Job Openings at Absa

Job Summary

The main purpose of the Technical Advisory Group role is to provide technical accounting and regulatory support on complex transactions originating from a variety of Absa businesses. Overall job responsibilities include:

•  Providing support in dealing with the accounting for new transactions (both from an Absa Group and client reporting perspective) for all business units
•  Providing support in dealing with the regulatory treatment for new transactions for all Absa business units
•  Involvement with the development of products and transactions where accounting or regulatory treatment is contentions
•  Write up of accounting and regulatory treatments for new product sign-off and other transaction approval forums
•  Facilitating input from other Finance areas (e.g. tax or capital management) as needed
•  Getting audit buy-in and sign-off to proposed accounting and regulatory treatment of complex products/trades
•  Determining appropriate accounting policies for Absa Group in terms of IFRS
•     Determining appropriate regulatory policies for Absa Group in terms of SARB regulations
•  Providing practical assistance in implementing accounting or regulatory policies and treatment.
•  Supporting other team members in understanding accounting and regulatory issues

Job Description

• Stay up to date with accounting guidance and developments by subscribing to International Accounting Standards Board ("IASB"), South African Institute of Chartered Accountants ("SAICA") etc and communication of these upfront to the Business Units.
• Assess the impact of new accounting developments on the business unit and manage the implementation thereof by preparing technical accounting opinions; assisting in opening new general ledger (GL) accounts which are appropriately mapped to Exco codes; by getting appropriate approval and signoff from business units managers and external auditors.
• Inform the relevant Group Financial Reporting ("GFR") note owner of accounting changes that might affect their notes disclosures in the annual financial statements (AFS) to enable them to critically assess the impact on their notes for accuracy and compliance with IFRS.
• Identify possible accounting issues within the business units which may result in inaccurate financial reporting and actively drive the process in resolving these issues by continuous communication with the business units and assisting the business unit in finding practical solutions to address these.
• Perform thorough and detailed assessments on any technical accounting matters identified so as to limit the time required from the auditors on investigating transactions potentially incorrectly accounted for in terms of IFRS and group accounting policies.
• Stay up to date and liaise with Regulatory bodies such as SAICA and the Banking Association on any industry related matters pertaining to accounting standards to ensure Absa's view is taken into account by these bodies when taking decisions on the development of accounting standards and related matters.
• Communicate proactively and continuously with business to discuss issues and concerns that might arise to ensure potential incorrect accounting for transactions in terms of IFRS and group accounting policies are addressed.
• Respond to queries from business in a timely manner on i.e. accounting treatment queries to ensure potential accounting issues are resolved within a reasonable period.
• Inform business of any International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") related issues that might affect them by staying up to date on any accounting developments by monitoring the communications from the IASB and SAICA to ensure these are appropriately taken into account by business for financial reporting purposes.
• Resolve any business related issues within respective clusters which note owners/GFR experience.
• Minimise any issues that clusters experience for year-end by following up and resolving issues identified on a timely basis and reviewing list of outstanding technical accounting issues as logged on SharePoint.
• Set up periodic meetings with Business Chief Financial Officers ("CFO") to identify any accounting issues to be addressed to be able to address and resolve these pro-actively.

Accountability: Accounting support including new product developments

• Provide guidance to the business unit on completing supplementary schedules required by GFR. Also review these schedules for accuracy and completeness.
• Assist business units in drafting separate company financial statements for group subsidiaries and assist in completing and submitting to Group Secretariat within 6 months from the year-end.
• Act as point of contact between GFR and the business unit for any reporting related and technical queries.
• Inform relevant note owners on any product related developments as part of the New Product Approval process.
• Collate information relating to new products, prepare technical accounting opinion and assist the business unit with the implementation thereof
• Provide support to note owners on any technical accounting matters encountered.
• Provide technical accounting support that is practical by relying on own technical accounting expertise and knowledge.
• Keep updated with any developments on new products launched based on products coming through the New Product Approval Process and ensure timeous accounting assessment of new products.
• Enhance knowledge and understanding of business' and product offerings to be able to provide relevant technical accounting support by continuously liaising with relevant stakeholders i.e. Business Unit CFO, product owners etc.
• Ensure what is suggested to business in a technical paper is properly implemented by the business units (i.e. reviewing relevant G/L accounts and Exco codes that have been opened and are used accordingly)
• Obtain and understanding of how the product /technical issue affects other business units in the bank (i.e. interdivisional entries that should net off on consolidation).
• Liaise with the consolidations team and the respective note owners concerning problems that might occur, so that they are aware of potential issues, which should be escalated and resolved.

Education and skills:

CA(SA)

• 4-6 years experience preferably in a technical accounting role

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

•     This role will provided support to the Head of Payments and Settlements support with regard to the control environment design and implementation; investigations (recons, IT incidents, etc.). 
•     This role will look to ensure that product system controls are designed, implemented and monitored across RBB.
•     This role will require the ability to understand and navigate and engage with various stakeholders across Business, Technology, Risk and finance around product system (Cheques, Cams, MPS etc)  transaction processing and impact on G/L

    Role will also look to engage across internal and external stakeholders (Industry/Card schemes, customers) to ensure that financial recoveries are carried out in the instance that industry incidents occur.
Job Description

• The Product System Analyst together with the Head of payments and Settlements is responsible for financial management, including developing forward-thinking analysis, generating management reports, statutory compliance, scaling automated financial processes, crafting financial strategies aligned to business financial health and growth objectives within his/her function of the BU. The Senior Manager: Finance ensures that business makes sound financial decisions.
• The Product System Analyst is also responsible with Head of Payments and Settlements for enabling business achieve their operational objectives. By building an agile finance capability able 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 strategy objectives set by Absa Africa United for RBB. 

Education

• Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• Create & independently drive automation testing frameworks & plans as well as lead the development & delivery of test scripts for multiple technical products / services (across tribes) e.g. web, mobile, SOA applications, etc. QA includes front – end, back – end, integration, performance, scalability and regression testing of various enterprise wide solutions.  This entails full responsibility for ensuring that multiple / complex products across an estate are protected through quantifiable test coverage & metrics.

Job Description

QA Engineering

•  Proactively contribute & participate in the full solution development lifecycle as a member of a squad / multiple squads as the automation testing expert
•  Participate and analyze requirements during the requirements analysis phase of technical product & service development, maintenance & optimization (across tribes & squads)
•  Identify opportunities for automation across the business area’s suite of technical products & services (ongoing)
•  Leverage a solid understanding of the technical solution architecture and infrastructure context to create relevant & holistic automation testing frameworks based on the analysis & opportunities identified
•  Develop and execute automated test scripts using various technologies
•  Be the single point of accountability for testing & testing frameworks, the integrity of their design & their ability to holistically test solutions
•  Provide testing at various levels including: vetting unit tests (for developers), testing user stories, black box testing, scalability and end to end integration testing
•  Align testing frameworks and scripts to User Stories
•  Apply predictive and critical thinking in defining testing parameters (positive & negative)
•  Execute automated test suites and Analyze test results.
•  Develop custom Quality Assurance Metrics and reporting solutions.
•  Leverage solid understanding of CI/CD pipeline to configure test scripts & associated frameworks & integrate test suites into the test management system and custom test harnesses.
•  Create, coordinate, and execute manual application test cases and test plans
•  Review functional specs and user stories to design test cases/scripts and test plans.
•  Create and analyze test data.
•  Collaboratively work with developers to implement test hooks for automation.
•  Operate as a self-starter and possess the technical aptitude in troubleshooting both software and environment issues.
•  Set product delivery goals and achieve scheduled deadlines.
•  Work in ambiguous environments and have the technical curiosity to dig deep into the root of complex issues between multiple software and system layers.
•  Research, self-develop & source new automation testing tools & techniques

DevOps

•  Follow engineering best practices and provide technical mentorship to other team members
•  Build product engineer capability in automation testing technologies & general automation testing awareness
•  Leverage expertise in various coding languages to effectively design & deploy testing requirements for specific products / services
•  Understand the full technical solution that is being tested – show interest and capability to run the technical solution & the ability to test the viability of the code being developed
•  Shift team from testing features to supporting & being accountable for full product delivery

People

•  Develop others capability in developing and executing automated test scripts using various technologies
•  Mentor & guide interns & junior automation engineers throughout their development journeys
•  Quality assure the automation testing & manual testing deliverables of the broader technical teams
•  Conduct peer / junior QA engineer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader QA community
•  Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of QA Engineers for the organization
•  Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team

Risk & Governance

•  Ensure compliance with the organization Service Engineering, Risk & Governance policies & practices related to development & testing
•  Align all testing frameworks and scripts to Group Architecture and Security guidelines
•  Carry the ‘one stop shop’ accountability for all risk associated with testing design failures following solution deployment
•  Participate in Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Incident Management processes and proactively route cause analyse, mitigate & OR; resolve critical incidents
•  Realign testing frameworks, monitoring tool application & scripts off the back of any risk related activity / incidents

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• To provide specialist value added service and solutions to customers to meet business growth in Trade Finance and International Banking by customer acquisition, retention and facilitating internal and external relationships across stakeholder touch points.

Job Description

In this role your key accountabilities will include:

• Identify and review client needs so as to provide advice and deliver products and services by maintaining a strong relationship with clients and stakeholders.
• Resolve client issues appropriately and escalate those unable to resolve to the respective banker or Regional Sales Manager
• Identify market and industry trends, by analyzing sector research, economic periodicals and industry journals and advise CIB stakeholders and clients on these.
• Regularly identify and review client needs so as to provide advice and deliver product
• and services by maintaining strong relationship with customers and being solution oriented
• Establish relationships with potential clients and pursue opportunities to expand International banking business for the related segment/sector
• Contract new business opportunities by identifying current and new clients for expansion in transaction volumes and value extraction through cross selling of products or services.
• Grow own client portfolio by attracting new clients through participating in promotions, at and sales initiatives in order to achieve and exceed contracted sales targets.
• Negotiate and close deals with customers to realize the set International Banking targets. Initiate and implement transactions to meet International Banking targets.
• Identify, establish and nurture internal stakeholder relationships through introduction, presentations and regular feedback and networking.
• Optimise external customer relationships to maximise business opportunities and enhance the positioning of International Banking through visibility marketing activities and active participation in relevant forums.
• Conduct sales within statutory and regulatory requirements, as well as through strict application of Absa policies and procedures.
• Engage with clients to keep them abreast with regulatory requirements (e.g. Exchange Control Sanctions and money laundering), whilst maintain a solutioning approach to their needs.

Send in your application if you have;

• A B Degree in Commerce or equivalent
• 4 years General Banking experience (advantage)
• 4 years International Banking / Trade Finance advisory experience.

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE SPECIFIC BUSINESS UNIT:

• Absa Valuation department consists of Inland and Coastal Valuations. Inland oversee all the inland valuation areas and Coastal all Coastal valuations and is based respectively in Pretoria and Cape Town. The team is responsible for interacting with the team members as well as the bigger Sales and Enablement environment ensuring we place the client first in everything we do.  We are striving to keep valuation technology 1st class to be the best in the market and housing the nation.

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:

•     Coordinate the residential valuation activities in the region by interpreting and translating available management information, and implement corrective actions and processes if required to address gaps.
•     Manages building loan matters within the residential property environment and provides technical expertise.

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manages External Valuation Companies regarding Performance, Quality and TAT to align with ABSA Smart vision and  strategy
• Manages and maintain trustworthy and reliable  relationships with all internal Stakeholders and focus on driving new business
• All physical valuations, Desktop and AVM valuation
• Building projects, solution finding when disputes arises
• Analyze Risk Payments for approval/decline where applicable
• Analyze all second opinions requests to ensure correct Market Value is given
• Manages all New Developments regarding market value and TAT and disputes including interaction with developers where necessary
• Investigate all IBT (Innovative  Building Technology) requests – for acceptable lending on ABSA book
• Ensure the correct HOC replacement value is provided to ABSA Insurance
• Keep up to date on the latest Residential Market trends and movement  to ensure good knowledge and security for lending purposes
• MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
• Essential 
• Relevant B. Degree or equivalent NQF level 7 qualification
• Registration as a Professional/Associated Professional Valuer with the South African Council for the Property Valuers Profession.
• At least 10 years’ experience in building and construction industry and or related discipline.
• At least 3 years’ experience in practicing as a professional Valuer without restrictions in the residential and commercial field.

Valid driver’s license
Preferred 

• Hons Bachelor’s Degree in Property Science or Construction Management or equivalent NQF level 8 qualification
• At least 2 years’ experience in of ABSA systems or other financial institution.
• At least 3 years’ experience at a managerial level.
• WHAT’S ON OFFER:
• Team work makes the Dream Work
• Providing correct market related Residential valuation on which several ABSA products and offerings are reliant on for example Young Professionals
• Responsible to drive Valuations to completed stage to assist in reaching sales targets

Education

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

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

• Bring your talent and skills to our Award Winning team, and take your career to the next level.
• Absa Access is a Pan-African, single sign-on platform that gives clients standardised, secure, and near real-time access to their business portfolios and the banking services. This enables them to make informed decisions to drive the growth of their businesses, managing their finances with the speed and intelligence that the platform provides.
• You will work on the award winning Absa Access Online platform, comprising of a core framework that offers services and an extensible application environment. The platform is underpinned primarily by .Net Core micro-services, a message bus and open source technologies, deployed via Kubernetes, into a cloud-hosted environment.

Job Description

The Absa Access team within CIB Digital Tech is looking for a .Net Core Developer to join our dynamic team on a contract basis.

Competencies – What are the specific competencies required? 

• Min 5 years development experience
• Tertiary education in Computer Science or related field
• .Net Core experience (Linux)
• Experience working on databases,  PostgrSQL and or MongoDB experience advantageous
• Good understanding of scrum and agile practices
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Flexible about working with new methodologies and technologies
• A solid understanding of OOP principles
• SOLID design principles
• Design patterns experience
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• Good understanding of C# technology
• Experience using ORM’s such as Entity Framework or NHibernate
• Experience of WCF technology (advantageous)
• Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) (advantageous)

Outputs – What are the key performance areas and daily responsibilities? 

• Build reusable software components and libraries for future use across multiple projects
• Design, code, test, debug and document software according to the functional requirements
• Analyse, diagnose and resolve errors related to their applications
• Keep abreast of technical and industry developments
• Work closely with developers and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction

Deliverables – What end result needs to be achieved? 

We deliver a wide range of Digital products (which includes mobile-, web applications and APIs) This opportunity will span across Corporate, Investment, Client and Colleague based projects with the ultimate deliverable being to implement new solutions.

*12 month contract

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised

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Job Summary

Specialist .Net Core Developer for CIB Digital Tech, based in Cape Town. 

• Bring your talent and skills to our Award Winning team, and take your career to the next level.
• Absa Access is a Pan-African, single sign-on platform that gives clients standardised, secure, and near real-time access to their business portfolios and the banking services. This enables them to make informed decisions to drive the growth of their businesses, managing their finances with the speed and intelligence that the platform provides.
• You will work on the award winning Absa Access Online platform, comprising of a core framework that offers services and an extensible application environment. The platform is underpinned primarily by .Net Core micro-services, a message bus and open source technologies, deployed via Kubernetes, into a cloud-hosted environment.

Job Description

Competencies – What are the specific competencies required? 

• Min 5 years development experience
• Tertiary education in Computer Science or related field
• .Net Core experience (Linux)
• Experience working on databases,  PostgrSQL and or MongoDB experience advantageous
• Good understanding of scrum and agile practices
• Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Flexible about working with new methodologies and technologies
• A solid understanding of OOP principles
• SOLID design principles
• Design patterns experience
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools
• Good understanding of C# technology
• Experience using ORM’s such as Entity Framework or NHibernate
• Experience of WCF technology (advantageous)
• Domain Driven Design (DDD) and Test Driven Development (TDD) (advantageous)

Outputs – What are the key performance areas and daily responsibilities? 

• Build reusable software components and libraries for future use across multiple projects
• Design, code, test, debug and document software according to the functional requirements
• Analyse, diagnose and resolve errors related to their applications
• Keep abreast of technical and industry developments
• Work closely with developers and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction

Deliverables – What end result needs to be achieved? 

We deliver a wide range of Digital products (which includes mobile-, web applications and APIs) This opportunity will span across Corporate, Investment, Client and Colleague based projects with the ultimate deliverable being to implement new solutions.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised