SWIFT Senior Analyst

Time left to apply: End Date: November 21, 2024 (6 days left to apply)

Job requisition ID: R-15969352

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

Are you a Swift expert and have kept abreast of the changes within the Swift payments space? Join the CIB Payments team as a Senior Swift Analyst. In this role, you will deliver an improved Swift capability across the Absa group to support the strategic deliverables of the various business areas. The role further encompasses management of the Swift Centre of Excellence analysts ensuring the team delivers a consistent, first-class service to its customers (internal and external) across a broad range of products.

Job Description

Key accountabilities

• Ensure the Swift CoE is driving the business roadmap for Swift across the continent
• Be the main representative from Group Payments and CIB ops for the Swift book of work including managing stakeholder expectations with regards to timeframes and benefits of improvements/projects
• Accountable for providing trend and root cause analysis for all Swift issues within the bank forums
• Plan and influence the SWIFT strategy across the bank with stakeholders, senior management and change teams
• Engage, build and manage key stakeholders’ relationships with individuals and teams from the following business units.
• Manage the team and build a cohesive unit which delivers results across a number of different tasks including monitoring, project initiation and trend analysis
• Develop a high performing team by embedding formal performance development and informal coaching. Encourage frequent knowledge sharing between team members
• Develop and implement SWIFT best practice standards
• Ensure that processes, control requirements and risk management frameworks that impact the area are documented and understood by all members of the team
• Benchmark productivity of the department against industry standards and create measures to improve productivity agreed and manage SLAs with internal customers (agree annually and measure on a monthly basis)

Education and Experience Required

• BCom Degree in Finance or Business Management
• 6 years’ banking industry experience gained through Swift and Payments
• Experience in SWIFT and International payments
• Must have knowledge of ISO 20022

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.

About Us

Truly African

We are a diversified standalone African financial services group, delivering an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth, investment management and insurance.

Absa Group Limited is listed on the JSE and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups with a presence in 12 countries across the continent and around 41,000 employees.

We own majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (ABSA Bank in Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda, and Zambia. We also have offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, a Technology Hub in Prague, and insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.