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Job Summary

• New opportunity available! Optimise the profit and economic value of portfolios of Growth Business key account clients requiring medium to high complexity commercial banking requirements by focusing: origination efforts to quire new clients; b) cross-sell to existing client base; c) coverage efforts to service clients in accordance to the segment CVP.

Job Description

• Drive Financial Targets: Maintain primary ownership of a portfolio of Growth Account clients, differentiated by the level of complexity of the client base.
• Relationship and Service Management: Actively develop strong client relationships. Conduct regular client visits in accordance with the Commercial Growth Account Value Proposition and initiate changes to ABB Product by providing input into product development to better service our clients.
• Manage Risk Assessment: Adhere to the bank's policies and procedures and ensure compliance. Take ultimate ownership of the portfolio's risk management by ensuring a good understanding of both the Bank's and the clients regulatory and compliance environments.
• Collaboration : Constantly seek to improve ways of working by challenging the status quo and supporting an empowering climate within the team, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and providing constructive feedback as required.

Education

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• Seasoned Investment Banker to provide strategic financial advisory and transaction execution services to clients navigating distressed and special situations for the Corporate & Investment Bank (Investment Banking Division including Commercial Property Finance, Markets and Transactional Banking). 
• The role is suited to a seasoned Investment Banker with specialist knowledge in the management of CIB clients facing financial distress and with experience of distressed asset management strategies. Excellent solutioning, restructuring and negotiation skills and the ability to operate under pressure are essential. Candidates with experience in distress and or corporate finance, M&A and or debt advisory, holding a CA/LLB or similar with a minimum of 5 years relevant experience. Depth of knowledge of CIB lending, trade products, corporate finance and capital raising requirements (debt and equity) is essential.

Job Description

• The role involves working closely with distressed companies, their Board’s and Executive Committees, creditors, investors, and other stakeholders to formulate and execute restructuring and turnaround strategies. The Specialist Investment Banker is responsible for solutioning, negotiating and delivering complex financial restructures that optimize outcomes for all parties involved while minimizing risk and seeking commercial outcomes to better align the returns with the risk profile

Education

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

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Job Summary

• To build and maintain professional business relationships across a portfolio of Private Wealth clients, by achieving financial targets, proactively acquiring new clients, and improving customer experience within the scope of the Bank’s regulatory and compliance frameworks.

Job Description

• New Business Origination Manage and grow existing client relationships Involvement in credit related tasks Involvement in Assets under Management and Investments Stakeholder Management Query resolution Risk Management

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Optimise the profit and economic value of portfolios of Growth Business key account clients requiring medium to high complexity commercial banking requirements by focusing: 
• origination efforts to quire new clients; 
• cross-sell to existing client base; 
• coverage efforts to service clients in accordance to the segment CVP

Job Description

• Drive Financial Targets: Maintain primary ownership of a portfolio of Growth Account clients, differentiated by the level of complexity of the client base
• Relationship and Service Management: Actively develop strong client relationships. Conduct regular client visits in accordance with the Commercial Growth Account Value Proposition and initiate changes to ABB Product by providing input into product development to better service our clients
• Manage Risk Assessment: Adhere to the bank's policies and procedures and ensure compliance. Take ultimate ownership of the portfolio's risk management by ensuring a good understanding of both the Bank's and the clients regulatory and compliance environments.
• Collaboration: Constantly seek to improve ways of working by challenging the status quo and supporting an empowering climate within the team, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and providing constructive feedback as required.

Education

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• Actuarial Science qualification preferred
• Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Investments related qualifications 
• Any other quantitative qualification 
• CFA is an added advantage
• Proficiency in MS office (Excel, Powerpoint, PowerBI)
• Coding in Python/R/MATLAB or any other quantitative/statistical software

Job Description

Strategic asset allocation and investment strategy 

• Conduct local and global research on market and economic conditions and trends; fundamentally, quantitatively and qualitatively 
• Gather data, perform statistical analysis and build market and economic forecasts using time-series modelling techniques, parameterising financial and economic models, and introducing machine learning algorithms like neural networks 
• Run the Strategic Asset Allocation model using established asset allocation frameworks and present any recommended changes to Asset Allocation Committee 

Outcomes 

• Delivering market-beating investment performance 
• Publications of high-quality and in-depth and up-to-date regular research reports
• Producing accurate asset class return forecasts 

Portfolio management  

• Management of quantitative investment portfolios 
• Management and rebalancing of specialized portfolios such as living annuities, life-stage portfolios 
• Portfolio trading and rebalancing of offshore and local portfolios 

Outcomes 

• Implemented portfolios are managed in alignment to Houseview and/or any relevant model portfolios 

Equity research  

• Conducting detailed, in-depth and high quality fundamental research on companies looking at their strategy, operations, financials and valuations with the aim of making high-conviction investment recommendations for the local and global portfolios 
• Incorporating ESG into the investment management philosophy and process and integrating this into the bottom-up research process 
• Applying the latest techniques and using technology and data effectively in assessing company operations, financials, strategy and valuations  
• On-going monitoring of company developments and on-going reassessment of company investment cases in-light of changing operating environments 

Outcomes 

• Production of timely, high quality and informative research reports including the daily and weekly Markey wrap 
• Providing high quality, in-depth and informative stock presentations to the investment committee on an on-going basis to keep the committee abreast with stocks covered 
• Providing stock recommendations to the Investment committee with a high level of conviction 

