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Job Summary

• As a Specialist Software Asset Management Analyst in the Absa Software Asset Management team, you will implement, manage and maintain the integrity of the software asset management estate in the bank in line with Absa Software policies, standards, and rights to use.
• An ideal Specialist Software Asset Management Analyst will have proven knowledge and experience in ITSM Change, Incident and Request Management, Software License Management, Software provisioning, and reclamation technologies.  He/she will have the ability to combine these skills with strong technical, analytical and governance strengths, to implement, manage and maintain software remediation and optimisation practices. She/he will have a passion for problem-solving, analyzing complex scenarios, and continual service improvement across the software asset management lifecycle and will be able to turn insights into actionable and sustainable solutions.

Job Description

Software Audit Enablement

• Take accountability for deeply understanding the organisation’s current and future Technology roadmap and the impact on the IT Assets managed by Software Asset Management
• Monitor and regularly audit and report on the IT asset inventory for the organization in scope for Software Asset Management, ensuring alignment up to key field level between the CMDB and Software Asset Management Flexera platform
• Monitor Flexera Software Inventory agent and agent infrastructure in terms of health, new versions, patches, and technical configuration
• Monitor software asset management estate visibility of 98% against agreed inventory discovery sources for the physical, virtual and cloud-based platforms
• Monitor the software application library in the Software Asset Management tool, Flexera, ensuring all application evidence is recognised as accurately classified applications, taking appropriate actions to remediate when required
• Provide Software and Hardware inventory and baseline support and reporting as input to software audits, reviews, and renewals, including remediation activities to ensure accurate license management consumption statements
• Enable, manage and support any internal or external software asset management audits, continuously expanding on data, reporting availability, and automation between source data sets in support of software asset management audits

Software Use Right Compliance and Remediation

• Implement and maintain software asset lifecycle management leading practices and processes for the organization to enable and manage lifecycle governance
• Manage and maintain the Software Application Lifecycle catalog to ensure an accurate lifecycle and use right status for new and existing applications in use in the estate
• Manage and monitor and report on application lifecycle status in the bank
• Manage, monitor, and take remedial action on unauthorised application deployments in the estate, including communication, reporting, and software removal
• Manage and execute required processes and reporting for remediations, breaches, and audits by collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders as needed
• Implement, maintain and manage the visibility of usage or installations of applications or subscriptions not visible to software inventory toolsets in the estate, such as SaaS applications
• Manage and monitor software request provisioning, installation reinstatement or Adhoc installations against product lifecycle status and use rights. Manage and oversee remediation or corrective action to ensure governance adherence

Software Asset Management Tribe Support and Enablement

• Enable and manage first line support triggers for the Software Asset Management tribe to ensure OLA and SLA compliance
• Enable and manage Software Asset Management services and related SAM and ITSM processes

Governance, Risk, Compliance

• Apply the group risk, governance, compliance, regulatory frameworks, and standards, including SAM policies, standards, processes, and risks
• Audit and monitor software asset management group and internal controls (governance)
• Provide inputs and reporting requirements or coordinate relevant processes for all internal/external risk, regulatory, compliance, and governance-related process for managed services provisioning across the estate
• Implement and maintain knowledge management and data management processes for the successful governance of software asset management activities
• Implement and maintain relevant, accurate and timely governance, risk, and compliance information
• Implement, maintain, monitor Software Asset Management Risk Framework
• Conduct internal audits of all Software Asset Management Processes
• Software Asset Management process risk and remediation - Manage, monitor, remediate

People

• Proactively and effectively (time and quality) collaborate and drive collaboration across teams where it makes sense (e.g. managing dependencies and interdependencies, conflict resolution, information and best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area, etc.)
• Apply collaboration skills in business reviews and issue resolution regardless of team boundaries and lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion
• Contribute to high-performance team environment and culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned agile working environment
• Leverage coaching techniques in all team/service provider related activity to drive a higher quality ITAM service
• Proactively seek and provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team and leverage feedback to consistently improve ITAM service delivery
• Participate in peer reviews, problem-solving within and across the broader team

Preferred Education

• Relevant Information Technology Bachelor`s Degrees and/or Diplomas
• CSAM / IAITAM or recognized related Software Asset Management Certification
• ITIL Certification and firm understanding and practice experience with ITIL best practices

Preferred Experience

• 5+ Years’ experience as a Software License Manager
• Solid experience with IT Service Management and Software Asset Management processes and platforms
• Solid Experience interpreting software application use rights on current and emerging platforms
• Solid experience in Software Asset Management Audit and Governance practices, policies, and standards
• Solid experience with Technology infrastructure and platforms

Desired Knowledge

• Familiar with SCCM, JAMF, ServiceNow, and IT Inventory tools and data
• Familiar with cloud technologies such as Amazon, Google, Azure, and SaaS software applications
• An in-depth understanding of IT components (infrastructure, software, PCs, Databases) and how they interact
• Familiarity with hardware and software technology and configurations including cloud/virtualization technologies
• Ability to partner and collaborate with multiple key internal and external stakeholders, including Procurement, Legal, Finance, Sourcing, Vendor Management, IT Asset and Configuration Management, Product Owners (Software Owners), Architects, Administrators, Engineers, User Groups, Vendors/Resellers, to help collect, organize and obtain critical information required for  Software Asset Management audits, remediations and governance breaches
• Bring to the table some of the industry best practices in Software Governance and Audits, associated processes including Software requisition and fulfillment, procurement, asset management, systems automation, and general project management
• A firm understanding and experience with managing and maintaining a technology catalog to present the IT Asset lifecycle, governance, and operational status
• Be a strong team player, collaborate effectively with key stakeholders to define, document, and agree on SAM requirements across the software lifecycle to ensure governance compliance and audit readiness
• A mindset to continuously improve SAM processes and procedures

Desired Skills

• Strong process analysis capability to deliver on audits and governance requirements
• Strong analytical and communication skills to prepare and present accurate reporting
• Strong data, reporting, and analytics skills using tools such as Excel, Power BI, or similar
• Strong time-management and prioritisation skills
• Detail-oriented and highly organized
• Skilled in negotiation and project management
• Excellent critical thinking skills

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 provide specialist advice and support in the development and implementation of business analysis and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques. Develop and maintain commercial models, which include the calculation, predicting or estimation of the financial impact of a new business venture or proposition. These models can range from simple formulae to complex computer programs, including discounted cash flow or value-at-risk methodologies, applicable across a variety of financial and business areas including forecasting future needs, calculating the valuation of a tangible or intangible asset or the size of the market opportunity and to quantify and predict the inherent associated impact thereof.

