Jobs at Absa

Job Summary

To be the business owner for the products to offer clients as part of their retirement solutions.

Job Description

Commercial management: Accountable for managing the commercial performance (P&L) of the product across the product lifecycle in support of the business's high-level financial ambitions and Balance Sheet shape; | Product Management: Delivers a compelling and insights led Product Proposition offering that aligns to and enables the business and customer strategies: | Product Infrastructure: Accountable for the entire end-to-end infrastructure (People, Process and Technology) on which the product runs to support the target customer experience whilst ensuring that the product remains commercially viable by ensuring: | People and Culture: Builds and sustains a culture that aligns to the business's colleague experience to deliver the target customer experience and financial performance | : | : | : | :

Education

Master's Degree: 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 a Test Analyst to be part of a Global Markets – Markets Operations team, that will take complete accountability for the execution and end-to-end delivery of Test Plan and Test Cases within registered change programmes. Ownership to design Test packs enabling the programme/projects to implement, guide, manage and maintain a standardized test methodology in ABSA Testing Services to ensure world class delivery and support of the business unit, in line with the goals of the team. Working in a cross-asset class function.

Job Description

• Import test cases from other applications in to the test management tool

• Guide & influence the scoping of test efforts

• Gather requirements for system from formal- or informal specifications document

• Coordinate with the test team on all testing aspects and requirements and that adequate testing has been performed

• Provide progress feedback to the Test Manager as and when required.

• Validate data quality by comparing internal and external interfaces with testing tools.

• Enable automation of functional business processes.

• Exercises responsibility for the successful delivery of the Programme/project to plan, agreed quality and governance standards.

Education and Experience Required

• Diploma in Information Sciences or Information Technology or Project Management or

• equivalent NQF level 5 or higher qualification

• Min 5 Years Development or Business Analysis experience

• Min 5 Years’ experience of quality assurance methodologies and tools such as VModel, SCRUM, RUP (Rational Unified Process)

• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and the Internet

• Degree in Software Testing or equivalent NQF level 6 or higher qualification

• Global Markets product knowledge (Fixed Income, FX, Derivatives, Settlements etc)

Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of Operational Management Principles and Practices (Solid)

• Knowledge of Risk Management principles and practices (Solid)

• Analytical Skills (Solid)

• MS Office Skills (Solid)

• QC Skills (Solid)required

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

To deliver customer support services to enhance the customer experience through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs). Selecting this role has a compensation & benefit impact in Kenya. Please contact Reward for details.

Job Description

Customer Service: Respond efficiently, accurately and courteously to all customer service matters, complaints, requests | Support the development and maintenance of processes in Customer Services Centre: Adhere to all processes in the CMP Customer Services centre and identify opportunities to improve Client Servicing processes | Monitor and control risk associated with the Customer: Ensure that all activities performed in providing Customer Services comply in all respects with Absa's risk and compliance policies and procedures as well as legal and regulatory requirements | Stakeholder Management: Establish and maintain good professional relationships with relevant stakeholders so as to remain abreast of their needs and issues and respond rapidly and effectively | Self-development: Owning and being proactive about own training and development | : | : | :

Education

Higher 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

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

Job Description

Sales Target : Proactively make self-initiated contact with customers in order to deliver against the required sales targets | 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. | Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards | Customer Experience: To provide service excellence and achieve customer satisfaction | : | : | : | :

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

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

The Specialised Engineering team within the Chief Technology Office is looking for Cloud Engineers who can approach a problem with a novel approach and implement in an automated way.

Information on the team:

• The Specialised Engineering team designs and develops tactical and strategic solutions to solve problems common across multiple areas.

• The team actively evaluates and provides architectural guidance for Cloud based infrastructure, as well as hands on implementation of the environments.

• Providing consultancy and help to teams designing, developing and releasing solutions to Cloud based infrastructure.

Main responsibilities of the role:

• Providing consultancy and hands-on help to development teams designing, developing and releasing solutions to Cloud based infrastructure

• Provide hands-on support resolving issues with Cloud based infrastructure

• Advise on best practice when designing and implementing Cloud based solutions

Requirements:

• Familiarity with Ansible, Terraform, Python, Atlassian stack

• Good communication skills and command of English

• Knowledge and practical experience in one or more of AWS, Azure or other Cloud solutions

• Desire and willingness to learn about multiple cloud technologies 

• Good knowledge of Linux or Windows systems administration

• Good knowledge of fault tolerant applications, infrastructure and application security, networks

• Knowledge or desire to learn about technologies such as Elastic search, EMR, Containers

• Ability to interact with senior internal and external parties independently and cooperatively

• Flexible and creative problem solver

• Ability to solve business challenges with code

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

Senior Chatered Secretary: Vice President Absa Bank 

• To succeed in the role, you will have sound knowledge of Corporate Governance, Companies Act and relevant JSE listings and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) experience. Proficient at minute taking and have good writing and report writing skills
• An exciting opportunity has become available for a Senior Chartered Secretary with sound knowledge of corporate and investment banking (CIB), to join our group secretariat team in providing support to the portfolio. Complying with the provisions of the Companies Act and all the applicable regulatory requirements and best practices in the CIB sector. 
• The post holder will provide strategic, governance and compliance guidance to the Boards and implement robust processes to guide the Boards in setting the strategy and effective decision-making.

