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Job Summary

• The purpose of the roe is to drive acquisition of new to bank and new to segment Business Banking clients, with a primary focus on switching primary relationships from competitor banks.

Job Description

• The purpose of the roe is to drive acquisition of new to bank and new to segment Business Banking clients, with a primary focus on switching primary relationships from competitor banks.

Key Accountabilities:

• Income growth and customer acquisition
• Identify, research and create a target list for potential new clients for sourcing and engagement
• Increase and grow (income) in line with agreed targets by generating ongoing referral business (high value switches) primarily from new clients that are banked outside of Absa.
• Focus on switching primary client relationships from competitor banks to Absa by obtaining leads from current clients and other business units within the bank
• The identified potential clients are to be called and appointments scheduled to engage and convert these clients to Absa clients
• Align closely with the Customer Experience and Analytics team in Business Banking to focus acquisition efforts on targeted sectors and segments
• Remaining current with economic and investment trends to facilitate effective switching strategies for specific clients
• Ensure the creation and maintenance of an effective network iro competitors and Business forums.  
• Focus on cross sell ratio improvement, minimum 5 products per new take-on through identifying client requirements and introducing other specialists into the relationship including financial planning, fiduciary and off-shore banking
• Identify sales and service opportunities and offer solutions appropriate for the client's needs, goal and objectives by using the tools which outlines the products clients currently have and the propensity for new product take-up
• Adopt a commercial approach to appropriate cost to serve versus value generation, e.g. encourage clients to use electronic banking as opposed to transacting over the counter to better serve and benefit the needs of clients.
• Maximise sustainable risk by adjusted portfolio contribution.

Market Intelligence

• Develop and maintain an understanding of market trends and individual lifecycle challenges and opportunities facing clients to offer solutions that meet clients’ needs
• Develop and maintain an understanding of competitor bank offerings including products, pricing, services etc and be able to position differentiating benefits and features of Absa products
• Ensure that you create and maintain a clear understanding of the clients future needs so as to proactively solution them from a lifecycle perspective
• Participate in seminars for clients and provide information on new products to meet future client requirements.
• Migrate client relationships to established portfolios once client on-boarding has been bedded down

Risk & Compliance

• Understand and apply the relevant governance and compliance procedures to activities undertaken and maintain ongoing completion of relevant governance and compliance training e.g. NCA, FAIS, FICA, CPA, etc.
• Understand underlying risk profile of clients and ensure that it is acceptable and within appetite before acquisition efforts are embarked upon
• Develop credit mitigation solutions which are both practical and appropriate for clients whilst simultaneously driving a risk based pricing approach
• Ensure adherence to all FICA requirements to ensure clients are fully compliant following on-boarding

Relationship Management

• Identify the clients’ requirements prior to call, undertake pre-call planning involving necessary product partners to prepare effective pitch and communication of the Business Banking CVP
• Identify potential standalone clients that can be targeted e.g., Home Loans, AVAF as well as clients of AIFA
• Work closely with the broader Coverage team to drive lead generation through coverage strategies
• Meet individual and team value targets.
• Proactively raise the profile and reputation of Business Banking in the local community by supporting team activities such as CSI projects to contribute to the welfare of local community.
• Facilitate the resolution of client complaints and communicate opportunities to improve client experience
• Ensure smooth and effective migration and on-boarding of new client relationships
• Ensure smooth and effective handover of relationships to established Business Banking portfolios following on-boarding

Competencies:

• Values Driven
• Digitally Empowered
• Customer Obsessed
• Exceptional Team Player
• Creative Problem Solving
• Drives Results
• Pan African Citizen

Minimum requirements:

• NQF level 7 qualification (Finance, Accounting, Marketing)
• Preferred - B Degree (Finance, Accounting, Marketing)
• Five (5) years’ experience within a client facing role (commercial/or corporate business and/or financial industry)
• 3 years proven track record in achievement of sales targets, team player, inspiring and encouraging performance excellence
• 3-5 years extensive experience within appropriate provision industry
• Specialism or technical discipline (hunter)
• Experience in working in a credit risk environment
• Preferred - 3 years, sales experience (hunting) with in depth understanding of financials
• Preference will be given to South African Citizens and Permanent residents of South Africa in possession of proof of permanent resident status

General

• The appointment will be made in line with the Divisional Employment Equity strategy
• There will be no referral payment plan with this requisition

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

• The MI/BI team has grown and stretched together with our Home Loans business as we have continued to show up in the market to house the nation!
• We are pleased to be bringing to the market this exciting role that will help the team to implement various initiatives to effectively leverage our vast datasets by employing the most suitable data storage technologies, writing robust code to automate ETL processes and support our operational / regulatory reporting processes. This will help to empower downstream consumers of data and management information, while ensuring that we stay on the cutting edge of data management best practice.
• Essentially, we need a strong technical candidate (expert in multiple coding languages) who is an exceptional team player, is open to input from team members to continuously improve data quality / processes and has a never say die attitude when it comes to creating and implementing robust code!
• While we have a healthy book of work and plenty of problems to intellectually challenge our newest team member, we maintain much-needed flexibility for analysts and leaders alike to take on projects that they identify in the business as well!

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Engage with internal business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed and understood.  Interpret data and identify issues, risks and opportunities and relay results and insights to business users
• Provide risk, governance, compliance and broader regulatory reporting as required and contribute to these processes as a data expert
• Build the infrastructure that will enable the data pipeline to be utilized to reliably communicate key business metrics and insights to business stakeholders
• Improve the quality and turnaround times of key deliverables through the automation of tasks through the use of appropriate tools / scripting technologies and debugging new /existing scripts and code
• Leverage best practice to build and continually improve on high quality data collection, transformation, storage and retrieval. This includes keeping abreast with existing and emerging techniques and technologies in the data value-chain to identify key pivot points for the business
• Understand the technical landscape and bank-wide architecture that is connected to or dependent on the business to effectively collaborate with teams embedding solutions that impact the Home Loans data value-chain
• Build towards a high performance team environment through continually building towards mastery in a way that is aligned to the team’s purpose
• Conduct peer reviews within the broader analytics community and contribute to the building of an analytics team capability in the use of data solutions
• Proactively partner with the data architecture and data science teams in applying relevant best practice to actively shape the data landscape in the business, with the aim of improving upstream and downstream data processes to support the business
• Stay ahead of the curve on data architecture, engineering and governance trends, tools and techniques to help transition the team and the organization as required

EDUCATION AND REQUIREMENTS 

• Bachelor (Honours) degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Science or equivalent NQF level 8 qualification 
• At least 5 years’ postgraduate work experience in a technology / digital / analytics role
• At least 3 years’ work experience in SAS and SQL development, with a view of learning additional tools as required (e.g. Spark)
• Expert knowledge of data warehousing and data architecture solutions and processes
• Expert knowledge of data services, data discovery and visualization tools: DaaS, SSIS, PowerBI

Education

• Bachelor Honours Degree: 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

• Provide complex advice and support in the positioning of investments operating models and frameworks in a broadly defined business functional strategy; enabling operating model, strategy and value chain formulation and alignment.

Job Description

• Investment Strategy: Develop implement and managing of investment strategy for the respective asset class | Risk Management: Provide Oversight and supervision of activities within the portfolio ensuring that all activities in the portfolio are consistent and in compliance with the risk framework | People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development | Investment reporting: Oversee the production of annual financial investment reports | Stakeholder management: Regularly interact with external investment consultants and institutional clients to build and maintain effective client relationships for investment purposes. | : | : | :

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

• Responsible for leading the Trade and Working Capital risk distribution and syndication function (including non-bank financial institutions & traders) within Absa group, covering all presence and non-presence countries. The role is responsible for driving both internal and external risk distribution of assets, and trade syndicated loans. External distribution will include distributing assets to Development Financial Institutions, banks and other non-bank FIs.
• Also responsible for (a) risk distribution and syndications strategies and activities, and (b) developing and implementing risk distribution and syndication strategies  that support the overall Transactional Banking objectives, enabling the   business to achieve the TXB objective of becoming the leading Corporate Bank in Africa.

Job Description

We are looking for your expertise to be part of this well-respected Transactional Banking team. 

Your primary purpose in this role is to lead the Trade risk distribution and syndication function by:

• Delivering innovative trade & working capital solutions to the targeted customers
• Developing and instilling the best-of-breed sales practices within the team
• Focusing on and driving customer value propositions (CVPs), client solutions and structuring, pricing management, deal support, credit risk management, relationship management, marketing, and impairments
• Developing the team through creating a platform for learning and growth
• Leading the team to achieve the agreed financial and non-financial objectives
• Managing stakeholder relationships across the bank to ensure the maximum effectiveness of the sales, risk distribution and syndication models.
• Driving thought leadership across sectors, segments and geographies

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

• Join People and Culture team in ABSA CIB supporting divisions within TXB. Will be accountable for providing support to business for all human resources matters. Degree with minimum 5 years relevant HR experience within an Investment Banking environment. Strong stakeholder management capability.