Job Description

• Building and verifying Information: Check different types of information for accuracy and inconsistency | Business Analysis: To provide specialist business analysis to deliver on projects | Meeting deadlines: Completes tasks timeously | Dealing with Stakeholders: Taking responsibility for managing the expectations of stakeholders

Commercial Finance Execution Accountabilities 

• 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.
• 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 RBB in performance reporting.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for RBB Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory and reporting).
• Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate.
• 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.
• Determine the business objective or purpose wherein the commercial solution is going to be utilised. Meet with business stakeholders, where necessary to discuss and clearly define the scope of the analysis, to ensure that relevant & value-add commercial solutions are developed to aid effective decision making by the business stakeholders.
• Utilise various data mining techniques and methodologies to produce the commercial solutions required to assist business stakeholders. This may necessitate the development of statistical models to discover the variables or factors that are correlated with/accountable for a particular trend or outcome. Statistical modelling will also be utilized to predict or forecast the probabilities of certain outcomes being realised.
• Develop extraction programmes to extract the data from the relevant data bases and undertake data preparation of the extracted data in order to correct problems. This involves inter alia checking for and correcting the following data issues ; (i) univariate normality, (ii) multivariate normality, (iii) homoscedasticity, (iv) multi-colinearity, (v) relative variances, (vi) outliers, (vii) missing data.
• Build the statistical model: 1) build the initial model on the training data set, 2) use the validation data set to adjust the initial model, 3) apply the model on the test data set to gauge the likely effectiveness of the model. Undertake technical assessment of the statistical model to determine the error rate (false negatives and false positives) or residuals (difference between the predicted score and the actual measure score).
• Utilise a confusion matrix or lift chart where appropriate. Run the statistical model on the relevant target population, and score all entities in the target population.
• Profile and analyse the data to identify significant trends and patterns that would serve to create insight for business stakeholders. Develop professional presentations of these analyses and present findings and recommendations to the business stakeholders.
• Prepare technical documentation on the SAS extraction programme and the statistical modelling process followed. Include the relevant SAS procedures (PROCs).
• Proactively analyse and identify problem areas and plan/implement steps for process improvement to impact quality and production based on results of analytics work.
• Support the reverse engineering of existing solutions where required.

Financial Reporting Accountabilities

• 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 RBB 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.

People Investment Accountabilities

• Peer responsibility: Coach, inspire, engage, mentor and develop finance and business savvy leaders.
• Network with finance colleagues across GFD and create awareness of challenges, opportunities and issues and encourage collaboration
• Focus on Finance skills evolution and remaining relevant.
• Embrace the value of finance partnership in Big Data, Advanced Analytics, mergers and acquisitions, and partnerships into the core of our business.
• Ensure deep personal understanding of income statement, balance sheet, margin returns, variance analysis, capital and liquidity requirements, revenues, assets, liabilities and capital, expenses, headcount analytics and other key ratios through relevant business engagement.
• Build effective working relationships with business stakeholders to develop a detailed understanding of their business imperatives and objectives.
• Maintain an interactive process with stakeholders as the analytical solution is being developed - present and receive feedback on work-in-progress.
• Perform a consultancy role with business stakeholders. Present the final analytical outputs to stakeholders and assist in interpreting the results and providing advice & recommendations on the implementation of actions.
• Educate users where required on the design or how to utilise the solution.
• Minimum B-degree (NQF level no.7) Desired Post Graduate Degree (NQF level no.8+), Masters: Mathematics and/or Mathematical Statistics
• 10+ Years’ experience in delivering MI / BI solutions

Knowledge and skills:

• Experience in executing finance processes.
• Experience in commercial innovation environments
• Broad Finance including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects
• Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment
• Knowledge of building collaborative work environments

Education

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

• Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us
• With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Description

• Do you want to be part of a go-to quant team that develops trusted model solutions for business stakeholders? Would you like to future-proof your career in a challenging and changing business environment through growing your exposure to the data and statistics field?
• Join a diverse team of dynamic model developers.  We are looking for experienced Model Development Managers with a background as quantitative analysts developing PD, LGD and EAD models for Regulatory Capital and Impairments (IFRS9) models in a banking or consulting environment.

Please apply on the Absa Job Opportunities site for this exciting opportunity.

We will expect you to take ownership of the full end-to-end model development lifecycle (development, implementation and governance) to meet relevant business as usual and project timelines.

• You will be leading a team of modelling analysts and your role will include mentoring, performance management, talent management and succession planning
• You will be accountable for ensuring that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, risk management frameworks and internal policies and standards and understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the process.
• You will also play an active role in providing directional expertise to enhance model building skills across the team, including transferring knowledge and experience to junior team members and peers, and keep up with industry trends to ensure increased capacity to build models.
• Your ability to effectively manage stakeholders across different functions is key.
• A successful candidate will hold at least an honours degree in Statistics, Business Mathematics and Informatics (BMI) or Mathematical Statistics or a related field with a minimum of 6 years’ experience in statistical model development or validation in a Business Banking or Investment Banking environment with process and people management experience preferred.

Please submit your full CV and academic transcripts when applying.

Education

• Bachelor Honours Degree: Actuarial Science, Bachelor Honours Degree: Applied Mathematics, Bachelor Honours Degree: BMI - Business Management and Informatics, Bachelor Honours Degree: Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology, Bachelor Honours Degree: Statistics (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

• The Lead: Strategy and CVP is accountable to develop and deliver a customer centric strategy through developing deep understanding of client segmentation with market leading client value proposition development and implementation, service model improvement (encompassing people, process, system, and technology and culture interventions). 
• Lead:  Strategy and CVP is expected to work across multiple different business areas and strategic topics.  The role requires ability to manage high complexity and ambiguity while being able to integrate insights from multiple sources

Job Description

Education

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: 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 provide advice and support in banking analytics practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist expertise.

Job Description

• Analysis and Research: - Conducts analysis and research in areas of specialisation/expertise, leveraging a variety of applicable information's sources; - Analyses information, generates and publishes written reports summarising findings and prepares recommendations within area of expertise; - Quality assures analysis and recommendations | Stakeholder Management:: - Establish relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to source information and make recommendations to; - Build relationships with stakeholders spanning the enterprise in order to collaborate and share findings and recommendations. | Control: : Accountable for complying with all risk management, regulatory and compliance frameworks within area of accountability; Where applicable ensures that colleagues managed are aware of and comply with all compliance requirements. | : | : | : | : | :

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 Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The high level duties of the role:

• Receive instructions from customers to capture and approve requests telephonically, or via generic e-mail address.
• Verify that the requests are legitimate and meet all regulatory standards
• Check the completeness of the request (account number, account name, etc.).
• Execute instructions of all incoming work received from different Branches and Stakeholders.
• Check data on compliant letter provided to service providers to ensure accuracy of information.
• Diligent follow-ups with service providers to ensure that client requests are honored.
• Contact customers when needed to support switching campaigns and drive switching targets
• Provide customer support on switching enquiries, and case follow ups

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Matric or equivalent NQF level 4 qualification
• Higher Certificate/Diploma or NQF level 5 qualification preferred
• At least 1 year experience and exposure to Call/Service/Contact Centre environment which includes back office administration and processing
• Processing experience in a Bank preferred
• At least 1 year experience in client services preferred

Knowledge & Skills:

• Sales knowledge
• Computer literacy
• Language proficiency
• Telephone etiquette
• Basic knowledge of Financial Industry products.
• Excellent time management
• Listening skills
• Ability to build rapport with customers and team

Personal:

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

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

• Our Converged Security Office prides itself in its unique structure that sees an integration and collaboration model between our Information Risk, Cyber, Resilience, Physical Security & Forensics teams to ensure effective risk management across all disciplines.  It also carries the responsibility of owning, operationally supporting and maintaining specialist security services to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and availability of infrastructure and information to our customers in order to meet industry and regulatory requirements and good practice.
• You will be tasked to detect, prevent, investigate and recover on fraud, theft and corruption matters reported (Group Wide) by identifying, assessing, mitigating and reducing losses.

Job Description

Investigations

• Investigate all fraud, theft, corruption cases allocated, end to end, (irrespective of the level or sensitivity) by ensuring that all investigative / operating methodologies (e.g. planning, reporting) are adhered to within the prescribed time limits.
• Assess all new cases allocated on the Case Management System (CIES) and take appropriate actions to reduce mitigate and prevent further losses / potential losses to the Bank, by imposing General Security Message holds, circulating warning messages and immediate recoveries from accounts and other banks etc.
• Conduct proper planning on investigations by determining the direction to be followed (e.g. interviewing of suspects, obtaining of evidence) with continuous feedback and one on one discussions with Stakeholders (e.g. Retail Business Bank, Face 2 Face, AVAF).
• Conduct a proper risk assessment with each investigation, which includes quantification of the loss, insurance claims, media impact / exposure, blocking accounts, claims, provisions, risk mitigation and compliance reporting, Ombudsman queries and engaging with Group Legal Services etc.
• Obtain all relevant evidence related to the investigation, analyse, evaluate the evidence, and determine what evidence is admissible or inadmissible in order to make meaningful observations / conclusions on the findings.
• Ensure timeous compliance regarding specific reporting requirements, differentiate and identify relevance to each investigation: Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act (PRECCA), Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA), Insurance (i.e. Marsh), Head Office Exchange Control (HOEC), Anti-Bribery and Corruption Act (ABAC), South African Fraud Prevention Services (SAFPS) and South African Banking Risk Intelligence Centre (SABRIC) etc.
• Make meaningful and factually based recommendations to Stakeholders, with regard to the raising of provisions / refunds to clients/ repudiations / recovery actions and write-offs to conclude the financial aspects of an investigation.
• Maintain and update "Significant Cases" PowerPoint updates on a monthly basis to keep EXCO members appraised of losses / risks exposed during the course of an investigation.
• Interview internal and external suspects, witnesses and victims and obtain written statements to conclude investigation findings for disciplinary hearings, criminal and civil matters etc.
• Capture all fixed fields listed on the CIES system - per case - for management information and statistical purposes (accurately and timeously).
• Compile a comprehensive case report containing the factual findings of the investigation, recommendations addressing people, processes, procedures and system failures or internal and external threats and forward the final report to Stakeholders, Employee Relations (ER), Group Legal Services etc.
• Ensure that each investigation has an accurate, value-adding conclusion, which is shared and discussed with Business for them to understand the investigation findings in order to make informed /appropriate decisions (e.g. financial recommendations, risk assessments and disciplinary recommendations).
• Provide feedback to Heads of Business Units / other Stakeholders insofar as investigation findings and recommendations are concerned via face to face meeting /e-mail correspondence or executive reporting where applicable for business to be appraised on the investigation status.
• Provide assistance / support to other internal investigators by conducting cross province investigations /interviews / obtaining of evidence (work load distribution, cost saving etc.).
• Provide relevant findings and evidence for the use in disciplinary purposes and CCMA matters to Line Management and Employee Relations to ensure that appropriate and successful sanctions are handed down. Attend disciplinary / CCMA hearings when required.
• Meet with the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to provide expert witness evidence in the relevant Magistrate / Regional and Supreme Courts of South Africa, for aggravation of sentence in court regarding criminal matters.
• Attend criminal / civil court proceedings when summons to do so, to provide expert evidence in Court, relating to Absa's products, processes and flow of transactions to obtain successful prosecutions.

Risk Identification and Fraud Prevention

• Identify fraud risks and or emerging risks during the course of an investigation or interactions with internal /external stakeholders; escalated upon discovery, to the relevant Business Unit and the Fraud Defense/Strategy Recoveries and Remediation Department for assessment and closing of "gaps" related to processes, policies and systems.
• Make recommendations and suggest solutions on how to close the gaps identified through the CIES Control Breakdown fixed field.
• Participate in the monthly Fraud Defense/Strategy meetings on cases, which meets the set criteria; to provide factual / updated information on risks and the mitigation thereof.
• Identify high-risk Business areas, through feedback received from parties attending risk forums / investigations outcomes and perform specific fraud awareness presentations at the respective Business Units to the identified staff.
• Provide subject matter input into the training awareness material, to ensure that it remains relevant and up to date.
• Inform Heads of Business via e-mail of new trends / scams identified with further escalation to Stakeholders and Business Units for further actions.
• Report qualifying risk incidents, as per the criteria set out in the Operation Risk / Financial Crime Management Incident Reporting Procedures in order to adhere to compliance requirements.
• Establish meaningful relationships with various Corporate Company's Fraud Departments i.e. Other Banks, SARS, Cell Phone Company¡¦s s etc., for fraud networking purposes and the sharing of information regarding new trends / scams.
• Prepare and circulate warning messages to Business Units / Stakeholders - via e-mail - concerning trends, scams and risk identifications etc., to prevent further losses.

Operational Requirements and Compliance 

• Identify areas of improvement, make suggestions / recommendations on ways of working, concerning the investigative and operating methodologies to line management for further consideration, to improve standards and workflow.
• Adhere to the Data Privacy / Information Security, Access Control etc., policies at all times and to the Absa's Clean Desk Policy.
• Adhere to all mandates i.e. Corporate Credit Card-, travel and accommodation policies etc., with due regard to the guidelines specified.
• Work co-operatively with colleagues, contributing positively and constructively to the achievement of the organizations' objectives.

Role Requirements:

Essential

• Diploma in Forensic Investigation and Criminal Justice or
• At least 5 years' experience in the Retail Banking environment
• Valid Driver's License

Preferred

• Equivalent Degree
• Experience in the fraud investigation environment.
• General knowledge of Risk Management and Principles of Risk Management.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Influencing and negotiating - Advanced
• Team management skills - team building and leadership - Solid
• Communication skills - verbal and written - Advanced
• Ability to work independently and under pressure - Advanced
• Relationship management and networking - Advanced
• Analytical skills - Advanced
• Risk management - Solid
• Report writing - Advanced
• Problem solving ability - Advanced
• Conflict management - Solid
• PC Literacy - Solid
• Understanding of the Criminal-, Civil- and Labour Law - Advanced
• Investigation skills - Advanced
• Banking product, policy and procedural knowledge - Expert
• Interviewing technique - Advanced

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Law, Military Science and Security (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

• Work as part of an agile team to provide application support for specified tech products & services. This includes first line support & basic optimization, administration, configuration, maintenance & trouble shooting / problem solving with end users of these tech products & services.

Job Description

• Absa’s CIB technology team provides technology support to the organization’s Corporate and Investment Banking sector.  This IT Services team is specifically dedicated to our Markets business area and is responsible for the support, enhancement and maintenance of all Trade and Post Trade vendor and bespoke application suites that fall within the Markets business area.

Key critical requirements:

• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science
• 3+ years Linux experience
• Strong Linux OS commands and shell script skills - especially sed and awk
• Knowledge/Work experience on Python
• Knowledge/Work experience on Ansible/Puppet/Terraform
• Working experience in Application Support in fast-paced environment
• Experience in working with users directly
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills in critical times
• Should be able to work independently, self-motivated, quick learner with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Willingness to work standby or overtime as required
• Windows Server support/troubleshooting
• Reading and understanding of config files
• Working experience in a Financial institution

Key responsibilities:

• Advise on software installation and upgrades, troubleshoot problems and provide resolutions.
• Receive and screen user programming requests for new applications or modifications, and determine appropriate priority and response.
• Develop and communicate training and documentation for end users.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and customers, external solution providers, and IT stakeholders for application support specific requirements
• Oversee application implementation and configuration, patches, upgrades and maintenance, and ensure that application performance meets agreed SLAs and OLAs
• Advantageous/Optional

Knowledge and working experience on some of the following:

• Containers and Orchestration Platform such as Kubernetes and OpenShift, OpenStack
• Software Development Platform integration GitHub, and related Cloud, DevOps and CI/CD matters.
• Working experience in Front Arena (Development or Support)
• ITIL certification
• AWS certification

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

• Our Converged Security Office prides itself in its unique structure that sees an integration and collaboration model between our Information Security, Cyber, Business Continuity, Physical Security & Forensics teams to ensure effective risk management across all disciplines. 
• You will drive risk, assurance and compliance objectives; developing, implementing and maintaining risk and compliance (Risk, Audits, Regulatory etc.) initiatives, in line with absa guidelines.

Job Description

What you’ll get to do:

The role reports to the Head of Cyber Risk and your accountabilities will include the following:

• Internal and External Audit involvement during planning stage of all audits in the area. Review audit reports and factual accuracy of reports and that correct action owners were identified. Review the feasibility of agreed actions. Facilitate closure of audit findings
• Maintain a list of all applications managed by the area's Head of Technology classify them according to risk exposure
• Roll out Risk and Control Assessments (or equivalent) and capture and maintained the results on the relevant system
• Act as a liaison between Business Risk and the technology teams to ensure that Resilience risk is adequately considered in the overall risk profile for that business
• Assist in setting Resilience risk thresholds and the related key indicators as well as the measurement thereof
• Remediation tracking by recording remediation plans on the relevant system and facilitate closure for all risk and control weaknesses identified
• Track and monitor the adequate on time remediation of observations raised by assurance providers, relevant to the portfolio, including the production of the closure or milestone conversion documents .Ensure this is done through progress tracking with control owners, status reporting to stakeholders and obtaining assurance for adequacy of remediation activities
• Engage with technology management and senior management to discuss and manage overall progress against remediation plans
• Ensure that all closure and/or conversion documents are reviewed by the appropriate stakeholders before being submitted to Senior Management and Absa Internal Audit
• Ensure accurate delivery on special risk and compliance projects initiated in CSO
• Identify all high/medium risk projects in the area and track RAG status from a risk perspective. Be involved in project assurance reviews where required

What do you need to get in?

• NQF level 6 B Degree in Risk Management/Audit/or equivalent Advanced Diploma
• CISA/CISSP/CISM/CGERT/PMP or any other IT Governance related qualification
• 1 - 2 years’ experience in a technology risk/cyber security/audit environment
• 1 - 2 years exposure to risk management practices and a good understanding of control structures
• 1 - 2 years job relevant experience in a corporate environment (preferably Banking environment)
• Solid knowledge on the understanding and application of risk, compliance and control measures for Technology & Cyber Security. Business organisation and industry understanding.
• Strong understanding of Technology & Cyber Security operations, processes, risks and controls
• Strong interpersonal, communication, facilitation and negotiation skills
• Self-confidence and assertiveness/persuasiveness
• Take ownership of the assigned portfolio with proactive response to potential risk matters
• If you’re passionate about working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to the exciting world of Risk by leading from the front, we would love to hear from you!

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (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 Description

• The 12 month Learnership program targets exceptional, unemployed, degreed individuals with a passion for the Banking Industry and a strong drive to grow within a thriving environment. Learners will enjoy on-the-job learning, numerous training opportunities and will be required to complete a fully funded NQF Level 5 qualification.
• A basic monthly stipend will be paid to all Learners.

