Careers at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• The Specialist PTS Governance, Risk and Control role is to partner with the business as first line of defence to ensure the embedment of risk management governance frameworks into business processes within Post Trade Services.

Job Description

Overall Purpose of the role

• To execute on the integrated and enterprise-wide risk framework across AGL CIB, a single-minded approach to risks and controls is essential in ensuring that there is uniformity and alignment within AGL.  The Specialist PTS Governance, Risk and Control role is to partner with the business as first line of defence to ensure the embedment of risk management governance frameworks into business processes within Post Trade Services.

Education and Experience Required

• Financial/Risk Management Degree
• In-depth knowledge of risk frameworks
• Minimum of 3-5 years detailed business risk officer knowledge and experience aligned to Banking, Corporate, Treasury and Markets (i.e., Risk and Control Self Assessments (RCSA), Key Indicators, Risk Events, Assurance, Governance, Issues Management and Risk reporting).
• Post trade services / Operations product and process knowledge would be a benefit.
• Knowledge and understanding of the current regulatory environment that CIB operates in.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Networking skills.
• Analytical, numerical skills and a keen eye for detail.
• Planning and organisational skills.
• Ability to understand broader business issues.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to deal with senior colleagues

Competencies:

• Strong written and verbal skills.
• Excellent work ethic and precise attention to detail.
• Ability to take initiative and to take ownership of projects.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Ability to communicate simply and effectively and work well in a team.
• Ability to share ideas, listen and take on board other’s ideas.
• Willingness and desire to learn and grow.
• Time management skills and the ability to multitask and perform well under pressure.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• CIB-Investment Banking Team is currently looking for a Security Agent to manage a Pan Africa portfolio , primarily responsible for collateral of syndicated loans and deal management of co-ordinating loan drawdown and repayments. Act as a mediator between borrower and lenders , ensuring timely resolution of financial undertakings.

Job Description

• Deals originated are managed effectively within operating capabilities in line with legal, regulatory and compliance requirements. With maximum use of loan system ,ACBS
• Liaison with Borrowers and Lenders of Syndicates, as well as advisors to the Lenders (external parties)
• Coordinate tasks associated with receiving security, including (but not limited to) tasks relating to release security, fees and expense payments due by clients (Financial Administration).
• Liaison with Transaction Administration, Asset Management Team and other stakeholders within Absa (internal parties) to ensure effective safekeeping of security.
• Attending to ad hoc request from Lenders and Borrower in relation to Security Administration
•  Attend to the Financial Administration of syndicated loans in accordance with the provisions of the relevant facilities agreements and finance documents with appropriate attention to detail.
• Interpretation of Facility Agreements and other finance documents for purposes of generating cash flows models based on that documentation;
• Generating cashflows models for purposes of communicating to Lenders amounts due by or to them from Borrowers;
• Attending to issue of interest reset letters on interest reset dates, as well as commitment fee letters and other correspondence communicating amounts payable by, or to, Borrowers;
• Addressing queries from Lenders relating to cashflows (and where applicable, cashflows models) with a view to agreeing a common position among Lenders in relation to payments due by or to them before communicating this to Borrowers;
• Responding to queries from, and challenges by, Borrowers in relation to cashflows due by or to them and/or payments previously made by or to them;
• Liaising with Loan Operations (Absa) and PCG for purposes of effecting cashflows payments to, and allocate cashflows payments received by, Borrowers and Lenders, including those relating to loan draw downs, repayments, and prepayments, as well as interest payments, fees (arrangement and commitment fees) and expenses recoverable in terms of Facilities Agreements and other finance documents;
• Attending to ad hoc request from Lenders and Borrower in relation to Financial Administration
• Monitoring Borrower compliance with relevant documentation;
• Effective communication with internal and external parties;
• Facilitating waivers, consents, amendments and supplements to documentation, as well as with assignments of commitments and participations in loans;
• Reviewing draft documentation to ensure that the role of the Facility Agent is in line with the LMA standard.
• Maintain a good knowledge of relevant legislation, governance, regulation, risk management practices
• Good knowledge of risk concepts

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Participate in a professional development programme in order to maximise individual and organisational development, through the execution of predefined training objectives.

Job Description

Workplace experiences:

• Attend and participate in all workplace experiences against agreed development objectives

Learning:

• Attend and participate in all training and development interventions against agreed development objectives

Ad Hoc duties:

• Provide support to customers and team as required to ensure team performance on an ongoing basis

Administration:

• Effectively fulfil all required administrative duties, including tracking and reporting 

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Short Term Insurance, 150 FAIS Credits Personal Lines, RE5 ,FAIS recognized qualification and CPD completed. 3 Years consecutive working experience. Collections and Sales experience essential. To deliver dynamic customer service by answering incoming calls timeously, resolving customer queries and upselling other Idirect Insurance products on offer. Offer financial advice to the customer, handle retentions and collection of unpaid premiums.

Job Description

• Short Term Insurance, 150 FAIS Credits Personal Lines, RE5 ,FAIS recognized qualification and CPD completed. 3 Years consecutive working experience. Collections and Sales experience essential. To deliver dynamic customer service by answering incoming calls timeously, resolving customer queries and upselling other Idirect Insurance products on offer. Offer financial advice to the customer, handle retentions and collection of unpaid premiums.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the effective implementation of risk frameworks.

Job Description

Support the Operational Risk Policy and Framework team in all areas, with a focus on:

Accountability:

• Analyse implemented Risk Management Framework effectiveness (20%)
• Conduct on-going review of the performance against all Risk Management delivery
• Support the development of an integrated framework analysis methodology which enables on-going evaluation of the “fit-for-purpose” performance of the Framework on a conceptual and technical basis

Support the Risk Manager:

• Oversight with the on-going analysis of component performance (Risk and Control Self-Assessment, Internal Risk Events, External Risk Events, Key Indicators, Key Risk Scenarios and Lessons Learnt)
• Perform on-going data quality checks and validations on all components of the Operational Risk Management Framework, including performing validation checks against independent risk, finance and business data sources

Accountability:

Support the development of the Risk Management Framework and Procedures (20%)

• As directed by the l Risk Manager: Policy and Framework
• Design the Operational Risk Management Framework
• Design risk management and measurement methodologies
• Methods include:
• Risk and Control Self-Assessment, Internal Risk Events, External Risk Events, Key Indicators, Key Risk Scenarios and Lessons Learnt.

Develop standard and procedures Risk Management components Accountability:

Support the Risk Manager: Policy & Framework (20%)

•  In providing support on automation of the ERMF in the approved operational risk management system as well as in resolving issues
• In providing support with development of Framework training materials
• In driving the implementation and use of the ERMF and supporting policies in the business

Support the effective implementation of policy control objectives through management tools, methodologies, and reporting frameworks Accountability:

Governance & Delivery Assurance (Weighting = 20%)

• Participate in continual assessment and partnership with key stakeholders (i.e. SteerCo, Working Group) in Finance Management
• Assist with the roll-out of the defined minimum standards across sub-functions
• Perform assurance review and advise on results, ensure these are tracked and monitored with appropriate remediation.
• Facilitate gated reviews to ensure that projects’ and programmes’ performance conforms to change risk governance and guidelines relating to all facets of the project e.g.management of risks, issues, quality, communication, resources and interdependencies and the development of programme plans.
• Provide direction on delivery assurance principles, expectations and requirements within the Change community.
• Provide end-to-end governance and monitoring to ensure compliance with Policy Governance requirements.
• Manage the Combined Assurance coverage plans for all Change and Operations testing plans.
• Provide Assurance reporting into Governance forums. Accountability: Performance & Reporting (Weighting = 20%)
• Implement a robust methodology to identify and manage control effectiveness in the sub-functional areas.
• Establish controls and reporting to ensure consistency and delivery in line with broader firm strategic objectives.
• Generate reports and dashboards, as required, monthly, quarterly and adhoc providing key metrics and decision enabling information on business units.
• Tracking and reporting of all issue management risk related items to closure within agreed timelines.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Risk Manager – COO team supporting Finance Management Functions
• The Finance Management (FM) COO team supports the Heads of FM Functions in managing the overall Finance business to enable strategic delivery of the functions and fulfilling of business responsibilities.

These responsibilities include:

• Drive the Strategy for FM and its sub-functions
• Support the Heads of FM sub-functions in Chief of Staff matters
• Drive the Colleague Agenda
• Cost and FTE management, including budget setting
• Operational support to Functions and sub-functions
• Co-ordinate the above deliverables through a well-orchestrated COO community within the Functions

Job Description

Establish and maintain a risk and control framework for non-Key risks, including monitoring and reporting

• Ensure optimal positioning of the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF) within FM by creating awareness and understanding of operational risk among senior management;
• Ensure effective implementation representation and adoption of the ERMF, by all FM functions;
• Using the Absa risk appetite, develop and recommend the risk appetite for each of the non-key risks to senior management in FM;
• Monitor functional performance against risk appetite for non-key risks;
• Identify all Group related policies and standards and ensure that the processes align to minimum control guidance as set out in policies and standards;
• Oversee and facilitate the design of appropriate processes and procedures needed to implement the ERMF in FM for non-key risks;
• Develop, draft and communicate relevant guidance documents to ensure compliance with policies and standards for all non-key risks;
• Be the ‘Go To’ person and provide guidance to FM Functional Heads and managers on the interpretation of the ERMF and related non-key risk policies and standards
• Monitor and challenge the effectiveness and adherence to the ERMF
• Assess the level of compliance and risk in FM and report this to senior management;
• Assess the compliance to policies and standards and apply for dispensation and/ or waiver to the relevant KRO where material gaps in policies/standards or sections of policies/standards are identified, or considered irrelevant post the risk appetite setting for FM function;
• Ensure functions implement appropriate, standardised and adequate risk and compliance processes and monitoring capability for each non-key risk within FM;
• Design and implement a regular risk reporting processes which can be used for complete reporting requirements to FM management, forums and committees;
• Responsible to collate all relevant information to ensure accurate, timely, complete reporting of all non-key risks for FM;
• Report to senior management on the aggregate FM risk profile;
• Assist in the design and implementation of the minimum Key Indicators (KI) as required by the KRO for FM;
• Seek opportunities for continuous improvement in processes for efficiency and effectiveness in execution of risk management activities;
• Monitor overdue Internal Audit findings that pertain to FM and ensure these are addressed timeously through engagement with responsible persons;

Business Continuity Management (BCM)

• Accountability and management of BCM for FM;
• Maintenance of the FM BCM plans and oversight of the sub-functional plans, on relevant reporting tools and formats, to ensure compliance with BCM Policies and Standards;
• Exercise preparedness, recovery capability and competence by BCM test requirements as per the BCM policy;
• Where relevant follow up with management to ensure timely remediation of control and process failures;
• Ensure appointment of relevant functional representatives per BCM requirements;
• Ensure relevant training and guidance documents are available, attended and completed by functional representatives per BCM requirements;
• Report to FM management on BCM readiness;
• Attend all BCM related forums and ensure full alignment of FM BCM plans;
• Act as the central point of contact between FM and the BCM office;
• Act as central point of contact in the event of BCM invocation.

Staff Expense and Business Travel Policy Governance and Control:

• Documenting, review and maintenance of the Staff Expense and Business Travel Policy and related standards and forms;
• Review of escalated Staff expense breaches, exceptions and queries as well as Corporate Card Limit management;
• Central point of contact with Financial Services South Africa (FSSA) team on staff expenses, business travel and corporate card related matters;
• Design, analysis and review of Staff Expense and Corporate Card reports including ad hoc reporting to FM Management as required;
• Ensure Staff Expense and Business Travel Policy remains relevant and aligned to SAP Concur and Travel Booking systems;
• Assistance with Fraud investigations as it pertains to Corporate Card use;

Information Risk Management (IRM) and Data Privacy:

• Accountability and management of IRM and Data Privacy as per Group Policies and Standards for FM;
• Maintenance of relevant templates on relevant reporting tools and formats, to ensure compliance with IRM and Data Privacy Policies and Standards;
• Where relevant follow up with management to ensure timely resolution of areas of non-compliance;
• Assist with the remediation of control and process failures;
• Reporting to FM management on IRM and Data Privacy compliance;
• Attend all IRM and Data Privacy related forums and ensure full alignment of IRM and Data Privacy processes as required;
• Provide feedback to FM management on IRM  and Data Privacy related matters;
• Act as the central point of contact between FM, IRM and Data Privacy Office.

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS):

• Accountability and management of OHS Policies and Standards for FM;
• Ensure appointment of relevant functional representatives per OHS requirements;
• Ensure relevant training and guidance documents are available, attended and completed by functional representatives per OHS requirements
• Reporting on OHS compliance;
• Where relevant follow up with management to ensure timely resolution of areas where non-complaint to OHS Policies and Standards;
• Attend all OHS related forums and ensure full alignment of OHS processes as required;
• Act as the central point of contact between FM and OHS.

Accountability: Stakeholder Management

• Establish and maintain relationships with all key stakeholders such as:
  • Relevant risk functions and offices;
  • FM management;
  • Functional heads;
  • COOs and Business Managers etc.
• Understand stakeholders' expectations and ensure that stakeholders' expectations are met and exceeded in certain instances;
• Foster a strategic relationship with Management Assurance, Group Compliance, Operational Risk and Absa Internal Audit to ensure alignment in terms of current risks and the impact thereof on the risk profile of the function;
• Ensure integration of the ERMF into related activities with an objective to ensure a strong control environment and continuous improvement within Functions;
• Interact with Functional Risk representatives to facilitate Risk assessments as well as providing guidance to mitigate risks outside the set risk appetite;
• Ensure Risk representatives are fully aware of their responsibilities and that they execute accordingly;
• Establish and maintain relevant governance forums to proactively manage risk management within FM.

Education and Experience Required:

• B degree or equivalent specialising in Audit / Business Management/ Risk Management or equivalent NQF level 6 qualification or higher.
• Honours Degree in Audit or Business Management or equivalent NQF level 7 qualification (preferred)
• Financial institutions risk management experience (preferred)
• Experience of working in a multinational, multi-segment, environment with matrix reporting (preferred)
• Eight (8) years’ experience in risk management and/or relevant business sector.
• Sound operational risk and compliance knowledge.
• Knowledge of the main operational processes procedures and control frameworks within the Absa businesses.
• Understanding of emerging technologies and the risk implications.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and the internet.
• Awareness of cultural differences and varying legal/regulatory environments.
• Experience in implementing risk or compliance frameworks end to end.
• No criminal record

Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of Risk Management, which includes risk identification, control design, monitoring and reporting
• Strong operational risk and general compliance knowledge
• Knowledge of compliance and regulatory policies and best practice
• Ability to operate independently of detailed line supervision
• Report writing skills
• Problem solving
• Analytical skills
• Ability to maintain and build relationships
• Conflict management
• Strong presentation skills
• Ability to facilitate workshops and or provide training
• Microsoft Office skills

Competencies:

• Deciding and initiating action
• Planning and organising
• Persuading and influencing
• Relating and networking
• Presenting and communicating information
• Writing and reporting
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations

Education

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

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Job Summary

Manage financial resource management initiatives. The main focus is to:

• Ensure optimal and efficient allocation and usage of scarce financial resources (capital, funding and leverage exposure) within ARO RBB.
• Facilitate the optimisation of value-aligned performance measures (Primarily Profit after Capital Cost and Return on Capital) based on the plans for the segment.
• Further responsibilities include advisory services to Risk, Corporate Development and Finance.

Job Description

Key accountabilitie

• Financial Resource Management
  • Obtain and monitor the risk-adjusted performance metrics and financial resource usage for each segment
  • Report on Financial resource consumption (RWA demand, leverage ratio, Returns, Shareholder creation, funding and liquidity.
  • Monitor performance against targets/plans with remedial actions to address deviations to plan
  • Maintain and run financial resource management prototype financial solutions to support financial resource management frameworks.
  • Support business on the efficiency of the funding profile.
  • Support financial resource optimisation initiatives and provide support for capital allocation requests in plans according to these initiatives.
  • Provide decision support that is business enabling and solution orientated.
  • Provide challenge to each business area on the opportunities to maximise the returns on financial resources, with a particular focus on integrated plans, pricing tools and new product approval processes.  Partner with business and advise on financial outcomes of decisions, with proactive identification of value-generating and destroying behaviour.
  • Provide support to each business area on the opportunities to maximise the Return on Capital ,RoRWA, EP and Profit after Capital Cost (PARCC) in particular, which includes integrated business plans, pricing tools and new product approval processes.
  • Provide input into various cluster level committee meetings and source and prepare MI for effective decision making.
  • Ensure the above objective is achieved within the approved regulatory constraints and Risk Appetite, with a particular focus on capital, funding and leverage.
  • Ensure adherence to financial resource policies and limits.
  • Manage appropriate action plans to close gaps identified as part of the existing finance and strategic planning process.
  • Projects to execute on efficiency initiatives that drive RORC and ROEC performance

Balance sheet Management

• Measure and clearly articulate monthly performance numbers for RBB against plan and risk appetite
• Understand drivers of movement in balance sheet
• Ensure monthly Portfolio Performance Reports (with commentary) are submitted in accordance with the agreed deadlines and required standards and that all actions are addressed and feedback given in a timely manner.
• Forecast capital metrics for the different budgeting periods, i.e. revised annual forecasts, short term plans (12 months) and medium term plans (60 months).
• Understand strategic initiatives for the cluster and the impact on the medium term plan (MTP).
• Measure impacts of any credit policy change, industry changes, including new and existing customer acquisition strategies
• Understand the interaction between the macro environment and performance and introduce in the forecasting process.
• Highlight any stress within the portfolios and propose mitigating actions.
• Ensure the allocation of capital resources across the business area to ensure that strategic and tactical plans are enabled at all times. 
• Understand impact of Regulatory changes on business strategy and liaise with Group to support RBB franchise strategic goals.
• Drive convergence required between economic capital and resource consumption of the business to the regulatory treatment on balance sheet.
• Ensure that RBB’s key strategic initiatives are aligned to allocation of resources within the Group framework for liquidity, transfer pricing, economic funding and capital allocation
• RBB BSM Committee – key business committee to drive change.
• Ensure the development of more frequent MI (as required).

Stakeholder management

• Establish and manage relationships with both internal and external sources of information in order to deliver on objectives.
• Liaise with all business partners to ensure all management information they require is provided to them timeously.
• Liaise with various internal stakeholders to convey consolidated financial and portfolio performance for RBB (the impact of model and other once off policy changes / events to these numbers, emerging risks)

Knowledge and skills

• Ability to build sound relationships with stakeholders and appropriately respond to their needs.
• Priorities the output of the team/self, ensuring delivery within deadlines.
• Ability to absorb large volumes of information and identify the critical parts.
• Understanding complexity and cross-functional work.
• Strong analytical ability to identify financial resource management trends, risks and opportunities.
• Identifies and builds on financial resource efficiency opportunities.
• Strong financial modelling abilities.
• Knowledge of banking products and related financial issues.
• Knowledge of Basel capital adequacy directive.

Competencies

• Self-starter without supervision
• Learning and researching
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
• Relating and networking
• Adapting and responding to change
• Persuading and influencing
• Lateral thinking.

Qualifications and Experience

• B degree/B Honours in Accounting/Finance/Statistics/Risk Management or an NQF Level 6/7 equivalent
• 5+ years’ experience in Risk/Treasury/Finance
• More than five years of experience in quantitative, financial modelling, regulatory and/or financial analysis

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Design, Develop & Deploy high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade End User technologies.

Job Description

Solution Design & Deployment (hardware & software)

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve End User technical problems / opportunities with high quality solutions
• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Provide recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
• Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented End User systems & solutions
• Ensure systems & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience
• Work collaboratively with Support Engineering teams to resolve End User technical problems & ensure resolution tracking & conclusion
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (where applicable)
• Use & configure modern observability techniques (where applicable)
• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes / other
• Debug existing systems and solutions
• Work to consistently improve and evolve systems and solutions
• Comply with all Group Development / other technology standards
• Implement project & program plans for End User Systems and Solutions e.g. e.g. releases, deployment, risk management, testing, integration etc.
• Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on systems and solutions

Implement

• Be accountable for achieving all SLA / OLA and performance objectives and targets
• Implement effective technical knowledge and document management for all End User systems & solutions
• Develop & distribute performance reporting to enable business decision making
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously optimise and evolve solutions accordingly

People

• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)
• Provide technical training across a range of stakeholders

Risk & Governance

• Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post deployment)
• Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Skills and Knowledge Required:

MDT OSD Skills list:

• Strong Understanding of SCCM Application Creation and Detection methods
• SCCM Upgrade cycles and Build Testing
• Package creation for MDT, Toolkit and Settings packages
• Driver Package creation and maintenance
• BIOS Update package creation and maintenance
• Strong understanding of MDT configuration and Troubleshooting
• Strong MDT Boot Image creation, maintenance and OneSite Integration Skills
• Understanding of D.a.R.T integration (Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset)
• Strong Task Sequence creation with MDT integration Skills
• Powershell scripting skills
• VBS Scripting Skills
• Batch commands and creation of batch scripts and understanding
• Understanding of BitLocker integration with AD
• Strong understanding of MDT Task Sequence flow, where to do what for certain settings and scripts
• Strong understanding of AppXPackages and how to maintain
• WIM Image open/close and edit skills
• Good Understanding of USMT and how to use it
• Modern Driver Management skills using SCConfigmanager
• SCCM Collection creation and deployment
• Strong OSD MDT Build Troubleshooting skills, in WinPE as well as Windows
• Application management from MDT Customsettings (COALESCEDAPPS)
• Windows ADK Knowledge
• Windows Automated Installer Kit Knowledge

As a Bonus:

Understanding of Adaptiva integration with OneSite and how to use

• Adaptiva Push Policy creations
• Adaptiva Offices creations and maintenance
• Adaptiva Policy troubleshooting
• Adaptiva Rendezvous Point setup understanding
• Adaptiva application troubleshooting
• Autopilot Skill sets (Intune and Azure AD)

Education

• National Certificate: Information Technology

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Job Summary

Specific Role Purpose:

• Role will be focused on building financial models using historical data; product related information based on various industry & internal inputs in support of business cases, strategic initiatives, potential new products and partnerships.
• The Finance Analyst performs financial reconciliations’, analysis and reporting in an accurate, complete and timely way; and continuously seeks to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes to doing deep dive and trend analyses to crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives. The Finance Analyst equips finance and business leadership with sound financial information to support decision making at all levels.
• The Finance Analyst of the business enables achieving the operational objectives of the business by building an agile finance enablement to transform, to bring stewardship, financial integrity & insights to the current state of the business & its future possibilities to deliver on the new operating model and to achieve the business objectives set by Absa Africa United for PSC.

The Finance Analyst co-creates Finance capabilities required to lead to exponential growth and business effectiveness.

Job Description

Commercial Finance Execution Accountabilities

• Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations’, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Management in business area.
• Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end to end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work.
• First line of operational support to internal and external auditors within scope of work; and all queries addressed effectively and efficiently.
• Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives.
• Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams.
• Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views.
• Ensure that the CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management the BU.
• Create unprecedented, seamless customer experiences via finance BU enablement.
• Embrace our distinctive brand aspiration and infuse in business.
• Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function. Embrace digital solutions.
• Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls. 
• Adopt what’s ‘best for absa’ approach in finance practices.
• Have a holistic eco-system view of business, that is, geography, customer, channel and product in developing information views of business.
• Book of work contribution: Build innovative finance business case financial information, insights and benefits tracking’s’ solutions to continuously inform management decisions.
• Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes.
• Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of PSC in performance reporting.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for PSC Finance (annual planning, forecasting, spend trajectory and reporting).
• Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate.
• Influence the build of a leading global payments hub, where applicable.
• Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.
• Be an active force for good in society through business execution.
• Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution.

Financial Reporting Accountabilities

• Build trust in the finance function through the creation of a single source of financial information which is corroborated by related management information sources and alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies, and underlying data are correctly applied.
• Generate innovative easy to comprehend progress reports for leaders on their strategic agenda, short-term and long-term plans and investments, operational success metrics, efficiencies, risks and mitigations.
• Interact with the stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process.
• Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.
• Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions.
• Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.
• Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into performance reports.
• Integrate advanced modelling and analysis capability to provide actionable intelligence, beyond data within the function.
• Generate finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions.
• Ensure appropriate, quality and timeous delivery of accurate financial and non-financial management information to support business objectives and expectations, including appropriate financial and non-financial metrics, valid and insightful comments and packaging the information in a relevant and appropriate manner.
• Deliver reporting reflecting deep commercial, holistic understanding, coherency, clarity, and contextualisation. Tell the story with passion and conviction.
• Provide thought-leadership, insight, influence and challenge on evolving stakeholder information requirements and reporting processes to deliver analytics.
• Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the PSC finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group. Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and BU teams.
• Manage the production of regular, high quality, standardised financial and non-financial reporting and analytics to Business and Finance; and focus on effective collaborative stakeholder hand-offs in the production.

People Investment Accountabilities

• Peer responsibility: Coach, inspire, engage, mentor and develop finance and business savvy leaders.
• Network with finance colleagues across GFD and create awareness of challenges, opportunities and issues and encourage collaboration
• Focus on Finance skills evolution and remaining relevant.
• Embrace the value of finance partnership in Big Data, Advanced Analytics, mergers and acquisitions, and partnerships into the core of our business.
• Ensure deep personal understanding of income statement, balance sheet, margin returns, variance analysis, capital and liquidity requirements, revenues, assets, liabilities and capital, expenses, headcount analytics and other key ratios through relevant business engagement.

Role / Person Specification

• Minimum B-degree (NQF level no.7) Desired Post Graduate Degree (NQF level no.8+), CA (SA) or CIMA or MBA qualification preferred.
• 3+ years professional financial management experience
• 2+ years Banking Experience
• Knowledge and skills:
• Experience in executing finance processes.
• Experience in commercial innovation environments
• Broad Finance including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects
• Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment
• Knowledge of building collaborative work environments

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: 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 provides an opportunity to work with key business stakeholders and revolutionise the way in which data is produced and consumed in CIB. A successful applicant will have the skills to articulate and unify the technology, infrastructure and business teams to make data a strategic enabler across the CIB franchise as well as work with these teams to ensure the optimal operating model is in place with optimal skills, capacity and structure to deliver. They will then in addition be in charge of the overall governance of the Data Transformation programme
• The role will require collaboration with executive leadership and cross functional teams across the Organisation, including Product Teams, Design Teams, Technology (Group and CIB) and Operational Teams to co- create solutions.
• This role is perfect for a person with a structured mind-set, who thrives in a fast paced environment, who feels energised by data empowered decision making, visualization and execution.

Job Description

Accountability: Strategy and Planning

• Formulate strategy on Data Management and Enablement in partnership with producer, consumer, product and technology and operations teams.
• Be pivotal in understanding emerging technology trends/breakthroughs (For example : Block chain, AI, Smart contracts), keep abreast of influencing factors in relevant security risks/new development
• Evaluate solutions that enable a client and colleague eco-system, provides differentiation, and reduction of cost in relation to Corporate Banking.
• Create platforms to engage with strategic clients and partners in co-creating solutions.
• Using deep insight into the needs of our clients and a deep understanding of our own operational / business processes and how these can be optimised.
• Business case: Prepare and present POC’s / experiments / Initiatives which support key strategic objectives
• Drive the financial metrics in partnership with client and product.

Accountability: Programme Governance

• Establish and execute on the Governance of the Data Programme.  This will include but not be limited to the following:
• Formal meeting structures which will manage the execution alignment of the
• Programme taking into account and/or ensuring that it has been set up as a series of self   empowered teams.
• Establishing and monitoring the success measurement of the programme (delivery outcomes, economic outcomes, investment outcomes, strategic progress)
• Addressing the resource requirements of the programme and assessment of the demand required (both scaling up and down)
• Managing the investment required.
• Aligning stakeholders on the methods of work and the outcomes driven approach.
• Compiling and coordinating the reporting on the programme ensuring that the reporting requirements of the various CIB and Group governance structures are met. .
• Risk Management: Identifying, assessing, and managing program risks and issues (at a portfolio level), and develop contingency plans, escalation and mitigation strategies to ensure program success while adhering to regulatory requirements and risk management policies.
• Giving visibility to and addressing the risks through the structures of the programme (Platforms, Value Streams, Sales, Service and Operations)
• Understanding dependencies across different delivery teams and facilitating prioritization and trade-off decisions where they’re needed.
• Setting thematic priorities given the specific priorities will be managed within the Platform and Value Stream teams

Accountability: Stakeholder Alignment and Communications

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration, alignment, and support for the Digital programme.
• Be the primary interface for organizing and managing stakeholder alignment and communications.
• Communications must be managed at senior levels within the organization including (but not limited to) Business Excos, Country Management Committees (CMC), Risk Committees and Change Councils. 
• Alignment of Value Streams, Platform Teams, Service, Sales and Operations Teams will also be included.
• Alignment of content and key messages to assist the forward momentum of the programme.
• Creation of a narrative that ties together multiple streams of work (all acting reasonably independently) to keep senior stakeholders aligned with the strategic message and intent.
• Developing a framework and rhythm for setting and managing expectations amongst all stakeholders .

Accountability: Reporting and Analytics:

• Prepare and present regular progress reports (single source of data) to executive leadership and stakeholders, providing program status updates, performance metrics, and recommendations for improvement, including impact measurement and reporting.
• Oversee the establishment and sustainability of a data resource to give high levels of visibility of the digital programme.

 Accountability: People and Culture

• Work closely and provide clear strategic direction to the internal team to identify opportunities for partnership, co-creation, and collective impact whilst ensuring Absa guiding principles are communicated and upheld.
• Provide strong leadership and direction to cross-functional program teams, ensuring that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and team members are motivated, engaged, and empowered to achieve program objectives.
• Create sense of urgency around the vision and values and ensure individuals actions, processes and practices are aligned. This includes leading change management efforts associated with the digital programme, including communication, identifying internal staff training needs to ensure smooth adoption of digital.
• Inspire teams to work closely together to achieve the strategic vision by establishing, leading, managing and motivating high performing global teams (including virtual teams) to high standards and excellence.
• Developing teams by assisting them to achieve stretch targets and developing their professional careers through effective career development techniques such as coaching, training, and supporting colleagues on their journeys.
• Ensure the group standards for formal  performance development are implemented in a practical and effective manner.
• Ensure the development and regular updates on the succession plans for key and high risk roles in the overall digital estate of delivery
• Ensure that the function’s transformation objectives are aligned, incorporated and support the DPS and broader group transformation objectives
• Annually oversee the overall business enablement’s talent management process

Accountability: Innovation and Business Impact:

• Drive innovation initiatives to continuously improve the Data programme, such as piloting new approaches, testing new technologies, and leveraging data analytics to inform decision-making and drive self empowered teams

Accountability: CIB Data operating model

• Partner with all areas across CIB (Business, finance, operations, risk) to ensure adequate understanding of roles and responsibilities required in their areas
• Ensure a good understanding of the required skills and capacity for each area and then partner for a delivery plan to put the team in place
• Partner with approraite team to train and support Data Consumers, Providers, Data Stewards and Data Owners
• Produce and disseminate regular communication that excites and galvanises the organization to aspire to data excellence

Accountability: Solution Realization

• Execution model: Plan and drive execution of activities aligned with the Corporate Digital Platform execution model Kanban/Agile with FLOW metrics
• Continually seek to improve the rate of turn/return through one full-cycle of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop

Accountability: Benefits Optimization

• Analytics: Utilise existing solution usage analysis to better understand the clients’ value chain/business processes i.e. develop deep client insight. Use these insights to identify/innovate opportunities to provide solutions that will create client value

Education and Experience Desired

• Minimum B-degree. A post graduate degree will be an advantage
• 10  years’ senior leadership  experience. financial industry and specifically Knowledge in Corporate Banking would be an advantage
• Minimum 5 years experience in an Agile environment
• Financial and Regulatory reporting knowledge and experience
• Product Owner Certification ( Kanban; Agile, Six Sigma)

Experience that will be an Advantage

• Continuous Improvement
• Ability to Influence without Authority
• Exposure to emerging technology – i.e. Data technologies, Salesforce, AWS, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Smart contracts, Cloud, API’s
• Ability to co-ordinate to solve problems across multi-functional and diverse teams.
• Strong orientation to driving strategy execution

Knowledge & Skills:

• Proven track record of successfully delivering complex programs, inclusive of agile methods of work, preferably in a senior leadership role with  Comprehensive understanding of digital businesses and digital transformation journeys. 
• Excellent strategic planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills with proven xperience with change management Strong leadership, team management, and people development abilities.
• Experience with stakeholder engagement on a senior and executive management level
• Experience on executive communication and managing strategic narratives
• Experience of working in a multinational, multi-segment environment with matrix reporting. Awareness of cultural differences and varying legal/regulatory environments.
• A strong analytical and data-driven mindset, as well as the ability to use data to inform decision-making, are required.
• Strong Relationship Building Skills
• Analysing and researching

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Participate in learning programme/s in order to maximise individual and organisational development benefit/s through the execution of predefined training objectives.

Job Description

Workplace experiences:

• Attend and participate in all workplace experiences against agreed development objectives

Learning:

• Attend and participate in all training and development interventions against agreed development objectives

Ad Hoc duties:

• Provide support to customers and team as required to ensure team performance on an ongoing basis

Administration:

• Effectively fulfil all required administrative duties, including tracking and reporting

Education

• GET Certificate: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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Job Summary

• To serve as Committee Company Secretary to at least two substantive Absa Group Board committees.
• To ensure that the Board committees which are served by the Company Secretary comply with the provisions of the Companies Act, the Banks Act, King IV, JSE Listings Requirements and other legislation / regulation that may be applicable to the Company.
• To provide strategic, governance and compliance guidance to the Board committees and implement robust processes to guide in effective decision making.
• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Absa Policies and Policy Standards. Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.
• To manage the Absa Group Annual General Meeting (AGM) process.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Key Accountability: Stakeholder engagement

• Engage with Board committee chairs and members and relevant members of management, and the Group Secretariat team in alignment with relevant stakeholders to ensure effective calendar planning, meeting logistics and distribution of committee papers.
• Liaise with relevant committee chairs and other colleagues regarding the items referred to above.
• Manage the system of distribution of papers (Diligent) and ensure appropriate quality, availability and risk controls in relation to such system.
• Liaise with chairs of committees to ensure appropriate expectations are met.
• Liaise with pack contributors and ensure appropriate training with a view to quality products.
• Access global and local practices, industry best practice and optimise the benefit of engagement with others in the field.

Accountability:  Committee meetings

• Act as the Secretary to the nominated committees;
• In particular:
  • Take accurate minutes at all meetings and distribute them timeously (within 7 days);
  • If required, prepare a summary of the committee meeting for dissemination to the members (first submitting to seniors in the Secretariat team and thereafter to the Chairman of the committee, within 3 days of the meeting (or sooner if required);
  • Identify all matters arising, verify these and distribute them to relevant stakeholders within 7 days of the meeting;
  • Attend to the drafting of meeting agendas in consultation with the committee Chairman and the responsible executives to reflect the matters for discussion at each meeting;
  • Update the committee forward planners;
  • Distribute the agenda in advance of the meeting to the Chairman of the committee, for comments;
  • Distribute the minutes well in advance of the meeting pack being distributed to the Chairman of the committee, for comments;
  • Coordinate the preparation and distribution of meeting packs;
  • Load agendas and papers on Diligent;
  • Prepare attendance registers for the meeting, and ensure that these are signed where relevant, and scanned to the server;
  • Check that all logistical arrangements have been made in relation to the meeting (technology to be used; invitations to presenters; PDF extracts of the pack for presenters; etc);
  • Obtain the timeous signature of the committee Chairman on the approved minutes;
  • Coordinate the preparation of the annual meeting schedules;
  • Assist with incoming queries related to the committee.

Accountability:  Corporate Governance

• Make available to new members of the committee(s) a suitable induction process and, for existing members, ongoing training where appropriate including developments and trends in regard to the mandate of the Committee(s) and as arranged with the Committee Chairman.
• Identify Corporate Governance trends and training topics and engage with your manager in regard thereto.
• Review terms of reference for relevant committees from time to time having regard to operational and policy requirements and particular regulations / governance requirements.
• Act as the primary point of contact for the relevant Committee Chairman once designated as the Secretary for that committee.
• Ensure, with the Head of Board Support and the Group Company Secretary, that Exco members and Directors if required are informed of changes in legislation as may be appropriate.

Accountability: Annual General Meetings administration

If required, manage the Absa Group Annual General Meeting (AGM), including, inter alia, the following items:

• Drafting the notice of AGM
• Drafting the Chairman’s agenda
• Logistical arrangements, including venue, parking, access, refreshments, presentations projections and so forth, in liaison with Group Strategic Events and Group Technology
• Drafting the minutes of the AGM

Accountability:  Records Management

• Record all the critical documents such as minutes, resolutions, attendance registers, etc. in the correct format as per the Absa Record Management Policy.
• Save all final documents on the Group Secretariat server including the signed minutes.

Accountability:  Your own career

• Agree your goals and objectives with your line manager.
• Advise your line manager if you have insufficient work, or have insufficiently challenging work in order to assist with the balance of work in the team.
• Identify any training, or areas for development, that you feel that you have.
• Collaborate with peers in the team for the benefit of Group Secretariat as a whole.

Role / Person Specification

Education and Experience Required (Essential)

• B-degree in Commerce or Law. NQF level 6
• 5 - 7 years’ previous experience in a secretarial/governance function, dealing with Board / Board Committee / Exco / Exco subcommittees
• At least five (5) years' experience in dealing with internal and external stakeholders, where deadlines require effective organisational planning, time management and a track record of delivering quality deliverables.

Specific Knowledge and Skills for Board committees to be supported

• Very commercially and financially literate
• Understanding of a banking environment
• Familiar with banking metrics including financial, risk, capital and liquidity and credit management within the banking environment
• Understanding balance sheet and income statement and relevant key metrics, preferably for a bank
• Understanding of legislation and regulations applicable to Banks or the ability to easily familiarise in regard thereto

Knowledge & Skills: (Essential)

• Professional engagement with particularly senior and executive stakeholders
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong written communication skills including minutes and report writing
• Effective verbal skills
• Well organised
• Ability to operate under pressure
• Discretion - sensitive and confidential material Level
• PC literacy incl. Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook

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
• Attention to detail

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Public Management and Governance

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Job Summary

• The Absa CIB Product Design team has come a long way. We are one of the few places in South Africa’s UX Corporate space where Design teams don’t only have a voice but are acknowledged as an essential partner to Business and Development teams. Join the team as a Design Standards and Services Manager and be responsible for establishing and maintaining design standards and principles, managing the design system, and overseeing the design research and testing capability within the corporate and investment bank. This role plays a critical role in ensuring consistency, coherence, and high-quality design across all digital assets and touchpoints. The Design Standards and Services Manager will develop and implement governance processes and/ or frameworks to implement design standards, maintain the integrity of the design system, and support other teams with validation and testing requirements. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams to entrench design governance practices, ensure design system components are validated, and ensure user-centricity through research and testing.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Manage the strategy and roadmap to develop, establish and maintain a robust design system that includes components, patterns, guidelines and code snippets for efficient and consistent design implementation across a complex digital estate, together with a team of senior designers and developers.
• Manage the application of design thinking techniques to the design system itself, ensuring that the needs of its users are met and is created in such a way that is delightful.  
• Manage, drive and support collaboration with design teams, product managers, and developers to ensure the design system is effectively integrated into the digital development process.
• Define and manage the implementation of governance processes and frameworks to implement design standards and ensure adherence to the design system across the organization.
• Guide the design system backlog prioritisation and support the teams capacity to focus and be accountable towards continuous improvement of the design system outcomes.
• Define and manage the implementation of the design system communication, engagement and change management strategies.
• Define and implement metrics and measures to enable the continuous evaluation, improvements and effectiveness of usage and implementation of the design system across the digital estate.
• Manage the design research, testing capability and tooling, supporting other teams with validation and testing requirements.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to resolve design-related issues, provide recommendations, and ensure alignment with overall design strategy.
• Identify training needs and manage the coaching of design thinking, design standards, research methods, usability testing, and the effective use of the design system with stakeholders across the organisation.
• Foster a culture of collaboration and drive design excellence and user-centricity with a team of subject matter experts in design and development.
• Conduct continuous research and understanding to keep abreast of industry trends on design standards, principles, research methodologies, and best practices.

Education and Experience Required

• 7+ years of experience in digital product management and delivery, strategy and leadership, research, or a similar role.

Education

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

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Job Summary

• We are looking for an experienced Model Development Analysts with a background as quantitative analysts developing PD, LGD and EAD models for Regulatory Capital and Impairments (IFRS9) models in a banking or consulting environment.

Job Description

• We will expect you to ensure model build data are of sufficient quality.
• Develop theoretical understanding and practical application of model development methodology through model building and application experience.
• Complete statistical data analysis and produce model build documentation in an unambiguous and concise manner.
• Have the ability to integrate technical statistical experience and business knowledge.
• Ensure successful implementation of models by assisting the model implementation team through answering technical questions around the model workings.
• Ensure full governance processes for modelling are complied with from model inception and build through to validation and sign-off by completing all relevant documentation according to the Absa Model Risk Policy.
• Actively engage stakeholders (model users, validation team, monitoring team, regulators) to be fully engaged in process and delivery through email discussions, group meetings and one-on-one discussions ensuring their issues, objectives and priorities are reflected in agreed solutions.
• A successful candidate will hold at least an honours degree in Statistics, Business Mathematics and Informatics (BMI) or Mathematical Statistics or a related field with up to 6 years’ experience in statistical model development or validation in a Business Banking or Investment Banking environment with process and people management experience preferred. Proficiency in Base SAS or SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS data steps, SAS procedures, SAS SQL, SAS Macros in order to develop statistical models.

Education

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