Stakeholder engagement 

Objectives 

• Engaging with various stakeholders within other areas of the business, gathering data to identify business problems, objectives and processes requiring solutions 
• Developing solutions appropriate to meet the needs of stakeholders 
• Monitoring the outcomes of the solutions regularly and ensure a feedback loop to the problem idenfication process 
• Communicating the results of the solutions on a regular basis 

Outcomes  

• Developing investment solutions and value propositions for other areas of the business that aid in them fulfilling their targets and objectives 
• Expanding the investment product offering with launching of new portfolios to meet the needs of  
• Developing and/or enhancing processes to improve investment outcomes 
• Regular client meetings to report on performance of solutions 

Client/Media engagements  

• Objectives 
• Upholding and representing the Absa brand 
• Marketing Absa Investments as well as broader business units where applicable 

Outcomes 

• Regular presentation of market and macroeconomic research to internal distribution channels 
• On-going external communication and engagement with media and clients 
• Upholding and representing the Absa brand 

Education

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

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Job Summary

• To provide banking services accurately and timeously through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs). Selecting this role has a compensation & benefit impact in TZ (NBC), Botswana, Kenya. Please contact Reward for details.

Job Description

• Customer service: Deliver customer service at first point of contact | Capturing financial transactions: Capture all financial transactions on the Bank system and ensure that all transactions are properly authorised by a mandated official before finalising the processing | Fraud prevention: Identify potential fraudulent transactions and report these and other suspicious transactions as per the Money Laundering control framework to management | Capture customer data: Update demographics such as address changes, name changes and standing order instructions based on information supplied by customer. | : | : | : | :

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• The individual is expected to work with a senior manager/s or director to provide secretarial and administrative support. They act as the first point of contact for the manager/s during their absence. The individual will need to maintain a high degree of confidentiality at all times and to interact with stakeholders at various levels in order to deliver on the work outputs.

Job Description

• Manage the diary of the manager, in an efficient manner by using Outlook, to set up meetings requested by the line manager or to accept meetings requested by others where the manager’s presence is needed.
• Track and monitor the acceptances and declines obtained from the relevant parties that have been invited to the meeting. Where possible, resolve issues independently but where needed escalate any concerns and issues to the manager.
• Liaise with relevant parties to re-schedule any meetings, based on a request from either the manager or the original meeting organiser.
• Print all documentation relevant to the meetings and prepare daily meeting packs and give them to the manager for their reference.
• Liaise with the in-house travel agency to make the travel bookings for any domestic and international trips the manager is required to make and in so doing ensure adherence to the required travel approval process.
• When requested to by the manager, attend in team meetings in order to take the minutes of the meetings. Ensure that the minutes are typed, approved by the meeting chair and distributed to the relevant parties within the agreed time period.
• Create socialisation rotations schedules for the direct reports of the manager, by booking meetings with key stakeholders in the bank prior to the new person joining and ensure that they are included in the formal orientation session in the individuals first month of employment.
• Arrange any venues and catering for any team events, as requested by the manager, and obtain the managers approval on any orders prior to placing them with the suppliers.
• Where teleconferences are being held, liaise with the relevant stakeholders to secure a dial in pin for the meeting. Communicate the pin's details to all meeting attendees in advance of the meeting.To manage the clients' value to Absa through optimising revenue opportunities i.e. pricing for risk in terms of the Pricing policy.
• Assist manager by being aware of the content for their emails by screen incoming emails and where possible redirecting the email to the relevant direct reports to assist with the query. Follow up for feedback with these individuals, where necessary.
• Create an online filling system to assist the manager with work prioritisation. File all emails which have already been dealt with, into the correct online folder, and bring the pending emails to his/her attention.
• Acts as the first point of contact for the manager by answering/screening and/or re-directing the telephone calls received in a professional and efficient manner.
• Assist visitors by directing them to the correct venue or person that they are looking for or by singing for the package/documentation that is being delivered.
• Assist with any typing and preparation of Word, Excel and PowerPoint documentation needed by line manager.
• Set up and maintain a well-ordered filing/retrieval system to store all printed documents away in a secure place e.g. a locked cabinet/office.
• Take charge of general office administration including ordering of stationery and groceries, restocking printers etc. Ensure that adequate reserve stock is ordered.
• Enforce company policy in terms of procedures including travel, cell phone, expense claims etc. (i.e. responsible for controlling signatures, taking policy into account, urgency and effecting timeout forwarding of documents).
• Retrieve bank property e.g.cellphones, 3G cards, laptops, access cards etc, from the direct reports, of the manager, who leave the bank and return to the relevant parties.
• Assist with any general administration e.g. photocopying, scanning, document binding etc that line manager requires.
• Based on requests from the manager, request quotes from approved suppliers and generate purchase orders
• Follow up with vendors for the delivery of items. Check the invoices against items received from vendors.
• Obtain sign off on invoices from the cost centre owner and submit to accounts payable for payment. Follow up with accounts payable when vendors advise that they have not been paid.
• On a monthly basis, review entries passed against the department's cost centre. Investigate and resolve any unknown entries with the Accounts Payable department.
• On a monthly basis, request team members to submit supporting invoices for corporate credit card expenses. Complete the reconciliations obtain the individuals signoff and submit for processing.
• On a monthly basis request cost centre reports from Finance. Check the budget run rate and Ensure that you only take decisions within mandate.