To mention a few, some of the areas recruiting for 2022 are:

• Group Procurement
• Group Centre Finance
• Product Control Group
• Retail Business Bank
• COO, Management & Change

Essential requirements:

• Matric
• NQF Level 7 or 8 qualification within the following disciplines:
• Accounting
• Economics
• Finance
• Law
• Supply Chain Management 
• Logistics
• Information Management
• Administration
• Tax
• Management Sciences
• Mathematics
• Statistics     
• Risk Management
• Any other BSc/Bcom degree
• English: read, write, speak

Applicants must not be permanently employed and may not have more than 1 year’s work experience

Proficient on Microsoft Suite of Applications

Applicants cannot be registered with another Learnership

Applicants must be South African citizens

Checks that will be performed:

• Full credit checks
• Full criminal checks
• Previous references
• Dismissal history

Documentation required:

• Detailed CV with contactable references
• Certified copy of ID
• Certified copy of all certificates (incl. Matric) and qualifications
• Full academic transcripts
• Proof of address not older than 3 months

Education

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: 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 provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist Human Resources expertise. 
• Preference will be given to candidates with previous experience within the Technology Industry.

Job Description

Commercial awareness and strategic partnering: 

• Demonstrates a deep understanding of the global market place, competitive position and commercial drivers for a complex, large scale business.\
• Uses business acumen/perspective to translate the Business Unit strategy into a clear people agenda within the direction set by the bank and global People function for a business with multiple core lines of business.
• Is a strategic partner to the Business Unit CEO’s/functional leaders in a fast moving, complex and developing environment.
• Uses analytics, data and trends both internally and externally to diagnose Business Unit issues and recommend effective solutions.
• Manages external networks and is well connected in the appropriate bodies to shape the external perception of Absa Group Limited to be in a position to attract the best capabilities to the organisation and have influence in the market place.
• Articulates strategy and is able to translate into actions and results for the function.

Trusted Advisor: 

• Owns the relationship with the Business Unit leadership as a trusted advisor.
• Exemplary coach and sounding board to the CEO and other senior leaders in the business.
• Demonstrates influence and credibility with senior leaders across the business.
• Actively assists the CEO to build the effectiveness and develop the top team appropriately.

 
Ownership of the end-to-end HR delivery: 

• Operates as the relationship manager for the customer base and is responsible for broking People Specialist and Operations to execute on the defined people strategy.
• Works with the Business Unit leadership to identify and develop talent and robust succession for the area.
• Has a high level of focus on customer relations. Drives a culture of customer centricity and responsiveness across all People Function teams.
• Able to prioritise, manage and lead a team of specialist to deliver across a Pan African agenda.
• Drive the delivery of key People initiatives through employing the appropriate change and project management disciplines across the People value chain.
• Takes the business priorities and translate these into People Strategies and takes end-to-end ownership for delivering the following key People processes to their client by undertaking the following:
• Translate business strategy into people strategy and ensuring that workforce planning is embedded whilst providing People analytics that deliver relevant insights.
• Support and drive major change and People Function Projects.
• Specify capability gaps and define talent pools in conjunction with the Functional Leader.
• Takes ownership of strategic resource planning and delivery and participate in executive and senior role hiring.
• Takes responsibility for Business Unit talent reviews, succession planning activities and talent and capability development.
• Deliver Leadership and Learning programmes via specialists, specifies internal capability gaps and ensure relevant assessments, development and coaching in place.
• Drive the Business Unit reward and performance strategy and provide input and manage the executive compensation and ownership of pay cycle and reward plan delivery.
• Ensure effective employee engagement for the Business Unit in conjunction with the Functional Leader, supporting the People Operations planning and service quality management.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Human and Social 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 Description

Key Responsibilities 

Accountability: Set business plans and contribute to strategic objectives 

• Partner with Fraud strategy to develop the fraud strategy based on data driven insights translating strategic plans into operational processing objectives and tactical plans, ensuring a competitive processing offering to Absa
• Own the engagement for operational leadership between Fraud Operations and Fraud Strategy in line with the strategic direction of Fraud Risk Management.
• Position Fraud Operations as a strategic partner to Fraud Strategy and SBU’s
• Direct and actively market the various services and solutions that Fraud Processing offers.
• Define and deliver an operating model to support delivery of shared services for Fraud operations.
• Continually interpret and understand the external and internal environment to clarify strategic positioning of the unit and drive agreement on the best direction to capitalize on opportunities and mitigation of operational risks.
• Design, translate and implement high-level operational plans, directing and driving performance progress.
• Define the operational architecture which includes people, process and systems for the respective areas to effectively meet and exceed customer expectations specified in service level agreements.
• Enhance the economic value proposition by achieving operational efficiencies through process and technological innovation and enablement.
• Proactively engage in the identification and driving of the need for effective change within the industry through attendance at relevant forums, colleague engagement and understanding of the industry, aligning the business plan and operations accordingly.
• Continually align process efficiency and risk mitigation with current and future strategic requirements
• Engage, understand and leverage Fraud Ops strategies (people, processes and systems), being established across the Group, to drive global common best practice solutions.

Accountability: Business and Operations management 

• Drive the alignment of Fraud Operations services with the requirements of Fraud Strategy
• Lead rigorous demand management (SLA determination, forecasting & variance analysis) aligned with balanced capacity management (resource & material requirements planning).
• Lead master production scheduling and load-balancing of resources to ensure optimal delivery and efficiency in operations.
• Govern budget planning (including, operational, capital and project investment) as well as conformance to financial plans, ensuring that financial and other benefits derived from projects are tracked and achieved.
• Negotiate and agree performance targets, taking accountability for overall achievement of objectives across Fraud Operations within BSSA.
• Oversee continuous improvement in the analysis of processing systems and information technology architecture, driving recommendations for enhancements to Group and other relevant stakeholders with a view to consistently driving workflow efficiencies.
• Perform governance and oversight as a leader on selected management/steering committees
• Chair  various  integrated  steering  committees  on  programs  and  projects  key  for organizational deliverables
• Direct the development of the frameworks that will ensure business sustainability and clear focus on governance through the managing of business reporting, policies and practices.
• Direct the management of infrastructure and logistics required to ensure consistent and effective operations.
• Encourage and propagate a culture of customer centricity, electronic enablement, business innovation as well as high ethical standards to consistently enhance the brand experience.
• Ensure accurate information supply to Group leadership, giving specific attention to data stream mapping of information systems, data aggregation, and business intelligence and performance management information.
• Contribute to a sustainable and positive impact on our environment, employees and community in the fulfilment of citizenship obligations.
• Ensure regular reporting mechanisms provide the required operational updates to stakeholders, including senior operations management, Fraud Risk and Business teams.

