Job Openings at Absa Group

Role Summary:

• The candidate will be based in the Western Cape responsible for Global Corporates banking relationship.The purpose of this role is to provide Corporate and Investment Banking coverage and identify financing as well as transactional opportunities within a defined client base. This particular Coverage banker will look after the Global Corporates sector client base and solution for existing clients in the portfolio.

In this role you will:

• Own the primary relationship with the client by being the client’s main contact point for all corporate and investment banking needs;
• Establish and maintain strategic relationships with clients and co-ordinate client relationships and interaction with clients across the Bank.
• Assume primary responsibility for understanding the client’s business at a strategic, tactical and operational level;
• Create a network of alliances and business partners with product areas in the Bank.

The successful incumbent will ideally have a Postgraduate Degree in Commerce or Engineering as well as 5 years Corporate Banking and Client engagement experience, with preferred experience dealing with Global Corporates industries. Your negotiation skills, relationship building skills, corporate and investment banking product knowledge and credit knowledge are amongst the most important skills required to be successful in this role.
Kindly note that should you not hear from us within a 2 week period of CV submission, it will be safe to assume that your application has not been successful. 
 

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Step into the New Year with exciting changes! Do you have extensive SWIFT knowledge? This is an exciting opportunity for you to join our CIB Payments team. In this role you will be required to deliver an improved Swift capability across the Absa group to support the strategic deliverables of the various business areas. The role further encompasses management of the Swift Centre of Excellence analysts ensuring the team delivers a consistent, first class service to its customers (internal and external) across a broad range of products.

• Play a key role in the launch and creation of the SWIFT Centre of Excellence (CoE)
• Plan and influence the SWIFT strategy across the bank with stakeholders, senior management and change teams
• Ensure the Swift CoE is driving the business roadmap for Swift across the continent
• Prioritise projects and improvement areas on the SWIFT book of work
• Be the main representative from Group Payments and CIB ops for the Swift book of work including managing stakeholder expectations with regards to timeframes and benefits of improvements/projects
• Develop, implement and get sign off for the initial SWIFT CoE RCSA
• Identify potential risks around all elements of SWIFT across the bank and within the SWIFT CoE
• Ensure that processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks that impact the area are documented and understood by all members of the team

Education and Experience Required

• SA institute of Bankers or equivalent NQF level 6 banking qualification
• 5 years’ banking industry experience gained through Swift/Payments
• 2 years’ experience in leadership or management

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An exciting opportunity exists within the CIB Fraud Team for a Fraud Analytics and Intelligence Manager who will be responsible for enhancing the CIB fraud risk management capability through: data analytics, input to monitoring models and rule sets, proactive horizon scanning and understanding of and response to current and forward-looking fraud intelligence / threats.
This role entails:

• Data analytics and deep dives informed by relevant fraud threats in CIB
• Inform demand for additional monitoring, models and rule sets
• Maintain / refine / build fraud monitoring models, including AI models based on input from Fraud Operations, Fraud Strategy and emerging threats
• Develop and provide input to relevant fraud monitoring control standards
• Through actively monitoring threat intelligence / horizon scanning inform the CIB current and future fraud threat landscape
• Drive close collaboration with Cyber and FinCrime on sharing threat intelligence
• Closely collaborate with the various capabilities in the CIB Fraud Risk Management team e.g. Fraud Strategy, Fraud Ops, etc. to achieve the most effective results
• Drive prioritization of mitigation of emerging threats with Fraud Strategy and the business
• Work closely with Fraud Strategy on compiling governance reporting across the CIB portfolios on the CIB fraud risk profile
•     Periodic MI and reporting e.g. on emerging threats and intelligence

Education and experience required

• Degreed candidate preferred
• Data science qualifications beneficial
• Experience in CIB preferred
• 5-8 years (Technical/Managerial) experience in Fraud Risk Management / Monitoring toolsets or big data analytics