Absa Group

QA Engineer

• Drive automation testing frameworks and plans
• Lead development and delivery of test scripts
• Ensure quantifiable test coverage
• Collaborate with developers to implement automation
• Analyze requirements and develop testing strategies

Lead QA Engineer

Risk

• Prepare daily / monthly deposit insurance reporting for submission to CoDI.
• Prepare responses to queries raised by CoDI.
• Prepare other internal management information reports to monitor, manage and mitigate data quality risk.
• Prepare management information dashboards / packs for committee meetings.
• Drive and deliver deposit insurance data quality and process optimisation initiatives.
• Perform detailed analysis on key depositor insurance data.
• Develop an internal network within Absa Bank.
• Provide support for meetings with auditors, ratings agencies and other parties as required.
• Assist with production of presentations on topics related to depositor insurance and liquidity risk.

Liquidity Risk Analyst

Analyst

• Support the credit risk process through carrying out comprehensive and quality credit risk functions within the credit lifecycle.
• Develop and implement data-driven risk strategies to enhance portfolio performance.
• Source, consolidate, and analyse large datasets using SAS, identifying key trends, patterns, and anomalies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders including Sales, IT, Front-End, Collections, Finance, and Risk teams.
• Support New Product Development through analytical input and product refinement assessments.
• Identify gaps in acquisition strategies and recommend improvements to optimise processes.
• Present analytical findings and strategic recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and post-implementation monitoring to ensure effectiveness of strategy changes.
• Produce and analyse monthly MI reports, providing clear, insight-driven commentary on key risk indicators.
• Identify areas of concern and develop actionable remediation plans.
• Communicate insights effectively to a diverse stakeholder audience.
• Facilitate strategy approval and sign-off processes, ensuring alignment and awareness across the business.
• Work closely with operational teams to ensure strategies perform optimally.
• Ensure all strategies comply with credit risk policies and relevant frameworks.
• Investigate and resolve escalated customer complaints efficiently and fairly.

Credit Risk Analyst – Home Loans, Property Risk and Analytics

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Partner with the Regional Head of FSSA to manage, grow and lead teams engaged on finance operations across Finance Shared Services in Africa.
• Align the strategy to complement the Functional and Operational strategy and provide an environment for growth and development of the operational model.
• Develop a sustainable relationship model between the FSSA and the stakeholder teams especially the Finance Executive, Senior Finance Business Partners and their teams.
• Drive key strategic and operational projects.
• Identify, own and drive automation and transformation programs.

Head of Finance Operations

• Provide expert, holistic financial planning and advisory services
• Manage and grow an existing client portfolio (if applicable)
• Proactively source and convert new business opportunities
• Deliver tailored investment, risk, and insurance solutions
• Maintain long-term client relationships through exceptional service
• Ensure full compliance with FAIS and regulatory requirements
• Stay informed on market trends and product developments

Experienced Financial Adviser – FAIS Fit & Proper

Sales

• Grow the Absa customer base through acquisition
• Increase customer profitability in identified portfolio
• Contribute to branch’s sales targets

Sales Consultant – FAIS

• Support the development and execution of credit innovation initiatives aligned to business and customer strategy.
• Analyse customer, operational, and credit performance data to identify improvement and innovation opportunities.
• Monitor product and process performance to identify optimisation opportunities and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Perform advanced data analysis on customer behavior, product performance, and credit risk metrics.
• Develop dashboards, reports, and visualizations to support product development and strategic decision-making.
• Identify trends, patterns, and anomalies in credit data to inform product enhancements and innovation opportunities.
• Conduct market research, competitor benchmarking, and customer analysis.

Credit Innovation Analyst

• Provide specialist advise and support in the generation and provision of reliable business intelligence
• Assist in the development and Implementation of the Retail and Business Banking performance Management process
• Support the RBB Resourcing and Development Officer to ensure that monitoring tools developed are applied
• Embed the importance of data integrity
• Analyse MI for Retail and Business Banking and Provide recommendations for improvement
• Champion initiatives across Retail and Business Banking via relevant MI generation

M.I. Analyst

Data Analyst

• Reporting to Head, Data Analytics – Retail and Business Banking, the Data Analyst has the responsibility of providing daily accurate information on business direction through planning and driving MI processes interpretation of business performance data both financial and non-financial for Retail and Business Banking and continually reviews and analyze operational cost efficiencies.
• Develop and Monitor Data in Retail and Business Banking.
• Collect and submit key KPI for Retail and Business Banking.
• Coordinate communication cascades and escalate feedback to the Head, Data Analytics.
• Innovate Data through usage of available tools
• Prepare performance review packs and make presentations to relevant users of Data
• Convene stakeholder meetings to ventilate emerging Data
• Review, Refresh or Re-engineer Analytics outputs in a constantly changing Data environment and identify areas where improvements are needed
• Develop and design performance dashboards and automate them for seamless reporting

Data Engineer

• Manage an assigned team through day-to-day support tasks
• Oversee development plans for the team and provide mentorship to the team
• Provide guidance and peer review
• Support pipelines end to end
• Build and deploy enhancements and new developments or new data pipelines
• Identify and drive optimisation opportunities across the environment
• Manage the handover of new applications ensuring that required standards and practices are met
• Improvement on recovery time in case of prod failures
• Test prototypes and oversee handover to the Data Operations teams
• Attend and contribute to regular team and User meetings
• Responsible for the actual coding or programming of Hadoop applications
• High-speed querying