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

Education and Experience Required:

• NQF Level : NQF Level 4
• Qualifications Required (Essential): Grade 12.
• Qualifications Required (Preferred): Personal Assistant/Secretarial Diploma.
• Experience Required (Essential): 1-2 years in an administrative position, preferably with secretarial duties on a one on one basis.

Preferred

• Typing speed of at least 40-60 wpm is essential. Experienced in the use of a variety of technological office equipment e.g Printers and photocopy machine

Knowledge & Skills: 

• Focus on quality and accuracy.
• Attention to detail.
• Advanced Computer literacy (MS Office Suite, Internet and Email, PowerPoint) is essential.
• Self-confidence and interpersonal skills to interface with people at all levels within the organisation.
• Ability to work under pressure and operate independently on a high level.
• Ability to use initiative and able to act pro-actively

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Office Administration (Required)

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Job Summary

• To manage the Security Engineering capability within CIB, with the mission to monitor and manage the Cyber Risk profile across the business.
• Develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice and to ensure operational implementation and adoption across a single practice i.t.o. risk methodology, governance and delivery objectives

Job Description

• Manage the cyber risk profile across CIB: Implement best practices, bottom-up cyber processes, and controls.
• Maintain and automate risk and other tools for CIB risk posture: Provide data and reporting views of the technical estate for tech and cyber risk management. Interrogate technical infrastructure to detect security misconfigurations and provide targeted notifications  and remediation guidance to teams through the SDLC and feed exceptions into risk reporting to drive remediation. Automate RCO tasks.
• Assist with the adoption of Security tooling adapted for the CIB environment: Ongoing group-led cyber and tech risk step-down initiatives require engagement down to product engineering teams to land changes across the technical estate while limiting the introduction of operational risk in the process.
• Provide security reference implementations for rollout across CIB at scale: There is a need for pre-approved and tested solutions to recurring security problems to mitigate identified risks with the adoption of appropriate security controls while allowing product engineering teams to focus more on developing customer value propositions.
• Enablement of DevSecOps implementation: Assist teams with the introduction of required security testing into the development, build, and release processes.
• Tactical support for CIB tech teams implementing security: Provide assistance in implementing security controls where teams lack capacity or experience.
• AWS Account Management: Oversee AWS account migrations from the current landing zone to Control Tower, ensuring compliance with new permission models and managing the transition process.
• Application Security Team Leadership: Lead the integration of security practices into the development and operations lifecycle, implementing security controls and tools across the entire software delivery process 
• Cloud Strategy and Architecture: Define and drive the cloud adoption strategy, considering AWS services, microservices architecture, and containerization. Architect scalable, reliable, and highly available solutions using AWS cloud services while ensuring cost-efficiency.
• Secret Management: Implement secret management processes to ensure the DevOps environment is secure and data remains safe and protected. Manage Conjur followers on Kubernetes and oversee the onboarding of secrets.
• Security Integration: Lead the integration of security practices into the software development lifecycle, including threat modelling, risk assessments, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Incident Response: Develop and maintain incident response plans. Participate in and lead incident response activities, ensuring timely resolution of security incidents.

Skills and experience required:

• Bachelor's Degree and Advanced Diploma: Business, Commerce, and Management Studies (Required)
• Certifications: Relevant certifications such as Certified DevSecOps Engineer (DSOE), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), or equivalent are a plus.
• 8 - 10 years Technology Engineering experience
• Proven experience as a DevSecOps Engineer or similar role with a focus on integrating security into the software development lifecycle.
• AWS: Strong background in AWS services.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong background in automation, scripting, and coding. Proficiency with DevOps tools such as Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Docker, and Kubernetes. Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Security Knowledge: In-depth knowledge of security best practices, threat modelling, and vulnerability management. Experience with security tools such as SAST, DAST, and vulnerability scanners.
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and convey complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Security Integration: Lead the integration of security practices into the development and operations lifecycle, implementing security controls and tools across the entire software delivery process.
• Automation and Orchestration: Design, implement, and maintain automated processes for code integration, deployment, and security scanning. Utilize orchestration tools to streamline workflows and improve efficiency.
• Continuous Monitoring: Implement and manage continuous security monitoring tools to detect and respond to security threats in real-time. Conduct regular security assessments and audits.
• Collaboration: Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to foster a collaborative DevSecOps culture. Provide guidance on secure coding practices and perform security reviews.
• Incident Response: Develop and maintain incident response plans. Participate in and lead incident response activities, ensuring timely resolution of security incidents.
• Tooling and Technology: Evaluate, select, and implement security tools and technologies to enhance our DevSecOps capabilities. Stay informed about the latest security trends and technologies.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards. Participate in security assessments and audits.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Reporting to the Absa Regional Operations (ARO) CFO, the Financial Resource Management (FRM) Head will be responsible for FRM in ARO which spans 10 subsidiaries in 9 markets across Africa.  
• The FRM head will work closely with Finance and Treasury and be responsible to assess subsidiary performance against Group hurdles at a legal entity level.  The ARO FRM Head will also be responsible for pricing and performance monitoring across ARO Retail and Business Bank (RBB) products and segments.

