Carerer Opportunities at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Support the Senior Assurance Manager IT General Controls: Lead/Senior Assurance Manager Project Change: Lead to drive and execute on the agreed ITO A&T Combined Assurance coverage plan. Assist in the improvement of the control environment for Information Technology Office (ITO) as well as other business clusters through assurance activities in alignment with the ITO A&T methodology, assurance standard, governance and delivery objectives.
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Accountability: Planning Assurance Reviews

• Develop the Assurance Plan through consultation with the respective Risk Leads, CIOs and the Senior Assurance Manager IT General Controls: Lead/Senior Assurance Manager Project Change: Lead.
• Plan the delivery of assigned assurances to a high quality and in line with Key Performance Indicators as per the ITO A&T methodology which includes preparation of the announcement memo and meeting key deliverables in terms of assurance timelines.
• Design and ensure the execution of approved sampling techniques, testing strategies on assurance reviews.
• Prepare detailed working papers for all assurance reviews to ensure a consistent testing approach across all business units.

Accountability: Executing Assurance Reviews

• Develop an in-depth knowledge of business clusters 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 Senior Manager: Combined Assurance and Reporting in validating effective controls as per the Control Self-Assessment (CSA) for the business units.
• Conduct assurance reviews, investigations, and/or ad hoc projects with minimal supervision and direction from the Senior Assurance Manager IT General Controls: Lead/Senior Assurance Manager Project Change: Lead independently or be part of a team headed by a Lead.
• Execute on the Design Effectiveness Testing (DEA) and Operating Effectiveness Testing (OET) in line with the ITO A&T methodology and Assurance standard requirements.
• Manage the execution of Design Effectiveness Testing (DEA) and Operating Effectiveness Testing (OET) of the assigned assurance team on a review in line with methodology requirements.
• Review working papers and supporting evidence prepared by assurance team on a review.
• Perform and proactively participate in the timely clearing of review notes raised by the Quality and Control team 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 Assurance Manager IT General Controls: Lead/Senior Assurance Manager Project Change: Lead.

Accountability: Reporting

• Use business knowledge to assess evolving risks, write high quality reports with observations which are insightful, address the root cause, have agreed actions that fully mitigate the risk, support the Issues Management process and require no further assurance work to support them.
• Anticipate potential barriers, issues, and management concerns and create action plans and recommendations to address these concerns in a timeous manner.
• Capture the findings on a centralised system in a timely manner.

Accountability: Stakeholder Engagement

• Present effectively at stakeholder meetings and forums (e.g.: combined assurance forums, etc.) by sharing knowledge and information, including methodology, standards, changes and new developments, with business stakeholders on an ongoing basis, and develop and maintain relationships with accountable stakeholder management on each assurance review.

Accountability: People Management

• Mentor and coach less experienced team members on assigned assurance reviews by providing guidance around the ITO A&T methodology and assurance process and manage the teams that are assigned to the assurance review effectively by delegating assurance work to empower each individual team member.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• To provide administrative and operational support to the assigned team/s within Absa Financial Services Legal.

Job Description

Accountability:  Operational administration

• Establish and manage operational processes within the team.
• Interpret new or updated Absa Group policies and processes in terms of relevance to the requirements of the team.
• Establish an operating procedure for the team’s financial management – aligned to the reporting, timelines and requirements as set by the Head: Legal Counsel and the finance partner.  This includes supporting the team with SAP or COUPA finance management tasks such as capturing Purchase Orders, processing invoices etc.
• Ensure that the team is adequately supported with logistics such as international and local travel planning / booking, meeting/workshop logistics, claims management etc. (as required, according to team profile and needs)
• Maintain appropriate documentation and filing, according to the specific requirements of the team assigned to.

Accountability: Leadership support duties

• Assist Absa Financial Services Legal Head of Legal and its leadership with formal meeting governance (preparation and distribution of meeting packs, minutes, action logs etc.)
• Handle and resolve queries where appropriate or direct the complex queries to the relevant person and/or take messages accordingly.
• Manage the Head of Legal’s diary;
• Set up meetings timeously and invite the correct attendees to the meeting, arranging refreshments / venues / technology / building access etc. (as needed).

Accountability: Control measures

• Understand the control measures applicable to the Head's role through reading the Code of Conduct and other training allocated. Where responsible for risks and controls ensure that these are appropriate and fit for purpose.
• 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 key controls to have identified owners, with audit trail of regular review and maintenance together with supporting records.   
• Where applicable, all risk events (incidents) or control failures to be escalated, investigated, reported and fixed at root cause to prevent reoccurrence.

