Job Description

Bring your possibility to life! Define your career with us

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 Job Summary

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adoption i.t.o. customer management and complaints resolution methodology, governance and delivery objectives.



Accountability:

• Service Recovery and the Complaints Resolution process: Investigate the nature of the complaints by liaising with customer and business units and provide Complaints Root Cause Analysis report and remediation recommendations.
• Represent ABSA as a point of reference, best practice and ownership in the business for complaints within Collections.
• People management: Oversee the activities of the team to ensure effective delivery and lead a complaints team to achieve operational excellence through continuous people development and mentoring activities.
• Governance & Control: Ensure necessary regulatory requirements related to service are adhered to and strictly applied.
• Building & Maintaining Networks: Develop and maintain relationships with key external business partners to allow for ease of communication and interaction. Stay abreast of regulatory changes impacting on the customer and communicate and take the necessary steps to ensure that ABSA is prepared to meet the changing regulatory needs.
• Reporting: Provide reports on all customer complaints with regard to volumes, trends, and long outstanding cases. Provide a comparative overview across all Competitors in reporting where available.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of systems for the management of complaints.
• Assist in the development and management of procedures and policies for complaints.
• Provide root cause of complaints to various forum and seek ways of process improvement through people or systems.

Education and Experience Required

• Minimum NQF level 6 xe2x80x93 Bachelorxe2x80x99s degree xe2x80x93 Bcom
• Honours degree xe2x80x93 desirable
• Minimum 5 yearsxe2x80x99 experience in a Financial Institution
• Minimum 5 yearxe2x80x99s managerial experience

Knowledge & Skills: (Maximum of 6)

• Knowledge of complaint management legislation.
• An understanding of the operations of a banking service environment.
• Keeping abreast of changes in industry and developing own competency through continuing education.

Education

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: 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

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