Job Description

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 Summary

• To enable the effective implementation of risk frameworks.  This will be done by establishing and maintaining an integrated and effective risk management framework where risks are identified, quantified and managed on a consistent basis.

Job Description

• Operational Risk Management:  To identify, assess and manage all operational risks through the management and embedment of the following; MCA, Control Environment, CPA, Audit, Assurance, Conduct Risk, Product Risk, Resilience etc.
• Reporting: Monthly and Annual Operational Risk Reporting.
• Stakeholder Management: Management of Stakeholders in terms of Building Relationships with Channel Heads and Business Unit Partners, i.e. Legal, Compliance etc.
• Compliance Management: Management, embedment and maintenance of legislative and regulatory requirements, Policies and Standards, and monitoring of Compliance Training.

Education and Experience Required:

• NQF level 6; B degree in Commerce or Risk Management or equivalent
• 3 years experience in an Operational risk management or related field

Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of the Risk environment and Risk management principles
• Keeping abreast of changes in industry regulations and develops own competency through continuing education

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

• Deciding and initiating action
• Persuading and influencing
• Relating and networking
• Presenting and communicating information
• Analysing
• Planning and organising and being deadline driven
• Coping with pressure and setbacks
• Computer Knowledge

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Risk Management (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

• This role is responsible for providing the analysis and design for information solutions to various business areas and the integration into the Data Warehouse. This includes the creation of the user requirements into technical specifications and design documents, as well as the possible identification of new data sources to the Data Warehouse. 
• Enable a Collaborative Partnership with business that drives an End-to-End Solution Delivery.
• Working with Data Architects and Engineering teams to define the technical direction / solutions for the business.

Accountability: Elicit/review requirements from business units 

• ·       Continuous Delivery Engagement
• ·       Drive Adoption of Solutions Design Concepts
• ·       Drive Business Enablement (Recruitment / Coaching)
• ·       Partner with Business to Drive a Post Implementation / Delivery Support Model

Education Required 

• BSc (Eng or Comp Science or Information Systems) or BCom (Informatics) or equivalent NQF level 6 qualification
• Experience Required:
• > 5 years Technical Experience (Knowledge and Exposure would be beneficial)
• > 5 years Analysis Experience

Hard Skills: 

• Understand Core Modelling Principles (Logical and Physical)
• Knowledge of the IT trends, Data Warehouse and Data Architecture principles, practices and standards
• To understand and apply concepts such as: Relational Data Structures, Entity-Relationship and Object Modeling, Data Warehouse / Marts
• Read / Understand Code of any Language
• Write queries  of any Language (Preferably SQL / Scala)
• Problem solving and analytical skills
• Understand / unpack the end-to-end flow data (process) and impact due to changes in data across the value chain of the data (From Cotton-to-Cash) ie. High Level Data Flow Diagrams, Source-to-Target mappings etc.
• Ability to vary the depth of analysis from High Level (Rapid) to detailed analysis)
• Conceptual understanding of Data Visualization / Data Virtualization
• JAD Facilitations
• Document and unpack Business Data Requirements through continuous Business and Tech Engagement
• Communication Skills (Verbal, Written)
• Tool Set

Excel (Proficient)

• PL SQL, MS SQL, Oracle, DB2, MySQL – HQL (Proficient)
• Scala or similar language useable in Spark - PySpark, R etc. (Knowledge and Exposure would be beneficial)
• Data Visualization Tools - Tableu, QlikView, QlikSense, Excel etc. (Intermediate)
• Data Virtualization Tools – Denodo (Knowledge and Exposure would be beneficial)
• Big Data Knowledge - (Intermediate)

Competencies

• Analyse and resolve problems
• Deadline Driven
• Managing Tasks
• Meeting Timescales
• Team Working
• Impatient Driver (Pro-Active in resolving problem statements. No hand holding required)
• Curious (Self-motivated to learn new things and question things one don’t fully understand – not afraid to fail)
• Teachable (willing to learn and not afraid to ask)

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 Description

• This role provides an exciting opportunity within the Chief Technology Office – Data Solutions team. Working closely with business stakeholders and technology leaders, you will play a key role in the creation and implementation of Big Data applications and products across Absa. Support innovation, design, build and test applications that deliver analytical and predictive content direct to users, combining commercial, analytical and technological expertise. Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Absa Operational Risk Framework and internal Absa Policies and Standards.

