Job Openings at FirstRand Corporate Centre

Job Description

• To provide expert advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvements 
• Responsible for leading and developing a team of technical resources that provide operational project and technical support
• Deliver a service which builds rewarding relationships, proposes innovations and allows others to provide exceptional client service.
• Maintain close working relationships with key stakeholders ensuring appropriate IT solutions are developed.
• Implement processes, which build customer service delivery excellence and encourage others to provide exceptional service.
• Create and maintain working relationships with a variety of stakeholders for purposes of expectation management, knowledge sharing and integration.
• Translate business IT requirements into implementable solutions and continuously monitor to ensure operational continuity and effectiveness.
• Oversee and manage all technical support request escalated and ensure effective resolution within the Service Level Agreement.
• Ensure adequate unit, system integration and post implementation unit tests are performed for all configuration and development tasks.
• Ensure testing yields an acceptable level of performance for the changes being delivered.
• Analyse and/or identify problems/requirements to determine impact, patterns and trends, best fit alternatives, and best practice solutions.
• Determine the estimated resources and timelines required to deliver the required functionality.
• Assess, identify, and mitigate potential risks within the IT function by complying with technology business policy and process requirements (SDLC and change / release management process definition) to ensure operational performance.
• Design relevant IT Solution and produce specification and architecture in accordance with agreed standards against the requirements and approved by the appropriate governance forums.
• Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement.
• Support effective teamwork within the function.
• Participate and collaborate across teams.
• Plan and manage performance, skills development, employment equity, talent, and culture of team in order to improve innovation and achieve efficiencies.

Deadline:6th February,2026

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Job Description

• To design and develop websites that meet high standards of visual appeal, usability, and technical performance. Ensure optimal site functionality, including speed, scalability, and capacity to handle varying traffic demands. Contribute to technology projects by executing defined plans and delivering outputs that align with program objectives and quality requirements.
• As a Java Developer, you will be in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change. We call these #changeables our nav-igators – people who want to use tech to help others nav-igate their lives and business. As nav-igators, we are made up of unique talents, diverse minds, adaptability and live up to the promise of staying curious.

Are you someone who can:

• Advise on the design, creation, testing and documentation of new and enhanced applications and systems in accordance with agreed framework of programming standards.
• Write well designed and efficient code for medium to large applications.
• Work in small independent teams

As a #Changeable you will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• Work that is challenging
• Opportunities to innovate.
• Flexible working environment
• Deep focus on health and wellbeing
• Coaches and mentors to help with your professional development.
• A very Generous leave policy to cater for your individual needs.
• Preferential employee banking rates that include Vehicle and Home loans. For more details see attachment

We can be a match if you are:

• Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
• A team player - you believe in the power of teams so you're always part of one, building and leveraging your networks.
• Emotionally intelligent - you have a high EQ that enables you to truly connect with people, no matter how technical or specialist your role is.

You'll be an ideal candidate if you:

• Are you very proficient in Java and Java EE. Knowledge of other programming languages is advantageous.
• Are experienced in System Design & Development methodologies.
• Are proficient in Atlassian (i.e., JiRA) software suite (to your advantage)
• Have a BSC Computer Sciences, BSC Informatics or related degree.

Tech Stack:

• MySQL
• Hibernate and Springboot
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Java 8/11
• CI/CD
• Mavern and Gradle
• GIT

Deadline:13th February,2026

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Job Description

• To set up and review appropriate risk metrics underpinning frameworks and or policies including that they are in line with best practice and international standards
• Setting up and reviewing appropriate risk metrics underpinning frameworks and/or policies including that they are in line with best practice and international standards
• Provide advice, guidance and assistance to internal and external stakeholders
• Identify opportunities to enhance efficiencies, e.g. through automated reporting
• Frameworks, policies and governance
• Effective participation in industry forums
• Build sound relationships with all stakeholders, displaying sound abilities to communicate at all levels
• Provide business intelligence and reports to business
• Ensure that relevant stress testing scenarios are incorporated into MI
• Ensure appropriate quantitative data to support treasury risk disclosures in financial statements
• Assist management with integrating risk measurement with their strategy development process
• Establish risk management project discipline
• Work with audit and compliance functions in providing assurance of the effectiveness of the control environment and to embed a functioning feedback loop
• Interpret and ensure implementation of new regulatory directives across jurisdictions and unpack potential impact on our existing processes to assist
• Ensure full compliance with the existing regulatory reporting requirements
• Ensure limits are reported timeously to enable monitoring against thresholds

Deadline:8th February,2026

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• In this role you will be required to provide high‑quality strategic, analytical, and operational support to the Strategic Payments function, enabling the bank to define, execute, and evolve its long‑term payments strategy in a complex and rapidly changing ecosystem. Assist senior payments executives by producing insights, research, analysis, and materials prepared for decision-making that guide strategic decisions, regulatory positioning, business opportunities, and investment priorities across all payment streams.