Accountability: Innovates and champions change management 

• Oversee the design, measurement and continuous improvement of business intelligence, management information, balanced scorecards (OLI, SLA, KPI) and executive reporting related to Fraud Operations’ performance. Based on findings and trends identified, direct gap analyses, SWOT analyses, and advises recommendations about strategies to enhance performance achievements.
• Nurture a culture of continuous improvement by consistently driving the re-engineering of business processes.
• Direct a pioneering culture that continually drives strategic opportunities and operational efficiencies.
• Drive performance measures determined against leading global benchmarks to deliver operational solutions.
• Provide guidance to the team on methods to achieve world class standards of efficiency and service, continually striving to enhance existing processes.
• Champion process and technological advances by providing advice and the necessary focus to drive successful performance.
• Develop, manage and maintain effective relationships with service providers within the Group, especially Group IT, to support world class delivery.
• Provide leadership to create and sustain the operational change capability for the organization.
• Promote best practice principles in all operational activities through the adoption of world class operational practices.
• Continually revisit, review and streamline operational processes to deliver ongoing operational efficiency improvements.

Accountability: Oversee the governance of risk, financial resources and business continuity within Fraud Operations 

• Sustain long-term business continuity by proactively identifying potential business risk and designing and governing controls to mitigate such risks.
• Drive cost efficiencies and govern allocated budgets to optimise both business efficiency and financial performance for Fraud Ops.
• Take accountability for all risk events and the delivery of specified and agreed upon controls.
• Direct the reporting of a risk and governance controls that ensures actions are understood and implemented by all team members. Manages the process by overseeing that key risk controls are recorded, monitored and effectively mitigated.
• Review and sign-off detailed risk control assessments (RCA).
• Report on all risk indicators including financial losses, overpayments, fraud, etc. in the required format to senior governance.
• Ensure all risk and compliance breaches are escalated to the correct stakeholders within appropriate timescales.
• Keep abreast with compliance and regulatory requirements and liaise with all relevant stakeholders internally and externally in the organization to accurately implement and adhere to the rules and regulations.
• Publish and/or interpret and direct the implementation of organizational circulars, policies, business standards and other communications that impact on the operation of the business unit.
• Review and agree audit scopes for Fraud Operations and govern remediation actions to be taken by management where findings are noted.
• Foster an atmosphere for governance and adherence: adhering to the Groups’ governance requirements and values; cultivating an environment of compliance, ensuring that regulations are observed; implementing the Group’s risk control framework for processing; championing the Barclays Guiding Principles in the unit.
• Deploy, maintain and oversee effective Quality Assurance controls for voice and data processes

Accountability: Drives technological change for optimization and effectiveness 

• Strategically bridges the technology/automation requirements with the business processing ability.
• Reviews current system functionality from a business perspective. Identify and address issues that could lead to fraud related activities.
• Drives  and  implements  back-end  processing  for  investigations  of  applications  on  the currently disjointed systems.
• Integrates various systems and business processes such as the identification and reporting system, capacity management systems, self-serve and workflow systems.
• Oversees the digitization of the workflow process in the IT systems.

Accountability: Provide leadership for effective people and team management 

• Fulfil all people management responsibilities at both team and unit level in line with the
• Group’s people management strategy.
• Establish and develop a professional culture for fraud identification and control, processing design and fulfilment expertise. Establish aspirational standards and recognition as a center of excellence for the execution of fraud operations.
• Grow  business  leaders  in  the  organization  by  empowering  people  to  exercise  their potential as leaders within a Fraud and operations environment.
• Attract, nurture, develop and retain world-class talent for the unit and the wider Group.
• Create a supportive climate for participation and commitment with motivated employees. Drive people development and growth through: managing talent and succession planning
• Deal with underperformance issues when required.
• Oversee and get involved in team’s engagement in people management functions, including but not limited to
• Recruitment  with  Human  Resources;  providing  insight  into  the  recruitment specifications and identification of talent;
• Planning and developing resources for optimization;
• Utilizing disciplinary and grievance processes when required;
• Driving performance development for all employees.

Accountability: Stakeholder management 

• Develop and enhance network and relationship building to align the team with business partners within the organization as well as strategic stakeholders.
• Maintain a high level of professionalism in stakeholder interactions

Minimum requirements

• Commercial B Degree and/or banking or equivalent NQF level 7 or higher qualification
• At least five (5) years operations experience within banking at a middle or senior management level.
• At least five (5) years’ experience in Digital Fraud Solutions - Fraud Operations; Digital, Applications, Transactional and Internal Fraud; All Banking Products
• Experience in managing a large team and leading other managers
• At least (2) years operations experience with fraud management (Operations & Risk).
• Experience in process re-engineering and/or business analysis

Education

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

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

• It is certainly an exciting time to join the Absa Group as we embark on an exciting journey to achieve our growth ambitions as well as our AFRICANACITY agenda.  We are looking for a super talented Model Development Analyst, who will manage the development and continuous enhancement of Retail Application Scorecards and Pricing / Profitability models by playing an integral part in the entire credit risk model development, build, implementation and governance lifecycle.

Job Description

The purpose of the role is to be responsible for the development and continuous enhancement of credit risk models, specifically credit scorecards, pricing and profitability models across Absa’s Retail portfolios. To provide model building solutions whilst ensuring quality standards are being met and model integration with Information Technology (IT) systems.

Key accountabilities 

Model Development:

