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Job Summary

• To provide advice and support in specialist operational services through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed SOPs.

Job Description

• Specialist operations support: Provide administrative and junior specialist operations support and advice 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

Accountability: Administrative support functions

Accountability:
Compliance

Education and Experience Required

•  Grade 12 (NQF level 4)
•  Estate and Trust Diploma(Preferred)
•  Deceased Estate Administration course via LEAD ( Preferred)
•  One (1) year experience in an administrative environment (Essential)
•  One (1) year administrative experience in a Deceased Estate Environment (Preferred)

Knowledge & Skills: (Maximum of 6)

•  Interpersonal skills
•  Knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel and Word
•  Good telephone etiquette
•  Customer orientated
•  Ability to work under pressure
•  Communication skills (written and verbal)red

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

•  Working with people
•  Planning and organising
•  Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
•  Following Instructions and Procedures

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

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE SPECIFIC BUSINESS UNIT:

• Absa Home Loans has been on a healthy growth trajectory to reclaim its leadership spot in the mortgage finance space. The analytics team, working alongside strategy, has been playing an active role in shaping the how of bringing this possibility to life.
• The team is currently engaged in several initiatives in the exploratory and advanced analytics space, to leverage the data that our engineering team has worked tirelessly to store in an easier to access format – hence enabling you to do what you do best! 

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:

• The Analytics 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 work on our vast data assets to unearth insights that will play an active role in shaping the business’ strategy and tactical planning / execution. This will include applying techniques in data wrangling, exploratory analytics and spatial analysis to solve business problems in the property space.
• 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 to take on projects that they identify in the business as well!

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participate in design thinking processes to determine & confirm hypotheses and priority questions / data challenges & related metrics to be solved for
• Translate business questions to be solved into data requirements & define data solutions to deliver against these requirements
• Query the relevant database to obtain data and create fit for purpose datasets, using the relevant tools - SQL, SAS, Hadoop
• Use advanced data science skills to build solutions that leverage the best suited analytical techniques. These include but are not limited to: advanced statistics, machine learning and deep learning.
• Produce business insights and recommendations based on data analysis & modeling concluded & where relevant with knowledge and experience of e.g. SAS, Python, R.
• Use storytelling and data visualization techniques to maximize impact & deliver a user friendly product to business
• Contribute to the consolidation of data solutions into viable end products (in the language of business) that can be leveraged on an ongoing basis e.g. dashboards, reports etc.
• Present data analysis (trends, insights, forecasts) & findings to business & show tangible business impact to be derived from the data science process
• Promote data literacy with your business stakeholders by sharing best practices and showing tangible business impact & recommendations as a direct result of the data solutions provided
• Stay ahead of the curve on data science and analytics trends & leading practice data tools and techniques & transition the organization to advanced methods for the continuous optimization of data

EDUCATION and MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor (Honours) degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics
• At least 5 years’ postgraduate work experience in an analytics or data science role
• Expert knowledge of anadvanced analytics tool: Python, R, Apache Spark
• Expert knowledge of a data query tool: SQL, SAS
• Expert knowledge of a visualization tool: PowerBI, Tableau, Quicksight

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 advanced analytics toolkit 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'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

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

Job Description

Responsible for working with business functions to identify, investigate and analyse problems faced by business/product owners. Based on this analysis, the Business Analyst needs to propose a solution to address the business requirements in full, as needed to optimise the business.

The senior Business Analyst must have the ability to work on multiple project simultaneously and will be responsible for delegating and overseeing tasks assigned to the junior Business Analyst.

Accountability: Project Establishment Initiation Activities

• Develop design principles based on the initial brief and scope provided to guide the project's implementation activities, including the requirements planning stage and the management of change requests.

• Assist and support business operations, with the ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ process mapping on projects and also when changes to operational policies, procedures and processes occur.

• Build and maintain relationships with key role players by communicating regularly and working closely with them to elicit business requirements, evaluate and recommend possible business solutions, make assessments and produce feasibility analysis.

• Proactively identify project risks and issues through consultation with key stakeholders and communicating these with the Project Manager (PM).

• Assist the Business Analyst Lead with ensuring that the definition of the project scope and all other documentation needed in the Project Concept and/or Project Charter document/s is obtained by facilitating a project definition workshop.

• Develop hypotheses to achieve project goals based on the outcomes of the project definition workshop and use these to guide the fact gathering and analysis.

• Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of possible business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented, circulated and signed off by the relevant stakeholders, and handed over to the PM for use in defining and designing the project.

• Facilitate workshops in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project so that the project is suitably defined, designed and implemented.

• Assist the PM with defining timelines and milestones for expected deliverables.

Accountability: Business Requirements Activities

• Analyse the “as is” “business architectures”, to identify any issues, opportunities, etc. This includes the analysis of all existing products & services, the procedures and business rules, the organisation structures, functions, roles & responsibilities, the business processes & procedures, the IT systems functionalities, data, performance and measurement metrics.

• Investigate and perform a business needs analysis, by interviewing the product or business process owners, to determine business requirements and identify possible alternatives and or solutions to achieve these requirements.

• Perform “root cause” issues analysis with key stakeholders by either conducting interviews or workshop to further evaluate and identify solutions and/or alternatives to meet the business requirements and document all findings to assist with project definition, design and build.

• Set up and facilitate workshops with relevant stakeholders to gather, identify and document the project and business owner requirements to be used in the project definition, design and build.

• Investigate options available, best practices, alternatives etc. and obtain up to date information in relation to the project requirements / objectives by referring to internal and external parties to ensure the best solution is considered and identified for the project.

Accountability: Solution Analysis and Documentation

• Design the “to be” “business architectures” by using the identified design principles and document the ideas by working through increasing levels of design detail (i.e. conceptual/high level/detailed design levels).

• Identify and design new and/or improved business process systems and/or procedures to deliver project goals by ensuring that the best solution is considered and identified for the project.

• Undertake a feasibility and impact analysis of solutions identified (people, process, data and system infrastructure) with key stakeholders, internal, external and technology staff to further define project requirements for the definition, design and build of the project.

• Able to perform and apply intermediate to advanced level data analysis and data quality principles.

• Identify IT interfaces, IT integration points to ensure integration into functional specifications, by consulting and workshopping with the IT System Analysis teams, Group Strategy, Enterprise Architect, Vendors, etc).

• Develop IT-systems functional, non-functional and service level requirements, reporting requirements, Business Requirement Definition documents (BRDs), use cases, etc. based on the evaluations, meetings, assessments and requirements analysis undertaken during the earlier stages of the project analysis stages, for use by the PM and project team to design, build, test and implement the project.

• Develop a functional decomposition of identified requirements through consultation with stakeholders to ensure that the business requirements will be developed and delivered by the project.

• Validate documented solutions in a walk-through workshop with stakeholders to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

Accountability: Assessment and Validation of Solutions

• Assist the systems-management function with setting up and undertaking the IT-systems user-acceptance tests by both business users and IT staff to ensure that the technology solution meets the business requirements.

• Co-ordinate all user acceptance testing with regard to securing test users, the test location, the relevant access rights and by documenting all results and where required perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) as undertaken and stipulated by the Absa Group Technology IT methodology.

• Assess the solution/s by benchmarking with industry standards to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

• Evaluate the vendors' products/solutions and the integration capability of the products / solutions to ensure the solution is compliant in terms of required standards, design and fit to the Enterprise Architecture.

Education

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

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

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

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Job Summary

To provide specialist advice & support in area of specialisation enabling the provision of an approved audit plan in compliance with auditing methodology.

Job Description

Internal Auditor, RBB – Insurance

The RBB Insurance Group and Relationship Banking Internal Audit team is looking for a detail-oriented team player with an interest and preferably experience in the insurance, investment management and non-banking financial services environments (or any combination of these), who wants to gain insight into the various business operations and control processes across Africa. The Absa Financial Services (AFS) Group division provides wealth, investment management, stockbroking, trusts, will estates, financial management and short-term/life insurance products to our Absa customers. If you are interested in expanding your bancassurance experience in the non-banking arena of the financial services industry in a risk-based environment, we would be keen to engage with you and widen your career aspirations!  

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 monitor the treasury risk profile, execute audit assignments in the treasury function in accordance with the Group Audit Plan and Internal Audit methodology, relevant policies, procedures and quality standards. Provide timely feedback on audit opinions, assessments of treasury key risks and emerging risks to inform the forward looking audit coverage. Partner with business to create an effective control environment for the treasury functional areas.

Job Description

We are looking for an Internal Auditor to join the Internal Audit – Treasury team. Key to this role is the ability to assess the effectiveness of internal controls, execute audit assignments in the treasury function in accordance with the Group Audit Plan and Internal Audit methodology, relevant policies, procedures and quality standards. If you have a good understanding of the treasury functional areas, then this could be an exciting opportunity you may want to explore!

Key Responsibilities

• Keep the Audit team up to date on key regulations and policies relating to treasury functions (i.e. Asset and Liability Management, Liquidity and Funding, and Capital Management).

• Develop and maintain relationships with the heads of the respective treasury functions by attending continuous stakeholder meetings. In addition, engage closely with stakeholders during assignments and encourage open discussion and interaction with business on the risks associated in their environment.

• Attend forums of stakeholder (e.g. Treasury Risk and Control Committee) and other assurance providers (i.e. 2LOD) and share information on changes and new developments in the audit methodology.

• Provide the Audit team with write-ups on key risk assessments and risk profile for the Treasury functions.

• Assist the Audit team with the validation of audit issues.

• Support the Audit team in the identification of risks to be tested by participating in audit planning sessions.

• Develop an in depth knowledge of the audit methodology, by attending training sessions and using knowledge gained during audits, use this proactively in executing audit activities.

• Improve treasury knowledge (i.e. general and technical) through self-learning, external workshops or training for professional qualification

 Experience:

• Risk management experience with a focus on Treasury environment.

• Basic knowledge of regulatory requirements across liquidity risk, capital risk and interest rate in the banking book.

Competencies

• Deciding and initiating action

• Learning and researching

• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking

• Relating and networking

• Adapting and responding to change

• Persuading and influencing

• Creating and innovating

Minimum Requirements

• Two years’ experience in risk management or auditing

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. auditing methodology, governance and delivery objectives.

Job Description

A role has become available for an experienced Audit Manager to join our Group Internal Audit Retail Banking team, The ideal candidate will have auditing experience across digital channels, branches and retail banking products. You will plan, execute and manage audit assignments in accordance with the Group Audit Plan and relevant policies, procedures and quality standards. The Audit Manager is responsible for the quality of the audit work performed and the efficiency and effectiveness of the audit team. Experience managing teams in critical to the role

Other responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Plan the delivery of assigned audits to a high quality across our RBB division in line with Key Performance Indicators as per the methodology. This will include adequate resourcing scheduling, meeting key deliverables in terms of audit timelines and review of audit work to confirm that the minimum requirements as per methodology are met.

• Act as a mentor for auditors across the team and peers to provide guidance to ensure that their work exceeds quality standards.

• Manage the teams that assigned to the audit effectively by delegating audit work to empower each individual team member.

• Contribute to the annual planning process as requested by the Head of Audit by providing feedback and knowledge in terms of business. This will include identifying auditable entities, assessing the audit needs assessment and preparing all Management Information reports required.

• Engage with Centres of Excellences at each stage in the audit process and give oversight to CoE colleagues working on the audit assignment.

• Based on the reviews performed, provide effective feedback to audit staff during the audit assignment to confirm that working papers are completed in line with the AIA methodology.

Education and Experience:

• B Degree (Commercial, Informatics, Statistics)

• CA (SA), CIA, CISA or international equivalents

• 3-5 years’ experience in Internal/External audit or commensurate experience in a major financial institution or consulting

• 2 years’ experience in risk based auditing or risk/control activities

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 Platform services & 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 with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver against business requirements at an optimal cost to serve.

Job Description

Senior Cloud Engineers

Recognized Internationally, this Leading Financial Institution is scouting for Talented Cloud Engineers to join their amazing space. Known for its innovation and cutting-edge technology, this would be an excellent opportunity for someone looking to expand their industry knowledge and work with leading technology years ahead of its competitors!
This is a brilliant opportunity to work in SA’s best-rated banking environment with SA’s highly skilled Cloud professionals!

Job Purpose
Our Cloud Engineers are specialists who use their cloud skills to build the platform that underpins our next generation of products and digital experiences.  Constant innovation and learning are a key part of the role (and what brought us to the cutting-edge). This includes design, development, planning, management, maintenance, and support of the core cloud infrastructure as well as working with other engineering teams in the firm. 
Experience and Qualifications

• Minimum qualification - Relevant degree or industry certification in the relevant Cloud Platform – AWS and or Azure.
• Preferred Qualification - Bachelor of Science degree in computer science or relevant IT experience.
• Min 5 years experience with cloud services AWS. (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, etc.)
• Automation, scripting, continuous integration and continuous delivery, you’ll be using Python a lot. (Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet)
• Experience in application development in Java, .Net, Python, Ruby or Go
• Strong engineering background
• Cloud infrastructure management tools: Terraform, CloudFormation.
• Proven problem solving, technical troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• A good understanding of Linux, Networking, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of cloud security, cyber security fundamentals and security automation.
• Solid understanding APIs, orchestration, automation, DevOps, and databases.
• Cloud management software such as AWS, Azure, or VMware.
• Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a- Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

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

Responsible for identifying and managing legal risk for the South African and African business. Key point of contact on a day-to-day basis for the business team, and responsible for providing pro-active legal advice, support and risk management.

Job Description

Accountability:  Negotiate, draft and review Agreements

• Ensure agreements are drafted as quickly and efficiently as possible while protecting the Bank and mitigating risks.

• Attend to queries as quickly as possible.

• Successful conclusion of agreements, taken into account how certain clauses would impact the Bank' strategy.

• Consider, comment, negotiate and give advice on commercial agreements and schedules.

• Assist in structuring, negotiating and drafting commercial agreements and schedules relating to standard agreements, technology agreements and related transactions.

• Address all probable risks by seeing to it that they are sufficiently mitigated in the agreements drafted.

• Conduct legal due diligences on transactions.

Accountability:  Advisory and opinions

• Delivering excellent and effective legal advice and service to stakeholders, applying strategic thinking with advice given.

• Ensure technical correctness of agreements drafted by ensuring that the latest legal requirements have been included in the agreement.

• Staying up to date with all relevant laws, case law and regulatory directives and guidance, this is done by doing regular research on legal developments and attending training interventions.

• Ensure that all risks are sufficiently addressed in agreements entered by the Bank, understanding the requirements of business, legal issues and possible business risks and incorporating clauses in the agreements to address such risks and requirements.

• At all times ensure that sufficient legal knowledge has been obtained and updated with latest legal developments to ensure that they are correctly reflected in the agreements drafted.

Accountability:  Management of Legal Risks

• Proactive updating of templates and identification of clauses for continuous improvement. 

• Ensure effective and appropriate verbal and written communication of the legal policies to internal clients.

• Proactive monitoring of compliance of the legal risk control framework.

• Adhere to Absa frameworks, policies and procedures applicable to the role, demonstrating sound judgement and responsible risk management and when required highlight breaches and request dispensations & waivers on a timely basis.

• Report all risk events/incidents/issues immediately upon discovery and escalate significant events/incidents/issues using the defined process for the business area.

• Understand why risk events/incidents/issues happened and identify how to prevent them in future - focusing on fixing root causes and taking ownership of identified actions

Accountability:  Stakeholder Management

• Build relationships with key senior stakeholders within the legal and business functions across the Bank and become a trusted advisor.

• Timeous, appropriate and collegiate engagement and collaboration with Legal colleagues from other teams, particularly where matters are business facing or are related to another area of expertise (e.g. employment law).

• Timeous and proactive escalation of issues to manager (technical, stakeholder related and where matters have been open for more than 3 months), blocking out contract review time with manager sufficiently in advance so as to avoid urgency and delays.

• Timeous and accurate matters reporting, providing adequate detail and drafted in a manner that can be easily copied into a General Counsel report Explain legal concepts, clauses in agreements and risks to internal clients.

• Provide training that is beneficial / informative to internal clients by way of presentations, such as training on new legislation or recent legal precedents.

• Manage external counsel were applicable.

• Familiarisation with the Bank’ internal governance. 

Accountability:  General

• Proactive stakeholder management and raising the profile of the team.

• Identify instances where contract automation can be implemented to ensure efficiency.

• Deal leadership – ability and experience in leading large and complex deals.

• Develop and maintain a network with senior stakeholders by encouraging informal interactions and catch-up sessions to achieve good visibility and raise the profile of the team.

• Perform duties in line with the Absa values and uphold Absa’ values in transacting with stakeholders, customers and colleagues.

• Provide more than is required from stakeholders to ensure efficiency and excellence.

• Be an active and accountable member of the team by participating in initiatives and workstreams across the Legal function.

• Timeous conclusion of all mandatory training.

• Coach and mentor junior team members.

Professional/technical experience

• At least 5-8 years’ PQE in the field of commercial legal.

• Ability to advise at a senior business level and establish credibility with senior stakeholders.

• Experience in drafting and negotiating outsourcing agreements and/or technology agreements is preferred.

Academic and professional qualifications

• Appropriate Law degree.

• Admitted attorney in RSA.

• Degree from a leading educational institution with good academic results.

Personal attributes

• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.

• Very strong interpersonal skills.

• Communication skills.

• Well organised and efficient.

• Excellent negotiating and influencing skills.

• Integrity and reliability.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Commercial acumen.

• Business awareness, prioritisation of risk and strong commercial focus.

• Ability to manage a large (and often fluid) workload with effective prioritisation as well as deliver under pressure and at speed.

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