Job Openings at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Provide comprehensive administrative and secretarial support to executives by effectively managing schedules, performing a wide variety of responsible, complex, and confidential duties.
• This role requires a high degree of professional independence, initiative, and self-discipline.

Job Description

Administrative and Secretarial Support:

• Manage executive diaries and schedules to ensure effective time management.
• Coordinate and manage all team logistics, including travel (liaise with the in-house travel agent to do travel bookings for team members for domestic and international trips and follow the required travel approval process), meetings, and catering.
• Prepare agendas for meetings, take and distribute minutes, and ensure approval by the meeting chair.
• Maintain organized electronic filing systems for team documentation. Maintain confidential files, including client and employee records (where necessary).
• Process invoices and manage expenses (where necessary).
• Order and manage office supplies and equipment.
• Draft, type, and format correspondence, management reports, and other documents as requested by the line manager or team members.

Financial, Office & Team Administration:

• Coordinate and manage all invoicing, payments, and expenses across the COO Function.
• Track and manage all incoming and outgoing payments and receipts.
• Ensure compliance with organization policies and procedures.
• Implement, monitor, and maintain document management systems and processes.

Event Administration:

• Provide project administration support for large events and meetings.
• Coordinate and manage logistics for meetings and events, including venue setup, décor, invitations, and planning.
• Interact with internal and external stakeholders to arrange venues, equipment, and refreshments.

Communication:

• Manage the administration of integrated communication and change plans across the business area.
• Prepare confidential reports, responses, and presentations.
• Support communication requirements across the team, including new announcements and change management activities.

Stakeholder & Team Management:

• Identify and escalate critical stakeholder and team queries and resolutions.
• Track and monitor critical stakeholder and team requests, issues, and concerns.

Competencies:

• Organization skills
• Time Management
• Attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Problem-solving ability
• Technical Proficiency
• Maintain Confidentiality
• Maintain Professionalism and Reliability
• Teamwork and Collaboration

Skills:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel.
• Organizational coordination and scheduling skills.
• Office Management and Communication.
• Customer Service.

Experience and Qualifications:

• 7 to 10 years experience providing support to executives within banking or audit firm environments (minimum)
• Diploma in Business Administration or Office Management
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration (preferred)

Education

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

End Date: July 5, 2025

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Job Summary

• Are you passionate about safeguarding digital ecosystems and driving strategic fraud prevention?
• Absa CIB is seeking a Digital and Technology Threat Manager to lead the charge in securing our digital platforms and technologies.
• This pivotal role ensures that all systems are designed and maintained with robust security controls, aligned with regulatory standards and best practices.

Job Description

Fraud Strategy & Execution

• Lead fraud prevention and detection strategies across digital and technology platforms.
• Collaborate with Product, Digital, and Technology Heads to balance fraud mitigation with customer experience.
• Monitor and report on fraud trends, emerging risks, and strategy effectiveness.

Risk & Control Management

• Drive fraud risk assessments for new and existing digital products.
• Ensure compliance with fraud risk frameworks and regulatory requirements.
• Conduct assurance activities and manage audit findings related to fraud.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Communicate fraud risks and mitigation strategies to senior stakeholders.
• Act as a subject matter expert across Group functions and digital channels.
• Interface between Fraud Strategy, Operations, and Forensics.

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of fraud and technology professionals.
• Foster a culture of growth, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Manage talent, succession planning, and training initiatives.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: BSc in Computer Science or equivalent cyber/IT governance qualifications (e.g., GIAC, CISA, CISSP, CISM, CGERT, PMP)
• Certifications: CFE Certification preferred
• Experience: 6–8 years in financial services, with specialization in digital, payments, or cyber-enabled fraud

Skills:

• Strong data analytics and reporting capabilities
• Deep understanding of cyber risk frameworks and IT operations
• Excellent interpersonal, facilitation, and negotiation skills
• Proven leadership and team management experience

Education

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

End Date: July 4, 2025

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Job Summary

• Join Absa's Business Banking Digital team as a Lead Digital Engineer.
• In this role you will 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

• 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
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application
• 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
• 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)
• 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)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

End Date: July 4, 2025 

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Job Summary

• To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice and to ensure operational implementation and adoption across a single practice i.t.o. risk methodology, governance and delivery objectives

Job Description

Job Description Summary

• The Risk Officer for Technology Infrastructure, is responsible for identifying, assessing, mitigating, and monitoring risks associated with technology infrastructure systems, services and products.
• This role is pivotal in ensuring the resilience, security, and compliance of the organization's technology platforms, aligning risk management practices with organizational and regulatory standards while enabling innovative and scalable operations.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership and Governance

• Define and implement a comprehensive risk management framework tailored to infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Align risk strategies with organizational goals, regulatory requirements, and technological advancements.
• Review and evaluate compliance, technology policies and procedures, technology and tools to provide insight on how to reduce technology risk.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and architecture teams (Networks, Compute, Cloud, DBaaS, Mainframe and End User) to manage the specific infrastructure risk posture.
• Ensure governance processes adhere to the required standards (for example: ISO 27001 and GDPR), enhancing compliance and quality assurance.

Risk Management and Mitigation

• Ensure that risk is effectively managed and monitored.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate risks across technology platforms, including operational, cybersecurity, and compliance risks.
• Oversee incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity efforts, ensuring resilience and rapid resolution.
• Monitor vulnerabilities such as system downtime, data breaches, and third-party dependencies, implementing controls to minimize impact.
• Coaching users in risk identification and assessment.
• Provide appropriate and accurate risk reporting to the required stakeholders.
• Review technology and security risks, internal and external, in order to help inform the 2nd line of defense.

Change and Execution Leadership

• Lead multidisciplinary teams to execute strategic Risk and Audit initiatives effectively.
• Manage change processes across infrastructure services to ensure seamless implementation.
• Drive continuous improvement using iterative approaches to deliver measurable value and minimize execution risk.

Collaboration and Communication

• Partner with IT, cybersecurity, and architecture teams to integrate risk management into planning and execution.
• Provide clear and appropriate communication to the relevant stakeholders within the Absa business.
• Structure communication to accommodate for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Serve as the primary liaison for risk discussions with vendors and external partners.
• Creation and maintenance of datasets via strategic platforms while adhering to data governance policies and procedures, and providing guidance to broader business intelligence teams to ensure uniformity and trust in golden sources of information.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• Minimum 7 years experience in risk management/risk consulting and leadership preferably within a technology environment.
• Knowledge of Technology Infrastructure preferred
• Proven expertise in managing and mitigating risks in large-scale IT environments, including on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Risk Management, or a related field.
• A Master’s degree or certifications such as CISSP, CRISC, CISM, or ITIL is highly preferred.

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking and visionary leadership
• Technical and risk acumen in IT Infrastructure
• Stakeholder management and collaboration
• Crisis and incident management expertise
• Regulatory and compliance knowledge
• Innovative problem-solving
• Planning and organising – Be able to develop clear, efficient and logical approaches to address issues and risks.

Education

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

End Date: July 3, 2025

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Job Description

What you’ll get to do:

The role is within the Strategic Change team in CDTO, with you reporting directly into the Head of Digital Transformation Enablement Office and your responsibilities will include the following:

Change Strategy Development

• Design and implement comprehensive, enterprise-wide change management strategies tailored to support the digital transformation roadmap and specific initiatives.
• Perform detailed change impact assessments, stakeholder analyses, and readiness reviews to inform planning and execution.
• Align change strategies with business objectives, culture evolution, and transformation success metrics.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Identify and manage relationships with key stakeholders across all levels of the organization, including executive sponsors, functional leads, and front-line employees.
• Develop and execute structured engagement plans to foster ownership, address concerns, and build trust and transparency.
• Create and deploy engaging communication campaigns across multiple channels (e.g., townhalls, newsletters, intranet, videos) that clearly articulate the "why," "what," and "how" of the transformation.

Culture & Capability Building

• Lead initiatives that cultivate a digital-first mindset and embed agility, collaboration, and continuous learning into the organizational culture.
• Design and roll out training programs, upskilling pathways, and change agent networks to build internal change capabilities and foster resilience.
• Facilitate workshops, leadership sessions, and innovation labs that drive alignment and accelerate cultural change.

Change Enablement & Adoption

• Partner with program managers, product owners, HR, L&D, and IT to integrate change management into project lifecycles.
• Develop tools, resources, and playbooks to support consistent change delivery and adoption tracking.
• Continuously monitor adoption levels, engagement, and resistance through surveys, feedback loops, and performance metrics; adjust plans as needed.

Measurement & Continuous Improvement

• Define and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess change effectiveness, including behavior shifts, system usage, and employee sentiment.
• Establish feedback mechanisms to capture lessons learned and drive continuous improvement of change practices.
• Maintain a repository of change assets, frameworks, and success stories to inform future initiatives.

People Management:

• Proactively attract, recruit, develop, retain, reward & deploy a diverse resource base aligned to an ever-evolving environment
• Build a high-performance team environment through self-directed teams by driving performance management & measurement that is aligned with agile working practices
• Accountable for the right people in the right teams to deliver on our strategy

What do you need to get in?

• Commerce or business administration, compulsory
• PROSCI (Professional and Sciences) (or other recognized OCM) certification, compulsory
• Minimum 8 years’ Experience
• Previous People Management experience
• Coaching and Mentoring Experience, compulsory
• Experience working at change consultant level on projects in a multi-functional organisation, compulsory
• Experience in project managing change initiatives or other relevant business experience, compulsory
• Expertise in Benefits Management
• Expertise in Business process improvement
• Expertise in Knowledge of Banking and Financial Services Business
• Expertise in Organizational Change Management
• Expertise in Stakeholder Management
• Familiarity with digital productivity and collaboration tools such as Miro, Microsoft Viva, SharePoint, O365, Workday, and ServiceNow.

Key Competencies:

• Strategic thinking and systems orientation
• Empathy, emotional intelligence, and active listening
• Influencing and communication excellence
• Adaptability, grit, and resilience in ambiguity
• Project management and change delivery discipline
• Innovation and continuous learning mindset
• If you’re passionate about working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to the exciting world of Digital Transformation by leading from the front, we would love to hear from you!

Education

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

End Date: July 4, 2025 

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Job Summary

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

Job Description

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

Education

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

End Date: July 4, 2025

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Job Summary

• We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Scientist / AI Engineer to join our growing Advanced Analytics and AI team within the Group Chief Analytics Office.
• Our organization is a leading financial services institution offering universal banking products and services across Africa. In this fast-paced, high-impact environment, the successful candidate will play a key role in the development, deployment, and operationalization of machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI, and agentic AI models.
• This role requires a strong technical foundation and the ability to apply data science and AI techniques within the regulatory, architectural, and risk frameworks of the financial services industry. You will work across functional teams to deliver intelligent solutions that drive innovation and business performance, while ensuring adherence to enterprise data and AI architecture standards and best practices.
• You will also mentor junior data scientists, guiding them in model selection, architecture design, and deployment strategies tailored to financial use cases such as credit risk, fraud detection, customer engagement, and personalization.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and deploy production-grade ML, AI, generative AI, and agentic AI models.
• Design, develop, test and deploy AI blueprints for reuse/ re-application across multiple AI use cases.
• Develop guardrails in accordance with group security and architecture standards.
• Partner with stakeholders across Business Units and Functions, e.g. Risk, Compliance, to identify, design, develop, deploy and manage impactful solutions.
• Translate complex business problems into structured tasks and deploy models that deliver measurable value.
• Ensure all solutions adhere to enterprise Data and AI architecture, security, governance, and AI/ML operationalization standards.
• Build model pipelines using enterprise MLOps frameworks, ensuring auditability, scalability, and performance in production.
• Monitor and maintain model performance, re-training and optimizing as needed in dynamic banking environments.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to data scientists across the Group, especially around model selection, experimentation protocols, and deployment best practices.
• Stay up to date with advancements in the field, including foundation models, multi-agent systems, and AI governance frameworks.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in Python and data science toolkits (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing ML and AI use cases using leading platforms such as Databricks, AWS Bedrock, or Amazon SageMaker.
• Hands-on experience with vector databases (e.g., Open search, Pinecone, FAISS, Milvus) for efficient similarity search and retrieval.
• Exposure to AI orchestration frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex Weaviate pipelines to build scalable, retrieval-augmented applications.
• Exposure to Model Evaluation framework to check ML and AI use cases accuracy and performance testing.
• Deep understanding of classical ML as well as generative AI (e.g., LLMs, GANs, VAEs) and agentic AI (e.g. autonomous agents, multi-agent coordination).
• Strong grasp of MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Docker, Airflow, CI/CD) and cloud platforms, services and models.
• Experience deploying models in highly regulated environments, with strong attention to model risk, explainability, and compliance.
• Solid foundation in enterprise-grade data pipelines, governance, and architecture principles.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities in a fast-moving, business-critical environment.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field (PhD a plus).
• 3–5+ years of experience in applied data science or AI roles, preferably within financial services or banking.
• Demonstrated experience in designing and deploying AI/ML solutions into production, including generative AI.
• Familiarity with financial industry use cases such as credit scoring, fraud detection, KYC, personalization, and regulatory compliance analytics.
• Experience working within enterprise architecture and governance frameworks.
• Prior experience collaborating with, mentoring or coaching data scientists.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Statistics, Bachelor Honours Degree: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences

End Date: July 7, 2025

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Job Summary

• Performing core financial crime operational procedures for High Risk and PEP customers focusing on specific customer due diligence, Customer Screening, Onboarding, Ongoing Reviews and Customer Exits in compliance with the Anti-Money Laundering Customer Due Diligence Standard (CDD) and ABSA AML policies.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Accountability: Service Delivery

• Applying the Anti-Money Laundering Customer Due Diligence standard (CDD) together with the Anti-Money Laundering Life Cycle Standard (CLS), PEP Standard and all other ABSA policies in support of AML to daily operational procedures.
• Develop an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the AML CDD Standards and Financial Crime Operations Processes.
• Focusing the work on key regulations and risks, with minimum supervision.
• Delivering a high standard of work by keeping up-to-date on financial crime regulatory related issues across a range of topics by awareness of current regulatory / process changes through attendance at training sessions and research.
• Ensure productivity and quality targets are met.
• Provide guidance to team members and peers by sharing best practice.

Accountability: Control and Compliance

• All mandatory training completed to deadline and understood within given timescales.
• Where applicable, all key risks identified, tracked, logged and managed as per the Risk Framework procedures
• Where applicable, all risk events (incidents) or control failures to be escalated, investigated, reported and fixed at root cause to prevent reoccurrence.

Accountability: Reporting

• Keep track of and manage own daily targets by ensuring awareness of own daily, weekly and monthly targets
• Prepare monthly Performance Development (PD) plan to monitor progress and if there is any development required as per PD contract, which needs to be escalated to the manager / team leader

Accountability: Self Development

• Maintain and continuously look for opportunity to develop skills and knowledge base
• Initiate training and development on a quarterly bases for own personal development purposes

Role / Person Specification

Education and Experience Required

• Matric
• Minimum 12 months Experience working within AML compliance, High Risk and PEP Customer Due Diligence/Financial Crime processes
• B Comm (Assurance), LLB : Advantage

Knowledge & Skills: (Maximum of 6)

• Strong ABSA systems working knowledge
• Sound knowledge and proficiency in the ABSA Electronic Sales Platform (ESP)
• Sound knowledge and proficiency in the Global online PEP register (GOR)
• Demonstrated experience/background in High Risk and PEP customer enhanced due diligence.
• Sound knowledge of the AML CDD and PEP ABSA standards and FICA regulatory requirements.
• Strong IT literacy with good knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)

Competencies & Personal skills: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in many mediums
• Deciding and initiating action
• Expand knowledge and explore new ways of doing things
• Motivated for problem solving
• Flexibility and responding to change
• Working under Pressure

Education

• Higher Diplomas: Law, Military Science and Security (Required)

End Date: July 7, 2025

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Job Summary

• Financial Control is responsible for ensuring that Absa Africa fulfils its financial, statutory and regulatory reporting requirements, while ensuring compliance with accounting, regulatory and balance sheet control policy.
• Financial Control comprises the following areas: Accounting Control, Reporting & Analytics, Risk Management and Governance, Technology Enablement, Cluster Control and Technical Accounting. Financial Control serves as the Group’s primary interface with the auditors and regulators.
• Accounting Control owns the processes that enables sustainable, accurate and timeous financial information in support of reporting to external and internal stakeholders.
• The individual will operate in the key processes in Accounting Control, in the Absa Financial Services – Product Control Group (AFS PCG).

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Accountability: Manage financial information completion process (40%)

Act as a process executor for completion of financial information, including the accountability for the following key processes:

• Journals and month-end close
• Reconciliations
• Completion of Supplementary information
• Interdiv and Elimination
• Tax
• Accounting Functions

Support to Subject Matter Expert (SME) on processes, resolution of issues and ad hoc requests from stakeholders including:

• Cluster Financial Controller
• Cluster CFO/BP&A team members
• Other Financial Control functions

Support SME on obtaining TAG opinions and ad hoc queries on accounting issues.

• Act as the process executor for implementation of new standardised processes where relevant.
• Provide feedback to stakeholders on results reflected in the financial accounting system, as well as issues identified where there are potential risks to numbers.
• Act pro-actively in correcting issues and implement a sustainable process.
• Ensure that principles of the Financial Control Operating Model are complied with and sustained.

Maintain and enhance processes

• Identify areas of improvement in completion, review and or submission processes to drive and implement a sustainable and effective process in support of quality and accuracy
• Identify synergies between different reporting processes and implement new and or enhanced processes

Accountability: Process Execution and Automation (40%)

• Execution of processes as designed.
• Constantly review, improve and maintain own activities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of processes.
• Recommend areas for improvement in order to reduce cycle times, improve productivity, create capacity and improve process reliability and customer satisfaction.
• Assist in the implementation of new and/or enhanced processes.
• Identify activity-specific risks and work with Process Owner / Process Architect to mitigate risks.
• Maintain awareness of own activities and the impact thereof on related / interdependent activities.

Accountability: Provide support to other process executors through motivation and employee engagement (20%)

• Understanding and managing team dynamics to maximize performance;
• Escalate issues around allocation of resources to process architects tasks to ensure delivery of team objectives;
• Ensure continued development of resources, through coaching and mentoring, to empower value added delivery of tasks.

Role/Person Specification

Knowledge & Skills

• Exceptional academic track record
• Understanding of financial reporting processes and related controls (Expert)
• Ability to identify control gaps and weaknesses (Expert)
• Ability to analyse and interpret financial data (Expert)
• Ability to write concise effective reports (Expert)
• Advanced excel skills to contribute to the team
• Good understanding and experience in implementing automated solutions
• Basic knowledge of SQL will be beneficial
• Demonstrated project management skills will be advantageous

Education and experience

• B degree/similar qualification in a financial/related discipline or CA(SA)
• Non CA: 4-6 years relevant experience / CA : 1 to 4 years PQE experience
• Business experience in a Banking environment gained from a Finance, Product
• Experience in SAP and millennium

Competencies

• Deciding and initiating action
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
• Relating and networking
• Adapting and responding to change
• Persuading and influencing
• Creating and highly innovating

Education

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

End Date: July 8, 2025

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Job Summary

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Liquidity Risk and Funding reporting:

• Daily liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) reporting
• Prepare / Review BA reporting pertaining to the SARB regulatory requirements for the monthly LCR and NSFR metrics
• Reporting of liquidity risk metrics for SARB stress testing regulatory requirements
• Ensure that the bank delivers on its Liquidity risk framework within the approved regulatory constraints and risk appetite
• Assist and review new product proposals to ensure compliance with the liquidity regulations
• Maintenance of the model assumptions, rules and documentation
• Pillar 3 and AFS reporting
• Prepare / Review of Quarterly IFRS 7 reporting
• Highlight business activity driving metrics through creating presentations required for internal stakeholders and management reporting
• Review any new reporting requirements under the proposed new Basel liquidity framework or under PRA requirements and assist execution teams propose
• Tracking and allocation of liquidity costs associated with regulatory compliance

Interest rate risk reporting:

• Prepare / Review BA reporting pertaining to the SARB regulatory requirements for the monthly NII and EVE metrics
• Ensure that the bank delivers on its Interest rate risk framework within the approved regulatory constraints and risk appetite
• Owning the Finance end to end process of producing monthly regulatory reporting metrics, ensuring policy adherence
• Provide commentary on monthly Balance Sheet movements
• Participate in the forecasting and scenario planning processes by providing a view on the financial impact on the business
• Track and manage integrity of the metrics by monitoring and continuous development of controls and data quality dashboards
• Proficiency in use of data analysis tools for risk reporting such as SAS, LUM, QRM, QlikView and Excel

Data analysis:

• Drive and assist with data analysis as required for risk reporting
• Assist with the development testing and transfer to production environment of system and business changes as required
• Provide input to optimize and automate processes, data sourcing and reporting

Business context:

• Develop an understanding of approaches used in the management of liquidity risk, both within Absa and also by its peers
• Develop an internal network within Absa at different business units and within Group Treasury to assist in driving liquidity optimization initiatives
• Preparation of management information to senior management to make effective decisions
• Develop an understanding of the liquidity risk and interest rate risk management policies used
• Provide support for meetings with auditors and other parties as required
• Gain an understanding of key economic drivers and financial market dynamics to assist in the understanding of the implications of these aspects on liquidity and interest rate risk reporting

People Management:

• Provide guidance to team members to drive performance against business and team objectives
• Manage and embed informal coaching in the team
• Motivate and manage formal performance development

Role/Person Specification

Education and Experience Required:

• B-degree (Accounting/Quantitative Finance)
• Post-graduate qualification (advantageous)
• At least 3 years of banking experience required in a liquidity/regulatory reporting/Treasury environment
• The role requires the suited candidate to be skilled in data analysis and manipulation

Knowledge & Skills:

• Innovative thinker/problem solver
• Team Player
• Broad understanding of banking
• Basel III Knowledge
• Good understanding of financial markets
• Understanding of market liquidity and liquidity risk management
• Proficient skills in QlikView and Excel

Education

• Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences

End Date: July 8, 2025