Jobs at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

Accountability area 1: Sales Strategy 

• Responsible for the overall Absa Insurance Company (AIC)  strategy and execution through effective partnering with the relevant stakeholders, both internal and external in alignment with the BU and Cluster objectives.
• Develop plans to penetrate and expand the targeted segments and market opportunities.
• Drive profitable growth through fostering closer alignment with the open market.
• Identify and implement relevant strategic, tactical, and other support interventions to meet objectives.
• Identify appropriate products for distribution and give input into product development.
• Understand the customer and partner needs to develop and drive the customer and partner propositions across the relevant segments and Regions.
• Manage the key inter-relationships / dependencies between the overall sales planning, execution functions residing within business and enablement functions to ensure alignment between functional areas and overall AIC  and to ensure that the overall business strategy, together with the key measurements are delivered and realised.
• Driving communication for the formal Sales Agenda and key themes across the business at different Management layers / audiences at the various Exco, Manco, meetings and at the various Forums to ensure alignment across the AIC community.
• Establish value-based strategy for all leads and sales opportunities within Absa Insurance Company  across all portfolios.
• Provide business insights based on trends, competitor offerings and global best practices as it relates to Absa Insurance Company  .
• Contribute as a key ExCo member to the overall agenda internally and with external stakeholders, ensuring that the AIC agenda is appropriately managed and reported to all requisite stakeholders, in particular the Absa Insurance Company ExCo.

Accountability 2: Stakeholder Management 

• Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships that enhance distribution network.
• Actively promote and manage the collaborative engagement of internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, suppliers, clients, service providers, business partners and other Absa entities
• Pro-actively drive up the integration into the different areas of the bank to achieve sustainable profitable growth.
• Build and develop relationships across the Absa Group with various stakeholders with the intention of improving collaboration to maximize business growth.
• Accountable to lead and drive up the visibility and clearly communicate the STI value proposition to PSC and Absa Group colleagues and customers.
• Foster collaboration with Bank stakeholders to jointly identify partnership opportunities to benefit the wider franchise and drive- up growth. 

Accountability 3: Client-Driven Innovation and Growth

• Stay abreast of industry trends and role players and ensure that AIC is well-positioned to provide competitive and industry-leading products and services.
• Provide input into the overall AIC experience.
• Strategically influence the development of products and services that meet or exceed customer needs and expectations, creating stakeholder value.
• Build and maintain trusting relationships with key customers, clients, partners, and stakeholders.
• Identify technology solutions to streamline sales processes and leverage technology solutions to enhance efficiencies.

Accountability 4:  Data Monetisation

• Consider the explicit use of data and its inherent value to explore opportunities, plan and guide all decisions for execution.
• Use data to obtain a quantifiable economic benefit for the area of accountability, leveraging internal or indirect capacity to make measurable business performance improvements and inform decisions accordingly.

Accountability 5:  People Management

• Create an innovative, high-performance culture.
• Set up clear plans to grow talent by supporting them to make the transition to Exco succession bench.
• Ensure effective implementation of group standards for formal Performance Development.
• Working with the People Lead and other executives, develop a learning and development strategy that will address the current and future business needs.
• Ensure there is a clear plan to support the enterprise and BU transformation objectives and ensure this is implemented. 
• With the support from the People Lead, establish a clear plan to attract and retain diverse talent to support business ‘s current and future needs.  
• Working with the People Lead and your senior management team, ensure that the key insights from the EOS are understood in detail and clear remedial plans are implemented. 

Accountability area 6:  Risk Management, Governance and Control 

• Maintain a BU Risk Dashboard and ensure adequate controls are in place for the BU to remains at acceptable risk appetite.
• Enforce a culture of proactive compliance and risk management at all levels within the BU.
• Work with the Risk & Governance team  to determine action plans to effectively reduce and manage risk related to audit findings, Compliance and Risk issues.
• Actively drive the closure of actions and review the issue assurance testing conducted on all closed items.
• Actively monitor the timely completion of Group Compliance assessment and training within the BU
• Ensure compliance with all the applicable banking and insurance regulatory laws, standards, and best practices.
• Implement appropriate systems and controls in accordance with approved risk appetite  and consistent with internal policies and procedures, both from a Banking and Insurance regulations perspective
• Address any identified inadequacies or gaps in the control environment and timeously escalate same through the Absa governance structures, were material and justifiable.

Education

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: 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

• 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

• Responsible for identifying and executing on continuous improvement opportunities, reporting and updating the knowledge management system. 
• Oversees and conducts the conversion of data into insights that will lead to informed business decisions. Works directly with stakeholders within the assigned departments. 
• The MI/BI Analyst will have to handle multiple simultaneous tasks, prioritize work, and remain functional under pressure, and aggressive timelines. Skilled in programming (Data querying). 
• Stakeholder, Data warehousing and Reporting engagements, which translates stakeholders information needs to data sourcing and display/communication. 
• Optimize suboptimal existing reporting processes.

Job Description

Key accountabilities

• Analytics - Analyze the credit risk data to support the various risk strategy teams in the day to day reporting needs using SAS Enterprise Guide, Advanced Excel and Visualisation tools and any tool that may be identified for analysis from time to time.  A basic understanding of interaction with warehouses (SQL, Hadoop or /and Teradata).
• Insights - Development of sustainable BI solutions to address business needs, and identify opportunities to improve processes with technology solutions and identify development needs in order to improve and streamline operations.
• Networking - Build and maintain relationships within relevant business units by creating an understanding of their requirements and gather feedback.  Liaise with stakeholders and keep them updated on progress of the development of requirements.  Communicates data driven insights to business analyst and/or business stakeholders.  Responds timeously and professionally to ad hoc business requests
• Resourcefulness - ability to find efficient and innovative ways to overcome challenges. Ability to adapt and solve problems creatively and is highly self motivated/driven.

Preferred Education

• Bachelor Degree in Business, Commerce and Management Studies and/or Computer sciences, Information Management and/or BMI

Required Skills

• Understanding of basic data warehousing concepts (Querying, table relationships etc.)
• Analytical tools e.g. SAS, SQL, CA Workload Automation (WADE), Power BI etc.
• Microsoft Suite (Excel, Power Point etc.)
• Systematic Reasoning
• Analytical thinking  
• Interpretation of analytic results and translating them into management information

Education

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

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Job Summary

• We are seeking a dedicated and experienced Business Risk Officer to direct and manage the overall risk management process within our specific Business Units. This role is consistent with Absa Africa Risk and Group Risk Management policies and requires operational risk experience with payments, data risk, data analytics and an understanding of fraud and cyber risk.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to the development of Group Methodology and implement and maintain the risk management process. 
• Conduct ad-hoc risk assessments, sign-off on new products and initiatives, and get involved in special investigations. 
• Define the Risk Appetite and Tolerance for the various risks faced in collaboration with the business and ensure that Key Risk Indicators are monitored and actively managed. 
• Ensure that employees are adequately equipped to fulfill the various risk-related roles they play, and that the appropriate risk governance structures are in place. 
• Monitor and report on risk issues and on the overall risk profile of the business. 
• Roll-out Group Risk Initiatives. 

Education and Experience Required: 

• Business degree or equivalent NQF level 6 – Essential 
• Business-oriented bachelor’s degree [e.g. Accounting, Law, Business Management, etc.] – Preferred 
• 5-7 years’ experience in the relevant business sector. 
• 2 years’ experience in a risk management discipline. 
• it would be beneficial if you have experience/exposure to risk management in other African Markets (besides SA)

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: 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)