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Job Summary

This role involves managing, inclusive of planning, directing and coordinating all activities, resulting in effective information management (data management, maintenance, development, etc), as well as the day to day running and continuous improvement of the end to end data management processes by providing alignment to Financial Systems Architecture and support the current and improved business reporting requirements, alignment of available functionality to support the current and improved business reporting requirements, effective Information/data management and application support over the FC Reporting systems, and supporting for the design and implementation phases of new strategic initiatives.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

Accountability:  Improve Architecture and Solutions Through Leadership

• Drive alignment by interpreting Group system architecture protocols and Operating Model in order to be able to provide solutions architecture in line with the organisational strategy.
• Make recommendations on solution delivery scheduling and resourcing based upon concept requirements and design proposals.
• Decide on solution options pertaining to identified system integration issues and other risks.
• Develop data and information architecture strategy, blueprint and roadmap and track progress towards achieving the strategic goals set out.
• Develop a strategy to ensure that operations, systems, and procedures are appropriate to absorb the impact of changes to increase the financial operations for Absa Group and specifically in the Financial Control environment.
• Provide leadership on SAP S/4 HANA functionalities for current and future financial system landscape.
• Decide on suitable alternatives in consultation with Head of Technology Enablement to address Financial Control system change impacts on the strategy i.e. timelines, integration, rework, etc.
• Recommend tactical solutions where required as part of the decision-making process in conjunction with System Change Management.
• Plan and prioritise required tactical solutions and manage the lifecycle expectation thereof
• Manage the impact of scope creep on initiatives in conjunction with FC Change Control Forum.
• Manage the impact on initiatives, should data quality issues not be prioritised and corrected.

Accountability:  Solution design, development and Implementation

• Manage multiple system development initiatives in terms of resources, timelines, dependencies and impact on operational service delivery.
• Recommend alternatives where applicable to technical requirements based upon specifications submitted in line with strategy, architecture and user needs.
• Manage effective data creation, storage and utilisation with appointed Data Stewards.
• Provide subject matter input to the definition, design and development phases of the improvement solution
• Understand the impact of new developments on the logical and physical designs
• Manage the effectiveness of consultants against Service Statements.
• Oversee the end-to-end solution development process to ensure benefit realisation and user adoption.
• Manage adherence to the standard interface testing procedure for all new systems before interfacing with SAP S/4 HANA to ensure prevention of rejections and miss-representation of financial information.
• Manage research, design, promotion, development and testing of innovative improvements or new solutions that will improve processes and ensure financial data integrity.
• Monitor post-implementation success and user adoption.

Accountability:  Small enhancements and continued process improvement

• Lead collaboration efforts with various stakeholders to balance maintenance tasks and new enhancement requirements.
• Evaluate the impact of small enhancements, changes on strategic initiatives and system landscape.
• Ensure that testing methodologies are followed before the implementation of small enhancements and changes.
• Assess all system, data or recurring process issues and decide how to best prevent the reoccurrence thereof by taking a leading role in resolving of issues.
• Oversee the end-to-end execution of changes requested.
• Oversee system and application updates, upgrades and patches.

Accountability:  Meta Data Management

• Oversee the availability of quality Meta data between financial systems inclusive of adequate support and data maintenance.
• Ensure maintenance of Meta data not integrated via MDM or system related.
• Ensure that all monthly master and meta data are maintained in a timely manner and related controls are executed as documented.

Accountability:  Operational Management

• Manage all maintenance and operational activities performed on the finance system to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Plan resource levelling and task assignments to obtain optimum resource utilisation, specifically during peak performance timeframes.
• Balance capacity issues where project implementations coincide with key reporting activities or restatement of prior periods.
• Oversee daily and monthly data transfers, reconciliations, data integrity, data availability and data quality.
• Ensure execution of all required data management integrity check processes and controls as well as evidence thereof.
• Ensure that all Data Management tasks (Data loads, translations, aggregations, enrichments, Feeder file exports, etc) are executed as per monthly schedules.

Accountability:  Stakeholder management

• Build constructive relationships with key role players in order to have a clear understanding of their business needs.
• Understand the impact of the changes and inform business of any risks or impact as a result of changes.
• Developing and implementing solutions for continues stakeholder satisfaction improvement.
• Provide regular and timely feedback to stakeholders.
• Managing the relationship with the appropriate specialist areas to ensure ongoing delivery.
• Resolve stakeholder dissatisfaction / issues.
• Provide direction and input to enable Business Units to manage and resolve issues.

