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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.

Job Description

• 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 | : | : | : | :

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 carry out quality risk assessments, strategy formulation, customer interaction and delivery of turnaround and managed exit strategies to a portfolio customers experiencing financial distress. To provide complex specialist advice to our internal stakeholders and support other Specialist.

Job Description

• To carry out quality risk assessments, strategy formulation, client interaction and delivery of turnaround and managed exit strategies to a portfolio customers experiencing financial distress.
• Risk Management: Providing Subject Matter Expertise to Risk types | Stakeholder Management: Build and Maintain effective Relationships with relevant stakeholders | Risk Reporting: Identify, assess and Report key risks arising from significant events, investigations, audit and control issues | People Management: Develop a high performing Team | Risk and Control: Adherence to Policies, Procedures and Regulations

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• To strategically manage a team of Business Support Specialists and Senior Business Support Specialists who manage various portfolios of financially distressed clientsTo develop tactical strategy and delivery plans,  To support the team in formulating appropriate Bank strategies for the customers  and to ensure operational implementation and adoption i.t.o. credit risk management methodology, practice, governance and delivery objectives.

Job Description

• To strategically manage a team of Business Support Specialists and Senior Business Support Specialists who manage a portfolio of financially distressed clients in line with the Bank’s credit risk appetite.
• Risk Management: Providing Subject Matter Expertise to Risk types | Stakeholder Management: Build and Maintain effective Relationships with relevant stakeholders | Risk Reporting: Identify, assess and Report key risks arising from significant events, investigations, audit and control issues | People Management: Develop a high performing Team | Risk and Control: Adherence to Policies, Procedures and Regulations

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

• Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Job Description

*12 month contract*

Accountability: 

DevOps

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

People

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

Risk & Governance 

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

Education and experience required

• 8+ years’ experience - Senior C# SQL development experience
• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience & practical application in the following is evident:
• Cross domain knowledge
• Architecture
• Infrastructure Solutioning
• Testing
• Web Applications
• Service Side
• Influencing
• Automation
• Messaging
• Virtualisation & Cloud
• Solutioning
• SSL Security
• CI/CD etc.
• Experience as an agile practitioner and knowledge or experience of other delivery methodologies e.g. Kanban, RUP etc.
• Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
• Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g. Java, C#, Python, Perl, JavaScript
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
• Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
• Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST
• Experience with open-source relational databases
• Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, NodeJS, IIS, .Net Core etc.
• Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management (preferably Nexus),
• Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform
• Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git
• Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s)
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable with stubbing tools like wiremock and/or hoverfly
• Experience with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python
• Familiar with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP / Kerberos
• Familiar with Containerisation technologies like Docker & or orchestrators like Kubernetes 

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

• Making Decisions
• Empowering Individuals
• Directing People
• Embracing Change
• Challenging Ideas
• Team Working
• Developing Expertise
• Meeting Timescales

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• To deliver operations administrative support services through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Job Description

• Operations support: Provide operations support against standard operating procedures | Ad Hoc duties: Provide support to customers and team as required to ensure team performance on an ongoing basis | Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards | : | : | : | : | :

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

• Provide specialist advice and support in the development of tactical strategy and plans. AND/OR provide specialist advise and support in terms of practice formulation and associated best practice improvements

Job Description

• New Business Organisation: Devise short term tactical plans to meet annual budget and targets up to a 6 to 12 month timeframe Identify, develop and source new High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth relationships through personal and client referrals, Absa Group Limited Group internal networks and fostering greater collaboration within group and WIMI business unit; Achieve personal targets for new and existing clients for Transactional Banking, Credit, FX. Make a contribution to referring relevant business to other parts of Wealth Advisory and/or the broader Absa Group Limited Group. | Client service - Manage and Grow Existing Client Relationships: Quarterly meetings with each client in your designated portfolio; Undertake annual credit reviews to assess the health of your Clients financial position, with co-operation from the various teams in the region Maintain the highest levels of service and delivery to existing clients at all times, ensuring that all teams of specialist support within the region work together to deliver client experience as well; Act as the key contact point/ gatekeeper and coordinator for all client advice Transactional Banking, Credit, FX. Assist in the liaison with various internal stakeholders to assist in achieving business objectives in Structured Lending, Advisory, FX, SSG and Investment Banking fees Act as the key contact point for all client transaction queries across multiple locations within a Region. | Client Relationship Management: Maintains highest levels of service and delivery to existing clients at all times Key contact for all banking and credit (vanilla credit) advice and client queries Key interface between clients and other parts of Absa Group Limited/WIMI and the wider Absa Group Limited Group | Involvement in credit related tasks: Client interaction including: gathering of information related to Transactional Banking, Credit, FX ensuring efficient Client interactions; Accountable for providing information related to the security status reports and performance of financial analysis; Ultimately responsible for ensuring that credit review processes is conducted on time; Liaise with the product houses to ensure credit tasks related to clients in terms of credit reviews, overdrafts and home loans are completed; | Governance and Control: Ensure conformity with global and market standards of client services, regulatory compliance, KYC, product delivery and operating model. Ensuring that all actions are in line with procedures according to the Front Office manual. | Query Resolution: Undertake query resolution related to client portfolio Act as the escalation point for serious issues related to client complaints | Operational Support: Provides accurate/timely preparation of file notes, client letters and other client documentation (e.g. marketing material) for all client meetings and follow up as required; Act as focal point for clients dealing with day-to-day administration across the range of services and products. | :

