Job Opportunities at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Provides financial services to meet client specific needs to promote, market and sell Financial Solutions in accordance with relevant legislation, to meet sales targets and achieve strategic business objectives.

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
   

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Job Summary

• The Business Analyst facilitates business and cross-competency teams to understand, analyse and document relevant business functions and business requirements in completing tasks related to business solution planning, documenting and managing customer requirements. 
• The work of the BA includes process analysis; business process and requirements modelling and analysis. The role works with business stakeholders, Product Managers, UI/UX Designers, Project Management and technology partners to develop and implement business solutions on digital platforms in an agile environment.

Job Description

The Business Analyst is accountable for 

• Gathering requirements from business.
• Creating enabling documentation (Business Requirement Definition, User stories and user acceptance criteria. Defining a functional solution in accordance with the organizational needs.
• Tracking the requirements throughout the life cycle of the project.
• Translating requirements into the foundation of the User Acceptance Criteria, and working through to UAT completion and implementation.
• Providing inputs to partners during the project lifecycle (Reviewing Technical Solution Specification prepared by System Analyst and development team).
• Plan & Organise
• Prepare for requirements elicitation, conduct elicitation activities, document and confirm elicitation results
• As part of requirements analysis:
• Organise and prioritise requirements
• Specify and model requirements using organization’s methodology
• Determine assumptions and constraints
• Verify requirement for correctness and validating that they satisfy the business need
• Assess and validate proposed solutions to determine which solution fits the need.
• Validating that the verified and deployed solution meets the need.
• Work with business leaders in identifying and bringing strategic initiatives from concept to implementation.
• Ensure adequate sign off following the defined governance processes.
• Work with project leads in the planning of BA activities that are required to define the solution to a business problem including scope of work, deliverables, determine tasks and interdependencies between tasks and corresponding Business Analysis efforts, quality of the solution, consistency of BA work products and BA performance metrics for multiple projects. Plan requirements management in terms of documentation, tracing, prioritizing, creating baseline, change management etc.
• Conduct stakeholder analysis to determine appropriate stakeholders for the project or project phase and analyse stakeholder.
• Prepare a Business Analysis communication plan detailing the items for communication, the recipients, mode of communication and frequency.
• Define solution scope.
• Determine organizational readiness effectively to operate the new solution.
• Identify and communicate risk and issues that may require changes to plans and scope.
• Support the junior BAs in drafting requirements and user stories, specifications and other relevant artifacts.
• Plan and coach for adoption of new business analysis techniques and tools.
• Delivery & Support

Create requirements package

• Communicate with solution team to assure that requirements are correctly understood and implemented
• As part of requirements traceability management:
• Trace requirements (Update and maintain relationships between requirements components)              
• Perform impact analysis when changes are requested and supply this information to the change control process
• Facilitate ongoing use of requirements for impact analysis and solution maintenance.
• Facilitate reuse of requirements on related projects to encourage enterprise consistency of business models.
• Contributing to the documentation of Test Plans and work in partnership with testers to coordinate testing effort throughout its life.
• Identify, document and analyse business risk.
• Provide Implementation support by creating user documentation (e.g., manuals, training documentation, release notes).
• Support project initiation phase in eliciting high level requirements.
• Conduct Business Analysis life cycle activities for complex
• Collaborate with Product manager and project management on the planning and estimating of BA activities.
• Facilitate workshops and brainstorming sessions during requirements development phases
• Provide advisory input during initial concept phases of required solutions.
• Manage solutions and requirements scope by creating a baseline, and managing formal and informal change control on requirements.
• Coach and mentor New and Junior Business analysts.

Monitor & Evaluate 

• Utilise ABSA Tools
• Review test scenarios and test cases
• Provide necessary inputs to the testing team.
• Conduct UAT if required at times
• Plan, monitor and Report on Business Analysis performance.
• Ensure that requirements and models meet the needed quality to effectively guide further work
• Ensures that all requirements support the delivery of business value, fulfil goals and objectives, and meets a stakeholder need.
• Improve business analysis performance by taking preventative and corrective action.
• Monitor the business sector, industry, technology, infrastructure, legal and regulatory environment trends for assessing impact on the current business.
• Evaluate trends and analyse adoption of new processes and tools in business analysis.

Education and Experience Required 

• Degree or Diploma in computer science, commerce or business administration, compulsory.
• Certificate of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) or Knowledge of BABOK, advantageous.
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification, advantageous.
• Banking domain experience, compulsory.
• Minimum of 4 years’ Business Analysis experience.
• Minimum of 4 years’ Coaching and mentoring experience
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience in working in a multi discipline team fostering collaboration and team work.
• Experience in Business Analysis.
• Experience and Knowledge of Banking and Financial Services business.
• Experience in Stakeholder Management.
• Experience in Agile ways of work and user story writing is compulsory

Knowledge & Skills:

• Banking knowledge, compulsory.
• Results orientation
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good Listener
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills, giving attention to detail
• Team player – approachable, ability to share and consult others
• The ability to adapt to the requirements of the project, the needs of the sponsors, its environment and people working on it to ensure a successful outcome
• Good organizing capability
• Ability to apply analytical rigor to understand complex business scenarios
• Ability to propose ideas, practices and methods and, in particular give equal weight to the various disciplines involved on the project.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation and conflict resolution skills
• People management, mentoring and training skills Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies) 

Analysing

• Delivering Results & meeting customer expectations
• Presenting & Communicating Information
• Learning & Research
• Coping with pressure & setbacks
• Working with people

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

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Job Summary

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

Job Description

• Portfolio Management: Ensure appropriate management of respective portfolios that includes but not limited to client engagement, portfolio performance management, reporting and executing of client requirements

Business Development:

• Agree financial targets/new business targets and set out tactical plans to achieve this on an annual basis
• Risk Management: Ensure that portfolio meets the required risk management standards

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Develop, implement and execute regional Liquidity priorities and plans aligned with Cash Management Strategy , TXB Strategy.

Job Description

In this role you will be responsible for; 

• Planning, developing and growing Deposits, standardizing capabilities across ARO Markets and driving product innovation and expansion. 
• Working closely with key stakeholders to articulate the vision/ direction of the product and the product priorities. 
• Building consensus across the organisation on the product direction and priorities and obtain commitment from stakeholders across the group to align behind the product plans. 
• Taking a leadership role in the partnership with central ARO treasury, in country Treasury both from balance sheet direction and hedging strategy while working very close with the in-country cash management heads. 
• If you have strong product management skills, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, communication, and collaboration skills, then this role is for you.
• B Degree and a Post Grad Degree preferably
• 10+ years relevant working experience in Liquidity product management and in financial services/banking
• Knowledge of geographical industry players and ecosystem, as well as industry networks preferred  
• Solid knowledge of regulations, asset-liability management and funds transfer pricing practices, regulatory & market practices and bank operation

Education

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