Jobs at Absa Group

The Manager Project oversees project progression, maintains quality assurance, meets deadlines, and manages stakeholder engagement.

Lead internal communications and engagement for Human Capital: develop strategy, craft narratives, run campaigns and events, manage digital channels, leverage analytics and innovation to measure and improve employee engagement and alignment with organisational priorities.

Builds a pipeline of M&A professionals with strong finance backgrounds. Seeks candidates with CA(SA) or equivalent, 2+ years post-qualification experience in investment banking/corporate finance/PE/M&A, and expertise in financial modelling, valuation, due diligence, transaction execution, and stakeholder management for future corporate development roles.

Sell and promote financial solutions to clients, meet sales targets through proactive outreach, ensure compliance with relevant legislation and internal controls, collaborate with team members, and deliver excellent customer service.

Acquire and grow the bank's customer base by attracting new customers, cross-selling products, retaining clients, and contributing to branch sales targets while supporting customer satisfaction, managing business risk, and assisting colleagues.

Sell financial solutions to clients, meet sales targets, ensure compliance with relevant legislation, collaborate with team members, and deliver excellent customer service.

Grow the banks customer base and profitability by acquiring new customers, expanding existing portfolios through proactive attraction, cross-selling and retention, meeting branch sales targets while managing business risk and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Maintain and optimize the ServiceNow CMDB by monitoring health KPIs (Correctness, Completeness, Compliance), reconciling and remediating duplicate/stale CIs, configuring thresholds and data certification audits, aligning CI classes to CSDM, and governing access and CI relationships within CMDB Workspace to support ITSM/ITOM operations.

Design, implement, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure provisioning with IaC (Terraform), manage container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes), implement monitoring/observability and DevSecOps controls, and enable developer self-service while collaborating with engineering and security stakeholders.

Design, build, deploy, and operate production ML solutions and reusable components. Lead MLOps, model monitoring, governance, and responsible-AI practices. Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable, compliant ML systems and enable capability building across HR and product teams.

Lead applied AI research and experiments to develop production-ready models, partner with data engineering and governance for data readiness, enforce responsible AI and model risk practices, translate research into prioritized use cases, and build stakeholder alignment and team capability across pan-African markets.

Lead and grow the bank's FX trading business by managing the FX trading book, delivering revenue targets, controlling market risk and liquidity, developing trading strategies across G10 and African markets, supporting client franchise growth, mentoring traders, ensuring regulatory compliance and strong governance, and collaborating with Sales, Structuring, Treasury and Risk.

Manage and rehabilitate existing retail credit accounts (overdrafts, loans, cards) by assessing risk, making pay/no-pay and limit decisions, collaborating with business units, ensuring compliance with credit policies and regulations, educating customers, and improving portfolio quality through proactive account management and governance adherence.

Manage existing retail customer credit accounts to prevent delinquency by performing overdraft and credit reviews, making pay/no-pay and limit decisions, arranging rehabilitations, and collaborating with stakeholders to mitigate portfolio risk while ensuring compliance with credit policies and regulatory requirements.

Design, build, deploy and maintain enterprise-grade applications and CI/CD pipelines. Implement observability (ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, tracing), automate tasks with Docker/Ansible, debug and optimize code, support production Kubernetes environments, and ensure solutions meet architecture, risk and governance standards.

Provide end-to-end financial planning, reporting and commercial analysis for SME Banking. Prepare forecasts, budgets, Exco reporting, competitor/market analysis, stress testing and ad-hoc research, collaborating with MI, analytics, risk and treasury to deliver actionable insights and support senior decision-making.

Provide financial analysis, forecasting, and reporting to support business partners and senior stakeholders. Produce management accounts, build financial models, review business cases, perform variance and what-if analysis, and support decision-making, regulatory reporting, and strategic planning.

Design, develop, and deploy production-ready machine learning models and data pipelines. Work with large datasets, optimize algorithms for scalability and performance, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure regulatory compliance and risk management.

Process, monitor and report custody and trustee transactions for Investor Services; ensure timely execution within SLAs, drive operational efficiency, manage risks and compliance, and maintain stakeholder relationships and high-quality client communication.

Second-line-of-defense role overseeing traded and non-traded market risk, liquidity, capital and interest rate risks for Treasury and Global Markets. Perform risk analysis, stress testing, reporting, policy updates, regulatory compliance (Basel II/III/IV), model validations, scenario analysis, and escalation. Provide independent challenge to business, support limits monitoring, and coordinate with compliance, audit and regulators.