Personal and Private Banking (PPB) Feature Analyst Graduate Programme

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

To deliver value in the form of business outcomes by collaborating within the feature team and key stakeholders. Responsible for ensuring that requirements map back to the business value and that the entire feature team knows what and how they are implementing towards the desired requirement.

Your exposure and learning will include (But will not be limited to);

• Capturing and keep the business and data rules up-to-date.
• Capturing Epics, Stories and tasks onto Jira and produce periodic statistics and reports.
• Clarifying any ambiguity until it is understood by the team.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, /UX, technology, support, testing and other subject matter experts to gather and analyse functional needs and user story requirements.
• Creating a shared understanding of what the product is supposed to do.
• Creating relevant analysis documentation resulting from elicitation sessions.
• Ensuring that the activities needed to fulfil each item in the backlog are identified and outlined before the next sprint.
• Ensuring that where stories are blocked, these stories are identified for prioritisation to other iterations and new stories identified to replace them in the current iteration.
• Facilitating and participate in discovery/inception workshops to create a shared understanding of user needs and the potential technology solution required to deliver to these needs.

Final year undergraduate, Honours or Masters Degree (Completed or currently completing in 2025);

• Computer Science
• Electronic Engineering
• Informatics, Information Systems
• Information Technology
• Software Development
• Software Engineering

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Must be a South African citizen
• Must be under 30 years of age
• No more than two years’ work experience
• Minimum of 65% average over all years of study

KEY SKILLS AND ATTRIBUTES

• Working collaboratively with others
• Resilience
• Creative problem solving and considered decision making
• Curiosity and willingness to learn
• Positive attitude and self confidence
• Business acumen