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The purpose of this role is to ensure the delivery of accurate, high-quality outputs to both internal and external clients across the employee benefits value chain.

The Specialist will:

• Review and enhance procedures to support standardisation, impactful processing, and end-to-end efficiency.
• Ensure all tasks are completed accurately, on time, and in line with service level agreements.
• Maintain clear, professional communication while building strong relationships across all levelsinternally and externally.
• Uphold and enhance the image of Alexander Forbes Operations & Administration by delivering prompt, polite, and efficient service.

Education Requirements:

• Grade 12 (Matric)
• NQF Level 6
• Postgraduate qualification in Management/Commerce (NQF Level 7 or higher)

Experience & Skills:

• 3–5 years in the employee benefits industry
• Strong experience with
  high-risk claims
  and
  unclaimed benefits
• Advanced knowledge of
  Alex
  and
  Khanya
  systems (Level 8)
• Familiarity with
  Compass
  system
• Solid understanding of
  FSCA
  ,
  SARS
  directives, and related legislation
• Strong client servicing, cross-sell/up-sell ability, and stakeholder engagement
• Intermediate Excel, basic Word, and Outlook proficiency
• Ability to interpret and apply relevant legislation

Key Responsibilities:

1. Contribution Reconciliations

• Oversee monthly pension/provident fund reconciliations
• Ensure timely allocation, billing, and investment of contributions
• Monitor dashboards and reports for delays or risks

2. Member Data Maintenance

• Audit and update member static data
• Ensure correct member statuses and deductions
• Review Khanya reports for data risks and swaps

3. Section 13A Compliance

• Ensure contributions and schedules meet deadlines
• Calculate and report late payment interest
• Sign off interest calculations before submission

4. Claims Processing

• Authorize and monitor all claim types
• Ensure timely payments and accurate narratives
• Review daily system reports for risks

5. Direct Housing Loans

• Ensure loan processing meets SLA timelines
• Report risks to management

6. Client Reporting

• Prepare and verify monthly client reports
• Ensure accuracy and timely submission for meetings

7. Administration Reports

• Compile and present reports within SLA timelines
• Provide client training if needed

Tasks

• Monitoring of Unallocated deposits
• Monitoring of Switches on hold/unprocessed
• Monitoring of R/D report in respect of payments returned
• Monitoring of Claims that error
• Monitoring of SARS extract errors
• Monitoring of Home loans to be settled
• Monitoring of timeous responses to emails
• Monitoring of Critical Data changes report
• Discussions with staff members regarding plans and tasks/deadlines
• Checking and processing of bills / transfers in / claims
• Ensure complaints are logged as and when these are received
• Attending to AF Online and SharePoint for rejected claims/claims returned to businesss

Overview

Our client is looking for an experienced BI / Reporting Specialist with strong SQL expertise and a solid understanding of financial principles. In this role, youll design, develop, and maintain business intelligence solutions, ensuring accurate and reliable reporting to support key business decisions. The position requires a balance of technical skill, analytical ability, and client-facing professionalism, with opportunities to work closely with both internal teams and external stakeholders.

• Design, develop, and maintain business intelligence solutions and reporting to support key business decisions.
• Ensure accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of BI and reporting deliverables.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

• Strong proficiency in SQL / T-SQL development and debugging (core requirement).
• Hands-on experience with:
• SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)
• SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
• Microsoft Analysis Services (SSAS)
• Solid understanding of financial principles and experience reconciling and balancing reports.
• Good communication skills in English and Afrikaans (written and verbal).
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver within tight deadlines.
• Must be presentable and comfortable engaging directly with clients.
• Own vehicle or reliable transport required for long hours or client visits.

Should you meet the requirements for this position, please email your CV to You can also contact the team on XXX-XXX or visit our website Correspondence will only be conducted with shortlisted candidates. Should you not hear from us within 3 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Overview

We are seeking a seasoned Mainframe Specialist to join our team and support our client’s Mainframe operations. This role is ideal for a candidate who brings strong technical expertise in mainframe systems, operations, and architecture, with the ability to consult and align solutions with business needs. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting daily operations, advising on best practices, and contributing to strategic planning, maintenance, and disaster recovery readiness.

