results)

• Ensuring that team members have a detailed understanding of products and businesses to enable relevant design and interpretation of analytics to enable accurate timeous commentary on reporting

• Provide input into external reporting deliverables using business knowledge obtained through analytical processes

• Provide commentary on external or internal reporting

• To assist the Financial Controllers to continuously evaluating the control framework in Financial Control and to enhance it as appropriate;

 

Accountability: Reporting

The reporting function for the role is supported by various teams. However, the successful applicant will have certain business as usual reporting responsibilities.

• Designing, developing and implementing processes and systems which will provide comfort that external reporting is accurate

• Responsible for ensuring that all external reporting is delivered on time and is accurate

• Reviewing internal and external reporting and commentary to ensure that reporting is accurate

• Assisting with the implementation of best practice financial disclosures and presentation;

 

Accountability: Product and process management

• Successfully manage and deliver major projects from commencement to completion within the scope, budget and time agreed to;

• Manage project resources internally or externally to ensure that time lines are being met;

• Ensure quality of project implementation;

• Ensure that adequate documentation is delivered as part of the implementation to sustain the process;

• Responsibilities would include the co-ordination of different groups of people, from varying disciplines associated with the project. 

 

Accountability: Project& Staff Management:

• Providing leadership to junior team members in the area of strategically improving reporting processes;

• Ensure that assigned projects are planned, staffed accordingly and successfully implemented within agreed timelines. Communicate if risks arise to successful implementation of assigned projects, and finalise and propose alternatives

• Help execute the people management strategy for Financial Control;

• Assist in embedding formal Performance Development and informal coaching in the team;

• Review training needs of team members and ensuring that team members receive the relevant training;

• Assist in the interviewing of junior team members;

 

Education and Experience Required

• Chartered Accountant (Financial Services/Insurance experience preferred),

• Given the technical nature of insurance accounting/valuations, additional postgraduate qualifications focused on insurance and/or additional quantitative qualificatons are preferred

• 4 - 6 Years of relevant reporting, analytics and or project management experience

• (insurance/banking preferred);

• Very strong academic track record.

 

Knowledge & Skills: (

• Strong problem solving skills

• Strong data analytical skills

• Banking Product Knowledge.

• Strong technical accounting skills;

• Experience designing and implementing calculation tools

• Exceptional interpersonal and team-working skills and the ability to communicate at all levels;

• The ability to work in a pressured and unstructured environment and to cope with the demands of working to tight deadlines;

Competencies:

The position requires a technically minded accountant with a passion for investment banking.

• Analysis skills & technical ability;

• Judgment / decision making – demonstrates logic, rationality and objectivity in decision making whilst balancing speed vs. thorough approach;

• Integrity – consistent, earns trust, fights fair, uses the facts;

• Team player – approachable, establishes collaborative relationships;

• Oral and Written Communications - fluency, clarity, precise, well organised communications;

• Resourcefulness – action oriented, goes “beyond the call of duty” to solve problems;

• Adaptability – adapts quickly to change and copes well with complexity;

• Experience – Designing and implementing project or system solutions

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Description

Administrative and operations support and advice: Provide specialist administrative and operations support and advice against standard operating procedures | Ad Hoc duties: Provide support to customers and team as required on an ongoing basis | Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards

Accountability: Administration of deceased estates

• Outputs to deliver this accountability:

• Receive completed deceased estate reporting documents from the Fiduciary

• Consultants and or Lean system and make telephonic contact with the client.

• Manual intake of estates.

• Report the deceased estate to all relevant stakeholders via written correspondence, newspaper and Government Gazette (Master of the High Court, SARS, banks, insurance companies, auditors), to obtain Letters of Executorships

• Obtain final tax assessment from SARS and finalise the deceased estate, by paying out the amount previously reserved in the cash statement for finalisation of the estate.

• Achieve set target as set out by management at the beginning of the year by taking in the executor's fees within the company norms.