• Develop models in-house by ensuring model build data are of sufficient quality, completing statistical data analysis and producing detailed model build documentation while conforming to the governance structures
• Produce a terms of reference proposal document for each new model development, prior to the commencement of the model build. This document details the entire model (underwriting, behavioral and impairment models) lifecycle, from initial model design, validation through to implementation of the final model i.e. all work that has been contracted with the modelling team.
• Ensure the quality and completeness of raw data and the representivity of samples used for model development by establishing data sources and measures taken (e.g. univariate analysis).
• Benchmark back to Group Modelling Requirements, to ensure that all documentation is in line with Group policies and standards (Group Model Risk Policy, and other relevant standards) on all model design aspects, including but are not limited to the following activities: delineation criteria for segments, a detailed description of the method/model type/architecture used, reasons for selecting the specific model type, a list of the best practice criteria used in the model development process and a description of the data set used in statistical model development.
• Develop models through Statistical analysis/model fitting and/or applying external model solution, whilst ensuring compliance with the following requirements: detail model architecture and list fundamental business assumptions, selection and assessment of model parameters (univariate and multivariate analysis), and employ multivariate analysis or other techniques to develop overall scoring function/model.
• Re-calibrate expected model outputs, for example probability of default (PD), exposure at default (EAD), loss given default (LGD) to their empericals by reestimating the underlying model associations and parameters based on recent data shifts.
• Determine and establish techniques for validating newly developed models in accordance with Group Model Risk Policy requirements and generally accepted academic techniques for the category of model being developed.
• List duties and responsibilities with regards to the model (model development, strategy formulation, implementation, etc.) as part of the final model documentation that is submitted to the Credit Risk Technical Committee (CRTC), or Retail Models Forum (RMF) for approval.
• Assess the newly developed models likely impact by performing the required analysis and communicating this to the respective stakeholders (for example Business Heads, Model Validation, Monitoring, and Governance). Furthermore, document the model comparison and impact analysis as part of the final model documentation submitted to CRTC.
• Address and respond to the independent reviewer model development issues arising from the independent review of the model. Furthermore, confirm to the CRTC that all high and medium issues arising from the independent review have been adequately addressed.
• Present models at the CRTC or other committee required for approval.
• Analyse and measure model outputs and investigate / challenge results.
• Propose innovative solutions to resolve business and model challenges
• Promote excellence within the team and utilize innovation and creativity to make a difference to Absa’s. Live the values.

Stakeholder management:

• Proactively liaise with all stakeholders, for example Business Heads, Model Validation, Monitoring, and Governance through for example meetings scheduled as part of the model terms of reference document to ensure that they are fully engaged in the development process and delivery of the model.
• Provide appropriate challenge on model builds from around the cluster through peer review participation
• Participate in discussions with key stakeholders across the business in order to understand issues, objectives and priorities, suggest and discuss potential solutions.

Ad-hoc Investigation and Evaluation: 

• Present results, if necessary, translating technical information into the language of the Business Manager. When appropriate recommend solutions/value generating opportunities for the business
• Identify and communicate any limitations found in new model builds and seek appropriate solutions to address limitations in future model builds

Education and Experience Required: 

• Relevant B. Degree in Maths/Statistics or Science or equivalent NQF level 7 qualification
• Experience of using modern software applications for data analysis and model fitting, including SAS and Excel

Preferred Experience:

• Post graduate degree or equivalent NQF level 8 qualification
• Experience within the banking sector
• Programming skills, expert knowledge of SAS or similar.
• Knowledge of external industry standard retail modeling solutions (Fair Isaac, Experian, PIC Solutions)

Knowledge & Skills: 

• Development of application scorecards
• Development of behavioral scorecards
• Knowledge of impairment and capital modelling
• Validation and monitoring of the above models
• Working knowledge of the business application of the above models into credit strategies

Competencies:

• Working with people
• Coping with pressure and setbacks
• Analyzing
• Presenting and communicating information
• Learning and researching
• Following instructions and procedures

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Statistics (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 Description

• Responsible for working with business functions to identify, investigate and analyse problems faced by business/product owners. Based on this analysis, the Business Analyst needs to propose a solution to address the business requirements in full, as needed to optimise the business.
• The senior Business Analyst must have the ability to work on multiple project simultaneously and will be responsible for delegating and overseeing tasks assigned to the junior Business Analyst.

Accountability: Project Establishment Initiation Activities

• Develop design principles based on the initial brief and scope provided to guide the project's implementation activities, including the requirements planning stage and the management of change requests.
• Assist and support business operations, with the ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ process mapping on projects and also when changes to operational policies, procedures and processes occur.
• Build and maintain relationships with key role players by communicating regularly and working closely with them to elicit business requirements, evaluate and recommend possible business solutions, make assessments and produce feasibility analysis.
• Proactively identify project risks and issues through consultation with key stakeholders and communicating these with the Project Manager (PM).
• Assist the Business Analyst Lead with ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is obtained by facilitating a project definition workshop.
• Develop hypotheses to achieve project goals based on the outcomes of the project definition workshop and use these to guide the fact gathering and analysis.
• Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of possible business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented, circulated and signed off by the relevant stakeholders, and handed over to the PM for use in defining and designing the project.
• Facilitate workshops in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project so that the project is suitably defined, designed and implemented.
• Assist the PM with defining timelines and milestones for expected deliverables.

Accountability: Business Requirements Activities 

• Analyse the “as is” “business architectures”, to identify any issues, opportunities, etc. This includes the analysis of all existing products & services, the procedures and business rules, the organisation structures, functions, roles & responsibilities, the business processes & procedures, the IT systems functionalities, data, performance and measurement metrics.
• Investigate and perform a business needs analysis, by interviewing the product or business process owners, to determine business requirements and identify possible alternatives and or solutions to achieve these requirements.
• Perform “root cause” issues analysis with key stakeholders by either conducting interviews or workshop to further evaluate and identify solutions and/or alternatives to meet the business requirements and document all findings to assist with project definition, design and build.
• Set up and facilitate workshops with relevant stakeholders to gather, identify and document the project and business owner requirements to be used in the project definition, design and build.
• Investigate options available, best practices, alternatives etc. and obtain up to date information in relation to the project requirements / objectives by referring to internal and external parties to ensure the best solution is considered and identified for the project.

Accountability: Solution Analysis and Documentation 

• Design the “to be” “business architectures” by using the identified design principles and document the ideas by working through increasing levels of design detail (i.e. conceptual/high level/detailed design levels).
• Identify and design new and/or improved business process systems and/or procedures to deliver project goals by ensuring that the best solution is considered and identified for the project.
• Undertake a feasibility and impact analysis of solutions identified (people, process, data and system infrastructure) with key stakeholders, internal, external and technology staff to further define project requirements for the definition, design and build of the project.
• Able to perform and apply intermediate to advanced level data analysis and data quality principles.
• Identify IT interfaces, IT integration points to ensure integration into functional specifications, by consulting and workshopping with the IT System Analysis teams, Group Strategy, Enterprise Architect, Vendors, etc).
• Develop IT-systems functional, non-functional and service level requirements, reporting requirements, Business Requirement Definition documents (BRDs), use cases, etc. based on the evaluations, meetings, assessments and requirements analysis undertaken during the earlier stages of the project analysis stages, for use by the PM and project team to design, build, test and implement the project.
• Develop a functional decomposition of identified requirements through consultation with stakeholders to ensure that the business requirements will be developed and delivered by the project.
• Validate documented solutions in a walk-through workshop with stakeholders to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

Accountability: Assessment and Validation of Solutions 

• Assist the systems-management function with setting up and undertaking the IT-systems user-acceptance tests by both business users and IT staff to ensure that the technology solution meets the business requirements.
• Co-ordinate all user acceptance testing with regard to securing test users, the test location, the relevant access rights and by documenting all results and where required perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as undertaken and stipulated by the Absa Group Technology IT methodology.
• Assess the solution/s by benchmarking with industry standards to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.
• Evaluate the vendors' products/solutions and the integration capability of the products / solutions to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (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 ensure the organization is complainant with all applicable data protection and privacy prescripts.

