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Job Summary

The purpose of this role is to be responsible for driving business value, building models, reporting and taking the lead to select and rotate through business areas within the Transactional Banking. Works closely with data engineering and data architects to source and store and run data analytics and reporting. Build and run tracking tools for overall Transactional Banking products and display on a regular basis through visualization tools to business. Drive the Analytics portion of the Campaign Committee. Take the lead to build validation and standardization processes across Transactional Banking. Build and test applications that deliver analytical and predictive content direct to users, combining commercial, analytical and technological expertise. Manage and grow in Data Analyst to develop new skillset in open source technologies such as SAS, SQL, Python & R.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Accountability: Project work and Initiatives

• Lead a team of Data Analysts allocated to various projects and modelling assignments to ensure high quality, on time deliverables

• Own and drive key new data solutions initiatives with support from broader team and direct reports. This will be applicable to high priority, high impact projects.

• Responsible for sizing all new demand (cost and timeline), identify and foresee upcoming challenges, effectively plan and mitigate risks, and effective resource allocation and utilization

• Lead collaboration partner to the Data Science team to co-create and deliver innovative data products in line with the Big Data and Advanced Analytics deliver roadmap

• Collaborate with the heads of department within Transactional banking as well as the greater Absa group to co-define and develop new data solutions including data marts, MI and Analytical models.

Accountability: Building and growing the team

• Be a senior specialist and mentor within the team that is entrepreneurial and Agile in ethos and is recognized for its commitment to delivery and world-class performance

• Collaborate with a broader community of data analysts from own internal teams, disruptive data start-ups and corporate and business partners

• Mentor junior team members to actualize their potential, working with them to map and accomplish goals

Accountability: Infrastructure, Data Access and Control

• Responsible to provide platforms, hardware and software, provisioning of internal and external data and appropriate data access control (on a need basis) to ensure productivity

• Accountable for peer review forums, testing strategy, code quality control and ensuring best statistical and analytical practices are followed

• Responsible to drive a culture of adhering to the highest data standards, governance processes and risk controls in line with the Barclays Data Policy

• Ensure up to date knowledge of Data Privacy, Data Protection, Data Regulation and Conduct Risk within the team of direct reports

Accountability: Evangelism and Customer/Client Experience

• Establish a customer / client centric culture and extend data and insights into actions to impact the end user

• Drive a new way of working where data informs business decisions to not only deliver short term benefits but also long term sustainable growth and true customer value

• Support & share knowledge and best practices with the analytical, technical and business community in the

• Company and build relationships with the wider global analytics community

• Present our leading-edge, advanced analytics and insights capabilities, results and data-driven culture at leading conferences

Knowledge & Skills:

• Coding/software development skills. Strong mathematical and statistical skills.

• Knowledge of information technology environments, administration, policies and processes. Working knowledge of financial and management accounting desirable

• SAS (MANDATORY) Min 3 - 5 years

• SQL, Python, Java (as a precursor to learning Scala) including the key numerical, analytical and machine learning libraries

• Forecast (desirable) and predictive modeling

• R (desirable), Octave/Matlab

• Apache Spark (preferred), Hadoop, Scalding

• Linux/Unix. Bash. Git. SBT/Maven

• Agile

Qualification requirement

• B Degree in BSc, B.Com, BEng, B.BusSc or equivalent NQF level 7 or higher qualification

• At least five (3+) years analytics, modelling or software development experience.

• Understanding of and experience of applying machine learning methods preferable

• Understanding of and experience of using Big Data technologies preferable

• Experience in building analytical tools to generate insight, recognize patterns and predict behavior, and to deliver content direct to users of data products

• Work with technical teams, architects, designers, and administrators to overcome technical challenges and to make it happen

• Experience in leading key initiatives to deliver results through an Agile methodology

• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and the Internet

• No criminal record

Preferred requirements

• Preferably a Master’s Degree in a quantitative discipline such mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or engineering or equivalent NQF level 8 or higher qualification

• Preference will be given to South African Citizens and Permanent residents of South Africa with proof of permanent resident status

Education

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

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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 business development expertise.

Job Description

Sales

•         Achieve individual product sales targets on the Absa Investment management services platform
•         Manage personal sales activity in line with business requirements

Relationship Management 

•         Establish and maintain professional relationships through networking with industry leaders, regulators and policy makers as well as business partners that are key in the development of new ventures
•         Apply for membership at relevant industry bodies as agreed with the line management to build relationships with key players in the industry
•         Host regular and relevant functions (as agreed with line management) to socialize new products and sell existing offerings
•         Manage the relationship with key regional stakeholders ( i.e. Regional Manager) through networking in the region to ensure optimal value add of business development
•         Through established relations with corporate clients and brokerages ensure the continuous enhancement and improvement of customer retention initiatives to reduce account closure rates
•         Sustain and uphold already established relationships with existing clients by visiting, answering queries, or by analyzing financial situation and business requirements of clients, so as to support and link the client with value added products or create awareness as to ABSA solution offerings
•         Coordinate client functions on an ad-hoc basis in order to create general awareness of ABSA offerings. Act as a conduit and be the national relationship manager between 3rd party clients in order to ensure delivery of superior customer experience and achievement of set goals.

