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Senior Finance Manager – Technology & Digital at Absa Group, Sandton

Senior Finance Manager – Technology & Digital at Absa Group in Sandton. Full-time. Apply with swipeandhired.

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

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.

Belonging at Absa
Absa is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from suitably qualified individuals from diverse backgrounds. In support of our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) commitments and Employment Equity objectives, preference may be given to candidates from underrepresented designated groups, including persons with disabilities. We encourage applicants who may require reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process to let us know so that appropriate support can be provided.
Job Summary
To provide strategic financial leadership and commercial challenge to the Business Banking Technology & Digital function, ensuring technology expenditure, investments and architecture decisions deliver measurable business value.
The role will provide end-to-end financial oversight across technology run costs, infrastructure, cloud, applications, software and licensing, technology vendors and strategic change. It will translate complex technology decisions into clear financial and commercial insights that enable informed investment, prioritisation and cost optimisation.

Job Description

Key accountabilities

Technology financial management

Own financial planning, forecasting and performance management for the Technology portfolio.
Develop transparency of technology costs across applications, platforms, infrastructure, vendors and business services.
Establish clear views of Run vs Change expenditure and key cost drivers.
Understand and challenge technology allocations and consumption-based charges.
Develop Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and unit-cost perspectives for major technology services.
Identify structural cost optimisation opportunities rather than relying only on tactical budget reductions.

Strategic technology investment and business cases

Partner Technology executives on investment prioritisation and portfolio decisions.
Build and challenge business cases across cloud migration, application modernisation, automation, digital platforms and technology transformation.
Evaluate NPV, IRR, payback, P&L, cash-flow and balance-sheet implications of investments.
Monitor benefits realisation against approved investment cases.
Provide financial challenge on build vs buy, migrate vs retain and invest vs decommission decisions.

Cloud economics and FinOps

Build sufficient understanding of Azure/AWS economics to challenge cloud consumption and optimisation opportunities.
Understand consumption-based pricing, tagging and allocation methodologies.
Partner Technology teams to improve transparency of cloud spend and accountability.
Identify opportunities to optimise cloud utilisation and reduce inefficient consumption.
Understand the financial implications of cloud migration and architecture decisions.

Application and technology portfolio economics

Develop financial views at application/platform/service level , not only cost-centre level.
Integrate application run costs, infrastructure, licences, vendor expenditure and change investment to determine full economic cost.
Identify duplicate, underutilised or high-cost applications and platforms.
Support application rationalisation and decommissioning decisions.
Translate technology architecture choices into understandable financial consequences.

Technology commercial and vendor management

Provide financial challenge on technology contracts, software licensing, SaaS, outsourcing and professional services.
Analyse vendor cost trends and commercial commitments.
Support contract renewal and commercial negotiation decisions.
Challenge licence utilisation, demand and unit pricing.
Assess the long-term TCO implications of major vendor and platform choices.

Technology performance and value management

Establish a stronger connection between:
Technology spend → technology performance → customer/business outcome → financial value

Data, analytics and management insight

Develop decision-quality reporting through Power BI and advanced Excel .
Analyse large datasets to identify technology cost drivers and optimisation opportunities.
Create executive dashboards linking financial and technology KPIs.
Perform scenario, sensitivity and driver-based modelling.
Translate complex technology financial information into concise Exco-level insights.
Use data to move Finance from retrospective reporting toward forward-looking commercial insight.

Strategic business partnering

Act as a credible financial adviser to BB CIO and Technology leadership.
Constructively challenge technology investment, architecture and sourcing decisions.
Translate technical discussions into financial and commercial implications.
Influence decisions through fact-based analysis rather than financial control alone.
Connect Technology priorities to BB strategy, customer outcomes, productivity and financial objectives.

Critical skills and experience
Finance and commercial
Essential

Technology financial management
FP&A, budgeting and forecasting
Business-case development
Investment appraisal
TCO modelling
Cost allocation and driver-based costing
Benefits realisation
Capex/Opex and capitalisation understanding
Commercial/vendor analysis
Advanced financial modelling

Technology
Essential / strongly preferred

Technology Business Management ( TBM ) concepts
FinOps / cloud economics
Application economics
Technology cost-allocation methodologies
Software and licensing economics
Technology vendor management
Understanding of infrastructure and cloud services
Technology change/investment lifecycle

Working knowledge

APIs and integration
SaaS
Databases and compute
Cloud vs on-premise architecture
Cybersecurity and resilience
Digital platforms
AI and automation economics
Application rationalisation and technical debt

Education

Postgraduate Degrees and Professional Qualifications: Financial Sciences (Required)