Company: Absa Group Limited (Absa)
Industry: Banking / Financial Services
Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: Bachelors
Experience: 5 years
Location: Gauteng
City: Johannesburg
Field: Data, Business Analysis and AIÂ , Finance / Accounting / Audit, ICT / Computer
Job Title: Credit Risk Systems Specialist
Job Summary
- Work as part of a DevOps team, leverage specialist analysis & testing tools, frameworks, techniques and practices to elicit, define and organize business requirements.
- Translate & document business requirements into user stories & specifications detailing integration points, business & associated risk / opportunities to be realised.
- And following this analysis, work collaboratively within squads during design & delivery activity including assuming responsibility for manual application testing processes, frameworks & outcomes
Job Description
Key Accountabilities:
- Understand stakeholder requirements and business objectives
- Translate elicited needs and knowledge acquired into user story format
- Prepare and prioritise the backlog of requirements for the user stories linked to the proposed solutions
- Define measures of success & key outcomes for various solutions / changes including detailed acceptance criteria
- Provide strategic guidance to clients on Credit Risk System and general technology
- Provide strategic advice on how best to use technology to achieve goals
- Manage Credit Risk system changes and collaborate with in-house technical staff
- Assist Stakeholders through the change-management process
- Provide expert technical assistance to stakeholders
- Meet with stakeholders to determine project requirements and goals
- Provide assistance with technical issues and investigate system related queries
- Revise existing systems and suggest improvements
- Design, test, implement and monitor changes
- Prepare and keep documentation updated
- Prior experience in basic programming languages
- Prior experience using data driven decision engines (TRIAD, BLAZE, POWERCURVE etc.)
- In-depth understanding of the Credit Risk lifecycle
Competencies:
- Applying expertise and technology
- Relating and networking
- Presenting and communicating information
- Creating and innovating
- Formulating strategies and concepts
- Adapting and responding to change
- Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Meticulous approach to work
- Detail orientated
- Problem solving skills, ability to trouble shoot complex system issues
- Analytical thinker
- The ability to multi-task and work under pressure while producing accurate outputs
- Self-motivated and requires very little supervision
Abilities/Requirements:
- Credit Risk experience
- Decision Engine or Rules Engine exposure
- Basic IT Programming knowledge
- Software consultancy background
Education and Experience Required
- B-degree in (Business, Risk Management or Computer Science) or equivalent NQF level 7 qualification
- Experience using data driven decision engines (such as TRIAD, BLAZE, POWERCURVE etc.)
- Programming skills to create credit rules in risk software would be an advantage
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the deployment of systems and tools to manage credit and risk.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree: Information Technology
End Date: September 17, 2025