Business Development 

•         Understand customer needs in order to propose offerings fit for the market by analyzing relevant supply/demand industry trends and/patterns
•         Stay abreast of developments and changes in the market by identifying business opportunities in the market that align to the business unit strategy
•         Identify product and/solution gaps in the market and recommend corrective action to address the gaps to relevant internal key delivery areas
•         Define target market and deliver on long term growth and sales targets by means of bulk acquisitions, specific business development interventions such as presentations to clients

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

Responsible for the implementation of Structured and Vanilla Solutions for clients in the Trade Finance area, inclusive of all Trade and Working Capital products and services. This role will manage the interface with the Trade Origination Team, Trade Solution Consultants, client and all internal infrastructure partners to ensure smooth implementation of all solutions, ensuring a high level of service, while managing portfolio risk and maximising account profitability through the correct and timely execution of business and client instructions.

Job Description

Our Transactional Banking Trade Finance team is looking for a strong analyst to join their team.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Taking responsibility for all aspects of the NTT client portfolio during the process of getting the portfolio to a “Fit to Lend” state. To provide a high level of service to new clients in the Trade Portfolio and to act as the ‘principal point of contact’ for the NTT client portfolio with respect to the successful implementation of the facility.

• Developing and managing key relationships with clients, 3rd party service providers, Trade Middle Office staff, Credit , Product Risk, Legal(incl. Transaction Management), Trade Origination, Trade Relationship Management and Structured Trade Solutioning Consultants in order to be able to provide a high level of service to both internal and external stakeholders and to mitigate operational and credit risks during implementation of NTT clients.

• Promptly and professionally attend to all client, 3rd party service providers and internal Absa stakeholder queries, requests or complaints in a manner that maximises account profitability, client retention and risk management.

• Conducting pre-implementation meetings prior to the on-boarding of new NTT clients with all relevant stakeholders to proactively troubleshoot any operational or risk issues that may arise in the implementation and to propose and action solutions to resolve any issues

• Ensuring the client on-boarding process is managed and that advice and training is provided to a level that the client knows how to use the facility and remains compliant to all conditions and covenants of the facility.

Keen to be part of thee trade team?  Send us your CV if have a B Degree and a minimum of 3 years  experience in Banking, especially Trade Finance or experience in financial modelling. Comprehensive credit knowledge is also key in order to effectively draft new applications and accurately assess credit metrics associated with client reviews.

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 develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adaption i.t.o. operations management methodology, governance and delivery objectives.

Job Description

The Global Markets operations team has an exciting opportunity for a Head of Securities Loans & Borrows Operations business, to support the Bank. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for all Change projects (Run the bank & Build the bank) as well as operational aspects of the broker business. They will be responsible for maintaining a robust operations function whilst moving the business forward by delivering on Regulatory, market and new business projects. The role will require building and sustaining relationships with key stakeholders, Strate, custodians, clients. 

This role is suited to a candidate with a Bachelor degree (B-com Accounting) ,  with a minimum of 5 to 10 years managerial experience in a Financial Services institution operating within a Securities Loans and Borrows environment. Sound understanding and working knowledge regarding controls and operational risk management in an operations environment is necessary

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 provide specialist advice and support related to the marketing of products and or service, enabling the achievement of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs.

Job Description

Marketing Strategy: Execute business unit marketing strategies to drive consideration and business outcomes. Develop business unit marketing and communication plans with a clear focus to meeting business objectives. | Campaign proposition marketing execution: Execute 360 integrated marketing that change consumer perception, improve consideration and drive business outcomes. | : | : | : | : | : | :

Education

Higher Diplomas: Marketing (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 overall purpose of the role is to support the day to day management of the of the teams responsible for the end to end deal implementation process, while playing a leading role in the Change Portfolio across the CPF loan and collateral landscape.

Job Description

Middle office deal manager to support the day to day management of the teams responsible for the end to end Property finance deal implementation process, while playing a leading role in the Change Portfolio across the CPF loan and collateral landscape. Will be accountable for deal implementation, loan life cycle management and control execution. Will also take responsibility for the successful delivery of certain large CPF Change Initiatives across  the CPF loan and collateral landscape. This role is suited to B degree with minimum 5 years banking experience within transaction administration, preferably Commercial Property Finance. Working knowledge of a vendor based loan and collateral system is essential.

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

Provide specialist advice and support in the implementation/development of operational planning and associated service delivery processes, methods and techniques.

Job Description

• Relationship Management: Own the primary relationship with the client by being the client’s main contact point for all corporate and investment banking needs. | Client Solutioning: Take overall accountability for service delivery by setting the rules of engagement for the cross functional team, which includes Transactional Banker, Credit Analyst,
• Segment Support Client Control Team, Client Service Consultant & Product & Sector teams. | Manager Risk Assessment: Take ownership of the portfolio's risk management by ensuring a good understanding of both the Bank's and the clients regulatory and compliance environments | : | : | : | : | :

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 prepare specialist operations information for all stakeholders of the business for informed decision making and to support the business.

