Job Opportunities at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the provision of sound operations and administration services. Selecting this role has a compensation & benefit impact in Kenya. Please contact Reward for details.

Job Description

• Specialist expertise and support: Provide specialist operations expertise, support and guidance to address operational issues in the business
• Change programmes: Play the role of SME on operational change and efficiency programmes
• Continuous improvement: Continuously identify and give input on ways to improve operations in the business
•  Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards 
• Administration: Ensure the effective fulfilment of all required administrative duties, including tracking and reporting

Education

• National Certificate: Project Management (Required)

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Job Summary

An exciting role has opened within CIB (Treasury) - Treasury Finance Performance Analyst (RoA)

Overall Job purpose:

• we require an energetic, analytical, self-starter candidate to assist in this process. The role is deadline driven requiring management of multiple deliverables. The candidate must be solution driven, customer centric, accountable and analytical. The candidate will provide support to multiple stakeholders in and out of country

Job Description

These activities would include

• Reporting on the financial impact of these FTP models as well as the capital, funding, liquidity, ALM and investment activities.
• Reporting on actual results as well as creating forecast financials and reporting on variances against the different financial plans.
• Running FTP models (understanding curves, product profiles and cluster balance sheets)
• ALM decomposition and explain
• Notional Interest calculation and engagement with Segments

Exposure for candidates will include, but not limited to, interaction with the treasurers and businesses as well as finance and risk functions, both on a local and regional level.

Performance Reporting

• Check, consolidate and upload data to produce Daily management information.
• Reconcile submissions to the sub ledger.
• Calculate and upload the budget and prior year data to use for comparison against actuals.
• Reconcile all performance management information to the general ledger at month end and investigate and resolve variances.
• Check, complete and submit the Daily Flash when required and ensure that significant variances have relative commentary.
• Execute all required changes to the hierarchy.
• Assist in producing and sourcing data for special data requests and adhoc information reports.
• Management of the Planning for Treasury cycles ( STP, MTP and RAF)

Financial Systems, Analysis Tools and Models

• Use and maintain all management systems and tools.
• Do all required UAT testing on new management system developments.

Team membership

• Strive to deliver work that is of a high quality.
• Continuously communicate with your manager and team members.
• Ensure your goals are aligned to those of your team and manager.

Business Management

• Maintain appropriate key controls in line with Absa requirements.
• Complete all compliance training.
• Engagement with key stakeholders

Education And Experience Required

• NQF Level: NQF Level 7: Honours/Masters Degree
• Qualifications Required (Essential) – Bcom Accounts
• CA(SA)
• Preferred 4-5 Yrs. Financial Reporting Experience.

Knowledge & Skills:

Essential

• Report Writing Level: Do and Instruct
• Analysis Level: Do without Supervision
• Financial Management Level: Do without Supervision
• Negotiation skills Level: Do without Supervision
• MS Office Advanced Level: Do without Supervision
• Stakeholder Management Level: Do without Supervision
• Communication - Written & Verbal Level: Do without Supervision
• Project work for Treasury Finance: Do without Supervision

Preferred

• Compass: Level: Do without Supervision
• Analyst Report Tool Level: Do without Supervision
• Management Packs: Do without supervision

Competencies

• Leading and supervising

Analysing

• Relating and networking
• Coping with pressure and setbacks
• Presenting and communicating information
• Planning and organising
• Persuading and influencing
• Writing and reporting

Education

1. Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)

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Job Summary

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Description

Accountability: Model development (50%)

• Develop models in-house through sound methodologies and statistical analysis.
• Enhancing existing models already in place.
• Proficiency in SAS coding essential
• Ensuring model build data are of sufficient quality, completing statistical data analysis and producing detailed model build documentation while conforming to the governance structures
• Ensure successful implementation of models by assisting the model implementation team through answering technical questions around the model workings (inputs to the model, calculations performed, etc.) and with testing (comparing implementation results with documented model) to ensure the model is implemented correctly
• Develop theoretical understanding and practical application of models through model building and application experience.
• 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. This includes responding to Independent Review questions and reworking the model build to include issues raised.
• Provide and detail appropriateness of models.
• Perform and report impact analysis, including that of model updates.
• Ensure model compliance with Absa Group governance standards by following and adhering to standards.
• Enhance model usage through strategy and policy recommendations to the Credit Risk team.

