Specialist Trade Finance and International Banking
Apply remote type Hybrid locations Cape Town time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: December 3, 2024 (3 days left to apply) job requisition id R-15969803
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
In this role you will provide specialist value added service and solutions to customers to meet business growth in Trade Finance & International Banking, by customer acquisition, retention and facilitating internal and external relationships across stakeholder touch points.
Job Description
Your accountabilities will include:
- Identifying and reviewing client needs so as to provide advice and deliver products and services by maintaining a strong relationship with clients and stakeholders.
- Resolving client issues appropriately and escalate those unable to resolve to the respective banker or Regional Sales Manager.
- Identifying market and industry trends, by analyzing sector research, economic periodicals and industry journals and advise CIB stakeholders and clients on these.
- Regularly identifying and reviewing client needs so as to provide advice and deliver product and services by maintaining strong relationship with customers and being solution oriented.
- Joint client visit with coverage bankers to provide customer solutions, and where necessary attend, client visits alone.
- Acting as an ambassador for ABSA with clients and maintain strong long term relationship by applying formal and informal client relationship management techniques.
- Providing advice in the handling of complex client transactions by providing additional insight, detail and information on clients, where appropriate (examples would include credit arrangements or Excon dispensations).
- Educating, sensitising and providing feedback to internal target market stakeholders regarding the joint responsibility to achieve income objectives.
- Establishing relationships with potential clients and pursue opportunities to expand CIB Trade, International Banking & Working Capital business for the related segment/sector.
- Contracting new business opportunities by identifying current and new clients for expansion in transaction volumes and value extraction through cross selling of products or services.
- Growing own client portfolio by attracting new clients through participating in promotions, at and sales initiatives in order to achieve and exceed contracted sales targets.
- Negotiating and closing deals with customers to realize set targets.
Please send us your CV if you have:
- B Degree in Banking, Economics and Finance.
- Current FAIS Qualifications required with minimum 6 months FAIS experience.
- 4 years General Banking experience (advantage) plus 4 years International Banking/Trade Finance/ Working Capital advisory experience.
Education
Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: 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.
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