Job Description

FRM

• Develop methodologies and tools to enable complete and consistent retrospective measurement of risks and returns
• Lead development of management information for back-book performance
• Define regulatory constraints for asset allocation (Capital allocation-unexpected loss allocation)
• Monitor capital usage against allocation
• Review performance against target (RoRWA, RORC, EP)
• Present on performance matters at the FRM Committee

ARO RBB Performance areas:

• Optimising pricing of new and existing business (re-pricing) banking products and clients
• Manage and lead the pricing and FRM team
• Measure and monitor performance against ARO RBB targets
• Stakeholder management within ARO RBB, ensuring alignment on Pricing and strategy
• Ensure adherence to pricing regulatory requirements

ARO RBB Pricing

• Implement pricing best practice, including policies, process and procedures

Define ARO RBB pricing strategy

• Lead standard pricing annual pricing review
• Perform portfolio simulations to determine optimal pricing margins
• Develop and maintain Standard Product and Client Pricing tools
• Provide business support on pricing matters
• Collaborate with Product and Segment teams on pricing matters
• Concession management framework including processes, budgeting, tracking and assessments
• Pricing performance tracking (deal, client, portfolio) against targets and with respect to strategy
• Revenue leakage identification and reduction
• Contribute into or lead internal pricing forums
• Pricing analytics (Pre- and Post deal), segmentations
• Cost and capital allocation parameters for pricing models, for cost and capital components in addition to direct costing sourced from business

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Accounting

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Job Summary

• Seasoned Investment Banker to provide strategic financial advisory and transaction execution services to clients navigating distressed and special situations for the Corporate & Investment Bank (Investment Banking Division including Commercial Property Finance, Markets and Transactional Banking). 
• The role is suited to a seasoned Investment Banker with specialist knowledge in the management of CIB clients facing financial distress and with experience of distressed asset management strategies. Excellent solutioning, restructuring and negotiation skills and the ability to operate under pressure are essential. Candidates with experience in distress and or corporate finance, M&A and or debt advisory, holding a CA/LLB or similar with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience. Depth of knowledge of CIB lending, trade products, corporate finance and capital raising requirements (debt and equity) is essential.

Job Description

• This role is for the Head of East and West Africa within the Special Asset Management team. The role involves working closely with distressed companies, their Board’s and Executive Committees, creditors, investors, and other stakeholders to formulate and execute restructuring and turnaround strategies. The Specialist Investment Banker is responsible for solutioning, negotiating and delivering complex financial restructures that optimize outcomes for all parties involved while minimizing risk and seeking commercial outcomes to better align the returns with the risk profile

Education

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

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Job Summary

• To deliver finance administrative support services through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Job Description

• Financial & General Administration: Attach supporting documentation, i.e. credit approval, authorisation & invoices, signed spread sheet and make copies of all mentioned documentation for audit purposes
• Provide regular management information update, i.e. invoices paid to Line Manager Attend to queries within 24 hours with regards to incomplete documents, not signed documents etc. and escalate to Line Manager in the event of non resolution
• Take ownership when dealing with customer requests, offer solutions and concludes complaint constructively Maintain financial files and records by safely and systemically storing source documents on files/system Address ad-hoc queries from internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Group Tax, Private Bank Management) by asking questions to ascertain customer needs and respond effectively, ensuring high quality work and by meeting the required deadline
• Perform general administration duties with regards finance duties |
• Reporting & Compliance: Prepare weekly/monthly/quarterly reports and report on variances
• Take accountability to ensure that accurate and timely financial reporting obligations are met for weekly/monthly reporting by accurately preparing reports, journals and reconciliations and working with the specified deadlines.
• Prepare the Business Unit Procure to Purchase monthly report and follow up on discrepancies Liaise with Group Sourcing regarding any procurement/sourcing queries raised by cost centre management.ie. non-compliance vendors with Master Service Agreement Assist in the preparation of the Annual Financial Statements for the SBU by collating and submitting information to the line manager.
• Obtain and keep abreast with all technical and specialist knowledge such as changes to Companies Act, Tax and other standards and legislation applicable.
• Prepare journal summaries for correct reporting in the financial statement Prepare Value Added Tax (VAT) pack monthly in accordance with applicable legislation, ensuring correctness of the packs and timeously submit the pack to Group Tax after review by the Finance manager.
• Comply with Risk Management principles and Model Risk Policy by understanding and keeping up-to-date with updates on these policies. Keep up to date with changes in accounting standards (IFRS) and other regulatory requirements.
• Prepare attestations for sign off by the Financial Manager, Chief Financial Officer 3 and Managing Executive for submission to Group Regulatory reporting on a monthly basis.
• Complete the section relating to recons when preparing the monthly Financial Director (FD) attestations indicating compliance with relevant legislation and Group requirements for all financial reporting activities |
• Reconciliation & Budgeting: Prepare monthly reconciliations for all accounts on the General Ledger Control Framework attaching valid supporting documents (e.g. signed off journals, general ledger printouts, etc.) for each recon (i.e. investigate transactions as required) in accordance with the Accounts and Reconciliation Policy (A&OR).
• Reconcile the SBU’s bank statement with the internal ledger accounts Reconcile Miscellaneous and other government services transactions Assist in preparation of the monthly/quarterly departmental budgets by collecting and preparing all the relevant information
• Conduct daily recons on control accounts and action any deviations found, for example when an incorrect GL Account has been debited and a recon has to be done to rectify it. Resolve all unreconciled items from prior month and discuss any long outstanding items with the FMR. | : | : | : | : | :

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Financial Sciences (Required)

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Job Summary

• To build and maintain professional business relationships across a portfolio of Private Wealth clients, by achieving financial targets, proactively acquiring new clients, and improving customer experience within the scope of the Bank’s regulatory and compliance frameworks.

Job Description

• New Business Origination Manage and grow existing client relationships Involvement in credit related tasks Involvement in Assets under Management and Investments Stakeholder Management Query resolution Risk Management

Education

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

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Job Summary

• This role assumes overall responsibility for the end-to-end execution of the strategic digital roadmap across multiple digital front-end channels across a complex portfolio of business units. 
• These product strategies must be aligned to the Group and / or business unit requirements and contribute to the overall achievement of the bank’s strategy.

Job Description

• This role assumes overall responsibility for the end-to-end execution of the strategic digital roadmap across multiple digital front-end channels across a complex portfolio of business units. 
• These product strategies must be aligned to the Group and / or business unit requirements and contribute to the overall achievement of the bank’s strategy.
• Leads the implementation of the strategic digital roadmap of multiple streams within the portfolio across multiple channels.
• Delivers complex, large scale digital products through the integration and optimisation of the internal value chain. 
• For the designated portfolio of digital products, lead and drive operational excellence in the delivery of the relevant business plans with respect to customer and colleague digital adoption, consequently driving business value and business performance in digital channels. 

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Work embedded as a member of squad OR; across multiple squads to produce, test, document and review algorithms & data specific source code that supports the deployment & optimisation of data retrieval, processing, storage and distribution for a business area.

Job Description

Key skills and experience required:

• 5+ years relevant data and software engineering experience
• Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of experience and practical application is evident

Core Data Engineering

• Proficiency in data pipeline development (batch, real-time, file-based)
• Strong experience with AWS services, especially: S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, DataZone
• Familiarity with data lakehouse concepts, Hadoop/Hive, or equivalent
• Experience ingesting from diverse sources: Databases (RDBMS/NoSQL), APIs, file drops, message queues

Data Distribution and Access

• Designing reusable access layers (e.g. APIs, event streams, S3-based delivery)
• Implementing secure data access controls and RBAC
• Building scalable distribution mechanisms for on-prem and cloud consumers

Metadata, Cataloging and Governance

• Experience with data catalogs (AWS Glue, Ataccama, DataZone, or similar)
• Understanding of data lineage, classification, and metadata management
• Contributing to or building tooling for data governance and compliance

Software Engineering Best Practices

• Clean, modular design with maintainability and automation in mind
• Proficiency in Python, C#, or other relevant languages
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, version control

Monitoring and Quality

• Designing and implementing data quality rules, SLAs, validation, and alerts
• Familiarity with centralized logging, observability, and monitoring platforms

Team and Strategy Contribution

• Ability to mentor developers and lead peer reviews
• Comfortable presenting to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Track record of influencing data standards, architectural decisions, or best practices

Preferred Experience

• Experience with centralized ingestion frameworks or orchestrators
• Understanding of hybrid data architecture: bridging on-prem and cloud ecosystems
• Exposure to reporting platforms or BI tool integration with backend datasets

Key Accountabilities:

Data Architecture & Data Engineering

• Understand the technical landscape and bank wide architecture that is connected to or dependent on the business area supported in order to effectively design & deliver data solutions (architecture, pipeline etc.)
• Translate / interpret the data architecture direction and associated business requirements & leverage expertise in analytical & creative problem solving to synthesise data solution designs (build a solution from its components) beyond the analysis of the problem
• Participate in design thinking processes to successfully deliver data solution blueprints
• Leverage state of the art relational and No-SQL databases as well integration and streaming platforms do deliver sustainable business specific data solutions.
• Design data retrieval, storage & distribution solutions (and OR components thereof) including contributing to all phases of the development lifecycle e.g. design process
• Develop high quality data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution design in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
• Build analytics tools that utilize the data pipeline by quickly producing well-organised, optimized, and documented source code & algorithms to deliver technical data solutions
• Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting technologies e.g. Ansible, Chef
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Assemble large, complex data sets that meet business requirements & manage the data pipeline
• Build infrastructure to automate extremely high volumes of data delivery
• Create data tools for analytics and data science teams that assist them in building and optimizing data sets for the benefit of the business
• 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
• Inform & support the infrastructure build required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources
• Support the continuous optimisation, improvement & automation of data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution processes
• Ensure the quality assurance and testing of all data solutions aligned to the QA Engineering & broader architectural guidelines and standards of the organisation
• Implement & align to the Group Security standards and practices to ensure the undisputable separation, security & quality of the organisation’s data
• Meaningfully contribute to & ensure solutions align to the design & direction of the Group Architecture & in particular data standards, principles, preferences & practices. Short term deployment must align to strategic long term delivery.
• Meaningfully contribute to & ensure solutions align to the design and direction of the Group Infrastructure standards and practices e.g. OLA’s, IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Containerisation etc.
• Monitor the performance of data solutions designs & ensure ongoing optimization of data solutions
• Stay ahead of the curve on data processing, retrieval, storage & distribution technologies & processes (global best practices & trends) to ensure best practice

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Summary

• Provide superior, seamless customer experience and offering suitable solutions to meet client needs. Utilise technology and leverage the virtual omni-channel environment, to deliver service in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Perform banking duties and oversee the financial activities for business and individual customers.

