Personal and Private Banking (PPB) Financial Operations Graduate Programme

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Job Overview
Business Segment: Personal & Private Banking
Company: Standard Bank of South Africa
Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street
Job Type: Full-time
Job Ref ID: 80452260A-0001
Date Posted: 5/6/2026

Job Description

You will join the Financial Operations (FinOps) capability within PPB Technology South Africa, supporting business units and geographies across the Standard Bank Group. FinOps play a critical role in enabling financial accountability, cost transparency and value optimization across our technology and cloud environments.

This role is suited to an early career professional with strong academic foundations, an interest in technology and data, and the ability to translate information into meaningful business insights. While this is a junior role, you will work on real FinOps initiatives and contribute directly to how the business manages and optimizes its technology spend

By the end of the programme, you will have gained exposure to and developed skills in:

Apply FinOps principles to support cost transparency, optimisation and value management across technology platforms
Analyze cloud and technology usage data to identify trends, variances and optimisation opportunities
Support the preparation of reports, dashboards and insights that enable data driven financial and operational decisions
Work with engineering, finance, product and business teams to improve awareness and accountability of technology consumption
Assist with usage and rate optimization activities across public cloud, data platforms, GenAI initiatives, and on-premises environments
Use tools such as Power BI and cloud native services to visualize and interpret cost and usage data
Contribute to the continuous improvement of FinOps processes, controls and practices, including automation and GenAI use cases
Develop an understanding of how technology investment translates into business value
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