Key Accountabilities
Project Work:

• Work with domain experts to identify and formalize approaches for solving business problems using machine learning and data science.
• Design, validate, implement, deploy and monitor machine learning models/algorithms on large datasets
• Work with large datasets using big tools (such as Spark, Hadoop) and/or data science tools (i.e. sk-learn, pandas, numpy, etc.)
• Comfortable engaging with business area subject matter experts, data analysts and system administrators to find data required for projects.
• Collaborating with the engineering team in the establishment of data pipelines from source systems to Hadoop.
• Working with lead data scientists to assist in the refinement of business requirements into measureable and actionable deliverables.
• Collaborate and work closely with cross-functional business partners (business-unit technology teams) to assist and oversee the deployment of the outputs of your work.
• Will create meaningful presentations and analyses that tell a “story” focused on insights not just data

Infrastructure:

• Contribute to data and technology initiatives as they relate to data science.
• Familiarity with the Big Data stack (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, etc.) as well as experience with using these tools to develop and deploy data products and applications.
• Support data science colleagues in working with technology infrastructure colleagues to ensure a productive analytical and development environment.
• Beneficial, experience with building ML products in the Cloud (preferably using Amazon Web Services).
• Key critical requirements: Education and experience Required
• BSc, BCom, BEng, BBusSc or equivalent NQF level 6 qualification
• Degree in a quantitative discipline such mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or engineering.
• Understanding of and experience of using Big Data technologies essential
• Understanding of and experience of applying machine learning methods is preferred
• Coding/software development skills. Strong mathematical and statistical skills.
• Strong programming skills, proven track record of coding ability and experience (hands-on back end development)
• Knowledge of information technology environments, administration, policies and processes. Working knowledge of financial and management accounting desirable
• Scala (preferred), Python (pySpark), Java (as a precursor to learning Scala) including the key numerical, analytical and machine learning libraries / packages

SQL

• Apache Spark (preferred), Hadoop
• Linux/Unix. Bash. Git. SBT/Maven
• Have the ability to work in either an Agile or project methodology to deliver tasks
• Advantageous: Experience in Elastic Search, Log Stash, Kibana, Tableau, Power Bi, MongoDB.

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.

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Job Summary

• To deliver credit assessment, credit portfolio management and lending decisions within mandate / personal discretion for Medium and Large Business Banking clients. as well as stakeholder engagement with key credit and business solution deliverables

Job Description

Credit Risk Assessment & Portfolio Management:

•  Consider credit applications in order to determine lending appetite, financing solutions and structures to adequately meet the financing needs of Absa Business Banking clients in mostly the Growth and Premium CVP’s. Approve credit applications in accordance with approved lending criteria in line with Absa's lending policies and standards, delivering excellent service and quick turn-around.
•  Monitor and manage a dedicated portfolio of clients against agreed Absa Business Banking strategies and portfolio credit requirements in order to improve the overall quality of the portfolio by referring to approved credit
• policy and target market criteria.
•  Participate in the formulation and implementation of lending strategies, risk appetite and lending criteria by providing feedback and suggestions to the Regional Credit Manager based on market trends, actual client
• interaction / experience and industry research.
•  Ensure that up-skilling is maintained in terms of industry-specific and lending principles in general. Share specialist knowledge and experience, including provision of technical solutions, innovative ideas and best practices with a primary aim to enhance external customer value.
•  Proactively adopt, execute and implement change initiatives agreed with Business Banking Credit management in support of overall BB Credit strategy and change initiatives.

Controls and Governance:
Apply the highest standards of controls and risk management practices and behaviours and embed a positive risk and control culture. Demonstrate prudence, sound judgement and appropriate and timely escalations in the management of all types of risk applicable to the role.
Stakeholder Engagement:

•  Build & protect highly effective relationships with key stakeholders and industry professionals, such that value to the organization is maximised.
•  Be a role model for the desired credit culture:
• Maintain strong partnerships, have intelligent conversations, be a senior statesman and a trusted advisor .
•  Be a role model for client engagement and demonstrate value add at every engagement.
•  Contribute to the upskilling and mentoring of front line colleagues.

Team Support:

•  Maintain and support a positive working environment in the larger Business Banking Credit Team by supporting
• team members, proposing pro-active solutions to problems, etc.
•  Identify opportunities to improve the value add of the credit team.