Job Description

• Income Growth and Financial Targets: Ensure a deep understanding of client's working capital cycle and business needs to provide appropriate solutions. Drive achievement of targets as per individual scorecard.   
• Customer Focus: Proactively drive acquisition and cross-sell initiatives through re-engagement processes. Ensure service and complaints resolution are within acceptable service level agreements.
• Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards.  
• Collaboration: Constantly seek to improve ways of working by challenging the status quo and supporting an empowering climate within the team, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and providing constructive feedback as required.

Education

• Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• To deliver customer support services to enhance the customer experience through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs). Selecting this role has a compensation & benefit impact in Seychelles. Please contact Reward for details.

Job Description

• Customer Service: Respond efficiently, accurately and courteously to all customer service matters, complaints, requests | Support the development and maintenance of processes in Customer Services Centre: Adhere to all processes in the CMP Customer Services centre and identify opportunities to improve Client Servicing processes | Monitor and control risk associated with the Customer: Ensure that all activities performed in providing Customer Services comply in all respects with Absa's risk and compliance policies and procedures as well as legal and regulatory requirements | Stakeholder Management: Establish and maintain good professional relationships with relevant stakeholders so as to remain abreast of their needs and issues and respond rapidly and effectively | Self-development: Owning and being proactive about own training and development | : | : | :

Education

• Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• To deliver procurement administrative support services through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs)

Job Description

• Landlord Onboarding, Screening and Risk Assessments, (Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption and Anti Money Laundering policies and standards). 

Capturing on Coupa CRA system

Landlord  Onboarding, 3rd Party Onboarding, and Approvals

• Review and approve new onboarding requests, or changes and ensuring compliance with all internal controls, policies, regulations and procedures as they relate to the master data and business processes.
• Review and approve One Time Supplier Invoices (Sanctions Checks)
• SAP SRM Vendor Online Approvals
• Vendor Online approvals and Master Data updates 

Risk Assessment and Due Diligence Support

• 3rd Party due diligence (CRA)
• Validation of UBO’s prior CASA and Experian screening related to evaluations.
• Adverse Media Screening
• Prepare and present briefings on due diligence studies and analyses to mid/high level managers.
• Respond to inquiries and/or status of customer service requests.
• Review and analyse supplier data for duplicates and data inconsistencies.

Minimum Requirements

• Three years vendor management
• Three years anti bribery and corruption screening
• Know principles of AML

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Job Summary

• To follow the six steps of financial planning in executing the role of a FAIS licensed financial adviser. A professional introduction must be made to introduce the adviser and the services offered by the adviser. Upon client approval the adviser may conduct a Financial Needs Analysis (FNA) in the disciplines of Investment, Life Insurance and Estate planning. Based on the concluded FNA to make recommendations to address single or multiple needs identified on behalf of the client. Advice recommendations will must be presented under the license categories for which the adviser is accredited Absa approved product(s) that are deemed will meet the needs of the client. On client acceptance of all or part of the advice, the adviser is required to implement the accepted advice through Absa’s new business processes. The adviser must conduct regularly review of the client needs to assess continued suitability of implemented solutions. In these reviews, new needs may be addressed and changes to existing plans be proposed to ensure continued solutioning of client needs. Adviser must continue to ensure ongoing Fit and Proper status to enable them to offer services under an Absa advice license.

Job Description

Accountability: To establish and maintain a professional relationship with all stakeholders (Client, Bank personnel, product providers and Adviser Support staff)

• Participate in reciprocal leads activities and sales/pipeline meetings to identify opportunities for new or repeat business, and fully utilising Absa’s bancassurance structure.
• Assess client’s needs through use of recommended needs analysis tools, ensuring that the client is aware of the full value proposition offered by AIFA.
• Prepare recommendation and quote for appropriate risk and investment solutions based on the client’s individual needs and profile.
• Present recommendation to clients, ensuring that all FAIS regulations are followed regarding advice given.
• Follow all the steps in the designated client engagement process as specified by Absa Advisers.
• Provide regular feedback to the Regional Manager on actions taken to progress the lead to business.
• Network, on an ongoing basis, with all stakeholders in Everyday Banking (PGM’s and Regional Managers) and elsewhere by attending their meetings and social gatherings to position the Absa Advisers' value proposition to the Bank and to the clients

Accountability: Meet sales and/or growth targets

• Do activity planning by identifying the clients to be approached/contacted during a particular period in conjunction with Everyday Advice Executive.
• Using the leads information provided by the source and or Regional Manager listings, as well as leads sourced through own prospecting activities and determine the client's financial needs.
• Make exclusive use of Absa’s Financial Needs Analysis tool (Avalon from Aug 2024 onwards) to conduct a comprehensive Financial Needs Analysis for the client.
• Obtain the client's consent to access his/her existing policy information by getting him/her to sign the relevant documents to get a comprehensive view of the client's financial needs.
• Discuss various possible solutions and options available with the client and thereafter recommend the most appropriate products and or solution(s) to address financial needs.
• Generate and discuss a formal recommendation including product quote(s) for the client.
• On acceptance of part or all the advice recommendations, complete the necessary product application forms and ensure that the client signs the forms to indicate his/her consent to engage in a transaction(s).
• Gather, generate, and complete all the necessary compliance documentation (e.g., Client Advice Record, copy of ID, Financial Needs Analysis, FICA).
• Submit the proposal forms to the relevant product providers for processing.
• Ensure that the issued policy aligns to the recommended product.
• Review the client's portfolio at a minimum of once a year and contact the client based on the adviser and client agreed contact strategy to maintain a healthy client relationship.
• Provide a report back to the Regional Manager and Everyday Banking stakeholders on the strike rate (i.e., the number of leads provided that were converted to business) where applicable.
• Seek business opportunities from external sources as necessary to grow the book of business and reciprocate leads to Regional Managers and PGM’s.

Accountability: Manage own commission earnings

• Capture the correct Policy Relevant Information (PRI) number on the Commission system.
• On a monthly basis, check the accuracy of the commission statements received from the Broker Commissions department.  Verify that all the PRI numbers reconcile to the commission paid and reflected on the statements Keep the client database up to date by ensuring that new clients are added to the database.
• Follow up on unpaid premiums and lapses by contacting the clients to establish the reasons for the problems Manage the suspense account timeously by clearing it on the system at month end.

Accountability: Practice Management

• Ensure that staff members (Adviser Assistants) have a clear understanding of their roles and responsibilities within the adviser practice.
• Arrange for staff members to receive the relevant training (Absa programs for the Interns) e.g., systems training, product training and operational training.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to assistant(s) with regards to facilitate knowledge and skills development.
• Participate performance development (PD) discussions as required by the Absa performance management standards.
• Take the necessary corrective actions in cases of underperformance in consultation with the Regional Manager. Implement controls with regards to compliant record keeping in accordance with minimum Absa business standards (i.e. FAIS, FICA, FSB and)
• Liaise with  Provincial Operations Office) with regards to maintenance of systems and equipment and provision of other services
• Complete all the required compliance exams in the specified timeframes (e.g. Anti-Money Laundering, Sanctions, BCM, Basic Financial Crime Concepts).
• Remain fit and proper as required for FAIS flagged roles.
• Provide monthly feedback to the branch, and Business Bank, regarding non-interest income (seat costs) and cross-selling opportunities
• Segment the client base according to profile, income potential and commission income.
• Engage with business development strategies with the support of the Regional Manager and our practice management subject matter experts to maximise the sustainability of the adviser practice

Accountability: Personal Development

• Attend all the required training to attain accreditation to market Absa approved products.
• Attend all the requisite internal training (i.e FAIS-related programs/courses).
• Attain the required FAIS credits in order to attain Fit and Proper status
• Ensure that Fit and Proper status is maintained (honesty, integrity, financial solvency)

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Accounting, National Senior Certificate/ Matric (Grade 12)

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Job Summary

• The CIB Technology, Absa Access Core Frameworks Feature team is looking for a .Net Specialist Product Engineer, based in Cape Town to 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

• 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.

Key critical skills and experience required:

• B.Sc. Computer Science or Diploma in Software Engineering
• Min 5 years relevant software development experience
• Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages eg. C#
• Experience with Kafka eventing, securing Kafka topics and practical experience of implementing listeners for events using C# .NET
• Proficient in querying MongoDB and PostgreSQL, as we well as practical experience of using .NET, to read and write from the aforementioned databases
• Practical experience using Blazor .NET (advantageous)
• Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and paradigms
• Some understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Some experience / understanding with appropriate unit testing framework(s) eg xUnit
• Affinity for debugging and problem-solving
• Familiar with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python

Key Accountabilities:

• A team player is required to form part of a small development team, but collaborating with other small teams who have similar responsibilities, forming part of the greater ABSA Acess Core Frameworks team 
• 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
• 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 Azure DevOps / 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
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Nuke, Azure DevOps, Docker
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets using C# .NET.
• 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.
• 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

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Job Summary

• The individual will manage responsibilities within investment banking for a discrete portfolio of clients in asset finance transactions from implementation to termination and ensure that the financial requirements are executed in line with the legal agreements. Ensuring all payments, invoicing and income on a facility level are accurately executed and managed within the approved processes and controls. 
• In executing the role, the individual will interlock with various internal and external clients and stakeholders, ensuring a high level of service whilst managing portfolio risk through the correct and timely execution of business and client instructions. The individual must also align the team to the business strategy and ensure the team contributes towards change project requirement setting, testing and implementation where required.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities 