• Ensure that all post (incoming mail, fax and correspondence) and filing is up to date as per the company norms (three days turnaround time) and report any irregularities (e.g. backlog of filing / post) to management timeously

Accountability: Customer service

• Outputs to deliver this accountability:

• Keep clients updated on progress of the estate by reporting on a monthly basis

• (telephonically, written correspondence, etc) in a professional manner to ensure that a high standard of customer service is given

• Maintain a high standard of service during the administration process without any supervision, by providing excellent customer service and immediate attention to client needs

• Build and maintain a relationship with various stakeholders (i.e. valuators, auctioneers, attorneys, Master of the High Court, South African Revenue Service) by continuously engaging and ensuring satisfactory client service and good relations

• Ensure that queries do not turn into complaints by addressing these within a period of twenty four hours.

Accountability: Compliance

• Outputs to deliver this accountability:

• Adhere to ABSA compliance requirements and industry related legislations in

• order to maintain a high standard of service

• Adhere to business processes and controls practice; non-adherence may lead to disciplinary actions

• Complete all compulsory compliance and legislation training within the required time-frames as prescribed by Absa Risk

• Adhere to risk and compliance policies in terms of Environmental Health and

• Safety, Information Security, Records

• Management and Money Laundering, Sanctions etc. Non-adherence to Absa's

• Policy & Procedures may lead to disciplinary action

• Be knowledgeable on the Estate Administration Act, in order to comply with all the legal aspects in deceased estates.

Education and Experience Required

• Diploma in Estate & Trust or Deceased Estate Administration Course via Law

• Society of SA Lead diploma

• Relevant B Legal degree (LLB) or Advanced Estate & Trust Diploma

• Five (5) years experience in deceased estate administration environment.

Competencies

• Adapting and responding to change

• Coping with pressures and setbacks

• Planning and organising

• Working with people

•  Delivering results and meeting customer expectations

• Following instructions and procedures

 

Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of Administration Of Estates Act (Solid)

• Knowledge of Intestate Succession Act (Solid)

• Knowledge of Financial Statements (Basic)

•  Knowledge of Estate Duty Act (Basic)

•  Knowledge of Wills Act (Basic)

•  Knowledge of Income Tax Act (Basic)

•  Written and verbal communication skills in English and Afrikaans (Solid)

• Computer literacy (Basic)

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• Design & deliver fit for purpose, business strategy-aligned, high impact, cross domain technology solution blueprints & associated solutions.

Job Description

Accountability: 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

Accountability:  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)

Acountability:  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)

Minimum Education

• Bcom (Information Technology) or Equivalent NQF 7 qualification
• “Salesforce Platform Developer I” certification
• Working towards a  Salesforce Application Architect certification

Minimum Experience

• 5+ years of Banking Platform experience of which 1 years 6 months is working on Salesforce platforms as a minimum

Knowledge and Skills

• Direct experience working on CRM projects for middle market and enterprise size companies.
• Software engineering skills with Force.com Platform (Apex, LWC, SOQL, Unit Testing)
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modelling, and ETL tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

• Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
• Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• Create & independently drive automation testing frameworks & plans as well as lead the development & delivery of test scripts for multiple technical products / services (across tribes) e.g. web, mobile, SOA applications, etc. QA includes front – end, back – end, integration, performance, scalability and regression testing of various enterprise wide solutions.  This entails full responsibility for ensuring that multiple / complex products across an estate are protected through quantifiable test coverage & metrics.

Job Description

Accountability: 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

Accountability:  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)

Acountability:  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)

Preferred Education

• Bcom (Information Technology) or Equivalent NQF 7 qualification
• Working towards a “Salesforce Platform Developer II” certification

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years of experience working on Salesforce platforms

Knowledge and Skills

• Direct experience working on CRM projects for middle market and enterprise size companies.
• Software engineering skills with Force.com Platform (Apex, LWC, SOQL, Unit Testing)
• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of relational databases, data modelling, and ETL tools

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

• Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
• Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• Leverage deep data science expertise in advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering &predictive modeling, storytelling, distributed computing & data visualisation, machine learning tools & data intuition to define, build, operationalize & continuously improve data solutions that deliver relevant, quality assured, accurate & commercially impactful data to the business.