Job Description

• Provide Assistance in setting the Absa Group Limited data privacy strategy, as well as the privacy risk and control threshold for the Group.
• Assist in driving compliance to all Data privacy laws and regulations and address these requirements early on in new technologies.
• Develop and oversee the application of data privacy policies and standards for Absa Group Limited and maintain these on at least an annual basis.
• Enable compliance with data privacy regulations and foster a data protection culture within the organization.
• Pro-actively conduct data protection impact assessments for the Group’s products, projects and processes.  
• Provide SME guidance on Data Privacy Risk management with Business stakeholders and suppliers.
• Partner with Business and Technology to ensure data privacy issues are considered at the outset of new projects, products and initiatives.
• Monitor the evolving data privacy regulatory landscape to keep visibility on trends, and best practices to adequately address current polices or standards.  
• Inform and Monitor the Absa Group Limited Data Privacy risk appetite and changes to it.
• Assist in the develop and maintaining an appropriate operating model to ensure that the data privacy policy requirements are implemented within Business with adequate oversight from the Group Privacy Office.
• Assess the risk on all requests for dispensations, waivers and breaches, and escalate to the Principal Risk Officer for consideration.
• Participate in investigations, reviews, approvals, incidents and exceptions to address matters impacting the risk
• Assist in the development of the process for the identification and assessment of all severity 1-4 incidents within Absa Group Limited
• Monitor compliance with data protection regulations and Group policies
• Continuous engagement with the various regulators and keeping up to date with data privacy regulations.
• Act as an ambassador with colleagues, regulators and other stakeholders with a view to establishing a leading function within the organization.
• Be registered with relevant regulatory or professional bodies
• Advise stakeholders on the management of relevant data risks, by participating in product/project/change approval and review processes.

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

• 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

• Absa’s Specialized Engineering team is hiring Product Engineers (software developers) for one of their strategic programs involved in Enterprise Wide Content Management and Archiving.
• We are looking for enthusiastic developers eager to be determined as a “Full- stack developer”.
• Do you want to get an experience of what is it about to process and maintain petabytes of data?
• You always wanted to jump to the Big Data world but don’t know where to start?
• It is a great opportunity to gain experience working with a huge amount of data, maybe just without the extensive analytics. We collaborate with the Absa Big Data Engineering team.
• Do you have what it takes?

Your Role:

• Develop new software components using modern tools and agile practices.
• Build up and maintain our CI/CD pipeline
• Survey and research new technologies and approaches in AWS cloud platform, Big Data processing.
• Work with stakeholders and colleagues in other regions and collaborate on initiatives.

Essential Skills:

• University degree (or in final years of study for part-time), preferably in a numerate subject (i.e. Computer Science, Math etc.).
• Solid programming skills in C#/.NET (preferred), C++, Java or similar.
• Min 5 years relevant experience
• Good general computer science knowledge. E.g. OO programming, data structures, threading, design patterns and computational complexity.
• Good English and communication skills.
• Flexible and creative problem solver with a positive enthusiastic outlook

Beneficial:

• Some knowledge of HTML5/JavaScript/AngularJS.
• Exposure to Windows and Linux development environments.
• Exposure to cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure.
• Exposure to containerization platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Exposure to Big Data world – working with Apache Parquet file format

About The Amber project:

The AMBER team is a strategic team within Absa whose primary focus is to provide Cloud Content Management and Archiving solutions for the organization using the AWS platform. The team resides between two geographical locations i.e., Prague (Czech Republic) and South Africa (Johannesburg). Absa’s overall Cost Saving strategy is the primary driver for the success of this team. The focus of the Cloud Storage and Archiving solutions helps various departments with huge cost savings by storing data at much lower costs, save further on Licensing, Maintenance, Upgrading and Resource costs.

The team is very dynamic as each individual is highly skilled in his or her respective fields and this helps promote learning and knowledge sharing. The team members also hail from various countries in different continents, which adds to the dynamism. There are many opportunities to develop one’s self and grow your personal experience.

Education

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

• Bring your talent and skills to our Award Winning team, and take your career to the next level.
• Absa Access is a Pan-African, single sign-on platform that gives clients standardised, secure, and near real-time access to their business portfolios and the banking services. This enables them to make informed decisions to drive the growth of their businesses, managing their finances with the speed and intelligence that the platform provides.
• You will work on the award winning Absa Access Online platform, comprising of a core framework that offers services and an extensible application environment. The platform is underpinned primarily by .Net Core micro-services, a message bus and open source technologies, deployed via Kubernetes, into a cloud-hosted environment.

Job Description

The Absa Access team within CIB Digital Tech is looking for a .Net Core Developer to join our dynamic team on a contract basis.

Competencies – What are the specific competencies required? 

• Min 5 years development experience
• Tertiary education in Computer Science or related field
• .Net Core experience (Windows, Mac, Linux)
• Experience working with databases, PostgreSQL and or MongoDB experience advantageous
• Good understanding agile practices
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Flexible about working with new methodologies and technologies
• A solid understanding of OOP principles
• SOLID design principles
• Design patterns experience
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• Good understanding of C# and .NET framework
• Experience using ORM’s such as Entity Framework or NHibernate
• Experience with Web APIs and Micro Service architectures
• Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) (advantageous)

Outputs – What are the key performance areas and daily responsibilities? 

• Build reusable software components and libraries for future use across multiple projects
• Design, code, test, debug and document software according to the functional requirements
• Analyse, diagnose and resolve errors related to their applications
• Keep abreast of technical and industry developments
• Work closely with developers and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction

Deliverables – What end result needs to be achieved? 

• We deliver a wide range of Digital products (which includes mobile-, web applications and APIs) This opportunity will span across Corporate, Investment, Client and Colleague based projects with the ultimate deliverable being to implement new solutions.

*12 month contract

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