Middle Office Service Provider Responsibilities

• Contribute during implementation meetings to enable accurate and timely finance model build and drafting of the Deal Booking Sheet. Ensure the client is loaded on all relevant systems to enable timely payment to clients on the expected due date.
• Booking trades with the Trading desk and validating that trades match the finance model built after the trading desk confirms the booking.
• Amendment Asset/Funding/Hedging Trades on Front Arena
• Working with the Debt Transaction Management (Debt TM) team to ensure any updates or changes to the legal agreements are reflected in updating the finance model and the related trades booked with the trading desk.
• Monitor any required changes in the finance model (e.g., retched changes) and ensure the financial model and related trades booked with the trading desk are updated.
• Monthly recon between financial models and trading desk bookings to ensure accurate P&L.
• Monitoring all fees required per the legal agreements and Invoice fees while ensuring accuracy in calculating fees.
• Ensuring all ongoing deal management tasks are performed per the legal agreements from a financial perspective.
• Execute client subsequent drawdown instructions.
• Assist in identifying the reasons for cash breaks and providing feedback to Operations within the agreed turnaround times to enable them to clear the breaks within the required period.
• Responding to queries from internal and external stakeholders.
• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders and clients, demonstrating excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence, and negotiate to achieve win-win outcomes.
• Adhere to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with stakeholders concerning the processing of transactions for the respective departments/ divisions/ units. (Pan Africa where necessary)
• Ensure a healthy balance between risk management and client service.
• Adhere to processes and controls (automated/ manual checks and monitoring) to ensure the team adheres to applicable controls, processes, policies, and regulations.
• Where possible, provide input and recommendations on improving the transactions' effectiveness, efficiency, processes and controls.
• Compile relevant MIS as required by management within the deadline.
• Contribute to system and quality enhancements by monitoring the respective activities and processes implemented and by keeping abreast with new methodologies and practices
• Work closely with Products, IT, Operations, Trading Desk, TM, PCG, Operations and other key partners to secure their support and enable MO execution in line with best practices.
• Manage workload within the team ensuring the workload is adequately distributed across the team.
• Execute margin ratchets as notified by TM.
• Diarising alerts to be created for deals where credit rating-related pricing ratchets apply.
• Upon review of the compliance certificate or rating alert, advise Trader of margin increase to the extent applicable.
• Proactive engagement with the Trader to ensure clear communication and understanding so that client loan requests are executed effectively.

Risk Management Support 

• Report on the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Key Risk Indicators (KPIs) for quality and performance measurement purposes as required.
• Continuous review and monthly performance reporting against key drivers (KPI, KRI and SLAs), enabling changes in the department where necessary to optimize results
• Continuous review of monthly reports and recons, ensuring all trades and fees are booked and processed correctly and in line with set standards and controls.
• Ensure processes, control requirements, and risk management frameworks designed for the area are understood and being executed.
• Assist management in closing out all issues identified in processes or controls and any audit findings that impact the area. Agree on the required actions and implement the required changes within agreed-upon timeframes.
• Ensure remediation actions are embedded within the required timelines.
• Ensure green audits by following agreed processes and controls.
• Escalate and assist in investigating all risk and loss events (Operational Risk Events) and ensure all issues raised are resolved or escalated are closed out by the relevant parties.
• Ensure the complaints process is followed and closed as per policies and procedures.

Culture

• Ensure adherence to a high-performing organisation profile
• Live the Absa values
• Continuously up-skill self and colleagues on area expertise of  Debt products, including related processes, procedures, legal, credit, compliance external market knowledge, etc.
• Always ensure all processes, controls and checks are done in the team, ensuring good teamwork, irrespective of staff being on leave.
• Upskill self and the rest of the team (where possible) to ensure they can resolve internal and external client-related issues directly with the relevant stakeholders. Only escalate to the Product/Front Office when required (in line with the escalation matrix). The Senior team has to be able to identify and resolve 80% of the challenges identified.

Innovation and Financial 

• Evaluate and ensure the correct processes and controls are followed to minimize and, where possible, eliminate operational losses, fraud, and reputational risk within the business. If any gaps are identified before any changes are made, escalate to the Head of Debt MO.
• Ensure execution of allocated BAU, SI and Project delivery within the team and bigger business are done to deliver the strategy and Target Operating Model.
• Ensure there is no revenue leakage across the Debt Middle Office, executing the correct processes and checks across the value chain to minimize revenue leakage/risk (e.g., Incorrect cost centre posting, missed review fees, incorrect entries, etc.).
• Ensure no financial losses due to operational errors.
• Contribute where possible to process re-engineering and continuous improvement of processes, controls and workflow to support the Debt operating model.
• Align to Middle Office strategy to support investment banking and group strategy overall.
• Identify/assist in solutions, supporting automation, and improving processes in the Middle Office space working with the other IB MO teams.
• Support key initiatives and projects, taking appropriate action and assisting in contributing to ensure timely and effective project implementation where dependent on MO.

Management

• Ensure staff executes responsibilities in line with department processes and control requirements.
• Manage team workload.
• Manage staff from a performance perspective.
• Drive internal and across-stakeholder teamwork.
• Assist in resolving complicated deals and queries and upskill staff where required.
• Present team in various meetings and reporting forums.
• Drive upskilling and cross-skilling of staff. Managing talent in line with the bank's values and standards.
• Perform spot checks as agreed with management and report as and when required on spot checks performed. Ensuring a high standard of work execution.
• Escalate any team concerns or challenges to management as appropriate.

Role / Person Specification

Education and Experience Required 

• Preferably B-Degree or equivalent Accounting/Finance
•   Knowledge and experience in IB Debt Products or similar operation business environment
•   In-depth knowledge and experience in the practicalities of financial models, recons etc.
•  Experience in internal stakeholder management.
•  Experience in reading, understanding and executing Legal Agreement requirements concerning financing calculations
•   Understanding of bank and regulation control requirements

Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)

Financial Modeling of Debt structures

• Interpersonal people skills,
• Problem-Solving
• Teamwork and management
•  Risk and Control

Relating and networking

•  Adapting and responding to change
•  Presenting and communicating information

Education

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