Banking: Senior Specialist Strategy

Empowering Africa’S Tomorrow, Together…One Story At A Time.

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

Utilize your 5 years experience within a Banking Industry background to conduct competitor benchmarking, preparing business cases and financial models, implementing new strategies, managing stakeholder engagement, and tracking the progress and impact of key strategic projects for senior leadership. Provide complex advice and support in facilitating long term strategy development.

Job Description

Utilize your 5 years experience within a Banking Industry background to conduct competitor benchmarking, preparing business cases and financial models, implementing new strategies, managing stakeholder engagement, and tracking the progress and impact of key strategic projects for senior leadership. Provide complex advice and support in facilitating long term strategy development.

Business Development: Conduct and facilitate strategic and market analytics to drive out customer and business insights. Extract key intelligence to present to the Management on a monthly basis to support their strategy definition and tactical change decision making. | Business Strategies and Planning: To facilitate and develop targeted segment specific strategies | Research: Investigate and embark on a continuous market scanning to identify and stay abreast of market trends and activities to inform opportunities for new or enhanced products and services | Stakeholder Management: Develop relationships with business leadership, and ensure that business improvement recommendations are monitored and sustained.

• Preparing detailed business cases and scenario models for potential new strategies or initiatives. 
• Creating and refining financial models that quantify potential revenue, cost, and customer metric impacts. 
• Supporting the development of new products and services aligned with the bank's overall strategic goals. 
• Working with analytics teams to translate data into actionable business recommendations. 
• Facilitating strategic planning sessions and providing analytical support to facilitate strategy formulation. 
• Assisting in the preparation of the bank's annual and other strategic reports. 

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised