Job Opportunities at Absa Group Limited

Job Summary

Provide specialist advise and support for day-to-day work, in order to execute predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Job Description

Stakeholder Management: Actively promote and manage the collaborative engagement of internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, suppliers, clients, service providers, business partners and other Absa entities | Sales Target : Proactively make self-initiated contact with customers in order to deliver against the required sales targets | Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction | Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards | Management of commission earnings : Ensure that accuracy of the commission statement on a monthly basis by checking the relevant statements received from the Commissions department. | Practice Manage: Ensure that staff members (Broker Assistants an Interns as relevant) have a clear | : | :

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

To provide specialist advice and support in business enablement and creation of information to inform decision making.

Job Description

The Business Process Optimization Manager is responsible for leading, managing and deploying process change programs. This includes, but not limited to, collaborating with Exco and Manco on the strategic intent of Business Units, aligning the architectural landscape for benchmarked practices thus ensuring effective and efficient business value streams, optimal integration of processes, people and technology by interactively analysing, researching, designing, recommending and implementing innovative and cost efficient business processes within Absa.

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 Summary

We are looking for an experienced marketing analyst to support our digitally led marketing team. Your responsibilities will include tracking online marketing trends, collecting and analyzing data, developing data led campaign strategies, optimizing and reporting online campaign performance, and communicating with stakeholders.

Job Description

To be successful as a data led marketing analyst, you should have strong technical skills and be able to present actionable insights to inform digital marketing strategies. A top-notch digital marketing analyst should also have excellent analytical skills, be detail-oriented, and work well within a team.

Responsibilities:

• Collecting and analyzing customer, marketing, and web behavioral data.

• Testing campaigns, analyzing key metrics, and identifying opportunities to increase campaign performance.

• Developing and presenting learnings from your analyses, including actionable insights and recommendations.

• Developing digital campaign and web measurement strategies.

• Creating dashboards, data visualizations, and campaign and website performance reports.

• Monitoring and analyzing digital media and marketing trends.

• Communicating and presenting to colleagues, senior managers, and stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing or a related field.

• Experience with analytical and reporting tools, including Google Analytics, and Data Studio.

• Deep knowledge of digital marketing across social, display, and programmatic platforms.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills.

• Ability to make data-driven decisions.

• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.

• Strong communication and presentation

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Marketing (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

Joining this team is for innovative, numerate and bright individuals keen to execute investment banking transactions from inception to closure. Role requires team players who are keen to travel, who don't like hierarchies and who are prepared to back themselves to win.

Financial honours/CA/CFA/MBA with min 4  years Investment Banking Corporate Finance experience . Successful incumbent must have superior financial modelling skills, sound business acumen and passion for corporate finance and capital markets.

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 Summary

• Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organised, optimised and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features & components of the service & solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.

Job Description

• Platform Engineering, Deployment & Optimisation
•  Leverage platform engineering expertise & a working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs
•  Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies
•  Develop business & customer aligned, lasting & innovative platform feature sets
•  Positively contribute to, define & implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.
•  Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects.
•  Leverage platform (service design & code) & engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects
•  Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions
•  Identify & Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
•  Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
•  Apply object orientated design in development & draw from a large base of design patterns
•  Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
•  Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design & development that is simple, elegant, and useful.
•  Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage & improve these for future solution design and deployment
•  Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral
•  Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements
• consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform
•  Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance
•  Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/service’s in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service
•  Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs
•  Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others
•  Apply expertise in engineering & available technologies to enable effective review processes
•  Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team
•  Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
•  Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities
•  Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability – ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
•  Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams
•  Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area
•  Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions
•  Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).
•  Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making
•  Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.
•  Synthesize data from multiple sources and present & define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets

Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance

•  Understand the platform cost model & the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency & effectiveness objectives
•  Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
•  Apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change & release etc.), governance, compliance & regulatory standards and frameworks
•  Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
•  Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Accountability: People

•  Proactively & effectively (time & quality) collaborate & drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.)
•  Apply collaboration skills in development practices & issue resolution regardless of team boundaries & lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion
•  Contribute to a high performance team environment & culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working
•  Leverage coaching techniques in all team related activity to drive a higher quality service, design and deployment of technical solutions.
•  Proactively seek & provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team & leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery
•  Coach & mentor other engineers & support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution & proactively seek coaching & mentoring from others
•  Participate in peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
•  Cascade platform performance feedback and ensure capability development across teams to enable efficient & effective platform service delivery
•  Drive the design of content, tools & materials for strategy alignment, education & adoption processes to be applied across stakeholder groups

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

Provide specialist advise and support for day-to-day work, in order to execute predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Job Description

Source Utilisation: Obtain walk in client or data leads from the Bank staff in the branches (Consultants, | Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction | Risk & Control: Ensure that staff members where applicable, i.e. Planner Assistants have a clear | Manage Sales & Growth Targets: Capture the correct Policy Relevant Information (PRI) number on the EBankpac system On a monthly basis, check the accuracy of the commission statements received from the AIFA Commissions department. Verify that all the PRI numbers reconcile to the commission paid and reflected on the statements | : | : | : | :

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

To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist Human Resources expertise.
Preference will be given to candidates with previous experience within the Technology Industry.

Job Description

Commercial awareness and strategic partnering:

• Demonstrates a deep understanding of the global market place, competitive position and commercial drivers for a complex, large scale business.\

• Uses business acumen/perspective to translate the Business Unit strategy into a clear people agenda within the direction set by the bank and global People function for a business with multiple core lines of business.

• Is a strategic partner to the Business Unit CEO’s/functional leaders in a fast moving, complex and developing environment.

• Uses analytics, data and trends both internally and externally to diagnose Business Unit issues and recommend effective solutions.

• Manages external networks and is well connected in the appropriate bodies to shape the external perception of Absa Group Limited to be in a position to attract the best capabilities to the organisation and have influence in the market place.

• Articulates strategy and is able to translate into actions and results for the function.

Trusted Advisor:

• Owns the relationship with the Business Unit leadership as a trusted advisor.

• Exemplary coach and sounding board to the CEO and other senior leaders in the business.

• Demonstrates influence and credibility with senior leaders across the business.

• Actively assists the CEO to build the effectiveness and develop the top team appropriately.

Ownership of the end-to-end HR delivery:

• Operates as the relationship manager for the customer base and is responsible for broking People Specialist and Operations to execute on the defined people strategy.

• Works with the Business Unit leadership to identify and develop talent and robust succession for the area.

• Has a high level of focus on customer relations. Drives a culture of customer centricity and responsiveness across all People Function teams.

• Able to prioritise, manage and lead a team of specialist to deliver across a Pan African agenda.

• Drive the delivery of key People initiatives through employing the appropriate change and project management disciplines across the People value chain.

• Takes the business priorities and translate these into People Strategies and takes end-to-end ownership for delivering the following key People processes to their client by undertaking the following:

  • Translate business strategy into people strategy and ensuring that workforce planning is embedded whilst providing People analytics that deliver relevant insights.
    Support and drive major change and People Function Projects.
    Specify capability gaps and define talent pools in conjunction with the Functional Leader.

  • Takes ownership of strategic resource planning and delivery and participate in executive and senior role hiring.

  • Takes responsibility for Business Unit talent reviews, succession planning activities and talent and capability development.

  • Deliver Leadership and Learning programmes via specialists, specifies internal capability gaps and ensure relevant assessments, development and coaching in place.

  • Drive the Business Unit reward and performance strategy and provide input and manage the executive compensation and ownership of pay cycle and reward plan delivery.

  • Ensure effective employee engagement for the Business Unit in conjunction with the Functional Leader, supporting the People Operations planning and service quality management.

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 Summary

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adaption i.t.o. operations management methodology, governance and delivery objectives.

Job Description

The Global Markets operations team has an exciting opportunity for a Head of Futures Clearing Operations, to support the Bank. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for all Change projects (Run the bank & Build the bank) as well as operational aspects of the business. They will be responsible for maintaining a robust operations function whilst moving the business forward by delivering on Regulatory, market and new business projects. The role will require building and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders eg The JSE, vendors, Front Office, Brokers. 

This role is suited to a candidate with a Bachelor degree (B-com Accounting) ,  with a minimum of 5 to 10 years managerial experience in a Financial Services institution operating within a Futures Clearing environment. Sound understanding and working knowledge regarding controls and operational risk management in an operations environment is necessary

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 Summary

This position will require deep configuration on a Specialist level within ServiceNow across all applications including Services Configuration, Case and Knowledge management, Portals, Mobile Application, Performance Analytics and Virtual Agent. Working alongside a Strategic Lead and other Configurators, ensuring optimal operation of the overall functional area. It will include but not be limited to complex testing, business process design, process implementation, analysis and maintenance in the light of best practice recommendations and creating insightful dashboards and reports.

Job Description

Key accountabilities

• Configure and support existing applications and add new functionality as necessary

• Ensures requirements are understood, developed, tested, and delivered to specification

• Coordinate test activities, including unit testing, system testing and user acceptance testing

• Plan ahead and deploy bi-annual feature releases

• Play a key role in design to implementation of feature releases and change requests

• Troubleshoot and resolve configuration issues, error identification and remediation

• Works with the Strategic Lead to develop release estimates

• Provide technical assistance to Tier1 teams, managing severity issues and setting prioritization for resolution

• Emphasis on providing an optimal user experience and thereby ensuring up to date features, deployments and initiatives for optimal platform usage

• Create advanced reports and dashboards including using performance analytics

• Ongoing input and recommendations for continuous improvement and evaluation of system functionality

• Maintain the stability and useability of the platform across production and non-production environments

• Platform upgrade execution

• Manage instance security: user/group access, administration, access control lists, etc

• Train and mentor developers

• Create functional and technical systems documentation

• Participate in process design workshops

• Determine and implement integration method(s) used, integration directionality and attributes

• Template Creation and Updates

• Configure Catalog Items and Record Producers

Education

National Diplomas and Advanced Certificates: Computer and Information Science (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