Company:
Absa Group Limited (Absa)
Industry: Banking / Financial Services
Deadline: Oct 7, 2025
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: Bachelors, Masters
Experience: 5 years
Province: Gauteng
City:
Field: Finance / Accounting / Audit
Job Summary
- Provide strategic leadership in financial resource management by integrating capital, liquidity, and balance sheet insights into decision-making frameworks.
- Shape the cluster’s return architecture by defining hurdle rates, challenging pricing methodologies, and ensuring strategic alignment with bank-wide capital efficiency goals.
- Drive optimisation through oversight of profitability, pricing performance, and resource consumption, translating financial strategy into actionable targets. Act as a key advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring that product-level decisions reflect strategic value, risk appetite, and sustainable return delivery.
Job Description
Strategic Analytics & Resource Optimisation
- Shape and influence capital and balance sheet strategies to support business growth and financial resilience.
- Evaluate resource allocation proposals and contribute to enterprise-level prioritisation aligned with return objectives.
- Use advanced analytics to identify portfolio tilts and strategic investment areas across customer segments and sectors.
- Assess trade-offs between risk, return, and growth to inform high-impact business decisions.
- Translate financial insights into actionable recommendations on resource deployment and performance improvement.
Financial management and Business Partnering
- Collaborate with business unit or function heads to determine their performance reporting needs (both financial and non-financial) and agree on deliverables annually.
- Guide the setting and translation of performance targets to business units and products.
- Monitor return delivery and provide insights to optimise portfolio and pricing outcomes.
- Support robust governance across financial resource decisions, pricing practices, and performance monitoring.
- Ensure consistent application of frameworks that support disciplined financial management.
- Provide thought leadership through financial insight and external benchmarking.
- Partner with senior stakeholders across business, finance, risk and treasury to embed FRM principles into core decision-making.
Strategic Analytics and Resource Optimisation
People Management
- Develop internal capability by recruiting and developing a capable team to ensure the necessary resources are in place to achieve business strategy and objectives.
- Implement the people management strategy for the area, in collaboration with the HRBP for the business unit, focusing on talent management, development, resourcing, and retention.
- Embed formal Performance Development and informal coaching within the team.
- Motivate the team and implement measures to recognize and reward direct reports.
- Inspire team members through coaching and mentoring, helping them to perform optimally in alignment with the vision and values, and create a sense of urgency and excitement around the business.
Education and Experience Required
- Minimum B-degree (NQF level no.7) Desired Post Graduate Degree (NQF level no.8+), CA (SA) or CIMA or MBA or Actuarial Science or Engineering
- 5+ years professional financial management experience
- 5+ years Banking Experience at a management level
- Preferred team lead in Finance Function teams or in professional environments
- Experience in business transformation contexts related to exponential business growth
- Experience in commercial innovation environments
- Broad Finance including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects
- Ability to build, develop & lead professional level teams
- Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment
- Knowledge of people change management
Knowledge & Skills:
- Proficiency in data analysis tools (Excel, SQL, Power BI, or Python)
- Banking regulation (Expert)
- Writing & reporting (Advanced)
- Presentation skills (Advanced)
- Understanding of systems used (Advanced)
- Understanding of relevant legislation (Advanced)
- Understanding of corporate controls and checks (Advanced)
- Knowledge of business continuity and contingency (Advanced)
- Computer literacy (Advanced)
- Excellent organisational skills (Advanced)
- Excellent communication skills (Advanced)
- Relationship management and networking (Advanced)
- Strong performance management and coaching skills (Advanced)
- Ability to think creatively (Advanced)
- Ability to react positively under pressure (Advanced)
- Good understanding of the policies and strategies (Advanced)
- Understanding of Banking operating structures (Advanced)
- Change management (Advanced)
Competencies:
- Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
- Deciding and initiating action
- Adapting and responding to change Planning
- Learning and researching
- Analysing
- Planning and organising
- Relating and networking, Leading and supervising
Education
- Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)
End Date: October 3, 2025
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