• Provide expert recommendations for Mainframe solutions and support solution architecture design.
• Assist in developing and maintaining Mainframe technology roadmaps alongside the client's Mainframe team.
• Align technical mainframe activities with the client’s strategic business objectives and requirements.
• Provide recommendations and guidance on Mainframe Disaster Recovery processes and related reporting.
• Support the ongoing operations and maintenance of the Mainframe environment, including incident resolution and performance tuning.
• Collaborate with IBM and internal teams on PSP (Preventive Service Planning) maintenance and vendor support calls.

• Support mainframe maintenance and operational activities based on agreed standards and methodologies.
• Assist in the monitoring of Mainframe hardware and related components.
• Perform day-to-day operating system support tasks.
• Provide support for networking (OSA and TCP/IP), IBM storage hardware (Tape and DASD), and disaster recovery operations.
• Offer consulting services to optimize system performance, enhance security, and support client IT service delivery objectives.

• Proven experience working with IBM Mainframe environments (z/OS or equivalent).
• Strong understanding of Mainframe hardware, operating systems, and networking protocols.
• Hands-on experience with IBM storage technologies including Tape and DASD.
• Knowledge of Disaster Recovery planning and execution within a mainframe environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

• IBM Certified System Programmer – z/OS
• ITIL Foundation
• Any relevant Mainframe and storage-related certifications

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Join a leading financial services firm as an Integration & Data Solutions Specialist ! You’ll build the digital backbone of the business — designing secure, automated integrations and powering data insights through seamless system connectivity and advanced reporting solutions.

• Systems Integration
• Develop, maintain, and optimise integrations using Flowgear and other middleware platforms.
• Write and maintain scripts (PowerShell, Python, or similar) to automate processes and improve efficiency.
• Build and support secure APIs and data pipelines between internal and client systems.
• Troubleshoot integration issues and liaise with vendors when required.

• Data & Analytics
• Support data transformation and reporting initiatives across departments.
• Develop dashboards and reports in Power BI for internal teams and clients.
• Assist with data modelling and ensuring data quality within reporting solutions.
• Collaborate with finance and operations teams to deliver actionable insights.
• Research and evaluate new technologies for integration and analytics.
• Drive automation and process optimisation across IT operations.
• Contribute to the IT strategy by recommending best practices for data flow and reporting.

• Bachelor’s Degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field (preferred).
• 3–5 years’ experience in system integration, scripting, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience with Flowgear or other integration platforms (e.g., Dell Boomi, MuleSoft).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, SQL).
• Experience with Power BI or other BI tools (advantageous).
• Knowledge of APIs, JSON, and data structures.
• Strong analytical mindset with problem-solving ability.
• Good communication skills to work across business units.
• Combination of integration engineering and data analytics.
• Hands-on technical role with opportunities to contribute to business intelligence initiatives.
• Collaboration with IT, Finance, and Operations teams.

The final offer will be based on the skills and requirements outlined above. The offer will be competitive, aligned with your unique profile and value proposition.

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• Full-time

• Information Technology

• Financial Services and IT Services and IT Consulting

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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.

Role will be focused on financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and reporting of management information within central CIB Financial Decision Support (FDS). This central team provides continuous decision support for Exco and senior management within CIB. The Finance Analyst performs financial planning, analysis and reporting in an accurate, complete and timely way; and continuously seeks to improve operations by scaling automated financial processes to doing deep dive and trend analyses to crafting financial solutions aligned to all appropriate controls, business financial health and growth objectives. The Finance Analyst equips finance and business leadership with sound financial information to support decision making at all levels. The Finance Analyst of the business enables achieving the operational objectives of the business by building an agile finance enablement to transform, to bring stewardship, financial integrity & insights to the current state of the business & its future possibilities to deliver on the new operating model and to achieve the business objectives. The Finance Analyst co-creates Finance capabilities required to lead to exponential growth and business effectiveness.

