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Absa Bank Limited (Absa) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group Limited. Absa offers personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management as well as bancassurance. Barclays Africa Group Limited is 62.3% owned by Barclays Bank PLC and is listed on the JSE Limited. The Group is one of A...
Job Description
The CIB Data Analytics Team provides insights and quantitative analytics to ABSA’s Corporate and Investment Banking business. This Data Analytics team is responsible for the maintenance and development of a Data Analytics Platform with related components, tools and interfaces to other parts of the system landscape. The Data Analytics Engineer will be responsible for the maintenance and development of a Data Analytics Platform with related components, tools and interfaces to other parts of the system landscape and the development of Data Pipelines, cleaning and transforming data to be persisted (relational, NoSQL, Hadoop, etc) and exposed/streamed to downstream consumers (Analytics Platforms, Machine Learning models, etc). The successful candidate will have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in building data management systems within an Investment Banking/Global Markets environment. They must have the ability to use data analytics to solution. Applied knowledge of standard Data Management Technology, e.g, Relational, NoSQL as well as Big Data Technologies such as the Hadoop ecosystem, Kafka, Storm, Spark, ElasticSearch and of the Software Development Lifecycle as well as Software and Systems Architecture is critical
Education
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
Job Summary
To provide advice and support in financial practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist expertise.
Job Description
Financial Leadership and Support to Business:
Develop internal team capability together with the leadership team of the function with a focus on talent management, development, resourcing and retention.
Motivate team members through coaching and mentoring them to perform optimally around the vision and values, create a sense of urgency and excitement around the business and ensure that they strive to deliver optimally.
Risk Management and Technical:
Act as a leader for the area’s Risk Management Control Framework and manage and ensure compliance of the relevant policies.
Implement areas identified in the review of audit issue/findings logs and ensure adequate attention is given to closure within the agreed timelines by the accountable incumbent within the team.
Complete required compliance and attestations and ensure that impacted team members complete their attestations.
Review and approve Control Risk Assessments (RCA's) prepared in the function.
Complete attestations to testify to the adequacy of controls on request within specific area.
Actively enable, participate and complete the Credit Risk BA regulatory returns, related controls within regulatory timelines in conjunction with the various regulatory return owners and their teams.
Financial management and Business Partnering:
Working with business unit heads define the cost centre structures and rollup/consolidation to effectively manage the businesses performance.
Define and instruct team on the formatting of management reports and contract with system developers and data providers to develop the reports.
Ensure "one version of the truth" for all reporting and that management reporting reconciles/agrees to reports produced within other areas of the business.
Review the variance analyses for the different business units as prepared by the team and discuss major variances, on the cost and income sides, with business unit heads to gain and understanding of the reasons.
Review quality of and provide input into the Business Unit Exco reporting functions with a focus on the variances, reasons for variances and overall business performance of the cluster.
Lead investigations into cost saving initiatives and make comprehensive recommendations to the business unit ME On request from project/change teams, provide input and support during the development of business case financials for new projects or initiatives.
On a continued basis improve automated processing of credit risk regulatory calculations to drive an improved cost base and control environment.
Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Mathematics (Required), Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Risk Management and Financial Risk Management, Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Statistics
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
Job Summary
• Specific Role Purpose: Role will be focused on building financial models using historical data; product related information based on various industry & internal inputs in support of business cases, strategic initiatives, potential new products and partnerships.
• The Finance Analyst performs financial reconciliations’, analysis and reporting in an accurate, complete and timely way; and continuously seeks to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes to doing deep dive and trend analyses to crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives. The Finance Analyst equips finance and business leadership with sound financial information to support decision making at all levels.
• The Finance Analyst of the business enables achieving the operational objectives of the business by building an agile finance enablement to transform, to bring stewardship, financial integrity & insights to the current state of the business & its future possibilities to deliver on the new operating model and to achieve the business objectives set by Absa Africa United for RBB.
• The Finance Analyst co-creates Finance capabilities required to lead to exponential growth and business effectiveness.
Job Description
Commercial Finance Execution Accountabilities
Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations’, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Management in business area.
Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end to end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work.
First line of operational support to internal and external auditors within scope of work; and all queries addressed effectively and efficiently.
Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives.
Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams.
Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views.
Ensure that the CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU.
Create unprecedented, seamless customer experiences via finance BU enablement.
Embrace our distinctive brand aspiration and infuse in business.
Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function. Embrace digital solutions.
Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls.
Adopt what’s ‘best for absa’ approach in finance practices.
Have a holistic eco-system view of business, that is, geography, customer, channel and product in developing information views of business.
Book of work contribution: Build innovative finance business case financial information, insights and benefits tracking’s’ solutions to continuously inform management decisions.
Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes.
Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of RBB in performance reporting.
Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for RBB Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory and reporting).
Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate.
Influence the build of a leading global payments hub, where applicable.
Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.
Be an active force for good in society through business execution.
Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution.