Accountability:  Business direction and support

• Contribute to the development of business unit strategy.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the vision for the team.
• Agree targets and take accountability for the overall achievement of performance objectives in the business area.
• Agree and manage service offerings and SLAs with internal stakeholders (agree annually and measure on a monthly basis).
• Define customer experience metrics.

Accountability:  Risk management, compliance, and controls

• Ensure that the team understands applicable risk management, compliance, and control requirements, including required compliance training.
• Keep up to date with all the relevant legislation/regulatory requirements.
• Own and agree corrective action items with Internal and External Audit for findings related to the functional area under management.
• Participate in the development of the Business Continuity Plan by reviewing and ensuring the critical financial processes are adequately covered and tested.
• Perform proper maintenance of all actions needed for the completion of DEA (Design Effectiveness Assessment) and OET (Operating Effectiveness Testing).

Accountability:  People and talent management

• Exhibits Absa Way, Purpose and Values and champions them in the team towards development of a corporate culture.
• With the support from the HR Business Partner, interview and recruit direct reports and provide support to them during the recruitment of their teams on request.
• Effectively assign and balance staff allocations to attain the required performance levels.
• Develop suitable induction training solutions for the area of business.
• Ensure that staff is developed in accordance with personal development plans aligned to organisational priorities and individual development areas.
• Ensure that the people and talent management record keeping system is kept up to date.
• Establish and maintain a succession plan for the management team in the area using the formal Talent Management process for identified talent and an informal process for remaining roles.
• Perform quarterly "health checks" with staff and confirm that they are meeting their required level of performance.
• Diversity - manage and make sure that every team member is treated with respect in terms of culture, gender and religion.
• Create effective workforce and recruitment demand plans to ensure that current and future business requirements can be met. Plans should be revised at least twice a year.

Accountability:  Process management

• Ensure alignment of process with organisational strategy; take accountability for relevant processes within area of responsibility and ensure delivery and maintenance of standardised processes and controls.
• Owner of the end-to-end business process including defining the goals, objectives and KPI's, and performance management thereof.
• Plan, implement and develop operating procedures for relevant area and updating user and working guides.
• Constantly review and improve processes (automation included) to drive and implement a sustainable and effective process in support of quality and accuracy.
• Drive sustainable cost and processing efficiencies through continuous innovation, industry benchmarking and alignment to best practices.
• Act as escalation and decision point for operational decisions related to specific process.
• Management of relevant executors of processes within ambit of control including co-ordination and management of capability and performance.
• Change Management including facilitating change in process within scope of deliverables.
• Identify process-specific risks and work with Process Architect to mitigate risks.

Role/Person Specification

Education and Experience

• B-degree in information technology (NQF level no. 7)
• At least 5 years SAP DI experience
• At least 5 years banking experience
• At least 5 – 8 years financial reporting experience
• People Management Experience

Competencies

• Applying expertise and technology
• Working with people
• Analysing
• Relating and networking
• Creative and innovating
• Persuading and influencing
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking

Knowledge and Skills

• System support and enhancement
• The ability to work in a pressured and unstructured environment and to cope with the demands of working to tight deadlines
• Excellent ETL skills
• Solid SAP S/4 DI skills
• Solid financial background
• Solid accounting knowledge
• Networking and relationship management
• Exceptional interpersonal & team working ability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of Absa processes and systems
• Commercial awareness

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Job Summary

To deliver administrative LISP services through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs) within the ops admin and finance teams .
Capture applications ,reconciliations ,payments ,filing and compliance

Job Description

Capturing and maintaining a desired level of quality in a services or product as prescribed by the role you will be fulfilling in the LISP (Linked Investment Service Provider) teams , especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or production | Meeting deadlines: Completes tasks timeously and accurately.

Education

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

Facing off with the trading desk, Market Risk and Quants and Product Control Line, candidates will need to demonstrate knowledge /experience of Price Testing, Yield Curve Analysis / Construction, Valuation methodology, Model Validation, Middle office, Documentation, Implementation of Processes / Procedures, Best Practices. An ideal candidate should be familiar with new derivatives pricing techniques like OIS/CSA Aware Discounting, XVAs

Education

Master's Degree: Accounting (Required)

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Job Summary

• To manage a portfolio of Business Bankings top key accounts such that clients are provided exemplary service levels and to grow the portfolio via identifying and onboarding New To Bank opportunities and increased cross sell from the existing portfolio.

Job Description

• New Business Organisation: Devise short term tactical plans to meet annual budget and targets up to a 6 to 12 month timeframe Identify, develop and source new High Value Business Banking relationships through personal and client referrals, Absa Group Limited Group internal networks and fostering greater collaboration within group and business unit; Achieve personal targets for new and existing client acquisiton & growth; Make a contribution to referring relevant business to other parts of Relationship Banking and/or the broader Absa Group Limited Group.
• Client service - Manage and Grow Existing Client Relationships: Quarterly meetings with each client in your designated portfolio; Undertake annual credit reviews to assess the health of your Clients financial position, with co-operation from the various teams in the region Maintain the highest levels of service and delivery to existing clients at all times, ensuring that all teams of specialist support within the region work together to deliver client experience as well; Act as the key contact point/ gatekeeper and coordinator for all client advice Transactional Banking, Credit, FX & other products. Assist in the liaison with various internal stakeholders to assist in achieving business objectives. Act as the key contact point for all client transaction queries across multiple locations within a Region.
• Client Relationship Management: Maintains highest levels of service and delivery to existing clients at all times Key contact for all banking and credit advice and client queries Key interface between clients and other parts of Absa Group Limited and the wider Absa Group Limited Group
• Involvement in credit related tasks: Client interaction including: gathering of information related to the banking relationship ensuring efficient Client interactions; Accountable for providing information related to the security status reports and performance of financial analysis; Ultimately responsible for ensuring that credit review processes is conducted on time; Liaise with the product houses to ensure credit tasks related to clients in terms of credit reviews, overdrafts and home loans are completed;
• Governance and Control: Ensure conformity with global and market standards of client services, regulatory compliance, KYC, product delivery and operating model. Ensuring that all actions are in line with policies & procedures. | Query Resolution: Undertake query resolution related to client portfolio Act as the escalation point for serious issues related to client complaints
• Operational Support: Provides accurate/timely preparation of file notes, client letters and other client documentation (e.g. marketing material) for all client meetings and follow up as required; Act as focal point for clients dealing with day-to-day administration across the range of services and products.

Education

Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Business, Commerce and Management Studies

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Job Summary

To represent the Bank as Lender post deal implementation and to be responsible for the cradle to grave management of a portfolio of structured & vanilla debt transactions.

Job Description

Responsibility for managing a discrete portfolio of clients in asset finance transactions. The key responsibilities are as follows:

Execute consents, amendment and waiver requests

• Transaction Manager to ensure that a solid understanding of loan agreements and deal structure is adopted and maintained
• Ensure client requests are clearly understood and impact thereto as part of request assessment
• Provide thorough summaries and motivations to credit when seeking credit approvals
• Proactive engagement with credit, legal, product and coverage teams in resolving clients requests
• Ensure that the required internal credit, product and legal approvals are received prior to communicating the banks approval to external clients and or Agent banks
• Effective communication to Agent banks and clients on requests
• Alert internal teams on a need to know basis where these approvals may impact them e.g. TCU & Trading team where facility has been extended or re-priced. Critical to understand public vs private teams so that we know what information can be shared between teams.

A point of reference for Loan Ops, Credit, IBD, Portfolio and Agent Banks and Borrower including the production of required management information

• Assist internal teams with adhoc requests pertaining to portfolio
• Assist in producing management reports for the Transaction Management portfolio

Attendance of client site visits and lender meetings for the respective portfolio

• Accompany coverage and product bankers on external and internal client meetings and site visits
• Produce summary notes of meetings for internal team purposes
• Be an active participant in these meetings and proactively contribute to resolutions of issues hereto

Ensuring clients adhere to their information and financial undertakings pursuant to the finance documents including a review of the information undertakings

• Ensure that the transaction mangers deal portfolio is reviewed for accuracy & completeness for all information and reporting obligations that should be captured on Mentis or a similar IT tool for the business.
• Timeous requesting of information undertakings from clients and or Agent banks on syndicated deals and keeping Credit and Export Credit Agency appraised of status.
• Baring financial undertakings, all other information undertakings e.g. Lenders technical advisor & operator reports must be thoroughly reviewed and issues escalated to product or credit teams accordingly.

Ongoing notifications to the trader pertaining to margin ratchets

• Utilise the Mentis system to diarise margin ratchets.
• Google alerts to be created for deals where credit rating related pricing ratchets apply.
• Upon review of compliance certificate or rating alert, Transaction Manager to advise Trader of margin increase to the extent applicable.
• Proactive engagement with Trader to ensure there is a clear communication and understanding so that client loan requests are executed effectively.

Risk Management

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.

Communication

• Proactive engagement with internal stakeholders pertaining to client’s requests or information received.
• Professional communication at all times with external clients.
• Technical Knowledge
• Personal & Interpersonal skills
• Commercial Effectiveness
• Management & Leadership
• Business skills
• Control Environment

Knowledge and Skills

Because the nature of the environment is structured, every transaction is unique and an understanding of every deal is required.

• Legal agreements of the transactions and related transaction documentation.
• Understanding of financial markets and general business acumen
• Is adaptable to different environments, people and personalities.
• Computer literacy
• Planning and organising
• A strong communicator that has the ability to influence stakeholders
• A good understanding of current economic environment including topical financial or credit matters
• A team player that contributes to increased efficiency within the business
• Responsibility for managing a discrete portfolio of clients in asset finance transactions. The key responsibilities are as follows:

Execute consents, amendment and waiver requests

• Transaction Manager to ensure that a solid understanding of loan agreements and deal structure is adopted and maintained
• Ensure client requests are clearly understood and impact thereto as part of request assessment
• Provide thorough summaries and motivations to credit when seeking credit approvals
• Proactive engagement with credit, legal, product and coverage teams in resolving clients requests
• Ensure that the required internal credit, product and legal approvals are received prior to communicating the banks approval to external clients and or Agent banks
• Effective communication to Agent banks and clients on requests
• Alert internal teams on a need to know basis where these approvals may impact them e.g. TCU & Trading team where facility has been extended or re-priced. Critical to understand public vs private teams so that we know what information can be shared between teams.

A point of reference for Loan Ops, Credit, IBD, Portfolio and Agent Banks and Borrower including the production of required management information

• Assist internal teams with adhoc requests pertaining to portfolio
• Assist in producing management reports for the Transaction Management portfolio

Attendance of client site visits and lender meetings for the respective portfolio

• Accompany coverage and product bankers on external and internal client meetings and site visits
• Produce summary notes of meetings for internal team purposes
• Be an active participant in these meetings and proactively contribute to resolutions of issues hereto

Ensuring clients adhere to their information and financial undertakings pursuant to the finance documents including a review of the information undertakings

• Ensure that the transaction mangers deal portfolio is reviewed for accuracy & completeness for all information and reporting obligations that should be captured on Mentis or a similar IT tool for the business.
• Timeous requesting of information undertakings from clients and or Agent banks on syndicated deals and keeping Credit and Export Credit Agency appraised of status.
• Baring financial undertakings, all other information undertakings e.g. Lenders technical advisor & operator reports must be thoroughly reviewed and issues escalated to product or credit teams accordingly.

Ongoing notifications to the trader pertaining to margin ratchets

• Utilise the Mentis system to diarise margin ratchets.
• Google alerts to be created for deals where credit rating related pricing ratchets apply.
• Upon review of compliance certificate or rating alert, Transaction Manager to advise Trader of margin increase to the extent applicable.
• Proactive engagement with Trader to ensure there is a clear communication and understanding so that client loan requests are executed effectively.

Risk Management

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.

Communication

• Proactive engagement with internal stakeholders pertaining to client’s requests or information received.
• Professional communication at all times with external clients.
• Technical Knowledge
• Personal & Interpersonal skills
• Commercial Effectiveness
• Management & Leadership
• Business skills
• Control Environment

Knowledge and Skills

Because the nature of the environment is structured, every transaction is unique and an understanding of every deal is required.

• Legal agreements of the transactions and related transaction documentation.
• Understanding of financial markets and general business acumen
• Is adaptable to different environments, people and personalities.
• Computer literacy
• Planning and organising
• A strong communicator that has the ability to influence stakeholders
• A good understanding of current economic environment including topical financial or credit matters
• A team player that contributes to increased efficiency within the business

Education

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

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Job Summary

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

Job Description

• Communication skills
• Good English writing skills
• Organizing Skills – meetings, functions etc.
• Good email writing etiquette
• High Proficiency with MSoffice applications such as MsTeams, MsWord, MSWord, Excel, and especially Powerpoint
• Previously held a PA or Administrator role
• Proficient at minute taking, notes
• Meeting deadlines

Soft Skills

• Time consciences,
• Reliable/Dependable
• Prioritization skills
• Quick learner
• Self-starter

Education

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

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Job Summary

• Optimise the profit and economic value of portfolios of Small Business key account clients requiring low to medium complexity commercial banking requirements by focusing: a) origination efforts to acquire new clients; b) cross-sell to existing client base; c) coverage efforts to service clients in accordance to the segment CVP

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)