Open Positions at Absa Bank Limited

Key Accountabilities.

• Responsible for the conduct and occurrence of monthly team leads meetings and overall team quarterly townhalls; ensure follow up and conclusive resolution of arising action items thereof.
• Utilize business partnering insights to constantly inform Finance strategy and continuously improve service delivery.
• Coordinate leave forecasts with Finance team leaders.
• Provide support to the Chief Finance Officer in gathering information and formulating strategic plans.
• Support all Finance committed initiatives and ensure they drive continuous business growth opportunities by tracking value delivered/ anticipated and reporting to the Chief Finance Officer.
• Act as a bridge for colleagues and team leaders contact with the Chief Finance Officer.
• Effectively manage customer complaints coming into the Chief Finance Officer and ensuring root cause analysis is concluded before resolution communication is done to the customer.
• Organize and coordinate business and colleague engagements managed out of the Chief Finance office.
• Improve the feel of the Chief Finance Officer by maintaining relationships with all stakeholders.
• Undertake a wide variety of administrative duties, e.g., prioritising valid payments that require Chief Finance Officer attention.
• Ensure alignment to relevant statutory and legislative frameworks in Finance partnerships and programs.
• Work with colleagues to achieve excellent service by providing regular feedback on issues and recommending quick and practical solutions to issues found during programs executions.
• In liaison with other business units, drive initiatives that help colleagues in other areas of the bank understand Finance programs.

Qualifications

• Accounting, Finance, Economics or Business qualifications

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Key Accountabilities

Accountability – 60%

• Assessing the risks and exposures related to cybersecurity and aligning to the Bank’s risk appetite.
• Monitoring current and emerging risks and changes to laws and regulations for appropriate actions.
• Collaborating with stakeholders charged with safeguarding the information assets at Absa to ensure appropriate control design and configurations.
• Maintain comprehensive cyber risk registers: Key cybersecurity risks should be regularly identified and assessed. Risk identification should be forward looking and include the security incident handling.
• Ensure implementation of the cyber and information risk management strategy including cyber risk policies and standards.
• Safeguarding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information asset and Technology platforms.
• Prepare Cyber Security Posture reports for submission to the various risk committees.
• Run the vulnerability management program to ensure vulnerabilities are identified, prioritized, and remediated on time.
• Engage with stakeholders across the Absa Group to motivate and drive remediation of vulnerabilities and identified issues.
• Engage with Project Management teams to ensure all new projects are security assessed and in line with the bank’s cyber security policies and standards.
• Coordinate penetration test, red team and audit engagements with both internal and external assessment teams.
• Respond to Cyber security incidents in coordination with the Group Incident Response and Forensics team.
• Report Cyber security incidents to the regulator as specified in the prudential guidelines.

Accountability - 20%

• Implement parameters to measure Cyber risks exposure.
• Monitoring adherence to cyber risks policy & standards to drive remediation measures.
• Reporting all cyber risks consistently and comprehensively to the senior leadership & relevant stakeholders to facilitate appropriate decisions.

Accountability- 10%

• Coordinate Cybersecurity awareness activities across the bank from strategic, technical, and general sensitization.
• Create Cybersecurity awareness circulars for customers.
• Coordinate cybersecurity awareness for the Board members.

Accountability - 10%

• Research on emerging cybercrime trends and gathering threats intelligence for onward sharing.
• Coordinate red team exercises.
• Coordinate penetration testing activities for new and existing applications and infrastructure.

Risk and Control objective

• Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Absa Policies and Policy Standards.
• Understand and manage risks and risk events (incidents) relevant to the role.

Preferred Qualification

• B-degree in (Computer Science / Information Technology) (NQF level no.)
• CISSP / CISM / CEH or equivalent certification.

Preferred Experience

• At least 5 years technical experience.