• Serve as a subject matter expert on financial data integrity, accounting processes, reconciliations, analysis and reporting for end-to-end Financial Planning and Management in the business area.
• Develop and sustain knowledge and experience on the end-to-end processes, including relevant systems within scope of work.
• Responsible for continuous operational excellence and real-time responsiveness of finance to enable business to achieve growth and profitability objectives.
• Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and business teams.
• Focus on information-driven performance improvement and formulate data into easy access standardised views.
• Ensure that the CFO is appraised of key financial issues that need to be raised with executive leadership to enable integrity and timely management of the BU.
• Identify and innovate operating practices to optimize the function. Embrace digital solutions and adopt what’s ‘best for absa’ approach in finance practices.
• Drive continuous process efficiency, financial rigor and controls.
• Have a holistic eco-system view of business, that is, geography, customer, channel and product in developing information views of business.
• Build innovative finance business case financial information, insights and benefits tracking solutions to continuously inform management decisions.
• Transform and evolve Finance planning, tracking and control processes.
• Know BU financial ambitions and balance sheet aspirations of CIB in performance reporting.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the core finance processes for CIB Finance (annual planning, forecasting, and reporting).
• Understand and integrate Treasury, Risk, and Finance data from a BU perspective, where appropriate.
• Maintain stewardship and excellence which drives performance and sustainable growth through preservation of financial integrity.
• Be an active force for good in society through business execution.
• Contribute to BCM & cybersecurity processes relevant to the BU and finance execution.
• Build trust in the finance function through the creation of a single source of financial information which is corroborated by related management information sources and alignment to the agreed accounting principles, methodologies, and underlying data are correctly applied.
• Generate innovative easy to comprehend progress reports for leaders on their strategic agenda, short-term and long-term plans and investments, operational success metrics, efficiencies, risks and mitigations.
• Interact with stakeholders to agree minimum quality standards, as well as an agreed method of communicating and resolving any identified quality deficiencies in the reporting process.
• Own the process of delivery of high-quality information for regular and ad-hoc enhanced reporting to agreed requirements, timelines, and standards.
• Act in line with the correct governance and control frameworks across the Finance team, as well as for proactively addressing any deficiencies and exceptions.
• Develop and implement control procedures as deficiencies or exceptions are identified which support the production of error-free reports. Assess and drive improvement of business accounting practices and policies.
• Take a commercial view on business and provide contextual insights into performance reports.
• Generate finance narratives and insights driving business; and build pioneering new propositions.
• Ensure appropriate, quality and timely delivery of accurate financial and non-financial management information to support business objectives and expectations, including appropriate financial and non-financial metrics, valid and insightful comments and packaging the information in a relevant and appropriate manner.
• Deliver reporting reflecting deep commercial, holistic understanding, coherency, clarity, and contextualisation. Tell the story with passion and conviction.
• Provide thought-leadership, insight, influence and challenge on evolving stakeholder information requirements and reporting processes to deliver analytics.
• Align to processes around month-end, year-end and planning cycles across the CIB finance community and BU based on the requirements from Group. Prepare for all cycles in advance and ensure adequate engagement with the relevant finance and BU teams.
• Manage the production of regular, high quality, standardised financial and non-financial reporting and analytics to Business and Finance; and focus on effective collaborative stakeholder hand-offs in the production.
• Peer responsibility: Coach, inspire, engage, mentor and develop finance and business savvy leaders.
• Network with finance colleagues across GFD and create awareness of challenges, opportunities and issues and encourage collaboration
• Focus on Finance skills evolution and remaining relevant.

• CA (SA) or CIMA or MBA qualification preferred.
• 3+ years professional financial planning and/or management experience
• 2+ years Banking Experience
• Knowledge and skills: Proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint essential, Compass system and Power BI experience is advantageous.
• Experience in executing finance processes (e.g. Reporting, Planning, Analysis etc).
• Experience in commercial innovation environments
• Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Financial Sciences (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