Specialist Support Engineer – DataOps

Operations

• Lead and enable the SME Operations function to deliver on the segment’s strategic priorities through operational excellence, digitisation, and transformation
• Shape and influence the end-to-end operational ecosystem to ensure effective prioritisation, seamless execution, and measurable business impact
• Drive a high-performance operations environment with a strong bias towards innovation, simplification, and client-centricity
• Design, optimise, and continuously improve SME operational processes and value chains
• Lead large-scale transformation initiatives across operations, digital, and technology enablement
• Ensure adherence to Group Risk and Compliance frameworks within defined risk appetite
• Act as the key interface between SME, Product, Technology, Risk, and Operations teams

Executive Operations SME

General Counsel

• Provide sound legal advice and support in area of specialization
• enabling the provision of legal risk management for the business
• Develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s
• Provide highly specialised legal advice and support to the dedicated area of support

Legal Counsel – Intellectual Property

Auditor

• Develop an in-depth knowledge of the methodology, by attending training sessions and using knowledge gained during audits, use this proactively in executing audit activities.
• Actively participate in all the audit phases - planning and scoping (identification of risks and controls), fieldwork (execution of design and operating effectiveness assessments) and reporting (ensure audit observations and planned actions are agreed with management for factual accuracy).
• Deliver as assigned by the Audit Manager / Head of Audit work to a high quality and in accordance with the requirements of the Quality Assurance scorecard.
• Assist the Audit Manager with planning and execution of Design Effectiveness and Operating Effectives Testing, uniformly applying the methodology and quality standards, focusing the work on key risks, with minimum supervision from the audit manager.
• Assist the Audit Manager in defining and maintain a risk based internal audit plan that supports the achievement of Absa's objectives.
• Support Audit Manager with Data Management Risk SME review of planning documents, fieldwork, issues and report where applicable per agreed timelines.
• Support Audit Manager with Quarterly risk reporting and contribution from a data risk, issues MI and audits MI perspective.
• Ensure delivery adheres to the audit methodology and quality standards.
• Identify opportunities for using Data Analytics and enhanced automated auditing techniques.
• Prepare audit observations and make sure that they are concise, factually accurate and cover all of the significant issues.
• The observations must be insightful, address the root causes, and have agreed actions that fully mitigate the risk.
• Develop an in-depth knowledge of Absa and the various business areas and use this knowledge to assess risks and controls through identifying, assessing and documenting risks and controls within these processes.
• Display professional scepticism, raising and discussing contentious observations with management and provide evidence to support all issues identified.
• Provide feedback to the Audit Manager and audit team with progress and observations raised during the audit by communicating honestly, frequently and effectively.
• Build and maintain good working relationships with fellow auditors.
• Participate fully and be supportive in all audits by providing assistance to the team where required.
• Be quick to learn and seek opportunities to share this knowledge with colleagues.
• Continue to update awareness of risk issues and changes across selected business units from interaction with management and provide feedback to the Audit Manager.
• Assist in the induction of new joiners, mentoring less experienced team members.
• Proactively take on additional tasks as requested by the Head of Audit – which may include managing Issue Assurance and production of team Management Information.
• Improve technical knowledge through self-learning or training including mandatory Continuous Professional Education requirements.
• Develop and enhance learning through seeking coaching, training and continual feedback.
• Acquisition of knowledge of the bank’s governance policies and standards, and data management requirements in execution of the collection, preparation, input, processing, output and storage of data across all business units.
• Assist the Audit Manager where required, in the drafting of the audit report in line with methodology requirements and as per the requirements of the Balanced Scorecard.
• Develop and maintain relationships with accountable management on each audit.
• Present effectively at stakeholder meetings and forums (e.g., Risk and Governance forums) to share knowledge and information including methodology, standards, changes and new developments with business stakeholders on an ongoing basis.
• Support other audit teams in identifying data management risk and/or assessing business unit adherence to the bank’s data management policies & standards.
• Provide oversight over the implementation of data governance policies, standards and processes, data quality and metadata concepts for all the data management disciplines in scope for Absa Africa Group.
• Provide assurance over the application of sound / best practice principles of data governance, and in accordance with data management policies, processes and regulatory requirements.
• Engage proactively with Internal Audit colleagues during assignments and request technical assistance where required and based on knowledge of business areas, provide guidance to other auditors and peers by sharing best practice so that their work meets and sometimes exceeds quality standards.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key audit contacts on each audit by attending continuous stakeholder meetings. In addition, engage closely with stakeholders during assignments and encourage open discussion and interaction with business on the risks associated in their environment.

Internal Auditor, Data Assurance

IT Support

• Plan the delivery of assigned audits to a high quality and in line with IA methodology
• Perform detailed risk assessments, identifying operational and compliance vulnerabilities and conducting control testing
• Evaluate the effectiveness of governance, risk management, and control frameworks
• Manage audits and Issue Validations within Key Performance timelines and resource budget
• Deliver high quality audit reports, aligned to the IA methodology
• Prepare comprehensive audit reports, summarizing findings, risk exposures, and remediation plans
• Contribute to annual planning, identifying auditable entities and assessing audit needs
• Actively play a senior role in the Financial Crime key Management Committees

Lead QA Engineer

Liquidity Risk Analyst

Credit Risk Analyst – Home Loans, Property Risk and Analytics

Head of Finance Operations

Experienced Financial Adviser – FAIS Fit & Proper

Experienced Financial Adviser – FAIS Fit & Proper

Sales Consultant – FAIS

Credit Innovation Analyst

M.I. Analyst

Data Analyst

Specialist Support Engineer – DataOps

Executive Operations SME

Legal Counsel – Intellectual Property

Internal Auditor, Data Assurance

Internal Audit Manager – Financial Crime