Senior Consultant: FRM- Treasury at KPMG South Africa

Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• Financial risk is an inescapable fact of life in the modern business environment and KPMG offers a broad ranging financial risk management service. In the current climate, enterprises of all kinds and sizes want robust financial risk management frameworks that satisfy compliance demands, contribute to better decision making and enhance performance.
• Our Financial Risk Management professionals with backgrounds including actuaries, risk analysts, economists and banking professionals work with our clients to leverage and use their risk management and compliance experience to drive superior performance.
• The team requires individuals to enhance its capacities around regulatory compliance, specialised internal and external audit support and market risk analysis and processes. 

Key responsibilities:

• The key requirement of the role is to complete regulatory risk assessments, specialised audits and compliance with processes to manage those risks.  This will require a general understanding of financial risk and compliance.
• Accordingly, the role does require a general understanding of the financial markets, instruments, and their regulatory environment.
• Working in close partnership with senior analysts and risk managers the successful candidate will be expected to:
•  Contribute to the delivery of projects, gathering and documenting requirements, considering all stakeholders’ interests, regulatory constraints and any potential deficiencies in the current methods exposed by quality assurance and reviews
•  Ensure the methods and results are adequately documented to support internal and external audit reviews, audit risk committees, regulators and other internal departments of an entity under review e.g. Internal Audit, by providing enough feedback from the client and practical solutions.

Skills and attributes required for the role:

•  Understanding of financial markets and financial instruments
•  Knowledge of the regulatory frameworks that financial entities operate within e.g. FICA, Bank’s Act, Financial Markets Act
•  Knowledge of payment systems would be beneficial, although not essential
•  Ability to work in Excel, Word and prepare presentations using PowerPoint
•  Excellent communication/interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in team environments
•  Ability to demonstrate attention to detail and focus on excellence
•  Problem solver with good analytical skills
•  Possess self-awareness, good listening skills, and ability to give and receive feedback well
•  Excellent time management capabilities
•  Have the ability to operate well under pressure
•  Be flexible and able to adapt easily to new environments and challenges
•  Ability to contribute and operate with minimum level of supervision
•  Proactive; self-starter; and independent with the ability to take initiative

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):

•  A strong academic background, with a minimum of a B.Com Honours Finance/Commerce or similar degrees or an Internal Audit qualification
•  Articled Clerk with strong progress towards Chartered Accountant (CA) qualification
•  This position would be suitable for a new graduate or someone with one to two years business experience in the financial markets