New Job Openings at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

• Sales Trader to be responsible for effecting complex transactions related to capital and derivative market investments and related financial instruments yielding a regular fixed return, e.g. trade bond and fixed income products, forward rate agreements, interest rate swaps, cross currency swaps/options and currency derivatives.  
• This opportunity in the Global Markets team is suited to a degreed candidate with 3-5 years Institutional Rates Sales Trading experience.

Education

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

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Job Description

• Project Management: Monitors the progression of a project at every stage and ensure that the objectives of a project are meet 
• 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 
• Ensure that timelines are met: Manage team in such a way that deadlines are met 
• Stakeholder management: Ensure that stakeholders are identified and engaged 

Education

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

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Job Description

Devops & Support

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills to solve technical problems on existing applications
• Implement all configuration, optimization (e.g. upgrades) & maintenance activity (e.g. regular maintenance patches) for enterprise wide applications
• Provide efficient and effective support of applications including continued development of the application and security, software patches, reliability, disaster recovery and ensure the application meets the business needs
• Schedule and oversee planned maintenance tasks, such as backups and performance tuning, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
• Maintain correct and current application documentation and making it available to application users
• Oversee application implementation and configuration, patches, upgrades and maintenance, and ensure that application performance meets agreed SLAs and OLAs
• Ensure minimal business operations impact due to upgrades and maintenance activities
• Coordinate and execute unplanned maintenance tasks, such as disaster recovery procedures, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
• Manage applications throughout their lifecycle and assist in the application-related aspects of designing, testing, operating and improving technology products & services services
• Coordinate & communicate across Tribes & Squads (all businesses) to successfully complete application upgrades
• Coordinate with infrastructure & architecture teams to ensure that the impact of system / platform migrations on applications is minimised
• Develop and maintain knowledge in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes
• Develop sufficient knowledge of application infrastructure (server, network, security) & broader organization architecture to assist with application upgrades and troubleshoot issues
• Compile and maintain inventory of applications and related details
• Manage and provide support aligned to all SLA’s
• Develop the skills required to operate and maintain the technical products & services (applications)
• Ensure that a backup system for applications and files associated with business operations is in place
• Advise on software installation and upgrades, troubleshoot problems and provide resolutions.
• Work with Information Security teams to define and implement access permissions for applications
• Develop and maintain expertise in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes.
• Receive and screen user programming requests for new applications or modifications, and determine appropriate priority and response.
• Develop and communicate training and documentation for end users.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders and customers, external solution providers, and IT stakeholders for application support specific requirements
• Develop and / or assist with the development and / or execution of project plans for application upgrades
• Provide input to current and future application requirements to meet the organization's needs
• Prepare assessments for proposed applications, projects, and define appropriate integration and access requirements
• Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement
• Identify and recommend application improvement to enhance capability and performance, and minimize costs.
• Ensure that application users are aware of the application capabilities for enabling their effective use
• Assess vendor proposals for appropriateness and compliance with organization and industry standards.
• Participate in development of Requests for Proposals (RFP) and vendor evaluation and contract management for IT applications services.
• Supervise and maintain the organization's repository of applications
• Help diagnose problems and resolve incidents / issues related to applications.
• Validate the known error database for application-related entries
• Work with Tech Centres of Enablement to define the operational activities related to the applications

Application Monitoring & Performance Management

• Monitor application modification requests and ensure best practices are being utilised
• Conduct diagnostic investigations of program errors, and implement or recommend solutions or methodologies for resolution.
• Maintain metrics of operational performance and evaluate trends
• Analyse business systems to determine effectiveness, identify inadequacies, inefficiencies and problems and recommend solutions

Governance, Risk & Control

• Enhance methods and procedures for collecting, analysing, and documenting application issues, and completing user change requests.
• Enhance IT processes for transitioning completed configurations from development to production.
• Plan and coordinate the processes for the provision of user applications and systems necessary for business operations.
• Define and maintain application assessment, development, and support standards, and work with other IT and business stakeholders to establish configuration and use guidelines.
• Provide inputs to availability and capacity management process for effective planning.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Must be Salesforce Certified on App Builder
• 4+ years of experience in the Salesforce platform
• Extensive integration experience 

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Description

• The Business Manager in Global Markets will provide end-to-end support to the relevant head/s of Sales and Structuring in the areas of operations, project and process management, execution, and strategy. The successful candidate should have a results driven mindset to translate business needs and requirements, and leverage across FO and Infrastructure teams to assess issues, quantify their impact and put forward solutions to senior individuals and committees within the bank. Critical to the success of the role is an individual that has working experience within an Investment Bank, ideally with exposure to Global Markets systems, market risk, credit risk, finance, product control, legal and valuation topics. High analytics and MI reporting capability essential.

Education

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

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Job Description

Devops & Support

• Apply problem solving skills to solve technical problems on existing applications
• Take ownership for developing advanced design thinking and problem solving skills in preparation for greater complexity / changing / evolving tech
• Implement configuration, optimization (e.g. upgrades) & maintenance activity (e.g. regular maintenance patches) for enterprise wide applications
• Schedule and oversee planned maintenance tasks, such as backups and performance tuning, in production for tech products & Services
• Provide inputs into application documentation for end users
• Leverage application documentation to guide users through application support processes
• Leverage knowledge gained on support / trouble shooting processes to make recommendations for user documentation and or application changes / enhancements
• Execute unplanned maintenance tasks, such as disaster recovery procedures, for production IT services to prevent and to minimize issues
• Follow governance & risk procedures for all application support e.g. upgrades, maintenance etc.
• Work as part of an integrated application / product / service team throughout their lifecycle and assist in the application-related aspects of designing, testing, operating and improving technology products & services
• Identify stakeholder & communication dependencies / interdependencies & requirements in all application support processes & ensure these are followed prior to any application support implementation
• Proactively identify any risks ahead of application support processes e.g. changes, optimization, maintenance, batch uploads etc.
• Develop and maintain knowledge in application functionality, user workflow, and business processes to improve level of support provision on an ongoing basis
• Develop sufficient knowledge of application infrastructure (server, network, security) to improve application support inputs
• Compile and maintain inventory of applications and related details
• Meet all SLA requirements associated with application support being provided
• Follow identified risk, governance & control procedures for all application support provided e.g. backup, documentation etc.
• Maintain awareness of application risks and opportunities for improvement

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

• Must be Salesforce Certified on App Builder
• 2+ years of experience in the Salesforce platform
• Extensive integration experience 

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

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Job Description

• Responsible for FX sales making investment decisions, monitoring risk and reconciling profit and loss on day-to-day basis. Expected to have a robust dialogue with the dealer community, leveraging market color, opinions and liquidity

Education

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

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Job Description

Platform Engineering, Deployment & Optimisation

• Leverage platform engineering expertise & a working knowledge of specific platforms and their constituent parts to positively contribute to platform feature and service designs
• Take accountability for deeply understanding & building expertise on the platform, the platform contribution to the broader platform strategy & business and customer requirements & all available technologies
• Develop business & customer aligned, lasting & innovative platform feature sets
• Positively contribute to, define & implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases.
• Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects.
• Leverage platform (service design & code) & engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects
• Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions
• Identify & Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
• Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
• Apply object orientated design in development & draw from a large base of design patterns
• Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
• Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design & development that is simple, elegant, and useful.
• Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage & improve these for future solution design and deployment
• Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral
• Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform
• Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality & ongoing quality assurance of the product/service’s in use, and take appropriate action to resolve issues throughout the lifecycle of the product or service
• Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs
• Drive & implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others
• Apply expertise in engineering & available technologies to enable effective review processes
• Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team
• Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
• Continuously review & find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities
• Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability – ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
• Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams
• Demonstrate knowledge of, identify & find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area
• Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions
• Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job).
• Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making
• Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions.
• Synthesize data from multiple sources and present & define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets

Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk & Governance

• Understand the platform cost model & the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency & effectiveness objectives
• Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
• Apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change & release etc.), governance, compliance & regulatory standards and frameworks
• Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
• Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks

Accountability: People

• Proactively & effectively (time & quality) collaborate & drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem resolution outside of own area etc.)
• Apply collaboration skills in development practices & issue resolution regardless of team boundaries & lead communication with relevant stakeholders through to conclusion
• Contribute to a high performance team environment & culture as a high performing member of a self-directed team aligned to agile working
• Leverage coaching techniques in all team related activity to drive a higher quality service, design and deployment of technical solutions.
• Proactively seek & provide feedback across a range of stakeholders for the benefit of the team & leverage feedback to consistently improve platform solution delivery
• Coach & mentor other engineers & support engineering teams on technical solutions and problem resolution & proactively seek coaching & mentoring from others
• Participate in peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
• Cascade platform performance feedback and ensure capability development across teams to enable efficient & effective platform service delivery
• Drive the design of content, tools & materials for strategy alignment, education & adoption processes to be applied across stakeholder groups

Experience Required

• Minimum of 5 years experience in Active Directory
• Experience in the Identity space with a background in Active Directory or similar LDAP stores. 
• Expert knowledge of authentication with SAML, OAuth, OpenID and Kerberos 
• Experience knowledge in providing Federated Identity with solutions such as PING Federate or ADFS 
• Prior experience in providing RBAC solutions for clouds solutions (e.g. Azure) 
• Experience scripting and automation abilities including PowerShell. 
• Engage and advise stakeholders within the business on Identity and Access Management best practices. 
• Define, improve and support Active Directory, Azure Active Directory and Privileged Access Management within the organization. 
• Working knowledge of Azure Active Directory Connect synchronization software. 

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (Required)

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Job Description

• Income Growth and Financial Targets: Ensure a deep understanding of client's working capital cycle and business needs to provide appropriate solutions. Drive achievement of targets as per individual scorecard.    
• Customer Focus: Proactively drive acquisition and cross-sell initiatives through re-engagement processes. Ensure service and complaints resolution are within acceptable service level agreements. 
• Compliance and Risk Management: Fulfil all activities in adherence to relevant control and compliance requirements, and quality standards.  
• Collaboration: Constantly seek to improve ways of working by challenging the status quo and supporting an empowering climate within the team, sharing knowledge, experience, best practice and providing constructive feedback as required.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: 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)