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Commercial Relationship Manager at Absa -May 2025

  • Banking Jobs
  • Dar es salaam
  • 30/04/2025
  • TSh700,000 - TSh750,000 /monthly
  • Full Time

Job Overview

  • Date Posted:
    Posted 30/04/2025
  • Expiration date:
  • Location:
    Dar es salaam
  • Hours:
    7 / day
  • Salary:
    TSh700,000 - TSh750,000 /monthly
  • Experience:
    5 years
  • Number Of Recruitments:
    1
  • Gender:
    Both

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, Absa Group Limited, sometimes known simply as Absa, is a global banking and financial services corporation. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the company offers a broad spectrum of services including personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, and bank assurance.

The group runs in 10 Sub-Saharan African nations: South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Apart from worldwide operations in London and New York City, a technological support office in the Czech Republic, and representative offices in Namibia and Nigeria, it also runs Absa said R1.9 trillion in assets as of June 2024.

Pending regulatory approval, Absa Group said lately that Kenny Fihla would be its new Group Chief Executive Officer starting 17 June 2025. With twenty years of experience, Fihla is a seasoned financial services executive.

Absa's beginnings go back to 1986, when a merger included United Building Society Holdings, Allied Bank South Africa, Volkskas Bank Group, and portions of the Sage Group created the Amalgamated Banks of South Africa (ABSA) Limited. ABSA bought the whole Bankorp Group in 1992, which comprised TrustBank, Senbank, and Bankfin. In 1997, the holding company's name was changed to Absa Group Limited; by the next year, historical names such United, Volkskas, Allied, and TrustBank were abandoned in favour of the unified Absa brand.

British banking behemoth Barclays bought a 56.4 percent interest in Absa in May 2005, a decision that drew fire from Tito Mboweni, then-governor of the South African Reserve Bank, who questioned the real advantages of Barclays' participation. The group was renamed Barclays Africa Group Limited after the purchase.

One particularly noteworthy event had place in 2004 when a dissatisfied consumer let five puff adders loose into Absa's Johannesburg headquarters following a six-year legal struggle over the repossession of his car. The client was eventually found guilty of severe assault; one person was hurt.

Absa came under fire for its electronic banking fees from 2005 to 2012. Between 2008 and 2010, Finweek's Bank Charges Reports regularly placed the group as South Africa's priciest bank. During that time, pay-as-you-transact fees increased by 82 percent. By 2012, nevertheless, the bank's Gold Value Bundle was judged the cheapest among four main banks; by 2013, its PAYT pricing had fallen 25%, putting it third overall in affordability.

Absa Group bought all outstanding share capital of Barclays Africa Limited in 2013 and issued more than 129 million shares to Barclays Africa Group Holdings Limited, therefore raising Barclays plc's ownership to 62.3 percent. From July 31, 2013, these shares were listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The group was then formally renamed Barclays Africa Group Limited in August of the same year.

Busisiwe Mkhwebane, South Africa's Public Protector, said in 2017 that a bailout totaling R1.125 billion given to Bankorp Group between 1985 and 1992 was illegal and advised Absa to pay back R2.25 billion. The Pretoria High Court, however, later reversed this decision, alleging Mkhwebane's unethical behaviour. The court even mandated that she personally incur certain legal expenses; the Constitutional Court confirmed this in July 2019.

JOB OVERVIEW

A job with our family provides the chance to be part of this thrilling growth path, to reset our future and build our destiny as a proudly African group, strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and worldwide knowledge, with more than 100 years of rich heritage.

My Career Development Website: Wherever you are in your profession, we are here for you. Design your future. Find modern advice, resources and assistance to help you reach your full potential. You are Absa.  You are potential.

JOB TITLE: Commercial Relationship Manager

Job Summary

• To maintain and manage a portfolio of Business banking clients, developing long term partnerships based on consistent and dependable support for their company. Quick risk judgments and maintaining operational service consistency and quality help to especially do this.
The main goal is to maximise risk-adjusted portfolio contribution.
Business development both with new clients and with current ones where they are anticipated to raise "wallet share" will be the responsibility of the jobholder.

Job Description

Job Purpose.

  • Building long term partnerships based on efficient and dependable support for their business, to manage and sustain a portfolio of Business banking customers. Quick risk judgments and maintaining operational service consistency and quality help to achieve this especially.
    Maximizing risk-adjusted portfolio contribution is the main goal.
    Business development both with new clients and with current ones where they are anticipated to raise "wallet share" will fall within the jobholder's purview.

Main accountabilities and approximate time split

Sales and Service: 65%

  • Keep Relationship Plans for every portfolio client so that customer interaction comes first.
    Review consumers using borrowing facilities annually and, if relevant, interim.
    Hold annual and, if relevant, interim evaluations with non-borrowing clients.
    Decide on the most suitable means of communication after identifying the main messages—e.g., established service standards, negotiated price, relationship team contact points, and new product modifications.
    Handle and resolve consumer complaints
    Identify the items that best satisfy client wants and be able to sell these at short notice both reactively and proactively.
    Develop, monitor, and research a target list for possible new business.

Business Management 30%

  • Develop, implement, and track a target list for possible new business.
    Use the Customer Relationship Planning templates to evaluate current and future contribution, hence identifying priority clients.
    Collect all the necessary data to evaluate and process credit applications. Role holder will be asked to enter some crucial data including judgmental information. Working with CMA and CCM resources, they will build credit applications.
    Using accessible triggers and following Risk management policies and guidelines, control and quality of the portfolio.

 Staff Management 5%

  • Day to day coaching and development of Corporate Service’ Assistants

Risk and Controls Objectives

  • Make that all tasks and activities are done in complete accordance with Absa Operational Risk Framework, internal Absa Policies & Standards and regulatory requirements.
    Applying relevant risk frameworks and instilling a positive risk culture can help you to manage risk and control efficiently.
    Knowing your part in the end-to-end processes including relevant risks and controls.
    Show good judgement and appropriate risk management by following Absa's rules and procedures relevant to personal function.
    Using the specified procedure for your company sector, report all risk events, incidents, and problems and assist in understanding their causes and how to stop them in future. By thinking about what could go wrong in the processes you run and how mistakes could be avoided, actively seek solutions to strengthen the control environment.
    Ongoing and aggressive interaction with unions where relevant, regulatory authorities
    All required training finished by deadline.

Technical skills / Competencies

  • Relationship skills
  • Credit Risk skills
  • General Corporate skills
  • Communications skills

Knowledge, Expertise and Experience

  • Meeting customers’ needs                                             
  • Business awareness                                                         
  • Business development                                                    
  • Managing Relationships                                                 
  • Innovative                                                                         
  • Analysis and judgement
  • Personal Organization
  • Adaptability
  • Decision making
  • Team results
  • Active listening

Absa Values

Absa Purpose Values and Behaviors are the set of criteria that guides the behavior of all of us who work for the bank and against which the performance of every one of us in Absa are being judged and rewarded:

  • Trust
  • Resourceful
  • Stewardship
  • Inclusive
  • Courage

Education

National Diplomas and Advanced Certificates: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

How to Apply:

This is Full-time Job, To submit your application, please follow the link provided below.

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