Career Opportunities at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• The MI/BI 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 help the team to implement various initiatives to effectively leverage our vast datasets by employing the most suitable data storage technologies, writing robust code to automate ETL processes and support our operational / regulatory reporting processes. This will help to empower downstream consumers of data and management information, while ensuring that we stay on the cutting edge of data management best practice.
• Essentially, we need a strong technical candidate (expert in multiple coding languages) who is an exceptional team player, is open to input from team members to continuously improve data quality / processes and has a never say die attitude when it comes to creating and implementing robust code!
• 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 and leaders alike to take on projects that they identify in the business as well!

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engage with internal business and technical stakeholders to understand requirements and ensure objectives, priorities and key requirements are agreed and understood.  Interpret data and identify issues, risks and opportunities and relay results and insights to business users
• Provide risk, governance, compliance and broader regulatory reporting as required and contribute to these processes as a data expert
• Build the infrastructure that will enable the data pipeline to be utilized to reliably communicate key business metrics and insights to business stakeholders
• Improve the quality and turnaround times of key deliverables through the automation of tasks through the use of appropriate tools / scripting technologies and debugging new /existing scripts and code
• Leverage best practice to build and continually improve on high quality data collection, transformation, storage and retrieval. This includes keeping abreast with existing and emerging techniques and technologies in the data value-chain to identify key pivot points for the business
• Understand the technical landscape and bank-wide architecture that is connected to or dependent on the business to effectively collaborate with teams embedding solutions that impact the Home Loans data value-chain
• Build towards a high performance team environment through continually building towards mastery in a way that is aligned to the team’s purpose
• Conduct peer reviews within the broader analytics community and contribute to the building of an analytics team capability in the use of data solutions
• Proactively partner with the data architecture and data science teams in applying relevant best practice to actively shape the data landscape in the business, with the aim of improving upstream and downstream data processes to support the business
• Stay ahead of the curve on data architecture, engineering and governance trends, tools and techniques to help transition the team and the organization as required

EDUCATION AND REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor (Honours) degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Science or equivalent NQF level 8 qualification
• At least 5 years’ postgraduate work experience in a technology / digital / analytics role
• At least 3 years’ work experience in SAS and SQL development, with a view of learning additional tools as required (e.g. Spark)
• Expert knowledge of data warehousing and data architecture solutions and processes
• Expert knowledge of data services, data discovery and visualization tools: SSIS, PowerBI

Education

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

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Job Summary

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

Job Description

• Solutioning & Advisory: Provide ongoing support to senior advisors in driving business development and subsequently business targets through monitoring and identifying opportunities within the portfolio (cross selling and up-selling).
• Client Engagement: On a regular basis engage with clients around current product requirements and future product requirements to ensure client expectations are met and ultimately value created for business and client.
• Risk and Control: Ensure that all risk and control requirements relating to the portfolio are met and/or implemented as required.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• To plan, manage and monitor the implementation of legal activities and processes in order to deliver on approved operational plans in an effective and efficient manner.

Job Description

• CIB Legal is currently looking to employ a Legal Counsel who will contribution to management, identification and mitigation of legal risks across the Global Markets (GM) business in South Africa and where applicable or required across the continent. This position will be expected to provide accurate, expert and specialised legal advice on legal and regulatory matters and involvement in the structuring of transactions in line with the relevant GM and general banking practices, procedures and regulations. The role will be a key point of contact on a day-to-day basis for the GM business team, and responsible for providing on the go pro-active legal advice, support and risk management.

Education

• Bachelor Honours Degree: Law (Required)

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Job Summary

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

Job Description

• Relationship Management: Establish and maintain professional relationships through networking with industry leaders, regulators and policy makers as well as business partners that are key in the development of new ventures.
• Delivery Business Development: Champion and manage business bulk acquisition strategic plan in line with Absa Business unit strategy.
• Market Intelligence: Collect market intelligence through research by reading articles, publications, internet, word of mouth and networking on a daily basis to keep abreast of market developments.
• People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development.
• Operations & Compliance: Actively keep up to date with all relevant knowledge, legislation and developments within the business unit and banking industry that may have an impact on the Business Advantage.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Accounting Control owns the processes that enables sustainable, accurate and timeous financial information in support of reporting to external and internal stakeholders. The individual will operate in the key processes in Accounting Control with primary focus being in the tax process.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Accountability: Manage financial information completion process (60%)

