With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Lead value management by driving benefits realisation, ROI analysis, and strategic insights to ensure transformation initiatives deliver measurable impact and align with business strategy in Integrated Channels.Job Description
Job Description
You will be responsible for identifying, tracking, and optimising the strategic and financial benefits of transformation initiatives across Integrated Channels. This role sits within the Strategy & Innovation team and is pivotal in ensuring that business cases deliver measurable value and align with enterprise priorities.
You will apply your financial expertise, commercial acumen, and strategic mindset to build business cases, model ROI, and influence decision-making. You will partner closely with Finance, Strategy, and Business teams to track value delivery, inform investment choices, and present insights to executive stakeholders.
This is a high-impact role requiring strong benefits management, commercial modelling, and executive communication skills. You must be able to work independently, hit the ground running, and translate complex data into compelling, actionable insights.
Education & Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related business/quantitative field.
Honours degree or postgraduate qualification preferred.
Professional certification (e.g., CA(SA), CIMA, CFA, MBA) strongly advantageous.
Experience
5–7+ years in financial management, financial planning & analysis, or commercial finance.
Experience in banking and/or financial services strongly preferred.
Background in strategy consulting, management consulting, or strategic finance in a complex organisation.
Proven expertise in business case development, commercial modelling, and investment analysis.
Strong exposure to corporate strategy, value optimisation, and transformation programme environments.
Technical Proficiency
Advanced Excel skills – especially in scenario-based and ROI financial modelling.
Highly proficient in PowerPoint skills – capable of building clear, concise, compelling narratives through data, executive-ready presentations.
Key responsibilities
1. Strategic Financial Insight and Commercial Acumen
Provide financial insights that support investment decisions, transformation outcomes, and business strategy.
Evaluate initiative profitability, commercial viability, and alignment with strategic intent.
Go beyond accounting standards to deliver forward-looking, commercial perspectives.
2. Benefits Realisation and Value Management
Define, measure, and track financial and strategic benefits of key initiatives.
Develop and maintain benefits tracking frameworks and dashboards.
Ensure initiatives deliver real business value and measurable ROI.
3. Data-Driven Storytelling
Translate data into compelling narratives for senior stakeholders and Exco.
Deliver insights that link performance to strategy, risk, and opportunity.
Influence decision-making through clear, structured communication.
4. Stakeholder Engagement & Influence
Collaborate with Finance, Strategy, Programme Management, and Business leads.
Act as a trusted advisor, providing timely, actionable recommendations.
Confidently engage senior leaders and shape executive discussions.
5. Execution & Delivery Focus
Thrive in a fast-paced, matrixed environment with minimal onboarding required.
Bring structure, pace, and insight to complex transformation work.
Deliver high-quality outputs that drive business impact from day one.
Education
Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (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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What We Do
Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond.
We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