Job Description

Data Science

•  Participate in design thinking processes to determine & confirm hypotheses and priority questions / data challenges & related metrics to be solved for
•  Translate business questions to be solved into data requirements & define a data solutions to deliver against these requirements
•  Proactively partner with the data engineering team to refine the data requirements deliver raw data to Data Science teams for interpretation & analysis
•  Design fit for purpose data interpretation & analysis approaches & create customized data models, algorithms, machine learning tools and recommendation engines to achieve the desired business outcomes
•  Use advanced data science skills to mine & interpret data. These include but are not limited to: advanced statistics, data wrangling, data mining, data analysis, feature engineering & predictive modeling, distributed computing, machine learning tools & data intuition
•  Analyse & interpret complex data sets
•  Apply quality assurance frameworks to test model & analysis techniques (e.g. algorithms, models) & overall data quality
•  Apply the testing frameworks to monitor and analyse model performance & data integrity on all data assignments
•  Produce business insights and recommendations based on data analysis & modeling concluded & where relevant with knowledge and experience of e.g. Java, Scala, Python, Hadoop, Apache Spark & Kafka
•  Use storytelling and data visualization techniques to maximize impact & deliver a user friendly product to business
•  Contribute to the consolidation of data solutions into viable end products (in the language of business) that can be leveraged on an ongoing basis e.g. dashboards, reports etc.
•  Present data analysis (trends, insights, forecasts) & findings to business & show tangible business impact to be derived from the data science process
•  Facilitate peer reviews & feedback on data solutions
•  Refine data analysis based on business & peer reviews
•  Contribute to the assessments of the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources & data gathering techniques
•  Promote data literacy with your business stakeholders by sharing best practices and showing tangible business impact & recommendations as a direct result of the the data solutions provided
•  Stay ahead of the curve on data science trends & leading practice data science tools and techniques & transition the organisation to advanced methods for the continuous optimization of data

Accountability: Risk & Governance

•  Identify data risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post solution deployment / data delivery)
•  Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (if required)
•  Apply data quality assurance frameworks and tools to guarantee data quality & data integrity (always) for specific data solutions
•  Contribute to risk, governance, compliance & broader regulatory processes as a data science expert (if & when required)

Accountability: People

•  Coach & mentor other data scientists
•  Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology (Required), Bachelor's Degree: Statistics (Required)

• Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
• Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Description

Sourcing and Selection:

• Contribute to the definition and design of innovative sourcing strategies that will enable the establishment of a diverse pool of talent to meet the evolving needs to the business workforce plan

• On a regular basis, proactively explore all channels and processes to build diverse pools of talent

• Implement creative direct to market talent capturing solutions for the Business; i.e. create and maintain a ‘potential candidate’ database, advertising on web based job search sites, e.g. LinkedIn.

• Conducting research on competitors, building industry networks, attending industry specific events, job fairs, partnering with labour agencies and tapping into global networks

• Provide support to the Resourcing Lead and Senior Resourcing Consultant in the sourcing and acquisition of P/MP roles.

• Utilise agencies, talent pools and pipelines, e.g. graduates and learners, Absa Group Limited internal and external databases and other data mining approaches to source candidates

• Draft direct to market advertisements taking into consideration the recruitment criteria and the current business needs with regards to talent.