 
The key responsibility of the role is to act as the company secretary for all of the CIB entities. The CIB portfolio consists of 10 active entities, of which, 8 are regulated (JSE and FSCA). It also includes 18 entities that are passively trading, for which secretarial services are also required on a semi-annual or annual basis. The role also has an oversight role for the CIB Nigeria operations i.e. attend the quarterly board meetings, assist with the meeting packs and provide governance support/guidance where required.
Job Description

Other responsibilities include but not limited to: 

•  Advise Directors on the proper application of KING IV requirements and on other Corporate Governance
•  Coordinate Board succession planning by ensuring that Board Succession Planning is discussed annually
•  Act as the Secretary to the Boards in the portfolio and the various board committee
•  Ensure that the Legal Entities and Directors Policy and Group Governance Framework are applied to all entities within the assigned portfolio
•  Coordinate the preparation of the annual meeting schedules
•  Act as a trusted advisor on insurance related matters and provide guidance to the boards on relevant regulatory matters
•  Work closely with compliance to ensure the boards proactively and effectively comply with all relevant legislation and best practices
•  In cases of resignations, ensure that the statutory team receives the letter of resignation from the particular Director and all supporting documents required to make the changes at the CIPC
•  Ensure that the incoming Director completes the necessary forms (which is the Consent to Act as a Director) and the CoR39 form (which is the Register of Directors and Officers)
•  Upon the exit or appointments of new directors, update the information on all company documents and advise the requisite authorities, regulators including but not limited to Prudential Authority, Financial Sector Conduct Authority, CIPC, etc.
•  Coach and mentor team members when requested to do so by the line manager in order to improve their own productivity and use of the bank’s processes and systems. Coach team members on technical matters when necessary
•  Support the line manager to supervise team members to ensure effective daily operations that contribute to the effective functioning of the team, alternatively contribute to the broader team

Education and Experience: 

• To succeed in the role, you will have sound knowledge of Corporate Governance, Companies Act and relevant JSE listings and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) experience . Proficient at minute taking and have good writing and report writing skills
•  Bachelor of Commerce (B.COM)
•  A recognized 3 year Degree in Corporate Governance related
•  CIS (Chartered Institute of Secretaries)
•  Law Degree
•  5-8 years Company Secretarial experience in the corporate and investment banking industry

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

• To investigate, design, implement and maintain Management Information (MI) and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions in order to provide timely and accurate reporting and solutioning development to business in order to enable informed decision making. This is to be achieved by establishing and maintaining effective relationships with the relevant stakeholders and applying intimate knowledge of data systems in the context of the core business

Job Description

Accountabilities

Accountability: Business Intelligence (BI)

• Responsible for the analysis of market trends, quantitative analysis, financial modelling and integration of financial, credit and statistical analytics across products and segments.
• Undertakes specialist feasibility analysis, evaluations or business projects and advises on the optimisation of resources and profitability of projects.
• May research new investment opportunities (e.g. acquisition of external mortgage books) and make recommendations in terms of solutions development to Exco.
• May be involved in business presentations and interact with other departments with regard to credit and funding strategies, e.g. CVM and Treasury.
• Conducts special studies and makes recommendations to management regarding opportunities, progress and improvement strategies. May research and prepare reports on related subjects

Accountability: Management Information (MI) and Reporting

• Engage with internal business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed and understood.
• Interpret data and identify issues, risks and opportunities and relate results and insights to Business users.
• Conceptualize, design and build Management Information (MI) / Business Intelligence
• (BI) models in support of business requirements.
• Oversee integrity of reports, both when developing new reports as well as when executing existing scripts to ensure data is accurately presented.

Accountability: Governance and Control

• Create project plans where necessary in order to better manage required outcomes and coordinate with other team members to timely delivery of work product.
• Ensure compliance to policies, legislation and regulations and that staff compliance training and attestations are in place
• The incumbent in this position may be a specialist in financial and credit modelling, mathematics and statistical analysis with 6 to 8 years related experience.
• May manage junior quants analysts.