Are you someone who can

• Proactively learn about payments across the full range of topics as well as where specifically requested to deep dive a theme. This includes regular reviews of media material, research and published papers. Present findings in a variety of formats that will support the Head, Strategic Payments team and other stakeholders as needed, and will help further understanding, appreciation for implications and opportunity potential. In so doing, develop own knowledge across a broad spectrum of payments topics.
• Support the definition and execution of the bank’s long-term payments strategy, ensuring alignment with global trends, regulatory shifts, and internal growth objectives.
• Assist in developing payments strategies for specific business units, where relevant, considering customer pain points / needs, interests of regulators, financial institutions, fintechs, MNOs, SOs, and other payments providers.
• Contribute to the development of payments strategic roadmaps across all payment streams and assist in tracking progress against strategic goals and preparing reports for senior management.
• Develop skills to enable support of strategic financial and operational data analysis of payment types, processes, key drivers and trends.
• Assist in the submission of payments data or returns to industry and in drafting and analysis of reports on internal payments data and develop insights to guide internal business strategy.
• Help maintain financial models, dashboards, and KPIs to provide actionable insights and support decision-making.
• Take any required steps to actively learn about the payments industry and regulation, relevant bodies, dynamics, priorities and trends. Both local and international.
• Support preparation for industry and regulatory forums (e.g., PASA, BASA, SARB, BankservAfrica).
• Assist in stakeholder engagement, including regulators, banks, fintechs, and executive leaders.
• Participate in forums as needed, to learn and in future, represent the bank.
• Help ensure compliance with the National Payment System (NPS) and other regulatory frameworks.
• Assist the Head and Strategic Payments team to work with executives and stakeholder groups to support alignment and communication of payments strategy.
• Support preparation for key meetings, including preparing briefing materials and presentations for senior stakeholders.
• Assist in creating content for Strategic Payments inputs to the payments / platform newsletter, to showcase the work done and the support the team can provide.
• Assist in identifying and analysing new revenue streams and partnership candidates to fast track the banks enablement of key payments capabilities.
• Support the commercialisation of innovative payment solutions in collaboration with product, technology, and business units.
• Research and evaluate emerging technologies to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency, including AI in payments, crypto, digital currencies, DLT, and ISO20022 messaging standard.
• Support governance structures related to payments participation and compliance.
• Assist in risk management and internal controls across payments-related activities.
• Collaborate with senior payments professionals and contribute to a culture of innovation and continuous learning.
• Develop own network of internal and external payments stakeholders that can contribute to the bank’s future success in payments.
• Demonstrate adaptability and a willingness to develop new skills and expertise in payments.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Have 3+ years’ experience in the payments industry, financial services, or a related technical or analytical role.
• Demonstrate a strong ability to analyse complex information and translate it into actionable insights.
• Possess (or are developing) a technical understanding of payment systems, regulatory frameworks, and emerging technologies (preferred).
• Have strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with senior executives.
• Bring experience in project management, strategy development, or business analysis (advantageous).
• Are highly adaptable, naturally curious, and committed to continuous learning.
• Have experience within a financial institution, including fintechs and/or management consulting (preferred)

You will have access to:

• Strategic influence: contribute to long‑term payments strategy and business‑unit strategies aligned to global trends and regulation.
• Leaders & forums: the Head of Strategic Payments, senior executives, and industry bodies (e.g., PASA, BASA, SARB, BankservAfrica).
• Market intelligence: regular media reviews, research, and published papers; opportunities to deep‑dive priority themes and present insights.
• Data & tooling: internal payments data, financial models, dashboards, and KPIs; progress tracking and senior‑level reporting.
• Regulatory & governance: NPS compliance, payments governance structures, and risk & controls across payments activities.
• Innovation & tech: AI in payments, crypto/digital currencies, DLT, ISO 20022, and commercialisation of new solutions.
• Ecosystem exposure: collaboration with regulators, banks, fintechs, MNOs, SOs—and partnerships that unlock new revenue.
• Growth & visibility: a learning‑centric culture, chances to participate in (and later represent at) industry forums, and a growing internal/external network.

Deadline:9th February,2026

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Job Description

• To assist and to originate, source, structure and manage a portfolio of investment banking clients from implementation through to termination and to ensure that the defined client transactional requirements reflected in the relevant approvals and legal agreements are implemented and adhered to.
• To assist and directly participate in deal origination and structuring processes and participate in deal implementation processes in the allocated sector/product to enable improved profitability, market share and competitive positioning.
• Assist and develop client relations through originating, structuring and execution of deals, compiling proposals as well as overseeing the transaction.
• Manage and maintain the transaction by complying with internal procedures and agreed processes to effect management (prepare cash flows, obtain signatures, sending instructions to various departments), apply knowledge of Companies Act, Excon, FICA, Tax, Accounting to transaction where applicable, in implementing and managing the transaction.
• Achieve client and group deliverables by ensuring optimal structures are designed with maximum efficiency from a cost and benefit analysis.
• Identify opportunities to optimise exiting structures for clients and the group.
• Ensure strong relationships are built and maintained across all internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop tactical strategies with retaining or signing unbanked customer base with a view to improve and increasing profitability.
• Maintain specialized knowledge on all FirstRand approved products, application procedure, fulfilment processes and timelines to drive and achieve relevant sales targets.
• Drive the maximizing of cross-selling opportunities where possible and in consultation with more experienced Transactors.
• Directly inform the client inputs during legal drafting processes, implement and manage transactions in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements and ensure full understanding of transaction.
• Achieve expected financial targets and uphold associated service levels.
• Provide a professional service to stakeholders by ensuring that transactions are managed and accounted for in accordance with legal agreements, relevant legislation and that deal activities are executed by following agreed business process.
• Understand and manage financial aspects of transactions through understanding and adherence to Legal agreements and all applicable regulatory aspects (Companies Act, Excon, IFRS, FICA, Bank’s Act, etc.), to prepare financial activities required on the transaction (e.g. Diary reminders, payments, drawdowns, invoices, etc.).
• Preparation and analysis of various financial reports required in the preparation of the insights required for client strategies.
• Interface with GTSY Finance on monthly management accounts and resolve queries raised by frontline. Feedback results to management team monthly at team meetings.
• Adhere to internal controls and procedures to alleviate risk and prevent losses by following internal procedures and agreed processes to effect financial management (prepare cash flows, obtain signatures, sending instructions to various departments, etc.).
• Identify and understand potential risks which may lead to increased costs and collaborate with relevant stakeholders on risk mitigation strategies.
• Build trusting relationships with stakeholders through consistent and timeous communication and adherence to their requirements (systems and procedures) and evidencing an understanding thereof.
• Respond to queries from stakeholders by understanding their requirements and providing information timeously.
• Provide quality service delivery by understanding and being proactive and evidencing a good understanding of the transaction.
• Contribute to client service delivery culture through adherence to approved organizational service delivery principles
• Prepare model and reminders for required activities by using available systems.
• Manage documentation by obtaining supporting and legal documents in formats required and lodge with securities, where applicable.
• Assist with training junior staff and trainees.
• Assist building frameworks, policies and procedures for structured finance type transactions.
• Cross skilling and collaboration with wider Group Treasury stakeholders.
• Effective communication with all stakeholders through high standards of document writing, written presentation material and delivery of presentations to wide range of stakeholders.

Deadline:9th February,2026

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Job Description

• To ensure the lawful processing of personal information in accordance with data privacy, protection legislation and regulations that applies to FirstRand, including information management best practices that aim to provide an independent privacy compliance advisory, risk assessment and monitoring service to FirstRand segments and business units.

Role Purpose:

• We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Privacy Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) to join our Data Privacy and Protection Centre of Excellence (CoE). This role is pivotal in strengthening our data privacy and protection capabilities across the organisation, particularly in high-demand segments such as R&C, RMB, and Broader Africa.

Key Responsibilities:

Privacy Operations & Governance

• Represent the CoE and provide subject matter expertise in privacy for Information Governance, Cyber Security, and Incident Response projects across FirstRand.
• Support the evolution of FirstRand’s privacy program globally in alignment with international data protection frameworks and best practice.
• Draft, review, maintain, and harmonise privacy documentation, including internal procedures, notices, guidance, and training materials.
• Identify and assess potential privacy risks inherent in technical designs and implementations and contribute to implement privacy enhancing features and fixes.
• Maintain and oversee privacy risks, coordinating with stakeholders to ensure implementation of mitigation plans.
• Engage with data owners, architects, and product teams to embed privacy-by-design (PdD) principles generally. Collaborate with relevant teams to ensure PdD in the development and deployment of AI, analytics, and other emerging technologies.
• Contribute to the privacy risk assessments for AI and other innovative use cases for technology, data sharing, and automation tools.
• Support the automation of privacy operations to scale compliance and accelerate the responsible use of personal information across FirstRand. Oversee implementation, ongoing management, reporting, and quality control of privacy management platforms and tools. Collaborate with information security and information technology teams to align privacy technologies with security controls.
• Develop and maintain user guidelines and provide training on privacy platform functionality and best practices, including privacy assessments, records of processing activities (RoPA), third party risk assessments, and incident management.
• Review governance and business requirements and define workflows and processes that support efficient privacy management activities within FirstRand.
• Enhance and support the privacy incident management process, coordination efforts, investigations and root cause assessments.
• Conduct and advise on privacy assurance, monitoring, and audit activities.
• Conduct and advise on data privacy impact assessments, third party risk assessments, and the management of RoPAs.  
• Act as the initial point of intake for data subject access and rights requests received centrally; route requests to appropriate owners, track completion, and maintain oversight of the process to ensure compliance. Support development and automation of Data Subject Rights' workflows.
• Establish and manage essential privacy management information (PMI) dashboards and reporting tools. Track key metrics such as the number of Data Subject Access Requests (DSARs), incident volumes and trends, initiated and completed Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), vendor reviews, and other relevant data across FirstRand.
• Generate and maintain regular privacy dashboards and team reports, providing quarterly insights on performance, trends, and compliance health. Support regulatory audits and internal reporting with accurate metrics and documentation.
• Coordinate and deliver privacy training and awareness initiatives across the Firm, ensuring global relevance and compliance with local regulations. Assess training needs by engaging stakeholders, reviewing incidents/metrics, and staying current on regulatory requirements and organizational changes.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum: LLB, B.Com LLB, or Bachelor's in Computer Science, IT, Cybersecurity, Risk Management, Audit, or related field.
• Advantageous: CIPP/E, CIPT, AIGP, or similar.

Experience:

• 4–5 years in Data Privacy Programme Management, Privacy Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related fields.
• Proven experience with data privacy laws, compliance frameworks, and IT risk governance.
• Exposure to privacy issues related to AI, data analytics, or other emerging technologies is a strong advantage.

Advantageous:

• Hands on experience with industry leading privacy management platforms and tools (e.g., OneTrust, TrustArc, Securiti, etc.).
• Governance, Risk and Compliance automation.
• Experience in supporting ISO 27001/277701 alignment efforts.

Core Competencies:

• Ability to deliver practical, pragmatic, and creative privacy solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use metrics to drive improvement.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities, with an ability to explain complex privacy and data protection issues to lay audiences.
• Proficiency in data privacy and protection principles.
• Understanding of AI ethics and data governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with digitisation, legal advisory, and audit practices. Comfortable working with cross-functional teams across legal, compliance, technology, security, and first line operations.

Deadline:10th February,2026

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Are you someone who can:

• Lead the design and implementation of Group-wide Talent Acquisition and Onboarding strategies, frameworks, and governance.
• Drive innovation in employer branding, sourcing strategies, assessment models, and onboarding journeys.
• Build capability by developing tools, resources, and training for recruiters, hiring managers, and onboarding stakeholders.
• Set and monitor global metrics (quality-of-hire, diversity, onboarding NPS, new hire retention) and use insights to drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with global and regional partners and stakeholders to ensure alignment and excellence in Talent Acquisition and Onboarding.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Hold a Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline (postgraduate preferred).
• Have 5–8 years’ experience in Talent Acquisition and/or Onboarding, with at least 2–3 years at a management or strategic level.
• Bring deep knowledge of the Human Capital value chain, especially talent attraction, selection, onboarding, and employer branding.

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to innovate and shape the future of Talent Acquisition across a global organization.
• A collaborative, high-performing team environment.
• The chance to influence and build a world-class candidate and new hire experience.
• Exposure to global best practices and leading-edge HR technology.

We can be a match if you are:

• Innovative and future-focused, always seeking new ways to improve talent acquisition and onboarding.
• Digitally savvy, with a passion for user experience.
• A natural collaborator and relationship builder, able to influence across teams and regions.
• Data-driven and analytical, using insights to drive decisions and improvements.

Deadline:6th February,2026