• Control and manage candidates responses received from the direct to market campaigns by creating a centralised database of applicants and tracking progress within the recruitment process\

• Provide candidate information to Resourcing to Resourcing Administrators/Officers to be added to the pipeline of candidates to ensure effective tracking of all recruitment activities

• Manage an updated pipeline of candidates through the Resourcing Administrator to ensure that a pipeline of available candidates are a true reflection of availability

 

Agency and Third Party Management:

• Act as liaison and manage all communications between Absa and the applicable recruitment agencies and other third parties such as direct to market publications

• Send out communication or requests to recruitment agencies in accordance with current resourcing needs and brief agencies regarding business and vacancy requirements

• Liaise with recruitment agencies regarding candidate engagement with the organisation throughout the recruitment process

 

Stakeholder and candidate management:

• Work with hiring managers to establish and ensure an understanding of the of the recruitment needs for Specialist roles (AVP/VP)

• Manager candidate expectations from the first point of contact with Absa and throughout the recruitment process by providing a realistic view of the process to be followed, role requirements, business environment and feedback

• Manage post interview responses and feedback to candidates with support from the Resourcing Administrator/Officer and oversee the Resourcing Administrator/Officers candidate management experience

• Act as a representative of the organisation during all engagements with candidates throughout the recruitment process by continuously communicating with all stakeholders

• Manage the engagement between candidates, hiring managers, HR Business Partners (HRBP’s) from first point of contact until the on-boarding process through continuous feedback to business and candidates

• Provide hiring managers with continuous feedback on candidate progress throughout the recruitment process

• Up skill, educate and train hiring managers regarding end to end recruitment processes, tools and assessment methods, e.g. Competency – Based Interviewing etc

 

Reporting and Metrics:

• Determine with the Resourcing Lead / Senior Resourcing Consultant what metrics are relevant and ensure that data is collected and captured to measure performance against metrics

• Calculate and submit cost to hire to the Resourcing MI/Operations team to offset against budget

• Manage and update Resourcing Scorecard and vacancy tracker for the business to enable monitoring of performance against sourcing plan for the Resourcing Lead/Senior Resourcing Consultant

 

Resourcing Administration, governance, and on-boarding:

• Ensure that the application of the Resourcing Policy and process in the business adheres to the Resourcing Policy and process.

• Ensure that Resourcing Administrator/Officer adheres to pre-employment screening processes prior to offers of employment being issued to employees

• Review adverse risk assessments and provide recommendations to the Resourcing Lead to approve or decline.

• Educate hiring managers on the relevance and importance of risk assessments Liaise with Reward when approvals are required on external and internal green zone

 

Knowledge Sharing:

• Regularly report on industry developments to ensure knowledge sharing within resourcing team.

• Continuously ensuring that relevant stakeholders are kept updated with current market trends and changes by attending workshops, doing research and networking.

 

What do you need to get in?

• B-degree in Human Resources or Industrial Psychology or NQF equivalent

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a direct headhunting / sourcing role resourcing preferably for a large corporate:

• Experience with online tools and platforms.

• Experience with creating candidate pipelines

• Experience in successful hiring to meet business needs

• Experience with applicant tracking systems and sourcing channel toolsExperience in proactive enticement

• Deep understanding of talent acquisition

• Understanding of recruitment processes and tools

• Knowledge of recruitment system capabilities

• Influencing Skills

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Human and Social Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Description

Commercial Finance Execution Accountabilities:

• Translate business questions to be solved into data requirements & define data solutions to deliver against these requirements

• Proactively partner with the data engineering team to refine the data requirements deliver raw data to Data Science team for interpretation & analysis

• Query the relevant database to obtain data and create fit for purpose datasets, using the relevant tools - SQL, SAS

• Use advanced data science skills to build solutions that leverage the best suited analytical techniques. These include but are not limited to: advanced statistics, machine learning and deep learning.

• Apply quality assurance frameworks to test model & analysis techniques (e.g. algorithms, models) & overall data quality

• Produce business insights and recommendations based on data analysis & modelling concluded & where relevant with knowledge and experience of e.g. SAS, Python, R.

• Use storytelling and data visualization techniques to maximize impact & deliver a user friendly product to business

• Contribute to the consolidation of data solutions into viable end products (in the language of business) that can be leveraged on an ongoing basis e.g. dashboards, reports etc.

• Present data analysis (trends, insights, forecasts) & findings to business & show tangible business impact to be derived from the data science process

• Promote data literacy with your business stakeholders by sharing best practices and showing tangible business impact & recommendations as a direct result of the data solutions provided

• Use best practice methodologies

• Adhere to the core Data Governance disciplines in the performance of BI activities. This includes data quality management, information and information security and privacy.

• Oversee integrity of reports, both when developing new report as well as when executing existing scripts to ensure data accurately presented

• Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end to end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work.

• Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams.

• Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views.

• Create unprecedented, seamless customer experiences via finance BU enablement.

• Embrace our distinctive brand aspiration and infuse in business.

• Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function. Embrace digital solutions.

• Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls. 

Financial Reporting Accountabilities:

• Generate innovative easy to comprehend progress reports for leaders on their strategic agenda, short-term and long-term plans and investments, operational success metrics, efficiencies, risks and mitigations.

• Interact with the stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process.

• Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.

• Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions.

• Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.

• Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into performance reports.

• Integrate advanced modelling and analysis capability to provide actionable intelligence, beyond data within the function.

• Generate finance narratives and insights with consultation with business

• Ensure appropriate, quality and timeous delivery of accurate financial and non-financial management information to support business objectives and expectations, including appropriate financial and non-financial metrics, valid and insightful comments and packaging the information in a relevant and appropriate manner.

• Deliver reporting reflecting deep commercial, holistic understanding, coherency, clarity, and contextualisation. Tell the story with passion and conviction.

• Provide thought-leadership, insight, influence and challenge on evolving stakeholder information requirements and reporting processes to deliver analytics.

• Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the RBB finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group. Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and BU teams.

• Manage the production of regular, high quality, standardised financial and non-financial reporting and analytics to Business and Finance; and focus on effective collaborative stakeholder hand-offs in the production.

People Investment Accountabilities

• Network with finance, Risk, Treasury and business colleagues and create awareness of challenges, opportunities and issues and encourage collaboration

• Focus on Finance skills evolution and remaining relevant.

• Embrace the value of finance partnership in Big Data, Advanced Analytics, mergers and acquisitions, and partnerships into the core of our business.

• Basic understanding of Financial statements

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Work with the internal clients to fully understand what the business wants and to establish clear creative briefs for projects, guiding them in a suitable direction

• Work with other partners to deeply understand the needs and characteristics of target customers

• Rigorously analyse business and customer needs alongside potential design options

• Build and iterate high-quality prototypes, drawing on feedback from user testing

• Clearly explain the design approach, process and timelines to business stakeholders

• Assist in building plans for projects, outlining the key tasks, the people responsible for them and the order in which they will be completed

• With the input of the designers, create detailed project plans outlining the key tasks, the people responsible for them and the order in which they will be completed

• Monitor progress against plan, taking action to overcome issues that are faced

• Provide regular updates of progress to senior stakeholders

• Develop scenarios, navigation models and prototypes for demonstration of Concepts

• Promote technical development through one to one mentoring and through bringing people together to share best-practice

• Foster a team environment in which designers feel engaged and motivated

• Maintain awareness of ‘best-in-class’ design

• Maintain awareness of relevant social, cultural, economic and technological trends

• Plan, design and execute user testing, including stakeholder interviews, focus groups, contextual enquiry and usability testing

• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior designers, and develop any direct reports they have

 

Education and Experience Required

• NQF Level 6

• Masters or Degree in a Design discipline such as product, industrial, service, interaction, digital or visual design or equivalent qualification

• 6 years + Technical experience

• Able to create and use personas and produce illustrated customer journeys

• Ability to communicate ideas through drawing, digital tools, prototyping, model making etc.

• Two (2) years’ experience conducting audience and usability research including benchmarking, heuristic reviews, surveys, analytics, stakeholder interviews, focus groups, contextual inquiry, and usability testing.

• Two (2) years’ experience in each of the usability and software engineering cycle phases (analysis, design, implementation, and deployment)

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised