Senior Manager : Financial Resource Management

Absa Group LimitedZA

26 days ago

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Job title : Senior Manager : Financial Resource Management

Job Location : Gauteng,

Deadline : November 30, 2025

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Provide strategic leadership in financial resource management by integrating profitability, earnings volatility, capital, liquidity, and balance sheet insights into decision-making frameworks.

Shape the cluster’s return architecture by defining and managing hurdle rates, challenging pricing methodologies, and ensuring strategic alignment with bank-wide capital efficiency goals.

Drive optimization through oversight of profitability, pricing performance, and resource consumption, translating financial strategy into actionable targets. Act as a key advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring that product-level decisions reflect strategic value, risk appetite, and sustainable return delivery.

Job Description

Strategic Analytics & Resource Optimisation

Shape and grow earnings through client acquisition; pricing; capital and balance sheet strategies to support business growth and financial resilience.

Assess and optimize capital allocation efficiency with cognisance of the Growth / Return / Volatility FRM framework.

Evaluate resource allocation proposals and contribute to enterprise-level prioritisation aligned with return objectives.

Use advanced analytics to identify client / revenue / lending portfolio tilts and strategic investment areas across customer segments.

Translate financial insights and medium term strategies into actionable recommendations on resource deployment and performance improvement.

Financial management and Business Partnering

Guide the setting and translation of performance targets to business units and products.

Monitor return delivery and provide insights to optimise portfolio and pricing outcomes.

Support robust governance across financial resource decisions, pricing practices, and performance monitoring.

Ensure consistent application of frameworks that support disciplined financial management.

Provide thought leadership through financial insight and external benchmarking.

Partner with senior stakeholders across business, finance, risk and treasury to embed FRM principles into core decision-making.

Strategic Analytics and Resource Optimisation

People Management

Develop internal capability by developing the FRM skillset within the broader bank, to ensure the necessary resources are in place to achieve business strategy and objectives.

Implement the people management strategy for the area, in collaboration with the HRBP for the business unit, focusing on talent management, development, resourcing, and retention.

Embed formal Performance Development and informal coaching within the team.

Motivate the team and implement measures to recognize and reward direct reports.

Inspire team members through coaching and mentoring, helping them to perform optimally in alignment with the vision and values, and create a sense of urgency and excitement around the business.

Education and Experience Required

Minimum B-degree (NQF level no.7) Desired Post Graduate Degree (NQF level no.8+)

Preferred team lead in Treasury; Loan pricing or Credit Capital & Impairment modelling teams, or similar technical banking environments

5+ years professional financial management (including loan pricing) and / or credit risk management experience

5+ years Banking Experience at a management level

Experience in business transformation contexts related to exponential business growth

Experience in commercial innovation environments

Broad Finance including strategic, commercial, legal, risk and operational aspects

Ability to build, develop & lead professional level teams

Understanding of the financial services sector within a professional business environment

Knowledge & Skills :

Strong understanding of the revenue levers within a Retail bank (Advanced)

Writing & reporting – seeking ability to condense technical information into understandable and actionable reports (Advanced)

Presentation skills and comfort in presenting to executive level / C-suite (Advanced)

Proficiency in data analysis tools (Excel and at least one programming language (primarily SQL, Python or SAS)

Banking regulation in Credit risk (Expert), and / or Basel Capital (Advanced)

Understanding of corporate controls and checks (Advanced)

Computer literacy (Expert)

Excellent organizational skills (Advanced)

Relationship management and networking (Advanced)

Ability to react positively under pressure (Advanced)

Competencies :

Banking product economics thinking

Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking

Decision making under pressure

Action orientated with less than whole-picture information

Curiousity and questioning the status quo

Adapting and responding to change Planning

Learning and researching

Planning and organising

Relating and networking, Leading and supervising

Education

Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications : Financial Sciences (Required)

End Date : October 28, 2025

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