SME Banker - Zanzibar
SME Banker - Zanzibar at ABSA Bank Limited September, 2023
Chief Risk Officer
- locations Zanzibar Main Branch - ABT
- time type Full time
- job requisition id R-15957314
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JJob Summary
Absa Bank Tanzania is part of Absa Group Limited, an African financial services group that aims to be the pride of the continent through our purpose of ‘Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time’. Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE in South Africa and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 10 countries across the continent with around 42, 000 employees.
Job Description
Job Purpose
Main accountabilities and approximate time split
Accountability: Sales and Service: - 70%
Time split%: 70/30%
Technical skills / Competencies
Personal Attributes:
Skills required to undertake the role:
Knowledge of the bank’s products, services and policies required to undertake the role:
The jobholder will be required to have a detailed knowledge of the core set of Business Banking products.
For Complex products, a good knowledge will be required sufficient to: -
Education
Training likely to assist effectiveness in the role, and which may have been completed prior to undertaking this role:
JJob Summary
Absa Bank Tanzania is part of Absa Group Limited, an African financial services group that aims to be the pride of the continent through our purpose of ‘Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time’. Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE in South Africa and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 10 countries across the continent with around 42, 000 employees.
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Absa Bank Tanzania Limited is one of the oldest banks in the country and among the first international bank to open its doors to Tanzania customers in 2000. The bank is committed to finding local solutions to uniquely local challenges and everything we do is focused on adding value. Absa Tanzania serves over 60,000 customers through a network of 15 branches and more than 60 ATMs ,providing a variety of banking products and services including saving, current and deposit accounts, commercial lending, unsecured lending, treasury, investments, card acquiring, card business, etc. In addition to this, Absa provides specialized services to its clients in services such as Cash-in-Transit, partnership, premier & prestige banking, online banking, mortgage, ATM, and mobile banking.Job Description
Job Purpose
- To manage and sustain a portfolio of Business Banking - Enterprise customers, building long-term relationships founded on efficient and reliable support for their business. This is achieved particularly through quick risk assessments and managing consistency and quality of operational service within own portfolio.
- The primary objective is to maximize sustainable risk-adjusted / EP portfolio contribution.
- The jobholder will additionally be responsible for business development both with new customers and with his/her existing portfolio.
Main accountabilities and approximate time split
Accountability: Sales and Service: - 70%
Time split%: 70/30%
- Conduct annual review of customers’ borrowing facilities (and interim review if customer circumstances [risk profile] dictate).
- Actively seek to grow own portfolio and cross sell to ensure delivery of set Targets as per current PD template.
- Consult customer owners/managers on financial/credit issues and general business practice/ideas.
- Determine the key messages, e.g., agreed service standards, and negotiated pricing, relationship team contact points (including introductions to new personnel) and new product changes. Calculating the most appropriate means of communicating them to customers.
- Deal with, and find resolutions for, customer complaints.
- Determine the products that are most effective in meeting customers’ needs and be able to sell these, at short notice, both reactively and proactively.
- Plan and co-ordinate any marketing approaches for new business and actively develop existing relationships. Co-ordinate approaches to the portfolio by businesses across the Group.
- Monitor and ensure adherence to risk service standards.
- Research, create and follow up on a target list for potential new business.
- Identify priority customers using the Customer Prioritization Guidelines to assess their present and potential contribution.
- Gather all the required information that is needed to prepare and assess credit applications. Role holder will be expected to input certain key information such as judgmental information.
- Monitor and control the quality of the portfolio using “Condition of Sanction” triggers where possible and in accordance with RM guidelines and Bank policy.
- Manage “Early Warning List” customers to reduce risk, following H.O. and Regional guidance provided.
- Adhere to procedures and guidelines within the BB RMCD.
- Day-to-day co-ordination of Business Banking customer management within the branch in provision of consistent service quality and risk.
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Risk and Control Objective- In the event of major issues in the business unit, act as crisis coordinator and allocate tasks to the crisis teams.
