People and Culture
We are committed to enabling our people to reach their full potential and contribute to Africa's growth. Our leaders prioritise the people agenda because they recognise that our people are our brand and that their expertise and dedication drive client loyalty and business growth. We partner with leaders to accelerate growth and cultivate our culture, creating an environment where all our people have opportunities to engage in meaningful work and develop for the future.
Our People and Culture team is focused on helping the company achieve its goals by making sure we understand and adapt to changes in the business. We also look outside the company to learn how to make our team even better. Our team works across all parts of the business, providing services and expertise to everyone. We're focused on making the employee experience more connected and personalised.
We use data to make smart decisions about our people, offer programmes to support their well-being, provide great learning opportunities and reward good work. We're committed to making it easier for our people to do their jobs and serve our clients. Because the markets we operate in are changing so quickly, there are many different and exciting career opportunities as we prepare the company for the future of work.
Our department areas
Business Partnering
Our People and Culture business partners work to create strong relationships between the company and its employees. They use their expertise to help leaders turn business plans into people plans for their teams.
By focusing on the most critical challenges, driving macro-level, people-centric solutions and navigating stakeholder requirements, they innovate for the future, serving the entire business value chain. Ultimately, they are stewards, role models and catalysts for the business-wide culture, providing expert guidance to our leaders and driving strategic alignment.
People Solutions
Our People Solutions teams are centres of excellence that design and deliver integrated, people-centric solutions and programmes scalable across the Group. As subject matter experts, we drive future focus, innovation and design with a focus on the complete employee journey. These solutions demonstrate our commitment to enabling our people to achieve their aspirations and driving success in our chosen markets.
We leverage rich employee insights, a clear business strategy focused on driving Africa's growth and world-class standards to expand our practices and ecosystem partnerships to better serve a platform business, develop our people's capabilities, and ensure future skills readiness.
We support the Group with the following people solution areas:
- Leadership development
- Employee insights
- Diversity and inclusion
- Employee relations
- Employee wellbeing
- Learning
- Organisational effectiveness
- Performance management
- Talent acquisition
- Talent and succession
- Benefits
- Reward
- Mobility
Digitisation, insights and operations (DIO)
Supporting the bank's ambitious platform services vision, DIO is transforming the employee experience by delivering secure, personalised and digitally enhanced solutions. We have automated numerous routine processes and are continuously seeking new ways to empower employees to work anywhere using intuitive digital tools. We also provide support to help our teams navigate disruptive change.
Our people data provides valuable insights that enable us to understand, change and shape the world around us. By leveraging the power of data, we empower our teams and leaders to make informed and responsive people decisions. Our commitment to creating actionable people insights and enhancing predictive analytics is driven by our passion for data-driven decision-making and a personalised employee experience.
Working in close collaboration with our engineering, business and people solutions teams, we are constantly experimenting and innovating. While prioritising data quality and reliability, we are also actively listening to our people to shape the capabilities of our business and create an exciting future.
We provide the Group in the following areas:
- Data
- Digital solutions
- Process engineering
- Programme management
- Risk and governance
- operations
- Workforce insights
Personal employee benefits designed with you in mind
Personal growth is also important to us, so as a part of our team, you’ll enjoy benefits designed to help you achieve your ambitions at work and in your private capacity, both now and in the future. The exact benefits you receive will depend on the country you join us in but can include the following:
Taking care of yourself
We don’t always know where life will take us, so we have put together a range of benefits tailored specifically to help you take care of yourself and those you love:
- Wellness programmes
- Counselling and advisory services
- Life, personal accident, incapacity and funeral cover
- Permanent health insurance (PHI) cover
- Discounted rates for voluntary benefits such as spouse life cover, dread disease cover, funeral cover for parents and/or parents-in-law and medical aid gap cover
Managing your finances
We all have goals in life, and we have several ways to help make them more accessible to you with significant savings. This includes the following:
- Retirement funding
- Discounted banking products
- Transactional and investment banking products
- Home loans and vehicle finance at preferential rates
- Access to credit
- Assistance with insurance and wills
- Online share trading
- Rewards
Rewards and recognition
We believe in recognising the hard work and positive approach of our people, so we have 3 formal recognition programmes:
- Beyond Excellence
- Mark of Excellence
- Long-service Awards
A healthy balance
Your life outside work is important, so we have a leave structure which gives you plenty of time to relax, thrive and be the best you. The exact leave benefits you receive will depend on the country you join us in but can include the following:
- Vacation leave
- Additional vacation leave
- Study leave
- Parental leave
- Compassionate / Family responsibility leave
- Special discretionary leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Sick leave
- Short-term incapacity leave
- Recognition leave
- Optional unpaid leave
Please note: We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to benefits. Instead, we believe in taking a more personal approach to giving our people what they need. That’s why our benefits package can look a little different, depending on where you’re based.
Talent acquisition journey
We believe in making dreams possible and connecting the brightest talent to the meaningful opportunities they need to build their skills, ignite their ambitions and get closer to their purpose.
Apply online
You’ll discover amazing career opportunities on our website, so start exploring. You can create a profile or log in with your existing details if you’ve already got one. There, you can complete the online application form and submit it along with the supporting documents we’ve requested.
Selection process
- Shortlist: Our talent acquisition specialist and relevant hiring manager review all applications and make a shortlist of the most suitable candidates.
- Competency-based interview: If you’re shortlisted, we’ll invite you to take part in a competency-based interview.
- Assessments: If you’re successful in the interview, you’ll move on to the assessments. Depending on the role you’re applying for, you might be asked to undertake a case-study exercise, technical test and psychometric assessment, as well as any other role-specific assessment.
- Panel interview: Then you’ll proceed to the final interview stage where you’ll meet an interview panel and get to ask further questions.
Pre-employment screening
If you have been successful in the selection process, our Talent Acquisition team will get in touch to get your consent for our pre-employment screening, which includes the following:
- Identity and educational qualification verification
- Credit record and criminal record
- Outside Business Interest Declaration and Personnel Account Trading Declaration
- Sanctions screening and confirmation of current employment
Offer
Candidates with satisfactory pre-employment screening will be presented to the hiring manager by the Talent Acquisition team for final review. The most suitable candidate will be extended an employment contract and offer letter, detailing everything they’ll need to know about their new role. The recruitment process is competitive; therefore, candidates who make it to the pre-employment screening stage are not guaranteed an offer.
Onboarding
Even before you join the Standard Bank family, we want you to think of us as your home, so before you join, we'll get you off to a flying start with our onboarding experience.