Accountability: Stakeholder management (25%):

• 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.
• Present impacts of model updates / model refreshes
• Generate appropriate challenge on model builds from around the cluster by discussing model build detail and ideas.
• Manage key stakeholders across the business by ensuring their issues, objectives and priorities are reflected in the agreed solutions.
• Explaining methodologies and data feeds to validators and auditors.
• Develop and maintain relationships with relevant business units by understanding the business units' requirements and obtaining feedback.
• Contribute to the development of a high-performance culture.
• Participate in planning, resource allocation, training and team-building functions.

Accountability: Consultancy (10%)

• Compile trend analysis for "AS IS" and "TO BE" scenarios by statistically comparing different scenarios. Use these analyses to make recommendations around next steps or decisions to be taken.
• Support business forecasting and extrapolations by assisting in analyses as required by business.

Accountability: Governance and Adherence (10%)

• Provide general consultancy for credit risk matters within the cluster, including validation and challenge models.
• Ensure best practice modelling techniques are in place by liaising with other Absa SBU’s and consulting with strategy software suppliers.

Accountability: Continuous self-development and growth (5%)

• Stay abreast of knowledge and skills relevant to the level and area of work, and actively seek to attain those required for the next level of work.
• Improve corporate performance by considering influencing events, quantifying the impact on corporate performance and proactively finding solutions.
• Perform all other duties as reasonably assigned.

Education

• Bachelor Honours Degree: Actuarial Science, Bachelor Honours Degree: Applied Mathematics, Bachelor Honours Degree: BMI - Business Management and Informatics, Bachelor Honours Degree: Statistics (Required)

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Job Summary

Deliver day-to-day knowledge work, in order to execute predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Job Description

Accountability: Sales Targets - 70%

Outputs to deliver this accountability:

• Execute action plans in order to meet the agreed and contracted Application, Final grant and Registration targets as per Performance Development plans.
• Prospect for potential direct customers and sources using various methods such as networking
• Engage with existing customers, identified through the relevant lead generation process, to establish possible re-mortgage needs and provide advice on mortgage lending.
• Travel to and meet with prospective customers or sources, at a place and time of their convenience, providing mortgage customer solutions, assisting in completing and submitting the application with all required
• Manage and track all submitted deals into the Production Centre by following the prescribed CCC (Customer Care Centre) tracking process and keep the customer and source informed of the progress and/or status of applications

Accountability: Relationship Management 10%

Outputs to deliver this accountability:

• Manage and network with external customers and sources to increase sales intake, grants and registrations
• Interact with external sources and liaise with Key Account Managers regarding developers to sign them up as Lead Generators in order to increase sources of business

Accountability: Governance 10%

Outputs to deliver this accountability:

• Ensure that all business secured complies with the governance and compliance framework.
• Report any suspicious transaction and/or client to the Risk and Compliance

Accountability: Customer Service 10%

Outputs to deliver this accountability:

• Provide superior customer service by proactively and timeously obtaining outstanding documentation to ensure complete applications
• Ensure that any query or complaint received from a customer is resolved within 24 hours of receipt and ensure continuous feedback to the customer

Education

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

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Job Summary

Support high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade application design & development in agile teams by producing, testing, documenting & reviewing source code.

Job Description

DevOps

• Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle
• Interpret analysis, problem definition & business requirements to identify solution requirements (e.g. features)
• Produce well-organised and documented source code for technical solutions
• Apply technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability, testability, scalability & resilience in code development
• Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
• Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
• Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
• Study & apply Group Architecture & Infrastructure guidelines to all development work
• Support reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve existing knowledge & skill in preparation for exposure to Automation, Integration, Messaging, CI/CD etc.
• Update, create and appropriately store application documentation & technical specifications

Risk & Governance

• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology