Senior Product Manager: Core Transactional VAS

Absa Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Group is seeking a product professional to implement and lead the delivery of strategic products, ensuring the business stays at the leading edge of technology, contributing across the technology stack from database infrastructure to native apps.

You will collaborate with tech, operations and channels to deliver end-to-end product outcomes, and continuously review risk and product processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas in Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences are required.

Responsibilities

• Product Enhancement: Remain abreast of industry standards to identify new product opportunities.
• Risk and Control: Continuously review product processes to identify areas of real and potential risk within the Product
• Product Analysis: Review Product process to continuously look for enhancements within the product process
• Stakeholder Management: Manage relationships with critical stakeholders such as tech, operations, channel etc to ensure optimal product delivery end to end

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences

Job description

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

Implement and lead on delivery of strategic products to ensuring that business stays on leading edge of technology, contributing across the technology stack, from database and develops infrastructure that supports continuous deployment, to native apps.

Job Description

• Product Enhancement: Remain abreast of industry standards to identify new product opportunities.
• Risk and Control: Continuously review product processes to identify areas of real and potential risk within the Product
• Product Analysis: Review Product process to continuously look for enhancements within the product process
• Stakeholder Management: Manage relationships with critical stakeholders such as tech, operations, channel etc to ensure optimal product delivery end to end

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life 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

At Absa, our story is not a single narrative. It’s thousands of individual journeys unfolding across Africa and beyond. From colleagues serving customers in local communities to teams shaping financial solutions across borders, Absa is built on people who bring their lived experiences, ambitions and perspectives into the workplace every day. Whether you’re starting your career, a seasoned leader or somewhere in between, your contribution is seen, valued and connected to something bigger. Our presence across Africa – which spans personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, and insurance – exists because of the people who show up in their roles with purpose. Across Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, our colleagues are shaping what Absa becomes in each market. Beyond the continent, teams in global offices and a technology hub support and extend the stories that prove that African talent can lead, influence and innovate on the global stage. At Absa, your story matters because progress is driven by human experience, not hierarchy. When people are enabled to bring their whole selves to work, they don’t just build careers. They help shape the future of Africa’s financial services landscape.