First Assurance Kenya Graduate Talent Program at Absa Bank
| Location | NAIROBI, Kenya |
| Date Posted | July 2, 2025 |
| Category |
Banking
Business Development Finance Health Care / Medical Legal |
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Currency | KES |
Description
Absa Bank Limited (Absa) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Barclays Africa Group Limited. Absa offers personal and business banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management as well as bancassurance.
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Responsibilities
This is a 24-month fixed-term contract program aimed at recruiting young, vibrant, and ambitious graduates from diverse backgrounds to join our teams in Actuarial, Claims, Underwriting, Finance, Legal, Medical Business and Business Development.
The program begins with a formal orientation covering our core functions, including branch network and operations. Thereafter, participants will rotate across the designated functions.
Who are we looking for?
You must have graduated within the last one year, or expect to graduate on or before 31st July 2025, and be ready to launch your professional journey. You should be keen to work in a dynamic environment that will provide exposure to a professional network supporting and enabling your career development.
Minimum Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in actuarial, Insurance, or a business-related field, obtained within the last one year with a minimum of Second-Class Upper Division.
- Final-year students set to graduate on or before 31st July 2025 are also eligible to apply.
- A mean grade of B and above in KCSE (or its equivalent).
- Proof of your degree and KCSE results slip must be attached.
- You must be below 26 years of age.
What the Program Offers
- Development of leadership and self-management skills.
- Growth in customer and client centricity, as well as related behavioural competencies.
- Enhancement of technical, job-relevant skills.
- Personalized coaching from people managers and business leaders to support your career growth throughout the program.
Desired Competencies and Extracurricular Experiences
- Initiative and drive beyond academics
- Strong commercial and business acumen
- Complex problem-solving and creative ideation
- Critical thinking and analytical skills
- Technological proficiency
- Proactive attitude and self-motivation
Education
Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
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First Assurance Kenya Graduate Talent Program
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.
My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.
Job Summary
Job Description
About the Program
This is a 24-month fixed-term contract program aimed at recruiting young, vibrant, and ambitious graduates from diverse backgrounds to join our teams in Actuarial, Claims, Underwriting, Finance, Legal, Medical Business and Business Development.
The program begins with a formal orientation covering our core functions, including branch network and operations. Thereafter, participants will rotate across the designated functions.
Who are we looking for?
You must have graduated within the last one year, or expect to graduate on or before 31st July 2025, and be ready to launch your professional journey. You should be keen to work in a dynamic environment that will provide exposure to a professional network supporting and enabling your career development.
Minimum Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in actuarial, Insurance, or a business-related field, obtained within the last one year with a minimum of Second-Class Upper Division.
- Final-year students set to graduate on or before 31st July 2025 are also eligible to apply.
- A mean grade of B and above in KCSE (or its equivalent).
- Proof of your degree and KCSE results slip must be attached.
- You must be below 26 years of age.
What the Program Offers
- Development of leadership and self-management skills.
- Growth in customer and client centricity, as well as related behavioural competencies.
- Enhancement of technical, job-relevant skills.
- Personalized coaching from people managers and business leaders to support your career growth throughout the program.
Desired Competencies and Extracurricular Experiences
- Initiative and drive beyond academics
- Strong commercial and business acumen
- Complex problem-solving and creative ideation
- Critical thinking and analytical skills
- Technological proficiency
- Proactive attitude and self-motivation
Education
Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
About Us
Absa Group Limited (“Absa Group”) is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and is one of Africa’s largest diversified financial services groups.
Absa Group offers an integrated set of products and services across personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management and insurance.
Absa Group owns majority stakes in banks in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania (Absa Bank Tanzania and National Bank of Commerce), Uganda and Zambia and has insurance operations in Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia. Absa also has representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.