Financial Reporting Accountabilities
Build trust in the finance function through the creation of a single source of financial information which is corroborated by related management information sources and alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies, and underlying data are correctly applied.
Generate innovative easy to comprehend progress reports for leaders on their strategic agenda, short-term and long-term plans and investments, operational success metrics, efficiencies, risks and mitigations.
Interact with the stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process.
Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.
Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions.
Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.
Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into performance reports.
Integrate advanced modelling and analysis capability to provide actionable intelligence, beyond data within the function.
Generate finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions.
Ensure appropriate, quality and timeous delivery of accurate financial and non-financial management information to support business objectives and expectations, including appropriate financial and non-financial metrics, valid and insightful comments and packaging the information in a relevant and appropriate manner.
Deliver reporting reflecting deep commercial, holistic understanding, coherency, clarity, and contextualisation. Tell the story with passion and conviction.
Provide thought-leadership, insight, influence and challenge on evolving stakeholder information requirements and reporting processes to deliver analytics.
Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the RBB finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group. Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and BU teams.
Manage the production of regular, high quality, standardised financial and non-financial reporting and analytics to Business and Finance; and focus on effective collaborative stakeholder hand-offs in the production.
People Investment Accountabilities
Peer responsibility: Coach, inspire, engage, mentor and develop finance and business savvy leaders.
Network with finance colleagues across GFD and create awareness of challenges, opportunities and issues and encourage collaboration
Focus on Finance skills evolution and remaining relevant.
Embrace the value of finance partnership in Big Data, Advanced Analytics, mergers and acquisitions, and partnerships into the core of our business.
Ensure deep personal understanding of income statement, balance sheet, margin returns, variance analysis, capital and liquidity requirements, revenues, assets, liabilities and capital, expenses, headcount analytics and other key ratios through relevant business engagement.
Education
Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial 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
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
Responsible for working with business functions to identify, investigate and analyse problems faced by business/product owners. Based on this analysis the Business Analyst needs to propose a solution, to fully address the business requirements, needed to optimise the business.
Stakeholders will be up to executive level
Bcom degree or higher is required
5 years+ experience in business analysis
5 years + experience in financial industry
Experience in data analytics
Skills and competencies
Knowledge and skills:
- Advanced Business Acumen
- Proven track record of relationship management
- Negotiation skills
- Attention to detail
- Negotiation skills
- Customer Centricity
- Knowledge of data manipulation
- Strong Financial Skills
Competencies:
- Deciding and Initiating action
- Learning and researching
- Persuading and influencing
- Creating and Innovation
- Relating and networking
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
Job Summary
A Fixed Term Contract role has become available in the CIB Digital Onboarding & Advisory Team within Transactional Banking. In this role, Digital Service & Risk Advisor you will be required to provide service support and advisory function for new and existing client in support of Origination and Sales and Coverage teams across all Business and Corporate segments within South Africa i.e. retaining Transactional Banking new and existing clients. Grow transactional volumes and digital and risk advisory to retain a portfolio of all Transactional Banking clients.
Transactional Banking encompasses Cash Management in the form of Payments and Receipting (whether domestic or cross border) with associated Forex conversions, information products, documentary trade and open account products. The primary delivery channel for provision of these services is our Choice of Access and Service Digital Channels.
Job Description
Key accountabilities
Understand client segment/sector and business needs to facilitate digital and risk advisory
Provide additional insight, detail and information on clients transaction flow including efficiency and risk informed
Demonstrate products and channels, virtual or face-to-face
Install products and channels, virtual or face-to-face
Migrate and train clients on products and channels, virtual or face-to-face
Solution clients for relevant products and channels when non-standard implementations are required. This includes structuring of profiles, permissions and authorities as well as advising on transaction flows.
Maximise earnings with Clients through proper positioning and servicing from a Transactional Services perspective. Ensure clients are using appropriate service channels
Identify opportunities for expansion in transaction volumes and for cross selling of products or services through appropriate product knowledge, maintaining and engagement with clients on a regular basis, and problem solving capabilities
Drive migration from manual and legacy electronic channels to Strategic channels
Manage non-standard or complex queries escalated from the Omni Channel Service centre
Support amendments to and implementation of appropriate digital propositions.
Understand and comply with all applicable governance, compliance, risk policies and procedures
Thorough understanding of relevant, up-to-date technical knowledge in own field and across the broader client sector, business aligned to Transactional Banking propositions.
Broad and deep Transactional Banking expertise to support client's Transactional Banking needs
Maintain and build detailed knowledge of Transactional Banking products and channels.
Minimum Experience and Education Required
B Degree or equivalent NQF Level 6 qualification preferred
NQF level 5 or 3-year National Diploma / Higher Cert a minimum
5 – 8 Years’ Transactional Banking Experience preferred. 3 years’ experience at minimum
5 – 8 Years’ Experience with Corporate or Business Client Relationships. 3 years’ experience at minimum
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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