Education

• Postgraduate Degrees 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 deliver administrative services through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs). Selecting this role has a compensation & benefit impact in Botswana. Please contact Reward for details.

Job Description

• Quality Assurance: Maintain a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or production | Meeting deadlines: Completes tasks timeously | : | : | : | : | : | :

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Office Administration (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

Derivative Confirmation Services is a cross-asset class function responsible for ensuring that all Interest Rate, Credit, Equity, Commodity , Africa and Structured Notes confirmations are affirmed and confirmed in an efficient and cost effective manner. The department supports a broad range of operational services across the OTC trade lifecycle including lifecycle management, affirmation and confirmation reconciliation as well as strategic product support. Responsible for managing all Derivative Confirmation and Lifecycle functions performed onsite, across the different Derivative asset classes

• Resolving of queries relating to trade economics with Front office / PCG/ MO and Clients within a 24hr period, this involves acting as the first point of contact for escalations. Use of extensive knowledge of derivatives and the function as a whole to ensure exceptional client service is provided to the firm’s highest value , or sensitive clients.
• To ensure the confirmations process across the team is up to date and confirmations are sent out no later than specified timelines.
• Ensure accuracy in the drafting and confirming process.
• Ensure the clients are getting the best client service from the team.
• Ensure all issues are addressed with relevant areas to ensure clients are satisfied with the service from the team.
• Ensure all reporting is done on a daily basis throughout the team

Education and Qualification

• 6-10 years’ experience in a banking operations

Knowledge and Skills

•  Strong communication skills, fluent in English
•  Strong understanding of the end to end process in the Confirmations area.
•  Strong Risk and Control focus
•  Strong understanding of relevant and up-to-date technical knowledge, applications and techniques.
•  Strong understanding of the changing regulatory environment and its impact on

Operations.

•  Ability to liaise effectively with internal and external clients.
•  Insight into external market developments and initiatives
•  Highly numerate with analytical problem solving ability.
•  Results driven.
•  Commitment and loyalty to the brand.
•  Self Starter / Ambitious
•  Attention to detail

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

• In this role you will provide specialist value added service and solutions to customers to meet business growth in Trade Finance & International Banking, by customer acquisition, retention and facilitating internal and external relationships across stakeholder touch points.

Job Description

Your accountabilities will include:

• Identifying and reviewing client needs so as to provide advice and deliver products and services by maintaining a strong relationship with clients and stakeholders.
• Resolving client issues appropriately and escalate those unable to resolve to the respective banker or Regional Sales Manager
• Identifying market and industry trends, by analyzing sector research, economic periodicals and industry journals and advise CIB stakeholders and clients on these.
• Regularly identifying and reviewing client needs so as to provide advice and deliver product and services by maintaining strong relationship with customers and being solution oriented
• Joint client visit with coverage bankers to provide customer solutions, and where necessary attend, client visits alone.
• Acting as an ambassador for ABSA with clients and maintain strong long term relationship by applying formal and informal client relationship management techniques.
• Providing advice in the handling of complex client transactions by providing additional insight, detail and information on clients, where appropriate (examples would include credit arrangements or Excon dispensations)
• Educating, sensitising and providing feedback to internal target market stakeholders regarding the joint responsibility to achieve income objectives.
• Establishing relationships with potential clients and pursue opportunities to expand CIB Trade, International Banking & Working Capital  business for the related segment/sector.
• Contracting new business opportunities by identifying current and new clients for expansion in transaction volumes and value extraction through cross selling of products or services.
• Growing own client portfolio by attracting new clients through participating in promotions, at and sales initiatives in order to achieve and exceed contracted sales targets.
• Negotiating and closing deals with customers to realize set targets.

