Senior Secretary
Absa Group
Date: 1 week ago
City: Johannesburg, Gauteng
Contract type: Full time

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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
To deliver secretarial, general office, administrative, product approval, and product review support services to manager(s) and or team(s) through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Job Description
Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. | Dealing with Stakeholders: Taking responsibility for managing the expectations of stakeholders | Quality Assurance: Maintain a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or production | Meeting deadlines: Completes tasks timeously | Verifying Information: Check different types of information for accuracy and inconsistency | Assisting with secretarial related duties to the Head of Operations | Drafting the minutes (within a 5- working day turnaround) of the BU Product Risk Governance Committee, being the relevant Product Approval Committee | Learning the practical product governance duties in the business | Supporting with assessment of new providers and new products through the identification and measurement of key inherent risks to the provider and/or product, the articulation of mitigating controls, as well as robust cross-functional challenge to enable the Product Approval Committee and the Funds Selection Committees to make well-informed decisions | Supporting with conducting the ongoing Product Family Reviews | Fulfil from time-to-time Product Owner related duties and support the Business in delivering the expected output | Perform tasks assigned related to the product family review process | Performing tasks as-and-when assigned in relation to Board Reporting which will include prompting the relevant parties to deliver their submissions on time, scrutinizing the quality of the submissions, and measure it against the ‘ask’ in the minutes, and providing the feedback to the Head of Product Governance and Reporting.
Education
Higher Diplomas: Office Administration (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
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
To deliver secretarial, general office, administrative, product approval, and product review support services to manager(s) and or team(s) through the execution of predefined objectives as per agreed standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Job Description
Administrative Activities: Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. | Dealing with Stakeholders: Taking responsibility for managing the expectations of stakeholders | Quality Assurance: Maintain a desired level of quality in a service or product, especially by means of attention to every stage of the process of delivery or production | Meeting deadlines: Completes tasks timeously | Verifying Information: Check different types of information for accuracy and inconsistency | Assisting with secretarial related duties to the Head of Operations | Drafting the minutes (within a 5- working day turnaround) of the BU Product Risk Governance Committee, being the relevant Product Approval Committee | Learning the practical product governance duties in the business | Supporting with assessment of new providers and new products through the identification and measurement of key inherent risks to the provider and/or product, the articulation of mitigating controls, as well as robust cross-functional challenge to enable the Product Approval Committee and the Funds Selection Committees to make well-informed decisions | Supporting with conducting the ongoing Product Family Reviews | Fulfil from time-to-time Product Owner related duties and support the Business in delivering the expected output | Perform tasks assigned related to the product family review process | Performing tasks as-and-when assigned in relation to Board Reporting which will include prompting the relevant parties to deliver their submissions on time, scrutinizing the quality of the submissions, and measure it against the ‘ask’ in the minutes, and providing the feedback to the Head of Product Governance and Reporting.
Education
Higher Diplomas: Office Administration (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
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