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i have a good relationship with my stakeholers however its a bit of a challange to maintain those relationships because people sometimes move internally to different roles or externally. the most challanging aspect of the job is to maintain relationships or build new ones as a result of the internal and exyternal moves as a result of structural changes currently happening. another challange is to do your daily compliance related tasks that business needs to complete as my work depends entirely on them while keeping up with the constsant changes as a result of the divorce with Barclays. i enjoy giving advice to stakeholders in terms of sharing my knowledge and being part of projects as i get to learn a lot about the operational side of things and conflict resolution skills. typical work day is attending to emails, meetings and giving advice when solicited.
Pros: great opportunities for career and personal growth
Cons: lack of financial recognition
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It rewards me greatly to assist employers in achieving legal compliance to the OHS Act.
In my current role as a Senior Group OHS Consultant for Absa I pride myself in being a part of an Operations and Facilities Management division for a building portfolio in excess of 600 corporate and retail branch sites. I have worked on numerous Absa projects in African countries to enhance their OHS compliance statistics and have made a significant impact. I am also constantly willing to share my knowledge and build innovation with my colleagues, making a positive difference wherever I work. I have demonstrated my ability and confidence to work with leaders across business job grades and I enjoy being a team leader by mentoring 4 consultants within my work stream. Under crisis and pressured circumstances I remain adaptable and self-motivated as I continue to design and implement integrated action plans.
Pros: Great corporate environment that places Safety first on their list
Cons: Limited room for growth
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Large server estate is challenging and no day is the same as the previous
I am currently a senior in the WIndows Server Support team at one of the 5 big banks in the South Africa. My day starts with generating MI reports on various metrics for Management. These metrics include latest figures of patching of our ~13,000 servers and managing our large Configuration Management Database. (CMDB). Daily responsibilities include reviewing and approving changes in our big estate, accepting tasks to maintain the CMDB and do changes to this information. Another task is to review access requests and approve for implementation by our team. I lead by sharing knowledge. My primary goal in the team is to enable each of my team members to support the estate as well as I do. Customer is key, do not just pass the buck, I own an incident, problem or change end to end and ensure the customer is serviced timorously. The most challenging aspect is being expected of knowing detail figures on the without being afforded time to refer to the latest data and then report back.
Pros: Constant challenges in all aspects of IT.
Cons: Many hours proving your core area is not the problem.
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Excellent for starting a career for learning on being a team player and understanding
Good day, Hope this review get you well, Started as a Teller Branch Service Consultant referring non clients to open an accounts applications etc… so that branch can reach their targets, Got permanent as a Customer Service clerk where, I dealt with administrations filling, handling complaints and investigations on clients financials, training and educating clients of their banking and processes to make banking simple for them, assisted in branch administration and operations and security making sure that everything is up and running for branch to open and help clients, balanced the tellers and did cash counts at the end of the day. Learned more about handling financiers and working with different customers, time management and filling.
Pros: Great opportunity to learn
Cons: Too sales target and paper work which can be improved
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The skillset I have obtained throughout the years, was as a result of ABSA
Everyday is different and must be embraced individually. The co-workers and colleagues definitely make life easier with tight time constraints and high levels of expectation.
Pros: Extensive volumes of different cases to deal with making it interesting
Cons: No promotional oppurtunities which is frtustrating as I know I will be a wonderful manager and I am not reluctant to teach and share skills
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EXCELLENT
Been in banking fr almost 18 years where I have upheld positions starting from being a teller to being Private banker. Where I was responsible for a portfolio of 450 clients residents, temp, immigrants and so fort.
Pros: LOTS OF OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Cons: KIND OF A A 24/7 POSITION AS YOU HANDLE A PORTFOLIO OF INTERNATIONLA CLIENTS WITH THE TIME DIFFERECES
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Passionate about Auditing, building and managing client relations, reporting and risk management.
Passionate Internal Audit Senior with a flair for client engagements and rapport, relationship building, quality and detail, customer centric, focused on risk and controls, issues assurance, audit, control and culture environment reporting. Operational Risk management and International experience in a global firm.
Pros: Big company, good company perks
Cons: Long hours, not enough work life balance
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Excellent Learning Curve
Execution of Assurance work in planning, fieldwork or reporting. Obtaining data and information from various sources analysing and reporting information to mamanement. Assisting colleague as a assurance specialist in methodology and execution. reviewing report and quality of work. Assessing Risk control matrices and verifying reports. Learnt to cope with stress and plan and achieve targets. Learnt regulatory requirement abd business practices and information systems. Process data and information into meaningful reports.
Pros: Great employee benefits
Cons: Re-active and slow decision making
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Strong and dedicated
Responsible for reporting for Absa African subsidiaries in 12 countries. Responsible for financial statements and overall audit process Responsible for stakeholder management
Pros: Strong Network and building relationships
Cons: None
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Consistent learning curve
For me a typical working day is hectic, normally working 8-10 hours a day depending on the volume of work, my relationship with my colleagues is usually quite casual but professional, i have learnt that I should maintain a good relationship with my colleagues, which maximizes reliance on each other as well as improve efficiency. The one thing i enjoy the most is the comfort of the office, which is set up in a very warm and homely way, and the most challenging aspect of the job is having to resolve a conflict between colleagues in the office.
Pros: Employee benefits
Cons: Lack of growth within the department
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