Education & Experience:

• Previous experience required as a Team/Personal Assistant
• Experience in local and international travel especially into Africa
• Maintain high level of confidentiality
• Exceptional organisational & planning skills
• Experience with COUPA preferred

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Office Administration (Required)
   

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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)

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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)

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Job Summary

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

Job Description

• Drive Financial Targets: Maintain primary ownership of a portfolio of Growth Account clients, differentiated by the level of complexity of the client base
• Relationship and Service Management: Actively develop strong client relationships. Conduct regular client visits in accordance with the Commercial Growth Account Value Proposition and initiate changes to ABB Product by providing input into product development to better service our clients
• Manage Risk Assessment: Adhere to the bank's policies and procedures and ensure compliance. Take ultimate ownership of the portfolio's risk management by ensuring a good understanding of both the Bank's and the clients regulatory and compliance environments.
• Collaboration: Constantly seek to improve ways of working by challenging the status quo and supporting an empowering climate within the team, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and providing constructive feedback as required.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Utilize your 5 years’ experience within a Banking Service Industry, minimum 3 years’ experience in Customer Relationship Management to build and optimise market networks, ability to collaborate across internal and external platforms to build solid pipelines for business growth, across volume and value.  Duties include Planning & growth, Driving Retail acquisition and business growth, Competitor analysis and insights, Financial/commercial acumen, strong selling skills, deal structuring and proposing, leads generation, B-degree in Finance, Commerce or Banking (NQF level 6.) NQF 7 preferred. A FAIS recognized qualification min 120 credits and RE5/1 Certificate completed.

Job Description

• Banking Goals Business Risk Customer Satisfaction Colleague Support.Utilize your 5 years’ experience within a Banking Service Industry, minimum 3 years’ experience in Customer Relationship Management to build and optimise market networks, ability to collaborate across internal and external platforms to build solid pipelines for business growth, across volume and value.  Duties include Planning & growth, Driving Retail acquisition and business growth, Competitor analysis and insights, Financial/commercial acumen, strong selling skills, deal structuring and proposing, leads generation, B-degree in Finance, Commerce or Banking (NQF level 6.) NQF 7 preferred. A FAIS recognized qualification min 120 credits and RE5/1 Certificate completed.

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC)

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Job Summary

• Utilize your 5 years’ experience within a Banking Service Industry, minimum 3 years’ experience in Customer Relationship Management to build and optimise market networks, ability to collaborate across internal and external platforms to build solid pipelines for business growth, across volume and value.  Duties include Planning & growth, Driving Retail acquisition and business growth, Competitor analysis and insights, Financial/commercial acumen, strong selling skills, deal structuring and proposing, leads generation, B-degree in Finance, Commerce or Banking (NQF level 6.) NQF 7 preferred. A FAIS recognized qualification min 120 credits and RE5/1 Certificate completed.

Job Description

• Financial Goals Business Risk Customer Satisfaction Colleague Support

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Job Summary

• This role will be focused on building financial models using historical data; product related information based on various industry & internal inputs in support of business cases, strategic initiatives, potential new products and partnerships. The Finance Analyst performs financial reconciliations’, analysis and reporting in an accurate, complete and timely way; and continuously seeks to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes to doing deep dive and trend analyses to crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives. The Finance Analyst equips finance and business leadership with sound financial information to support decision making at all levels. The Finance Analyst of the business enables achieving the operational objectives of the business by building an agile finance enablement to transform, to bring stewardship, financial integrity & insights to the current state of the business & its future possibilities to deliver on the new operating model and to achieve the business objectives set by Absa Africa United for PSC.  The Finance Analyst co-creates Finance capabilities required to lead to exponential growth and business effectiveness.

Job Description

Commercial Finance Execution 

• Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations’, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Management in business area.
• Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end to end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work.
• First line of operational support to internal and external auditors within scope of work; and all queries addressed effectively and efficiently.
• Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives.
• 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.
• Ensure that the CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU.
• 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. 
• Adopt what’s ‘best for absa’ approach in finance practices.
• Have a holistic eco-system view of business, that is, geography, customer, channel and product in developing information views of business.
• Book of work contribution: Build innovative finance business case financial information, insights and benefits tracking’s’ solutions to continuously inform management decisions.
• Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes.
• Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of PSC in performance reporting.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for PSC Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory and reporting).
• Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate.
• 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.
• Be an active force for good in society through business execution.
• Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution.

Financial Reporting 

• Build trust in the finance function through the creation of a single source of financial information which is corroborated by related management information sources and alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies, and underlying data are correctly applied.
• 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 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.
• Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the PSC 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.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Deliver day-to-day knowledge work, in order to execute predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Job Description

• Role profile not received: Please contact your People Function business partner 

Education

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

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Job Summary

• To grow the Absa customer base through acquisition and increased customer profitability of the identified portfolio. Gain new customers and increase port folios of current customers through proactive attraction, cross selling, retention and contributing towards the achievement of the branch’s sales targets.

Job Description

• Financial Goals Business Risk Customer Satisfaction Colleague Support

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC)