Current Vacancies at Absa Group Limited

Job Summary

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adaption i.t.o. project management methodology, governance and delivery objectives. Manage a diverse team of Project specialists

Job Description

• Programme Management: Ensure appropriate management of respective programmes/projects within the Portfolio that includes but not limited to supplier engagements, portfolio performance management, reporting and executing of requirements and managing projects with the intention of improving the organizations strategic performance. Ensure that timelines are met.
• Risk Management: Ensure that praogrammes/projects adhere to the required risk management standards. 
• People Management: Coach, mentor and manage team members toward driving business objectives and ensuring colleague development (where applicable). Manage team in such a way that deadlines are met.

Experience

• 7-10 years Project and Programme Management,
• Industry experience in Financial Services and Banking.

Qualification:

• Bachelors Degree and Post Graduate Diploma.
• High Proficiency in all Microsoft Packages.

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Job Description

Relationship Management:

• Own the primary relationship with the client by being the client’s main contact point for all corporate and investment banking needs.

Client Solutioning:

• Take overall accountability for service delivery by setting the rules of engagement for the cross functional team, which includes Transactional Banker, Credit Analyst, Segment Support Client Control Team, Client Service Consultant & Product & Sector teams.

Manager Risk Assessment:

• Take ownership of the portfolio's risk management by ensuring a good understanding of both the Bank's and the clients regulatory and compliance environments.

Education

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

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Job Description

Relationship Management:

• Own the primary relationship with the client by being the client’s main contact point for all corporate and investment banking needs.

Client Solutioning:

• Take overall accountability for service delivery by setting the rules of engagement for the cross functional team, which includes Transactional Banker, Credit Analyst, Segment Support Client Control Team, Client Service Consultant & Product & Sector teams.

Manager Risk Assessment:

• Take ownership of the portfolio's risk management by ensuring a good understanding of both the Bank's and the clients regulatory and compliance environments.

Education

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

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Responsibilities

• Monitor, deploy and support sophisticated front-office trading systems
• Interact with Traders, Front, Middle + Back Office Staff, including Development, Application Support and Infrastructure Teams
• Perform regular system checks
• Troubleshoot and restore system processing in event of incidents and issues.
• Handle service requests and queries
• Perform proactive maintenance
• Support Application deployment to Production Services
• Perform and assist with all Disaster Recovery Plans

Required Skills & Experience

• 2-5 years previous experience in a customer support role.
• Experience working in FinTech or related field.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactively assign, manage and prioritize relevant support tickets on the ticketing queue using ServiceNow
• Ability to read and analyze application logs to escalate to Development Teams and Vendors
• Ability to take ownership and become Subject Matter Expert
• Proactively document any knowledge on Confluence
• Understanding of networking fundamentals and experience in diagnosing connectivity issues.
• Understanding and experience working with messaging protocols (MQ, FIX).
• Strong attention to detail, self-management, initiative, discipline, and follow-through.
• Exceptional problem-solving ability to provide root cause analysis of problems and workarounds
• Ability to work flexible hours to meet client demands.

Preferred Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• Experience of working in a high pressure environment and deliver in tight deadlines
• Trading support experience/exposure to trading protocols  (FIX is a plus)
• Experience working with both Windows Server and UNIX/Linux OS’
• Service Management/ITIL knowledge.
• Competent with SQL & Oracle

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Job Description

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

People

• Coach & mentor other engineers
• Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Build data science team capability in the use of data solutions

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
• Create business cases & solution specifications for various governance processes (e.g. CTO approvals)
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Deliver on time & on budget (always)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Summary

Africa CRES is responsible for the management of all premises occupied by Barclays across Africa in 14 countries including South Africa – the largest portfolio being the Absa portfolio in South Africa. The total estate in Africa comprises c1,600 properties with annual Capex expenditure of R2.4bn and Opex of R4bn.
Africa CRES operates under an outsourced operating model through major contracts with a small number of strategic suppliers for Facilities Management, Premises and Capital Projects.
This is a senior role within Africa CRES, reporting to the Head of Capital Projects.

To assist with the management of the Project Office. Ensure adherence to all project management processes and tools. Weekly monitoring of reports and managing exceptions with project stakeholders. Produce relevant dashboards and packs for governance forms such as EXCo and Change Councils. Support project managers in complying with processes and standards.

Job Description

Accountability:  Programme Delivery (60%)

Project Management:

• Monitors the progression of a project at every stage and ensure that the objectives of a project are achieved and report progress to the Head of Capital Projects.
• Quality Assurance: Maintain a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or production.
• Proactive project management: Ensure that timelines are achieved and reported.
• Manage the ePMO team in such a way that deadlines are achieved timeously.
• Stakeholder management: Ensure that stakeholders are identified and engaged.

Accountability: Supplier Relationship Management and Customer Relationship Management (30%)

• Manage best practice construction project management and supply chain strategies to achieve ongoing reduction in project costs whist improving quality and environmental impacts of the portfolio. This includes developing new ways of working in construction, alignment and interaction with CRES Workplace, FM and Real Estate, commercial work streams, Global Sourcing and the supply chain in order to support this.
• Assist, Set and drive the continuous improvement agenda for the internal team and outsourced partner to achieve service levels and industry best practice.
• Assist project delivery to Africa CRES teams in other geographies and safeguard Group interests when mandated. 
• Build and own productive relationships at the executive level for all customer/client relationships across the bank and the continent through establishing rigid engagements and reporting structures that ensures consistent and reliable MI and feedback loops.
• Assist with the smooth transition through business embedment of the programme to business-as-usual with a focus on continued delivery after closure through interfaces with Facilities Management COE.
• Assist the performance of the outsourced project team members against project timelines, agreed outputs and defined quality standards. Apply proper consequence management for poor delivery.

 Accountability: Reporting (10%)

• Establish and maintain consistent reporting systems to provide timely and effective management information on all capital projects, integrated with CRES One View MI System through the ownership of all Capital Project related data, the data flows to/from suppliers, and the regional MI portal.

Education and Experience Required

Essential

• B Sc. or B Sc (Eng) or B Comp Sc or equivalent NQF level 6 or higher qualification
• Prince2 or Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) or PMP or PMBOK certification or equivalent NQF level 5 or higher qualification
• Two (2) years direct experience in managing successful business change projects
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and the Internet

Preferred

Knowledge & Skills: (Maximum of 6)

• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Strong Ability to work with senior business leaders.
• Strong Experience of working in a corporate environment.
• Excellent understanding of the construction and property industry and experience of a wide range of project delivery and procurement approaches.
• Excellent, project management, programme management, commercial skills, strategic skills and supplier relationship management skills.
• Strong team leadership skills and track record of developing people.

Competencies:  (Maximum of 8 competencies)

• Leading and supervising
• Working with people
• Persuading and influencing
• Presenting and communicating information
• Writing and reporting
• Applying expertise and technology
• Planning and organising
• Delivering results and meeting customer expectations