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Absa Bank Limited (Absa) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group Limited. Absa offers personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management as well as bancassurance.
Job Summary
To deliver the targeted business growth with the right parameters for business mix, debt, and loss ratios.
Job Description
Business Development
- Management of broker Relationships to deliver targeted premium outputs.
- Pipeline business management quotation processing and transmitting the same to brokers within TATSs
- Draw up and operationalize SLAs with brokers for differentiated service delivery.
- Adhere to Interdepartmental Service level Standards in liaison with Underwriting team across the branches.
- Champion cross selling for corporate business and other special assignments as allocated
- Collect market intelligence through research by reading articles, publications, internet, word of mouth and networking daily to keep abreast of market developments.
- Assess market opportunities with respect to competitor sales sources by remaining in touch with market forces and influencing.
- Manage knowledge capital by collecting, categorizing, storing, protecting, and distributing the results of market.
Financial
- Deliver financial parameters for GWP, loss ratios, cross selling
- Debt management broker as per the debt management standard.
- Manage and control expenditure for travel, events, and promotional items. Plan, assign and allocate funds for events plans, or promotional items required for brand management through brand management activities as per the structured calendar
Operations & Compliance
- Actively keep up to date with all relevant knowledge, legislation and developments within the business unit and insurance industry that may have an impact on the Business Advantage
- Coordinate Compliance with Regulatory requirements for Brokers for licensing and on boarding requirements as per ABC Third party Standards.
Management reporting
- Prepare accurately production reports/ other statistics for management reporting
- Represent the department in the absence the head of the department in various business reporting
Education and Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field(Actuarial Science, Commerce, Insurance, Business Administration)
- Professional qualification in Insurance (ACII, AIIK)
- 7 – 10 years of sales management and business development experience in Insurance, at least 1-2 of which should be in General Insurance and holding a management role.
- An eye for detail, strong organizational skills and able to take responsibility for own workload.
- Strong analytics skills
- Demonstrated integrity and professional competence as reflected in work performance and results.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
- Must be a team player.
Knowledge & Skills and Competencies:
- Knowledge of insurance regulatory requirements
- Knowledge of insurance products
- Sales and marketing management skills
- Effective client relationship management.
- Business Analytics skills
Education
Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
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Job Summary
To provide specialist advice & support in order to elicit, analyse, communicate & validate less complex req for changes to knowledge management, policies & information systems, through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed (SOPs).
Job Description
Business Performance & Analytics Manager
Job Purpose
The role involves business performance analysis and finance business partnering to the card business (Issuing, POS Acquiring and ATM Acquiring). This is achieved by:
- Providing data analysis and financial modelling support for key projects and decision making within the business.
- Carrying out analysis, summarising performance and preparing presentations of financial and non-financial performance.
- Providing insightful financial reporting monthly.
- This role requires strong organisational, communication and analytical skills.
Key Accountabilities
Accountability: Business Performance Analysis
- Preparation of end month business performance reports (P&L, Key Value Drivers, and card balance sheet)
- Ad hoc requests from business leaders and portfolio managers
- Collecting and packaging data into usable and user-friendly management information for the relevant teams and stakeholders in the card business
- Continuously identifying opportunities to automate reports and to eliminate duplicate and manual report production
- Analyzing trends within the business data to reduce risks, optimize performance of the business and inform People Function decisions.
- Conducting Monthly reviews with the business for card business.
Accountability: Finance Business Partnering
- Working with card business holders as a consultant in finance related matters
- GL reporting, maintenance, and reconciliations
- Revenue and costs accruals monthly
- Card P&L Management
Accountability: Financial Control
- Branch must maintain the look and feel as per the Absa bank standards.
- To challenge plans to commit costs, identifying areas for cost efficiency and managing the delivery of benefits.
- Support production of specific technical elements of Management Accounts including Regulatory Reporting, the provision of core ongoing accounting operations, chart of accounts, etc
- To provide monthly cost performance reports to functions detailing actuals versus budget for their commentaries.
Accountability: Strategy & Planning
- Undertake key elements of strategic management activity, involving the identification of how value is created, destroyed, and driven in the function.
- To support the business in it MTP/STP processes
Accountability: Regulatory reporting
- EIR inputs
- CBK Portfolio Interest rates return (Table F
- CBK NPS 02_Acquirers and Issuers
- Interest rate spread
- Quarterly Scheme returns
Preferred Qualification
- Finance and data analysis related qualification
Preferred Experience
- Data analysis, finance, business, and product management
- Financial Modelling
- Banking experience (particularly important for RBB Product Profitability role)
- Good understanding of business strategic objectives
- Part qualified/ newly qualified accountant (those training towards accounting qualifications will be considered.
Knowledge and Skills
- Advanced excel
- Financial modelling
- Management accounting
- Data analytics tools (SQL, Excel, and Power BI)
- Product knowledge
- Presentation and communication of complex information
Behavioural Competencies
- Team player
- Analysis and judgment
- Proactive
- Information gathering
- Thoroughness
- Business awareness
- Persuasive
- Good communication, report writing and presentation skills
- Quality conscious
- Adaptability
Technical Competencies
- Strong Communication, Persuasion and Presentation
- Project Managements
- Financial Management
- Performance Management
- Strategy and Planning
- Performance Management
- Decision – making skills
- PC Skills specifically using advanced Excel
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Job Summary
ALAK is seeking an experienced and dependable logistics consultant including direct driver and messenger. The individual will be responsible for managing the company's fleet of vehicles and delivering important documents to various stakeholders, including directors, senior management, government agencies, and financial institutions. This role requires multitasking between driving, delivering official documents, handling official errands, and maintaining the company’s fleet.
Education
- Higher Certificates and Advanced National (Vocational) Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)