• Act as a process executor for completion of financial information, including the accountability for the following key processes:
• Journals and month-end close
• Reconciliation
• Completion of Supplementary information
• Interdiv and Elimination
• Tax

Accounting Functions

• Support to Subject Matter Expert (SME) on processes, resolution of issues and ad hoc requests from stakeholders including:
• Cluster Financial Controller
• Cluster CFO/BP&A team members

Other Financial Control functions

• Prepare month end tax calculations in line with current laws and Regulations;
• Post tax journals, review tax ledger and reconcile all tax ledger accounts in line with relevant internal policies;
• Prepare and report tax numbers to various stakeholders across the bank as well as audit;
• Prepare relevant information for Group tax for external reporting to authorities;
• Support SME on obtaining TAG opinions and ad hoc queries on accounting issues;
• Act as the process executor for implementation of new standardised processes where relevant;
• Provide feedback to stakeholders on results reflected in the financial accounting system, as well as issues identified where there are potential risks to numbers;
• Act pro-actively in correcting issues and implement a sustainable process;
• Ensure that principles of the Financial Control Operating Model are complied with and sustained;
• Maintain and enhance processes:
• Identify areas of improvement in completion, review and or submission processes to drive and implement a sustainable and effective process in support of quality and accuracy
• Identify synergies between different reporting processes and implement new and or enhanced processes

Accountability: Provide support to other process executors through motivation and employee engagement (20%)

• Understanding and managing team dynamics to maximize performance;
• Escalate issues around allocation of resources to process architects tasks to ensure delivery of team objectives;
• Ensure continued development of resources, through coaching and mentoring, to empower value added delivery of tasks.

Accountability: Process Execution (20%)

• Execution of processes as designed;
• Constantly review, improve and maintain own activities to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of processes;
• Recommend areas for improvement in order to reduce cycle times, improve productivity, create capacity and improve process reliability and customer satisfaction;
• Assist in the implementation of new and/or enhanced processes;
• Identify activity-specific risks and work with Process Owner / Process Architect to mitigate risks;
• Maintain awareness of own activities and the impact thereof on related / interdependent activities.

Role/Person Specification

Knowledge & Skills

• Exceptional academic track record;
• Understanding of financial reporting processes and related controls (Expert);
• Ability to identify control gaps and weaknesses (Expert);
• Ability to analyse and interpret financial data (Expert);
• Ability to write concise effective reports (Expert);
• Advanced excel skills to contribute to the team;
• Good Communication Skills;
• Good understanding and experience in implementing automated solutions;
• Tax experience necessary
• Accounting standards relevant to the banking industry will be beneficial.

Education and Experience:

• CA(SA);
• 2 to 3 years PQE experience;
• Business experience in a Banking environment gained from a Finance, Product;
• Working South African Taxation and VAT knowledge.

Competencies:

• Deciding and initiating action
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
• Relating and networking
• Adapting and responding to change
• Persuading and influencing
• Creating and highly innovating

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (Required)

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Job Summary

• A Fixed Term Contract opportunity has become available in CIB Payments for a Payments Processor. Use your expertise to execute transactions and applications by performing vetting and validating functions on all payments (International & Domestic) with direct client interaction in accordance with laid down policies, procedures and Fit for Processing requirements.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Interface with internal and external clients regarding instructions and transactions by being a point of contact in the payments function.
• Receive and check client documentation for completeness and technical correctness e.g. signature verification, ID & V and FICA compliant.
• Scrutinise the transaction for Exchange Control Approval/completeness.
• Capture the transactions/ information on the appropriate Banking system within a 24 hour turnaround time by adhering to processing standards (SLA’s)
• Buys in to team objectives by relating and interacting with team members.
• Add value to the team by: Contributing ideas and opinions, sharing information with other team members.
• Proactively assist other team members when work workload creates pressure.
• Cooperates within a team by supporting team decisions and doing his/ her share of the work.
• Maintain all elements of the CIB Risk management model by:
• Highlighting process and procedural inefficiencies to the ITC Manager
• Monitor compliance to Service Level Agreements between the ITC and International Banking Operations and report status and deviations to the ITC Payments Team Leader.
• Be proactive to minimize financial losses i.e. write-offs, backdating transactions and reversal of income through executing.
• Actively interacting with colleagues and other parties e.g. International Banking Operations to build rapport and to familiarise self with the work environment.
• Gathering and sharing work related information on how to improve processes and sharing these with the ITC team.

Education and Experience Required

• Grade 12 or equivalent NQF level 4 qualification.
• At least 1 year relevant experience.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Three years experience as a statistical analyst in an insurance or financial industry. Duties include data mining, data processing, data analysis, and to provide insight to various stakeholders.

Essential skills required:

• SAS/SQL programming
• Reporting tools such as Microsoft PowerBI
• Statistical methodologies

Job Description

• Three years experience as a statistical analyst in an insurance or financial industry. Duties include data mining, data processing, data analysis, and to provide insight to various stakeholders. 

Key accountabilities 

• Data extraction and report building using SAS/SQL
• Automation of manual reporting into Power BI / Qlikview. 
• Development, enhancement and monitoring of statistical models.

Accountability:  Management information Production

• Source information from different data warehouses, data marts, manual systems and on-line systems based on knowledge of appropriate data sources given the business requirement
• Collect and package data into usable and user friendly management information for the relevant teams and stakeholders in the business
• Develop new reports, report formats and standards based on identified user requirements for the business, using multiple technologies
• Analyse derived information to create value add understanding of insights and opportunities presented by the data set
• Prepare customised reports based on identified requirements from the business
• Develop regular market insights to enable decision making
• Continuously identify opportunities to automate reports and to eliminate duplicate and manual report production

Accountability:  Provide value-add insight

• Develop a thorough understanding of the key business challenges through engagement with all stakeholders in the business
• Identify opportunities through which Analytics can assist in addressing these challenges, present these to relevant stakeholders and implement
• Identify business opportunities in support of the business sales initiatives through analysis of internal and external data sources
• Assist stakeholders in developing business cases for new products by providing relevant information to support identified business opportunities. Ensure that the management information input in business cases is credible by ensuring accuracy of the data used
• Propose approaches to the business on monitoring measures or key performance indicators (KPIs) associated with the business case and business model and ensure creditability of data received to support the measures or KPIs
• Analyse trends within the business data to reduce risks, optimise performance of the business

Accountability:  Governance and control 

• Conduct integrity checks on all extracted data to ensure correct data is incorporated into reports
• Ensure the accuracy of data within the business and ensure consistent use of data
• Escalate data integrity issues to relevant Manager / Data Management ensure that these receive priority to maintain a high-level of data integrity.
• Check all existing and new reports for accuracy and data integrity

Accountability:  Business partnering

• Build effective working relationships with business stakeholders to develop a detailed understanding of their business imperatives and objectives.
• Maintain an interactive process with stakeholders as the analytical solution is being developed - present and receive feedback on work-in-progress.
• Perform a consultancy role with business stakeholders. Present the final analytical outputs to stakeholders and assist in interpreting the results and providing advice & recommendations on the implementation of actions.
• Educate users where required on the design or how to utilise the solution.
• Engage with the business teams on an ongoing basis to understand management information needs and sensitise them to any relevant existing reports or management information outputs that will result in value add opportunities in their respective areas
• Conduct impact analysis of any proposed changes that will impact on management information reporting
• Actively engage and participate in new initiatives within the business to ensure that the management information component is addressed
• Engage with other key stakeholders within the Group to ensure that the business leverages off what is available and are aware of initiatives in the group that may impact on the business

Accountability:  Continuous self-development and growth

• Stay abreast of knowledge and skills relevant to the level and area of work, as well as actively seeking to attain those required for the next level of work with particular focus on best practices
• Continuously enhance the business expertise by analysing its drivers, key indicators, relationships and trends.
• Consider all influencing events, quantify the impact on the business and pro-actively find solutions
• Develop a thorough knowledge of various systems and related reporting including ability to build / adjust reports within Workday.

Education

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