Jobs at Absa Group

Responsible for optimizing profit from Premium Business key account clients, driving financial targets, relationship management, risk assessment, and teamwork to improve service delivery.

Serve as finance business partner for Transactional and Deposits, consolidating monthly and forecast results, producing accurate MI and financial reports, driving cost management, financial modelling, treasury oversight, reconciliations, analysis, process automation, and stakeholder insights to enable decision-making and business growth.

Lead buildout of an AI & Data FinOps capability to provide end-to-end transparency, attribution and optimisation of AI and data consumption. Design observability, API integrations, dashboards, chargeback/showback models, forecasting, controls and ROI/unit-economics. Partner with Cloud FinOps, Finance, engineering and business stakeholders to automate cost allocation, enforce budget controls, surface optimisation opportunities and scale the FinOps team and operating model.

Acquire new customers and grow existing customer portfolios through proactive attraction, cross-selling, retention and meeting branch sales targets while managing business risk, ensuring customer satisfaction, and supporting colleagues.

Lead end-to-end UX and visual design for web and mobile: research, wireframes, prototypes, UI mockups, usability testing, animations, digital artwork, stakeholder collaboration, asset maintenance, analytics monitoring, and ensuring brand and regulatory compliance.

Validate requirements, create test plans and cases, execute functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing. Manage defects, support automation test suites, ensure compliance with SDLC and regulatory standards, and report testing metrics to stakeholders.

Designs, prepares, and executes manual and automated tests for web, mobile, and enterprise products. Creates test cases and data, identifies and tracks defects, supports automation efforts, validates functionality and compliance, and communicates test status with product, development, and stakeholder teams to ensure quality releases.

Manage end-to-end post-origination administration of structured trade & commodity finance facilities: perform annual reviews, financial analysis and risk modelling, monitor covenants and conditions, manage service providers and site inspections, handle deviations and breaches, coordinate governance/TA committees, and prepare portfolio reporting to maintain credit quality and compliance.

Lead and manage a regional team delivering life (FAIS) advisory services. Drive capacity planning, operational excellence, compliance with FAIS requirements, administrative reporting, and colleague development while ensuring product and regulatory training and professional standards are maintained.

Lead HC analytics product delivery across markets, delivering predictive models, executive dashboards, and strategic workforce insights. Ensure data reliability, governance, automation, and stakeholder alignment while mentoring analysts and embedding data-driven decision-making across the organisation.

Lead design, build, and deployment of machine learning and AI solutions (including LLMs) on cloud and big-data platforms; partner with business stakeholders, mentor junior data scientists, and promote analytics best practices across the organisation.

Develop and maintain CAMS credit card and merchant systems on the Hogan Umbrella platform. Produce optimized, documented COBOL/JCL code, design processes, handle business requests, and provide standby support in a banking environment.

Provide specialist business development expertise for International or Workplace Banking by prospecting corporate and employee-value customers, pitching at executive levels, managing stakeholder relationships, driving cross-cluster collaboration, building reporting frameworks, providing market intelligence, coaching team members, and ensuring compliance with relevant banking legislation to support franchise growth and customer experience.

Deliver actionable insights from complex datasets, design and automate BI reporting, improve data quality, build predictive analytics, partner with stakeholders, mentor analysts, and drive analytics-led process improvements.

Manage and grow a portfolio of small business customers through proactive relationship management, new client acquisition, and cross-selling of corporate products while ensuring compliance, strong operational control, and excellent customer service.

Lead an SME relationship team managing SMEs (turnover > KShs 30M) across a cluster to achieve sales, product penetration, portfolio profitability and NPS targets. Drive SME business development, credit applications and risk analysis, champion change initiatives, onboard relationship-managed clients, and coach/manage team performance and delivery.

Lead international tax advice and tax-risk management for group projects, liaise with stakeholders and auditors, prepare GloBE/Pillar Two calculations and disclosures, supervise team members, and provide tax training.

Implement and operationalise enterprise data quality on Ataccama and related platforms: profile, validate, design rules, build scorecards, monitor, remediate issues, and drive adoption across MDM, metadata, and governance teams while delivering configuration-led solutions and stakeholder engagement.

Implement and operationalize Reference Data Management on Ataccama, collaborating with MDM, Data Quality, Metadata, and Governance teams. Engage stakeholders, translate requirements into configurations, design workflows and approval processes, onboard reference domains, monitor data quality and lifecycles, resolve data integrity incidents, and drive continuous platform improvements and adoption.

Lead enterprise data architecture and engineering for a business area: design, build, optimize and operate data retrieval, storage, pipelines and distribution. Collaborate with data science and stakeholders, create CI/CD pipelines, automate large-scale data delivery, ensure security, quality, compliance, and alignment with group architecture. Coach engineers and support hiring, incident management, and governance.