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 To support the Pan African growth ambition by taking a leading role in originating Commercial Property Finance transactions, deal structuring and implementation outside of South Africa including direct coverage of real estate clients. Leverage the CPF and Owner-Occupied product capabilities to deliver the Pan African bank to clients through coordinated regional stakeholder engagement. Successful incumbent will have an Accounting, Science or Engineering Degree /similar with a minimum of 5 yearsxe2x80x99 experience in property or project finance environment and experience in debt funding environment for African jurisdictions .

• Originate, structure, and execute transactions for real estate clients across the bank
• Achieve financial targets across various matrix including actively driving revenue, balance sheet, ESG and ancillary revenue growth as agreed with the Head of CPF, ARO and EA;
• Actively track all deals in the pipeline including progress and status of each deal, fee collection update and quantum of disbursements expected to fully address any revenue and balance sheet gaps;
• Broaden the CPF value proposition and maintain high levels of client centricity;
• Actively drive initiatives to increase CPFxe2x80x99s market share across the region, retain customer and introduce new-to-bank customerxe2x80x99s;
• Develop and maintain strong and collaborative internal relationships with regional teams and enable the development of bespoke client solutions;
• Take a leading role in evaluating and executing property finance transactions and promote and demonstrate a culture of cross-selling and innovation;
• Manage and develop strong external and strategic relationships with stakeholders across the real estate value chain;
• Achieve annual agreed financial targets;
• Proactive risk management
• Apply sector expertise to real estate funding opportunities in the region and develop an appropriate network to maximise all potential opportunities;
• Structure to win the right deals and develop appropriate market knowledge around pricing, structure, competitor, and client behaviours;

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

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