Please send us your CV if you have:

• B Degree in Banking, Economics and Finance
• Current FAIS Qualifications required with minimum 6 months FAIS experience
• 4 years General Banking experience (advantage) plus 4 years International Banking/Trade Finance/ Working Capital advisory experience.

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

• 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

The Data Operations team within CTO, is looking for a Big Data / Hadoop Engineer to join their team in JHB.

• A Hadoop Engineer is a professional responsible for programming Hadoop applications and knows about all the components or pieces of the Hadoop Ecosystem, understands how the Hadoop components fit together and with the ability to decide on which is the best Hadoop component for a specific task.
• The Data Operations team is responsible for supporting all the Applications on the Hadoop ecosystem. This role expands in maintaining changes on datasets and optimisation activities on all Applications, including new development.

An understanding of basic programming skills is essential in order to manage Big Data and to transfer all data to Hadoop.

Job description:

• Prioritise assigend tasks
• Give input and quality assure allocated tasks
• Give input and feedback to team members on the progress of tasks.
• Identify optimisation opportunities.
• Improvement on recovery time in case of prod failures.
• Test prototypes and oversee handover to the operational teams.
• Attend and contribute to regular project meetings.
• Responsible for the actual coding or programming of Hadoop applications.
• Propose best practices and standards.
• Maintain security and data privacy.
• High-speed querying.
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design.

Job Experience & Skills Required:

• Min 2 years' relevant Hadoop experience.
• Min one year experience with Scala programming language (advantageous)
• Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem and its components.
• Good knowledge of the concepts of Hadoop.
• Solid experience in a working environment in Big Data development utilising SQL or Python.
• Experience in Big Data development using Spark.
• Experience in Hadoop, HDFS and MapReduce.
• Experience in database design, development and data modelling.
• Data architecture and security.

The following additional knowledge, skills and attributes are preferred:

• Good knowledge in back-end programming, specifically Java.
• Experience with development in a Linux environment and its basic commands.
• Ability to write reliable, manageable, and high-performance code.
• Should have basic knowledge of SQL, database structures, principles, and theories.
• Knowledge of workflow/schedulers.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving 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

• A Hadoop Engineer is a professional responsible for programming Hadoop applications and knows about all the components or pieces of the Hadoop Ecosystem , understands how the Hadoop components fit together and has the ability to decide on which is the best Hadoop component for a specific task.
• The Data Operations team within CTO, is looking for a highly talented Hadoop Engineer to join their team in Johannesburg. 
• The Data Operations team is responsible for supporting all the Applications on the Hadoop ecosystem. This role expands in maintaining changes on datasets and optimisation activities on all Applications, including new development.
• They therefore need to understand basic programming to enable them to manage Big Data and to transfer all data to Hadoop.

Job Description

Play a lead role in the Data Operations Team

• Prioritise tasks assign to the team.
• Give input and quality assure the tasks allocated to the team.
• Give input and feedback to team members on progress of tasks.
• Identify optimisation opportunities.
• Improvement on recovery time in case of prod failures.
• Test prototypes and oversee handover to the operational teams.
• Attend and contribute to regular project meetings.
• Responsible for the actual coding or programming of Hadoop applications.
• Propose best practices and standards.
• Maintain security and data privacy.
• High-speed querying.
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design.

Job Experience & Skills Required:

• 5 years' relevant Hadoop experience
• Min one year experience with Scala programming language (advantageous)
• Familiarity with Hadoop ecosystem and its components.
• Good knowledge of the concepts of Hadoop.
• Solid experience in a working environment in Big Data development utilising SQL or Python.
• Experience in Big Data development using Spark.
• Experience in Hadoop, HDFS and MapReduce.
• Experience in database design, development and data modelling.
• Data architecture and security.

The following additional knowledge, skills and attributes are preferred:

• Good knowledge in back-end programming, specifically java.
• Experience with development in a Linux environment and its basic commands.
• Ability to write reliable, manageable, and high-performance code.
• Should have basic knowledge of SQL, database structures, principles, and theories.
• Knowledge of workflow/schedulers.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology (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

• Formulate tactical strategy and associated delivery plans related to single practice areas. Ensure proactive integration and operational tactical enhancement.

Job Description

• Portfolio Management: Ensure appropriate management of respective portfolios that includes but not limited to client visits and 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 | People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development (where applicable). JSE RPE exams and FAIS RE exams

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