Education and Experience Required

• Minimum Requirements - Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Business or similar with a focus on analytics, business information management or equivalent
• NQF level 6 qualification
• Preferred Requirements - M sc. Statistics / M Com. Informatics / B.Com Honours
• Three (3) to Five (5) years relevant experience in Business Intelligence / Management Information.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and the Internet

Knowledge & Skills: 

• The incumbent in this position may be a specialist in financial and credit modelling, mathematics and statistical analysis with 6 to 8 years related experience. May manage junior quants analysts. Experience in managing a diverse team of specialists.
• dvanced Analytics knowledge, skills and abilities
• Able to mentor and transfer knowledge, skills and abilities
• Expert Data analysis skills
• Advanced Computer Literacy using all tools (e.g. Excel, SQL, Power BI ..etc.)

Professional verbal and written communication skills

• Basic knowledge of the Regulatory and Industry standards in Financial Services
• Competent report writing skills
• Lateral and Strategic thinker with an appreciation for the “holistic” approach to managing information

Competencies:

• Persuading and influencing
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
• Deciding and initiating action
• Learning and researching
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
• Relating and networking
• Adapting and responding to change
• Creating and innovating

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

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE SPECIFIC BUSINESS UNIT:
This role is within RBB: Everyday Banking in the Fraud Strategy team looking at Application processes and Lending products. 

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:
Monitor and continuously evaluate fraud controls within designated responsibility areas within the lending environment to ensure that fraud losses are minimized, fraud risks are controlled on a proactive basis whilst complying with internal policies and procedures as well as rules regulations. Identify fraud vulnerabilities in the end-to-end process and assist in initiating remediation programs as required.
Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Key Accountabilities:

• Strategy and Execution of Strategy
• Support roll out and execute on signed-off fraud strategies in RBB
• Perform and drive a Fraud Threat Assessment
• Ensure the fraud strategy manager aligns strategy to the Fraud Threat Assessment;
• Ensure (influence) strategy execution to comply with following layers:
• Customer authentication; (ID & V)
• Transaction authorization; (Training)
• Real-time monitoring;
• Track fraud losses to identify defined controls being challenged;
• Mitigate fraud controls where challenged;
• Projects and Book of work – requires fraud strategy managers to lead projects where Fraud Strategy owns the projects, fraud strategy support manager to support these initiatives
• Risk and Control Management
• Adhere to governance criteria
• Monthly risk meeting feedback
• Monthly risk decks
• Internal audit support
• NAPA’s (New Product Assessments)
• CPA findings
• DWB (Dispensations, waivers and breaches)
• Stakeholder management
• Meet Business stakeholders on a regular basis to discuss strategy, performance and threats
• Meet Execution teams on a regular basis to discuss execution and alignment to the strategy

Education and Minimum requirements: 

• B degree or equivalent NQF 7 or degree
• At least 6 - 8 years in Financial Services or related industry
• At least 6 - 8 years in Fraud Management

Preferred skills:

• Communication and Team skills (Advanced).
• Networking Skills & Influencing Skills (Advanced).
• Knowledge of Fraud Risk Principles and Practices (Advanced).
• Understanding of Risk and Compliance concepts (Advanced).
• Analytical Skills (Moderate).
• Interpersonal and Conflict Management Skills (Advanced).
• Ability to both Drive an objective and Deliver (Advanced).

WHAT’S ON OFFER:

• Autonomy to produce excellent results and delight colleagues and customers.
• Opportunity to influence and interact with senior management
• Work in a multi –disciplinary environment
• Opportunity to discover and learn

Education

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

Work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements. Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications (Full Stack, Cross System) detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised. And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes

Job Description

To develop, produce and deliver regular and ad hoc management information to aid business decision making. Primarily responsible for delivering accurate and timely MI according to business demands. Using SQL server analysis, reporting and integration services to produce and design reports by drawing data from data warehouse is preferred.  

To support the Head of Financial Reporting and other heads of Business Banking unit. Analysis and evaluation of data received from various databases to consolidate for reporting purposes accurately and within required deadlines. Analysis of critical data received from various internal & external sources combined with insights within a predetermined deadline and reporting standard.

Accurate Report Generation:

• Deliver accurate and timely data reporting as required by the Finance Reporting and Evaluation Manager, as well as other regional team members, including production of regular and ad hoc reports.

• Complete all reporting templates for financial updates, employee participation and impacts/outcomes.

• Work closely with teams to gather accurate (i.e. improve and refine process of data gathering) data from each of the countries and business divisions within the region and consolidate into one report to send to the team by required deadlines.

• Execute Report generation over month end and on an adhoc basis

• Provide status updates on progress made against the various levels of project report generation

• Direct the various team through hands on reviews to meet the objectives and undertake on the job training where necessary (system driven)

• Responsible for adhoc reporting including month end reporting packs ie market share analysis ,any new adhoc report generation Working closely with the BA900 returns to understand the data around the competitors and how it affect the business

• Assist in producing and sourcing data for special data requests and adhoc information reports

Governance:

•  Adhere to governance framework and policies.

• • Share best practice and learning with colleagues and seek continuous improvement opportunities, maintaining a thorough understanding of relevant, up-to-date technical knowledge.

• Work with team to develop a better understanding of the business divisions and their priorities to tie in with team initiatives.

• Act as an advocate and role model in embedding Absa values and behaviours.

• Work collaboratively with colleagues to help create a highly effective function.

• Share best practice and learning with colleagues and seek continuous improvement opportunities, maintaining a thorough understanding of relevant, up-to-date technical knowledge.

• Work with team to develop a better understanding of the business divisions and their priorities to tie in with team initiatives.

• Act as an advocate and role model in embedding Absa values and behaviours.

• Work collaboratively with colleagues to help create a highly effective function.

Education and Experience Required

• Minimum B-degree (NQF level no.7) Desired Post Graduate Degree (NQF level no.8+),MI, Data qualification preferred.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Excellent analytic and problem-solving skills

• Strong communication, presentation and influencing skills

• Passion for speed and large data sets

• Basic knowledge of SQL

• MS Office Advanced

•  Financial Planning Systems

• Analyst Report Tools

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

Design automation testing plans and develop automation test scripts for multiple technical products / services (pre, during & post deployment) in both ‘Run & Change’ contexts and align to chosen application testing frameworks & guidelines. Testing may apply to all or a combination of the following front-end, back-end, integration, performance, scalability and regression testing of solutions. This entails full responsibility for ensuring products are protected through quantifiable test coverage & metrics.

Job Description

Accountability:

QA Engineering

• Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as an QA automation specialist engineer

• Actively participate in daily Scrum and project planning meetings.

• Participate and analyze test automation requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads) – using design specifications and technical documentation (e.g. Business Briefs, User Stories, Architecture & Integration documentation)

• Prepare QA & Automation testing documentation (planning, design, execution and sustainability)

• Develop automation test plans

• Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies (automated scripts, test harnesses, SQL scripts etc.)

• Perform various types of automation testing (regression, integration, black box, scalability)

• Evaluate automated test cases and analyse & report results

• Facilitate test plan / case reviews within squads

• Work with product engineers to evaluate software / solution quality & provide recommendations for improvement / enhancement

• Contribute to the design and selection of testing frameworks for business applications

• Deliver all automation & technical testing deliverables on time (always)

• Provide the required project / scrum related information / feedback on deliverables (e.g. progress, tracking, quality etc.)

• Conduct performance monitoring on applications / components of applications for which you’ve designed and executed test scripts / plans

• Produce quality and testing outcome metrics and reports

DevOps

• Follow engineering best practices and continuously improve on engineering knowledge to successfully shift our QA capability forward

• Leverage coding language understanding & expertise to deploy testing requirements for specific products / services

• Understand the full technical solution that is being tested – show interest and capability to run the technical solution & the ability to test the viability of the code being developed

• Shift from testing features to supporting & being accountable for full product delivery

Risk & Governance

• Ensure compliance with technical risk and governance requirements

• Ensure work is compliant with automation testing frameworks and standards

• Proactively identify and communicate risks ahead of need

• Participate in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management processes as required and implement mitigating actions

People

• Participate in peer reviews & continuously develop automation testing awareness & capability across squads

Education and experience required

• B-Degree or equivalent technical qualification

• Experience and understanding of Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

• Experience in developing, trouble shooting and customizing Automation scripts using Selenium

• Prior programming work experience

• Experience within the Banking Sector

• Experience with performance engineering and load testing is a huge plus.

• Experience & expertise (Basic) in coding languages such as Java, C# and some experience- in software engineering / development

• Well versed in web services paradigms such as REST and protocols such as HTTP.

• Experience working on web applications and/or web-based technologies.

• Proficient in multiple forms of test approaches for application testing including functional, cross-browser compatibility, mobile, web service, and integration testing etc..

• Proficient in UNIX/Linux environments and shell scripting.

• Proficient in basic SQL operations such as joins and views.

• Experience with SOAP, REST, RPC or other client-server API testing.

• Experience in TFS, JIRA, and Confluence a plus.

• Experience in Git or other source code management systems.

• Comfortable in AGILE development environments and cross-functional team structures.

• Experience with end-to-end SDLC, testing methodologies and test phases, including unit, assembly, system, integration, regression testing.

• Strong work ethic and integrity.

• Strong analytical abilities, troubleshooting skills, and attention to detail.

• Demonstrated ability aptitude in logical and analytical thinking, as well as display strong problem solving skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields, or equivalent work experience

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

• Meeting Timescales

• Producing Output

• Checking Things

• Examining Information

• Exploring Possibilities

• Providing Insights

• Interpreting Data

• Challenging Ideas

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