Job Description

Global Markets Operations seek to appoint a manager in the Equity and Structured Derivatives team to support the Bank. The successful candidate will be primarily responsible for the day to day running of the team, ensuring all settlements are acted on timeously to meet payment cut off times, and performing capacity management of staff daily. They will also be responsible for the development of the operations function together with deliverables such as people, robust relationships, functional performance, processes, systems, and MI reporting.

This role is suited to a candidate with a Bachelor degree (B-com Accounting), and experience in leading / managing a team is preferred. A sound working knowledge of Structured Notes and Derivative products, gained over a minimum of 5 years in an investment banking environment is necessary, together with an understanding of the internal control framework and operational risk management.

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

Work as part of an integrated (run & build) tribe to provide enterprise wide application support across multiple stakeholder groups (in high complexity environments) by maintaining & optimizing enterprise-grade applications (tech products & services) & building capability in others to do the same.

Job Description

An opportunity to join a world-class team made up of some of the most prominent names in Security. 

You’ll be provided with the best support, learning, and access to expertise in the marketplace to transform the way our customers work, and lead them through their digital transformation. You’ll improve their experience while maximising security in a global environment, and become their trusted advisor. 

Your experience consulting for enterprise customers (both face to face and remotely) alongside your technical expertise will turn our customers into advocates; and give you the skills you need to build a highly successful career within a high growth organisation.

Responsibilities:

• Manage implementation and consulting projects, planning, scheduling, and implementing our web solutions

• Manage, escalate, and drive satisfactory resolution of clients operational issues

• Proactively drive security and operational best practices and various other initiatives.

• Own the customer technical engagement. Meet regularly with customer leadership and operational teams to provide bespoke insights on how our service helps them achieve their business goals

Qualifications

Ideally you’ll Have:

• Good understanding of HTTP and TCP/IP

• A background in Internet and Security technologies such as SWG, Sandboxing, Firewalls, DLP, and VPNs

• Network transformation technologies such as MPLS, SD-WAN or WAN Optimization.

• The ability to read packet captures

• Ability to interpret security reports to provide actionable improvements for our clients.

• A detailed working knowledge of web based security and network infrastructure, Security Proxies, such as NGFW, SSL/IPSec VPNs, and Firewalls

• Good understanding of ITIL / Service Management / Release Pipeline

• Troubleshooting knowledge, design and implementation experience

• A vendor certification such as CISSP, CCIE, CCNP, JNCIE, MCSE

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

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

CIB Global Markets is looking for a .Net Developer to join the FRTB team, min 5 years' relevant development experience

Key critical requirements:

DevOps experience

- Generic

- Rancher

- Kubernetics

- Docker

 

.Net Core

- C# - 4.5 and up

- Python

 

Technical on cloud – AWS

 

Persistence Layer – Postgress – Open source solution

- Mongo DB

- Hadoop

- SQL

 

Messaging

- Kafka,

- Rabbit MQ

 

Bigdata

Data ingestion

- Data persistence

- Data reporting/visualization

 

MicroServices

Angular

DevOps

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including

• Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions

• 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

• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)

• Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger

• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes

• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.

• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services

• Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines

• Provide input into 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 and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing, Infrastructure solutions etc.

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team

• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)

• Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)

• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

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

The main purpose of the job is to perform the role as Lead ETL Developer for Absa Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB). You will be responsible for participating and contributing to migrating an existing application to Hadoop and then enhancing this system as well as implementing new business requirements.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, automate and support complex applications to extract, transform and load data

• Develop solutions using Spark and Scala. (Possibly SSIS as well)

• Create and enhance data solutions enabling seamless delivery of data and is responsible for collecting, parsing, managing and analysing large sets of data

• Ensure data quality

• Clear, standardised documents that describe the ETL solution

Competencies

• Ability to research and grasp new concepts at a fast pace.

• Excellent English and communication skills

• Planning and organizing

• Delivering results and meeting customer expectation

Knowledge and skills

• Scala Development Language or C# or Java Development Language

• ETL Development skills e.g. SSIS

• Expert working knowledge of SQL

• Hadoop Architecture and Operating System (Cloudera)

• Hadoop SQL (Hive)

• Sound and diligent approach to BI/ETL development and testing

Experience

• 8 + years’ experience

• Expert knowledge of SQL

• Development of ETL

• Working experience and knowledge of the Hadoop ecosystem (Hive, HDFS, Spark)

• Business knowledge in the Risk and Finance domain advantageous

• Proven technical skills

Education

• University degree or equivalent

• University or post graduate degree in analytical subjects (mathematics, physics, engineering or IT), e.g.  B.Sc Mathematics, Act. Sci, Statistics / FRM or PRMIA qualification

Preference given to the following additional skill-set

• Working understanding of Business Intelligence methodologies and BI software implementations e.g. Qlikview or Power BI

• Financial Services / Banking experience

• Ability to clearly demonstrate aptitude and attitude

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

Specialist .Net Core Developer for CIB Digital Tech, based in Cape Town.

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

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.

 

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.