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:

Technical Leadership

• Engage with internal business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed and understood.  Interpret data and identify issues, risks and opportunities and relay results and insights to business users.
• Provide risk, governance, compliance and broader regulatory reporting as required and contribute to these processes as a data expert
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline to reliably communicate key business metrics and insights to business stakeholders in a manner that leverages information design techniques to achieve high utilization levels by the business stakeholder community.
• Improve the quality and turnaround times of key deliverables through the automation of tasks through the use of appropriate tools / scripting technologies and debugging new /existing scripts and code
• Leverage best practice to build and continually improve on high quality data collection, transformation, storage, retrieval, storytelling and visualization. This includes keeping abreast with existing and emerging techniques and technologies in the data value-chain to identify key pivot points for the business.
• Understand the technical landscape and bank-wide architecture that is connected to or dependent on the business to effectively collaborate with teams embedding solutions that impact the Home Loans data value-chain.

Team and Stakeholder Leadership

• Build a high performance team environment through self-directed team members that continually build towards mastery and are aligned by the team’s purpose. Implementation of pragmatic team routines to achieve this (including regular check-ins, coaching, constructive feedback etc.).
• Plan, manage and monitor the implementation of team solutions, activities and processes to deliver on approved operational plans in an effective and efficient manner.
• Conduct peer reviews within the broader analytics community and contribute to the building of an analytics team capability in the use of data solutions
• Proactively partner with the data architecture and data science teams in applying relevant best practice to actively shape the data landscape in the business, with the aim of improving upstream and downstream data processes to support the business.
• Promote data literacy within the business stakeholder community by effectively communicating the business value of making data-led decisions, embedding technologies that enable the business stakeholder community to navigate the data landscape and refining team working routines that promote improving turnaround times on data-enabled business processes.
• Stay ahead of the curve on data science trends, tools and techniques to transition the team and the organization as required.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor (Honors) degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Science or equivalent NQF level 8 qualification 
• At least 8 years’ postgraduate work experience in a technology / digital / analytics role
• At least 3 years’ work experience in a similar role at management level
• Expert knowledge of data query tools: SAS, SQL, Spark
• Expert knowledge of data services, data discovery and visualization tools: DaaS, PowerBI
• Expert knowledge of data warehousing solutions and processes

WHAT’S ON OFFER:

• Autonomy: Flexibility in the book of work where you will be encouraged to find/develop passion projects in the business, alongside the challenging assignments that the team already has on the go
• Mastery: an environment that will stretch you in bringing your technical and team leadership toolkits to bear in advancing business priorities
• Purpose: in a world where assumptions about how the business operates have been upended, the team plays an active role in democratizing information and enabling the business to validate its learning
• Culture: a great environment where the team culture is in its next evolutionary step to build combination solutions that far surpass the sum of individual team member solutions

Education

• Bachelor Honours Degree: Computer and Information Science (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

• Come be part of a driven and well-respected legal team that provides support to business. You also get to be part of a leading bank that is inspired by the people we serve and also determined to be a globally respected organisation which Africa can be proud.

Your key accountabilities will include;

• Effective management of legal risk and continuously improve controls and efficiency of processes (consistent and proactive approach)
• Identify opportunities to develop new processes to strengthen the legal risk control framework. 
• Manage, evaluate and prioritise tasks in accordance with business needs
• Communicate and distil legal concepts to the business function, ensuring that lessons learned are shared within the bank and rehabilitative steps are identified.
• Ensure effective and appropriate verbal and written communication of the legal policies to internal clients.
• Proactive monitoring of compliance to the principal legal risk control framework.
• Immediately report/escalate any breach of the principal legal risk control framework as per reporting/escalation line.
• Identification of risk events and accurate and clear reporting as per reporting/escalation line.
• Display knowledge of regulatory requirements including updates and changes.
• Ensure technical correctness of documents drafted by ensuring that the latest legal precedents have been included in the documents which would be primarily achieved by conducting regular research with respect to legal developments and attendance at applicable training courses.
• To provide concise, accurate, timely legal advice to internal stakeholders.
• To provide legally sound solutions to business problems.
• Assist in structuring, negotiating, drafting and vetting of legal agreements and documentation relating to standard agreements, transactions and new products.
• Help to develop working structures and best practice guides for use within business
• Address all probable risks by seeing to it that they are sufficiently addressed in legal agreements drafted.
• To build relationships with key senior stakeholders within the legal and business functions across the Bank and become a trusted advisor.
• To be the preferred partner for business stakeholders on all legal matters.
• Send in your application if you have;

A Law degree

• Admitted attorney or advocate in RSA or other similar jurisdiction
•  The relevant legal experience, ideally 5-8 years’ PQE.
• Ability to advise at a senior business level and establish credibility very quickly.
• An understanding of the banking business and product offerings would be of benefit.

Education

• Bachelor Honours Degree: Law (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