- Review the risk and compliance profiles of the business unit on a regular basis and provide consultative support to the Managing Director on changes that are required to rebalance risk and reward where required.
- Understanding of own role in the end-to-end processes in which you play a part, including applicable risks and controls.
- Adhere to Absa’s policies and procedures applicable to own role, demonstrating sound judgment and responsible risk management.
- Keep up to date on all regulatory changes and can articulate the impact to the Business, be well informed on the industry thinking.
- All mandatory training completed to deadline.
Technical skills / Competencies
Personal Attributes:
- Meeting customers’ needs
- Managing relationships
- Personal organization
- Self-development
- Adaptability
- Working with others
- Decisiveness
- Active listening
- Analytical thinking
- Judgment
- Entrepreneurial mindset
Skills required to undertake the role:
- Relationship skills
- Risk skills
- General Corporate skills
- Leadership and team skills
- Product skills
- Communication skills
Knowledge of the bank’s products, services and policies required to undertake the role:
The jobholder will be required to have a detailed knowledge of the core set of Business Banking products.
For Complex products, a good knowledge will be required sufficient to: -
- Recognize the changing needs of the customer.
- Identify products/service that best satisfies customer need.
- Introduce the product/service.
- Co-ordinate the introduction of the relevant Group product specialist.
- Deal with customers directly as required.
- A good knowledge of the products & services available in the Personal Sector is also required to satisfy the individual financial needs of business owners/key individuals.
- The jobholder will require a broad understanding of policies and strategies across the Group as they relate to the demands of the customer base.
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Knowledge, Expertise and ExperienceEducation
- Business degree preferred
Training likely to assist effectiveness in the role, and which may have been completed prior to undertaking this role:
- Risk assessment and management
- Presentation, influencing and negotiating
- Communication
- Required to form relationships with customers, therefore minimum tenure will be 2 years.
- The jobholder will need to be able to communicate in such a way as to ensure their ongoing credibility when dealing with financial controllers of companies, in addition to owner-managers.
- The jobholder’s portfolio will consist of a full range of Business Banking customers, including the more challenging customers, who will often be subject to competitive approaches from other banks.
- Business development activity will be similarly demanding.
Absa Values
Absa Values and Behaviours represent the set of standards which governs the actions of all of us who work for the bank and against which the performance of every one of us in Absa are being assessed and rewarded:
- I drive high performance to achieve sustainable results
- I’m obsessed with customer
- I have an African heartbeat
- I believe our people are our strengths
Education
- Higher Certificates and Advanced National (Vocational) Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Deadline: 2023-09-17.
Business Manager & MI
Business Manager & MI at ABSA Bank Limited September, 2023
Chief Risk Officer
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
Absa Bank Tanzania Limited is one of the oldest banks in the country and among the first international bank to open its doors to Tanzania customers in 2000. Absa serves over 65,000 customers through a network of 15 branches and 60 ATMs providing a variety of banking products and services including saving, current and deposit accounts, commercial lending, unsecured lending, treasury, investments, card acquiring, card business, etc. In addition to this, Absa provides specialized services to its clients in services such as Cash-in-Transit, partnership, premier & prestige banking, online banking, mortgage, ATM, and mobile banking.
Absa goal is to become African financial services group that aimed to be the pride of the continent, our purpose is to “Bringing possibilities to life”
Job Description
Manage risk and control effectively by applying applicable risk frameworks and embedding a positive risk culture
Technical Skills/Competencies
Knowledge and Expertise (relating to specialist knowledge and expertise required to undertake the role. May include knowledge of the Bank’s products, services and policies) Strong analytical and diagnostic skills
The jobholder will require a wide range of knowledge to effectively perform the role including:
Absa Behaviours: of particular importance to this role
Absa Values and Behaviours represent the set of standards which governs the actions of all of us who work for the bank and against which the performance of every one of us in Absa are being assessed and rewarded:
Business Manager & MI at ABSA Bank Limited September, 2023
Chief Risk Officer
- locations Absa House - ABT
- time type Full time
- job requisition id R-15957358
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.
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My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.Job Summary
Absa Bank Tanzania Limited is one of the oldest banks in the country and among the first international bank to open its doors to Tanzania customers in 2000. Absa serves over 65,000 customers through a network of 15 branches and 60 ATMs providing a variety of banking products and services including saving, current and deposit accounts, commercial lending, unsecured lending, treasury, investments, card acquiring, card business, etc. In addition to this, Absa provides specialized services to its clients in services such as Cash-in-Transit, partnership, premier & prestige banking, online banking, mortgage, ATM, and mobile banking.
Absa goal is to become African financial services group that aimed to be the pride of the continent, our purpose is to “Bringing possibilities to life”
Job Description
- Assists the Head of Head of Business Banking in developing the BB strategy through provision of insightful strategic analysis on competitor activities, pricing trends and sensitivity, economic analysis, and such other relevant macro trend analysis.Coordinates and compiles the BB financial plans/budgets (both STP and MTP) including analytical support of the budget drivers and processes of the plans for the specific BB businesses in liaison with the budget owners.Challenges BB functional budgets thereby ensuring that they are realistic and stretching and makes recommendations on BB functional targets to the BB Head.
- Manages the BB budgets and financial performance including Income, Cost and Balance Sheet streams highlighting material variances and reporting regularly to the Head of Head of Business Banking with recommendations for timely strategic actions.Monitors market developments and builds relationships with product and relationship teams in designing strategic pricing initiatives and structures to drive financial performance.
- Performs GAP Analysis on customer portfolios in liaison with relationship and product teams and provides recommendation report on potential business development and/or expansion areas within existing BB portfolios thereby influencing customer relationship plans.
- Owns and coordinates the development and management of robust, relevant, timely and effective management information (MI), at times adhoc; that drives BB business direction and performance enhancement.
- Supports the functional and product managers on designing and managing business processes that minimizes income leakages and assist in reviewing business processes to achieve efficiency and cost effectiveness.
- Manages and coordinates the income collection and cost reduction rig our processes including monitoring of auctioning Interest Reports and general pricing monitoring of BB products.
- Reviews claims of customer refunds with recommendation for approval to Head of BB with a view to identifying, fixing, and improving the process lapses necessitating the refunds. Recommends expenditure approvals to Head of BB. Coordinates all BB financial, business and performance related matters with other business functions.
- Manages and coordinates BB external financial audits providing requested information and responding to all audit queries raised by external Auditors. Follows up audit findings ensuring that corrective actions are timely implemented.
- Assists the Head of BB in aligning individual and team targets ensuring that the agreed individual and team PD targets adequately contribute to the achievement of overall BB business financial goals and objectives.
- Manages the performance monitoring and tracking process of individual, relationship, and product teams’ progress against PD plans, reporting to Head of Head of BB and all other stakeholders. Working with colleagues to identify areas of improvement, regularly reviewing outcomes.
- Coordinates the compilation of monthly detailed BB performance pack and monthly performance dashboard league providing explanations to team members based on compilation for transparency and objectivity in performance measurement, necessary for team buy-in and motivation.Constructively challenges monthly results and forecasts for BB business areas and Finance Reporting. Assisting in identifying value adding initiatives to improve on performance.
- Manages and coordinates the monthly team performance meetings for Departmental Heads to review financial performance and strategic forecasting. Monitors and tracks agreed action points from these meetings to drive performance.
- Work closely with the Head of BB, BB relationship and product teams to drive and deliver performance across BB business.
- Coaching team members on how individual and team PD financial targets are measured proactively reflecting on their feedback to win buy-in for effective and efficient PD review and process improvement.
- Manages the performance team members. Guiding and influencing the wider team members involved in MI processes and compilation on effective and efficient methodologies of data collation and processing and analysis.
- Promote teamwork in delivering performance by designing performance measurement processes that recognizes performance both at individual and team levels.
Manage risk and control effectively by applying applicable risk frameworks and embedding a positive risk culture
- Understanding of own role in the end-to-end processes in which you play a part, including applicable risks and controls.
- Adhere to Absa’s policies and procedures applicable to own role, demonstrating sound judgement and responsible risk management.
- Report all risk events / incidents / issues using the defined process for your business area and help to understand why these happened and how to prevent them in future.
- Proactively look for ways to improve the control environment by considering what could go wrong in the processes you operate and how errors could be prevented.
- Continuous and proactive engagement with regulatory bodies, unions where applicableAll mandatory training completed to deadline
Technical Skills/Competencies
- Analytical thinking and judgment.
- Change, financial and business management.
- Information gathering.
- Computer literacy specifically high competency in Excel spread sheets.
- Good understanding of BRAINS
- Managing relationships.
- Business aware & proactive.
- Presentation/communication skills.
- Performance climate.
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Knowledge, Expertise and ExperienceKnowledge and Expertise (relating to specialist knowledge and expertise required to undertake the role. May include knowledge of the Bank’s products, services and policies) Strong analytical and diagnostic skills
The jobholder will require a wide range of knowledge to effectively perform the role including:
- Strong business planning and financial management skills.Strong analytical and diagnostic skills.
- Good presentation and communication skills.Ability to work to tight deadlines without compromising accuracy.Good understanding of BB product dynamics and pricing structures.
- Appreciation of BB business risk profile.Good understanding of Absa Financial reporting structure and financial processes.Strong team player with good interpersonal skills.Good understanding of performance dynamics management processes and techniques.
- Good PC /system skills.
- Understanding of the domestic economic and industry trends
- Experience, qualifications, and other requirements specific to the role
- Experience in and/or understanding of Financial Services environment (e.g., Absa Financial Reporting framework and/or experience of managing P&L and Balance Sheet performance.
- Experience in and/or understanding of Business Banking environment with good understanding of BB products, deal structuring, pricing structures and relationship management.
- Experience in financial and business analysis and management and general awareness of the Tanzanian economic landscape and how this affects BB business.
- Graduate caliber with business university degree (preferably finance or accounting) with other relevant professional qualifications.
- Proactive GAP Analysis of BB business relationship portfolios with a view to improving on customer relationship plans to increase our wallet share.
- Improvement of BB income collection and cost management processes.
- Improvement of BB MI development that supports BB strategy and drives performance.Improving BB PD performance measurement processes embracing tenets of equity, accuracy, and objectivity in the process.
- Additional details of exceptional aspects of the demands of the roleNon-Significant
Absa Behaviours: of particular importance to this role
- Drive Performance
- Delight Customers
- Build Pride and Passion
- Execute at Speed
- Grow Talent and Capability
- Protect and Enhance our Reputation
- Proactive to detail, anticipatory and futuristic about business drivers.
- Passionate about delivering performance
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Absa ValuesAbsa Values and Behaviours represent the set of standards which governs the actions of all of us who work for the bank and against which the performance of every one of us in Absa are being assessed and rewarded:
- I drive high performance to achieve sustainable results
- I’m obsessed with customer
- I have an African heartbeat
- I believe our people are our strengths
- National Diplomas and Advanced Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Deadline: 2023-09-17.
Chief Risk Officer
Chief Risk Officer at ABSA Bank Limited September, 2023
Chief Risk Officer
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.
Absa Values
Absa Values and Behaviours represent the set of standards which governs the actions of all of us who work for the bank and against which the performance of every one of us in Absa are being assessed and rewarded:
Absa Values
Absa Values and Behaviours represent the set of standards which governs the actions of all of us who work for the bank and against which the performance of every one of us in Absa are being assessed and rewarded:
Chief Risk Officer at ABSA Bank Limited September, 2023
Chief Risk Officer
- locations Absa House - ABT
- time type Full time
- job requisition id R-15957358
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.
My Career Development Portal:
Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your
future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your
potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.
Job Summary
Risk Management – 60%
Technical Skills/Competencies
Skills:
Critical Competencies:
Experience, qualifications, and other requirements specific to the role
Experience:
Job Summary
A senior role as a
member of the Country Management Committee, the jobholder leads
oversight of the risk function and actively participates in defining
strategic objectives to support the business; business planning and
setting the direction of the business in line with Group strategy.
Risk representative on Country Management Committee (CMC) and other Committees.
Chair of Horizontal Review Forum or similar, and member of the Risk Controls Committee and the Country Watch list & Impaired Debt Committee ensuring robust oversight, reporting and effective management and control of principal risks.
To drive meaningful change initiatives supporting the One Risk and One Africa strategy, ensuring effective communication and management of key stakeholders.
Working to ensure that the country strategic objectives are delivered within the risk appetite framework set by the Absa Africa - Executive and Group Risk.
Accountable for ensuring the right people, processes, policies, systems are in place to achieve cost effective and efficient risk management within the country that is aligned to strategic objectives and Group Risk Target Operating Model.
Main accountabilities and approximate time split Risk representative on Country Management Committee (CMC) and other Committees.
Chair of Horizontal Review Forum or similar, and member of the Risk Controls Committee and the Country Watch list & Impaired Debt Committee ensuring robust oversight, reporting and effective management and control of principal risks.
To drive meaningful change initiatives supporting the One Risk and One Africa strategy, ensuring effective communication and management of key stakeholders.
Working to ensure that the country strategic objectives are delivered within the risk appetite framework set by the Absa Africa - Executive and Group Risk.
Accountable for ensuring the right people, processes, policies, systems are in place to achieve cost effective and efficient risk management within the country that is aligned to strategic objectives and Group Risk Target Operating Model.
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Job DescriptionRisk Management – 60%
- Oversight responsibility for personal & team adherence to governance, compliance, and control framework. Ensuring conformance to policy and procedures. Oversight responsibility of credit, market, operational and fraud risk and reporting thereof. Ensuring risk control framework is embedded in business and robustly managed/monitored. Drive an environment of added value where everything is done to add value to every proposition and in everything, the teams do.
- Develop highly motivated teams of Risk Heads, maintaining excellent relationships within leadership teams and across the wider Africa - Risk team to ensure achievement of business goals. Create a high-performance environment in which all employees are engaged as measured by the EOS. Oversight of reward/recognition decisions for the Risk team. Drive the risk-training plan across the Risk function to ensure the training and development needs are actively managed. Set challenging objectives and ensure effective performance development and succession planning for the team. Drive the development of risk specialization to build in-house expertise that can be efficiently transferred across Africa - if required.
- Ensure the business unit delivers a service which is truly adding value and is seen as key to the Business delivering against stretching targets by becoming a trusted advisor. Responsible for delivering consistent and timely risk decisions. Drive communication and formal feedback process between Risk and the Business to build trust, partnership, and appreciation of risk management function amongst the business partners.
- Initiate and proactively embed agreed change initiatives in support of One Risk and One Africa strategic objectives, driving process & quality improvements, cost reductions and development of risk professionals. Promote a culture of continuous improvement and driving necessary changes. Deliver organizational costs within the agreed budget. Drive the continual need for greater efficiency. Ensure capacity to manage volume workflow to world-class standards of quality and cost.
- Develop and maintain strong network of internal contacts at a senior level.
Technical Skills/Competencies
Skills:
- Strong intellect balanced by practical and pragmatic approach. Decisive. Strong internal and external networking. Analytical. Risk Management. People management and coaching. Communications (written and oral) and presentations. Excellent negotiation and influencing.
Critical Competencies:
- Commercial/ entrepreneurial. Relationship/ partnership approach. Customer/ market perspective. Technical skills and knowledge. Problem solving/ decision making.
- Experience, qualifications, and other requirements specific to the role
- Experience:
- Proven track record in the successful delivery of risk management. Exercising judgement for complex risk oversight decisions. Managing risk and reward.
- Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Absa Operational Risk Framework and internal Absa Policies and Standards
- Manage risk and control effectively by applying applicable risk frameworks and embedding a positive risk culture.
- Understanding of own role in the end-to-end processes in which you play a part, including applicable risks and controls.
- Adhere to Absa’s policies and procedures applicable to own role, demonstrating sound judgment and responsible risk management.
- Report all risk events / incidents / issues using the defined process for your business area and help to understand why these happened and how to prevent them in future.
- Proactively look for ways to improve the control environment by considering what could go wrong in the processes you operate and how errors could be prevented.
- Continuous and proactive engagement with regulatory bodies, unions where applicable. All mandatory training completed to deadline.
Experience, qualifications, and other requirements specific to the role
Experience:
- Proven track record in the successful delivery of risk management. Exercising judgement for complex risk oversight decisions. Managing risk and reward.
- Knowledge and Expertise
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Knowledge:- First-class technical risk management skills. Excellent business awareness and specific industry / International Risk awareness. Detailed knowledge of risk management policy, procedures & pricing. Excellent knowledge of Country/sovereign risk issues.
- Excellent knowledge of the social, economic, political, and regulatory environment within relevant country.
Absa Values
Absa Values and Behaviours represent the set of standards which governs the actions of all of us who work for the bank and against which the performance of every one of us in Absa are being assessed and rewarded:
- I drive high performance to achieve sustainable results
- I’m obsessed with customer
- I have an African heartbeat
- I believe our people are our strengths
- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Deadline: 2023-09-17.
Senior Development Partner
Senior Development Partner at ABSA Bank Limited September, 2023
Senior Development Partner
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.
Senior Development Partner at ABSA Bank Limited September, 2023
Senior Development Partner
- remote type Hybrid
- locations Absa House - ABT
- time type Full time
- job requisition id R-15957293
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.
My Career Development Portal:
Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your
future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your
potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.
• Partner with the HRBPs to support the analysis and scoping of the Learning Leadership and Talent components of the overall Business People development agenda.
• Consult and partner with HRBP leads to ensure global consistency and execution of all Learning Leadership and Talent needs/ objectives aligned to Business People Agendas.
• In partnership with the HRBP provide Learning Leadership and Talent expertise & insight at senior business meetings, either directly to the business head or to a wider management team.
• Guide and support Development Partners in partnering with the Management teams of the Business areas and the HRBPs to develop the Learning and Development and Talent Management plan for their business area in line with their business strategy.
• Support the Head of Learning Leadership and Talent in Absa Africa in identifying and prioritizing regional Learning & Development demand through continuous analysis and reporting of country Learning Leadership and Talent demands, workplace skills plans and critical skills gaps.
• Partner with the HRBPs, and Head of Learning Leadership and Talent in Absa Africa to support the execution of the Talent Management components as required by the overall business development agenda.
Job Description
Main accountabilities and approximate time split
Role Accountabilities:
Outputs
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Job Summary• Partner with the HRBPs to support the analysis and scoping of the Learning Leadership and Talent components of the overall Business People development agenda.
• Consult and partner with HRBP leads to ensure global consistency and execution of all Learning Leadership and Talent needs/ objectives aligned to Business People Agendas.
• In partnership with the HRBP provide Learning Leadership and Talent expertise & insight at senior business meetings, either directly to the business head or to a wider management team.
• Guide and support Development Partners in partnering with the Management teams of the Business areas and the HRBPs to develop the Learning and Development and Talent Management plan for their business area in line with their business strategy.
• Support the Head of Learning Leadership and Talent in Absa Africa in identifying and prioritizing regional Learning & Development demand through continuous analysis and reporting of country Learning Leadership and Talent demands, workplace skills plans and critical skills gaps.
• Partner with the HRBPs, and Head of Learning Leadership and Talent in Absa Africa to support the execution of the Talent Management components as required by the overall business development agenda.
Job Description
Main accountabilities and approximate time split
Role Accountabilities:
Outputs
- Partner with the HRBP’s and Group Head of Learning Leadership and Talent to support the analysis and scoping of the Learning Leadership and Talent components of the overall Business People Agenda.
- Consult and partner with HRBP’s and Group Head of Learning Leadership and Talent of Learning Leadership and Talent Lead to ensure global consistency and execution of all learning, leadership and talent objectives and strategy aligned to Business People Agendas.
- In partnership with the HRBP provide Learning Leadership and Talent expertise & insight at senior business meetings, either directly to the business head or to a wider management team.
- Act as the consultant/broker for the business & HRBP’s to the rest of Learning Leadership and Talent services.
- Take the lead to the business to deliver aligned and seamless learning solutions to the business.
- Lead and programme manage the diagnosis and delivery of bespoke learning and development interventions in line with the Business goals, working in collaboration with the Learning Solutions teams to present an integrated Learning Leadership and Talent delivery model.Operate in a commercial and business management way, leverage internal governance, policies and processes as appropriate to agree; objectives, outcomes, communication and embedding practices, timescales, budget and Business Impact / ROI expectations.
- Guide and support Development Partners in partnering with the Management teams of the Business areas and the HRBPs to develop the Learning and Development plans for their business area in line with their business strategy.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with the clients and develop an excellent understanding of business strategy and objectives, identifying opportunities for learning and development interventions across the business areas.
- Manage the Learning Leadership and Talent budget for the business-aligned initiatives working with the Learning Leadership and Talent Lead & HRBP’s to ensure cost effectiveness of learning development solutions. Maximize utilization of internal learning solutions and synergies in all learning propositions, across all business areas, optimizing external spend.
- Embed the Learning Leadership and Talent demand model throughout the HRBP & Development Partner community.
- Where required, provide offsite facilitation to business/teams or source the appropriate external facilitator to support a managed team event.
- Ensure the development and delivery of quality learning plans from the Development Partners team as agreed by all stakeholders, within budget and ensuring they meet agreed time, cost, and quality parameters.
- Support the Solutions & Delivery teams to source and identify Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from the Business to drive effective Learning delivery.
- Ensure effective evaluation of all business-aligned learning solutions, to ensure continuous improvement and contribution to business objectives (ROI Framework).
- Leverage and research external best practice to provide leading edge innovative solutions to the clients and share this research with the team.
- Work with the Head of Learning, Leadership and Talent for Absa to review and rationalize supplier base to align with business need/organizational requirements.
- Maintain internal relationships across the Group and learning suppliers to ensure delivery of the highest standards of supply, adhering to all governance frameworks.
- Engage with and build an external Learning & Development network to ensure continuous updating of current best practice and leading-edge knowledge of learning.Ensure adherence to HR/Group policies and standards, Governance and internal controls relating to learning activities.
- Manage risk and control effectively by applying applicable risk frameworks and embedding a positive risk culture.
- Understanding of own role in the end-to-end processes in which you play a part, including applicable risks and controls.
- Adhere to Barclay’s policies and procedures applicable to own role, demonstrating sound judgement and responsible risk management.
- Report all risk events / incidents / issues using the defined process for your business area and help to understand why these happened and how to prevent them in future. Proactively look for ways to improve the control environment by considering what could go wrong in the processes you operate and how errors could be prevented.
- All mandatory training completed to deadline.
- Expert in learning & development & management frameworks, approaches & interventions
- Advanced in talent management frameworks, approaches & interventions
- Leadership and management development
- Planning, prioritizing, and delivery of full learning demand cycle – needs analysis to evaluation (ROI)
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Relationship Building
- Commerciality
- Coaching, communication & presentation skills
- Facilitation skills
- Project management
- Integration and Analytical skills
Absa Values
Absa Values and Behaviours represent the set of standards which governs the actions of all of us who work for the bank and against which the performance of every one of us in Absa are being assessed and rewarded:
- I drive high performance to achieve sustainable results
- I’m obsessed with customer
- I have an African heartbeat
- I believe our people are our strengths
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Education- Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Education, Training and Development (Required)
Deadline: 2023-09-17.
