Job Vacancies at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

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Job Summary

• Measure, advise, report, and forecast credit provision. This includes analysing and liaising with key stakeholders (e.g., collections, finance, business, etc.) to drive financial performance such that losses are within risk appetite.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Outputs to deliver against the purpose:

• Analyse and measure monthly impairment numbers
• Understand drivers of the impairment charge
• Forecast credit provision for the different budgeting periods, i.e., revised annual forecasts, short term plans (12 months) and medium-term plans (60 months).
• Assist in setting collection targets (on and off-balance sheet) in line with the budget.
• Analyse collections performance in line with risk appetite.
• Measure impacts of any credit policy change, including new and existing customer acquisition strategies as well as collections strategies.
• Calculate potential losses for once off risk events.
• Understanding of the accounting process and financial reporting (including disclosure reporting)
• Ad hoc analysis.

Stakeholder Management:

• Liaise with various internal stakeholders (e.g., Risk Management, Credit Lending, Product Head, Collections, BU Finance) to convey impairment numbers and portfolio performance, the impact of model and other once off policy changes / events to these numbers, emerging risks, sign off impairment budgets, etc.
• Analyse and report impairment performance and trends to the Portfolio Manager.

Analysis and Reporting:

• Compile reports in line with the reporting requirements and portfolio measures for the product Risk Management team through the Absa committee structures.
• Ensure monthly Portfolio Performance Reports (with commentary) are completed in accordance with the agreed deadlines and required standards
• Ensure the development of MI as required.
• Produce monthly account level impairment and capital data and reports.
• Produce reports related to industry impairments to track performance relative to the market and to support risk appetite discussions.

Education

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

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About the Job

Job Summary

• Apply critical thinking & problem solving skills to contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle & quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.

Job Description

DevOps

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• 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
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines
• Provide input into 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 and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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About the Job

Job Summary

• In this role you will be responsible for delivering and administering all procedures pertaining to the processing of Trade Finance related products and services as received from Trade Middle Office post fit for processing checks and within required SLAs. This includes but is not limited to Letters of Credit, Documentary Collections, BGIs (Bonds, Guarantees and Indemnities), Open Accounts products e.g. RF, SRF, SF. FI Trade and Trade Loans, Irrevocable Reimbursement Undertakings (IRUs)

Job Description

Your key accountabilities will include;

• Performing transaction processing with a high degree of accuracy and in accordance with policies and procedures.
• Fulfilling all functions relating to reconciliations, settlements, monitoring and reporting requirements.
• Acting as a consultant or releaser for various transactions however would not be able to do and release its own transactions.
• Processing client instructions within agreed Service Level Agreement (SLA)
• Checking that all information received is in accordance with the required standards.
• Validating and obtaining an exchange rate where necessary
• Capturing Excon Rulings as received and in accordance with Central Bank requirements
• Capturing the correct Balance of Payments (BOP) category.
• Ensuring that signatories, indemnities and credit have been authorised
• Providing a high quality of service to all clients within agreed SLAs
• Ensuring high quality of communication to internal and external clients, both verbal and written.
• Ensuring adherence to quality standards to avoid risks to the Bank through effective & efficient management of transactions.
• Drawing Day End listings and action accordingly to ensure that all work received is and actioned on the same day.
• Providing suggestions to the line manager on improvements and solutions based on knowledge of the trade value chain.

Send in your application if you have;

• An applicable Degree or Diploma with 3 to 6 years related experience
• 3 to 5 years in Trade Finance Products
• Preferably with CDCS – Certified Documentary Credit Specialist (For FI and Documentary Trade)

Education

• National Diplomas and Advanced Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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About the Job

Job Summary

• 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

DevOps

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions
• Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
• Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
• Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
• Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
• Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
• Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
• Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization

People

• Coach & mentor other engineers
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
• Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
• Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology