Latest Jobs at Absa

Job Summary

• To maintain a customer relationship portfolio of major customers in respect of their business requirements including maximizing customer sales, service and profit performance in the Absa businesses.

Job Description

Sales

• Achieve individual product sales targets on the Absa Investment management services platform
• Manage personal sales activity in line with business requirements
• Relationship Management 
• Establish and maintain professional relationships through networking with industry leaders, regulators and policy makers as well as business partners that are key in the development of new ventures
• Apply for membership at relevant industry bodies as agreed with the line management to build relationships with key players in the industry
• Host regular and relevant functions (as agreed with line management) to socialize new products and sell existing offerings
• Manage the relationship with key regional stakeholders ( i.e. Regional Manager) through networking in the region to ensure optimal value add of business development
• Through established relations with corporate clients and brokerages ensure the continuous enhancement and improvement of customer retention initiatives to reduce account closure rates
• Sustain and uphold already established relationships with existing clients by visiting, answering queries, or by analyzing financial situation and business requirements of clients, so as to support and link the client with value added products or create awareness as to ABSA solution offerings
• Coordinate client functions on an ad-hoc basis in order to create general awareness of ABSA offerings. Act as a conduit and be the national relationship manager between 3rd party clients in order to ensure delivery of superior customer experience and achievement of set goals.

Business Development 

• Understand customer needs in order to propose offerings fit for the market by analyzing relevant supply/demand industry trends and/patterns
• Stay abreast of developments and changes in the market by identifying business opportunities in the market that align to the business unit strategy
• Identify product and/solution gaps in the market and recommend corrective action to address the gaps to relevant internal key delivery areas
• Define target market and deliver on long term growth and sales targets by means of bulk acquisitions, specific business development interventions such as presentations to clients

Education

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: 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

• An exciting role that focuses on improving the Fraud Operations “Ways of Working”. Effectively, “Fixing” broken processes and system as well as “Building” capability for effective Fraud detection, preventions and recovery of bank and or customer funds.
• This specialist role allows a colleague to work independently, with a measure of autonomy, work in a multi- disciplinary team within Fraud Solutions and across various Products and Channels. The Colleague will play a crucial part in understanding the continuously changing fraud modus operandi used by fraudsters and creatively review and enhance “Ways of Working” to mitigate these fraud attacks.
• This role will advise Fraud Solutions on digital innovation and latest trends in the market to combat fraud, introduce efficiencies and alignment with relevant standards and policies. In this role, you will have an opportunity to influence both Fraud Solutions and the various Products and Channels teams on changes in operations and thus address Fraud Solutions needs.

Job Description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The high level duties of the role:

• Serve as subject matter expert across all fraud types and channels
• Assess business performance against Key Value Drivers and introduce business change to steer business towards strategic objective
• Critically evaluate fraud modus operandi and assess control weaknesses for enhancement
• Drive control enhancement intervention to improve fraud detection and preventions rates
• Identify opportunities to improve fraud control to mitigate fraud losses and negative customer experience
• Continuously review the fraud recoveries value chain to enhance the rate of recoveries.
• Continuously review the fraud investigations capabilities to improve the ‘ways of working’
• Assess and improve the fraud execution tools to enhance operational execution.
• Investigate and perform needs analysis by interviewing product or business process owners.
• Provide Subject Matter Expertise to system users who request changes for all systems in use in the department. Support their understanding of the dependencies and interfaces between systems and to help them identify and use existing functionality as far as possible before pursuing new development.
• Continuously assess the efficiency of systems and processes in place in the department and make detailed recommendations to business process owners and product managers on how to improve, what the savings would be and possible implementation approaches.
• Analyse the impact of proposed changes on processes, systems, people, methods and controls and advice stakeholders of the identified impact and proposed solutions for conflicts or risk issues.
• Participate in cross-functional project teams to support operational improvement initiatives resulting in business operations efficiency and improvement.
• Support line managers with the process changes and improvements within a business unit.
• Build and foster sound working relationships with all business stakeholders.
• Guide, motivate and support staff during business processes changes and business efficiency initiatives.
• Ensure that processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks relating to enhancements and or changes to systems, processes and procedures are managed within governance.
• Manage the successful integration of new systems by complying with Absa Bank policy, processes and standards.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• Relevant degree or equivalent NQF level 7 qualification
• At least 3-5 years Fraud experience in a Banking environment
• Project management training ⁄ qualification relevant technology qualification
• At least 3-5 years’ experience in Fraud systems management and/or Fraud process optimization or enhancement

WHAT’S ON OFFER:

Great Team environment

• Autonomy to produce excellent results and delight colleagues and customers.
• Opportunity to influence and interact with senior management
• Work in a multi –disciplinary environment
• Opportunity to discover and learn

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

• Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade Platform services & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver against business requirements at an optimal cost to serve.

Job Description

• The incumbent would be expected to perform maintenance work on existing code
• Also expected to enhance or/and perform tune existing code
• Be engaged in improving integration and quality there off – to increase delivery guarantees
• Also, to consider and embed best engineering self-healing and optimization capabilities.
• Business operational support with customer queries on data and integration queries.
• Can also be assigned to develop new code/services as required and directed by lead.
• People skills: Team player, ability to work alone, mentoring

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 complex specialist advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist risk product expertise.

Job Description

• Strategy Formulation and Execution: Development and implementation of strategy | People Management: Develop a high performing Team | Stakeholder and Relationship Management: Management of Stakeholders | Risk and Control: Adherence to Policies, Procedures and Regulations | Financial Management: Management of Budgets | : Key reporting and analysis | : | :

Education

• Bachelor Honours Degree: Statistics (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

• 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

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

• Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

Job Description

DevOps

•  Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions
•  Contribute to and in some cases lead all phases of the development lifecycle including e.g. design process
•  Determine operational feasibility of solutions by evaluating analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development and proposed solutions
•  Develop high quality software / application design and architecture in a test driven & domain driven / cross domain environment
•  Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
•  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
•  Create & Maintain Sophisticated CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / Azure Devops or similar tools and deploy to multi-site environments – supporting and managing your applications all the way to production)
•  Use & configure modern observability techniques to provide a deeper understanding of the application. To do this, leverage e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRelic and distributed tracing like Zipkin/Jaeger etc.
•  Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
•  Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
•  Work with guilds and other technical SME’s to improve and evolve technical products and services
•  Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation and verification testing (apply knowledge of stubbing tools e.g. wiremock, hoverfly etc.)
•  Apply version control and related concepts and techniques
•  Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture, Security & Infrastructure guidelines
•  Work with project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
•  Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
•  Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices e.g. scripting languages, containerization etc.
•  Contribute to the design & evolution of Group Architecture, Infrastructure & associated technical standards for the organization

People
 Coach & mentor other engineers

•  Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
•  Provide technical subject matter expertise and support in the attraction and recruitment of Product Engineers for the organization
•  Participate as a subject matter expert in the development & development planning of the broader product engineering team
•  Support the people change teams in the design of adoption processes (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party Adoption)
• 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

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