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  • Posted: Mar 3, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • RMB - Rand Merchant Bank is a division of FirstRand Bank Limited, a fully integrated financial services group in South Africa, distinguished by our traditional values and innovative ideas. We have adapted investment banking solutions to suit your personal financial needs and this, together with an entrepreneurial approach, attracts like-minded, discerning clients.
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    Developer - Johannesburg

    Job Description

    • To develop innovative, reusable competitive solutions and contribute actively to a collaborative Developer community
    • To collaborate with BDMs and Delivery Heads to make recommendations on the use of new and emerging technologies, which provide the competitive advantage and a clear technical roadmap

    To maintain stability of all technical platforms

    • Initiate dialogue to build professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to listen, advise, influence, negotiate and present at all levels
    • Lead and facilitate difficult conflict situations into consensual agreements
    • Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources to make strategic decisions
    • Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
    • Continually scan the industry to identify opportunities to create strategic partnerships with key individuals and bodies
    • Follow best practice and principles governance policy frameworks and utilisation of tools for the technology of the domain
    • Engage with the designated standards team for specific guidance and delivery of solution components to maximise impact
    • Understand and contribute to a knowledge sharing environment
    • Produce a well operationalised solution on time that surpasses the requirements and performance expectations
    • Drive scalable and sustainable solutions built based on best development practices
    • Adopt a framework centric approach to prompt feasibility and reduces failure demand
    • Reduce the technical debt as much as possible or revisit the business expectations
    • Ensure technical follow up and a commit to allow for this-flexibility
    • Take full responsibility for performance management of all direct reports managing their performance in relation to quality standards and agreed benchmarks and objectives focusing on all aspects of sound people management
    • Engage in recruitment development, performance management, remuneration and rewards, career path planning, on the job training, coaching, and mentoring
    • Ensure appropriate levels of management and accountability
    • Motivate, delegate, and empower appropriately, enabling direct reports to take responsibility and display appropriate creativity and initiative
    • Work with the team to actively grow their skills and lead them in operational excellence
    • Demonstrate pride in the organisations brand services and products by consistently delivering on the brands promise
    • Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
    • Stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new developments
    • Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
    • Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others
    • Plan and manage own workflow anticipating obstacles juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time frames and according to quality standards
    • Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities
    • Read situations and organisational realities
    • Set aside personal agenda for the greater good
    • Act in an ethical transparent and morally defensible manner including highlighting unethical practices
    • Share debate and communicate learnings
    • Flag and debate issues constructively
    • Promote a friendly cooperative climate

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    Transaction Manager

    Job Description

    • To manage the life cycle of a transaction and mitigate associated operational risks
    • Mitigate operational and reputational risk by ensuring the quality and accuracy of transaction data, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, and supporting effective risk management practices. 
    • Collaborate with various stakeholders, including traders, risk management teams, and back-office processing functions, to uphold data integrity, streamline processes, and enhance the overall efficiency and accuracy of transaction management.
    • Coordinate and participate in any ad hoc project as required.
    • Read and understand legal agreements in order to draw up an amortisation schedule and book deals.
    • Derive payment amounts from the legals and amortisation schedule.
    • Prepare notification to clients and submit payments to team leader for approval.
    • Ensure all legal requirements are fulfilled before draw down can occur.
    • Ensure all ongoing deal management tasks are performed in line with the legal agreements.
    • Settle all instruments on the correct systems.
    • Clear reconciliation and exception report items within SLA timeframes.
    • Respond to queries from internal and external stakeholders.
    • Prepare financial statements, investor reports and other reports required by the regulators.
    • Conduct detailed reviews of transaction data to identify discrepancies, verify completeness, and ensure data integrity within transaction systems, thus supporting reliable financial reporting.
    • Validate that all transactions are booked accurately and in line with client instructions and regulatory requirements to minimise booking errors and reduce operational risk.
    • Identify and flags any inconsistencies or irregularities in transaction data, escalating issues promptly to mitigate financial and reputational risk.
    • Attend DCF's for all new deals and comment on Legal Agreements and ensure that the legal agreements can be operationalised.
    • Reconcile transaction records across different systems to confirm data consistency and integrity across platforms.
    • Communicate transaction data quality insights to internal stakeholders, including traders and risk managers, ensuring transparency and promoting proactive issue resolution.
    • Develop and monitor key metrics for data quality within the transaction management function, ensuring consistent and quantifiable improvement.
    • Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and client service in transaction management data quality, contributing to operational excellence.
    • Collaborate with internal teams i.e., legal, compliance, credit, and operations to ensure cohesive and efficient transaction management.
    • Engage in ongoing training and development activities to build expertise in transaction management.
    • Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders to achieve productivity synergies.
    • Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement.

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    Murex Specialist

    Job Description

    • RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact. 
    • United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
    • Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.
    • As a Murex Extractions specialist, your primary responsibility is to ensure that the extractions 
    • component of our Murex trading system is meticulously maintained and improved. You’ll play a critical role in troubleshooting Murex data extractions, collaborating with internal and external teams, resolving issues promptly, and ensuring data output is ready for our business users and systems. 
    • The team is currently split between support and build roles. You will need to be flexible and may be required to work in either of these roles depending on the team setup and rotation.

    Are you someone who can do the following:​

    Design and Development

    • Collaborate with the Murex extractions team to design and develop new Murex reporting requirements.
    • Create and enhance Murex reports to meet evolving business needs.
    • Apply fixes and modifications to existing Murex reports as necessary.
    • Propose new designs that will drive efficiencies into the existing end of day setup.
    • Enhance alerts and monitoring to bring about more swift resolution to issues.

    Datamart Management

    • Maintain Datamart tables, feeders, and associated scripts.
    • Ensure data integrity and accuracy within the Datamart.
    • Investigate and analyze data generation failures and anomalies.

    Optimization and Performance

    • Regularly optimize the execution of Murex reports (MX reports).
    • Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the extraction process.
    • Implement best practices to enhance performance.

    Documentation and Knowledge Transfer

    • Contribute to documentation related to the Murex Reporting Module.
    • Facilitate knowledge transfer within the team
    • The team is split as follows, where this current role will cover both support (30%) and build (70%):

    Support role (30%)

    • The support role is rotated among two or three team members.

    Core responsibilities:

    • Ensure the Murex trading system extractions are meticulously prepared and ready for business trading by 7:00 AM.
    • Rotate on a weekly roster for overnight support and early morning checks.
    • On your week of early morning support, you will be required to perform early morning checks starting at 06:00. There are times when you may get called for overnight support, and this would happen where the overnight team is unable to resolve the issue and they require your expertise. On average, you might get called once a week. In these cases, team members can end their working day early to get rest.
    • Monitor and resolve incidents and requests logged by users. Making changes to the Murex reporting module will be required to resolve these.
    • Monitor and respond to user support emails.
    • Continually improve support processes.
    • Track the performance of our EOD and propose enhancements.
    • Handle end-of-day rerun requests. If there are significant risk breaches, you will need to manage extraction reruns when requested by business.

    Build role (70%)

    • Your primary function is to build file extracts using the Murex reporting module. These files are used by users and systems.
    • This role provides more focus time to ensure a more consistent delivery path for our stakeholders.
    • At times, you will be required to contribute in the Support role. There may also be times when you will need to be assigned to the support role for longer periods of time. We try our best to ensure the support and build roles don’t overlap but this does happen from time to time.
    • Can you work these hours?

    Support role:

    • You will be required to rotate on two shift types when there are two team members or more. A shift lasts a full week. You will also be required to resolve any issues for Friday end of day (Saturday mornings). If you are the only team member in this role, you will be required to perform shift 1 only.
    • Shift 1: Work from 6:00 - 15:00. You will be on call for overnight support and morning checks need to be done. If you did work overnight, you will get time off on the same day.
    • Shift 2: Work from 8:00 - 17:00

    Build role:

    • Working hours are generally from 8:00 - 17:00. There may be times when you will be required to step in for the support role and your hours may change. See the support role section.

    You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:

    Control-M

    • In-depth understanding of Control-M functionality.
    • Proficiency in debugging job failures.
    • Knowledge of job dependencies and scheduling.
    • Ability to swiftly resolve overnight failures that impact service level agreements (SLAs). 10.

    MX Datamart Modules

    • Familiarity with dynamic table configurations.
    • Differentiation between Transactional and Datamart tables.
    • Understanding of Datamart management, including SQL-based and dynamically generated tables.
    • Understanding Batch of table feeders and Batch of table feeder jobs recovery. Skill in identifying errors within Murex (view execution jobs and view produced data by table).

    SQL (Oracle)

    • Proficiency in troubleshooting using SQL queries.
    • Understanding of temporary tables and their usage.
    • Ability to leverage SQL for Murex Datamart Extractions.

    Simulation Views, MRA Views, and Market Data Views

    • Identification of simulation view-based reporting tables.
    • Loading different types of simulation views.
    • Understanding of market data views.
    • Loading virtual sources in MRA views.
    • Utilizing Trade Query effectively.

    Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, or a related field.
    • Proven experience in Murex reporting and data extraction.
    • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
    • Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

    You will have access to:

    • Opportunities to network and collaborate
    • Challenging working
    • Opportunities to innovate

    We can be a match if you are: 

    • Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
    • Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
    • Love putting our clients at the forefront of what you do

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    Travel Consultant - 6 Month Contract

    Job Description

    • To provide end-to-end travel management services to support employees and executives on business travel requirements. 
    • Ensure seamless travel planning and execution, focusing on cost-effective arrangements and adherence to corporate travel policies. 
    • Handle complex itineraries, manage relationships with travel vendors, and provide proactive customer service to ensure all travellers experience efficient, reliable, and safe travel arrangements.
    • Provide information on facilities and services, events and attractions, tours, travel routes and transportation schedules to niche clients.

    Are you someone who has an interest / expereince in: 

    • Supporting a dynamic team within Global Markets
    • Position Keeping and Risk Adherences
    • Communicate effectively with personal assistants and travelers
    • Meet set turnaround times while ensuring own availability, reliability, and accuracy.

    Personal:

    • Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
    • Handle stress in ways that does not negatively impact others
    • Works well under pressure.
    • Act speedily to resolve problems queries and complaints
    • Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities

    You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

    • Type of Qualification: Tourism Certificate or Diploma
    • Minimum of 5 years work experience within travel industry
    • Experience on TravelIT booking system - advantageous
    • Have an understanding of the demands of corporate travel
    • Service orientated

    You will have access to: 

    • Opportunities to network and collaborate
    • Challenging working
    • Opportunities to innovate

    We can be a match if you are: 

    • Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
    • Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it
    • Love putting our clients at the forefront of what you do

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    Credit Analyst: RCS

    Job Description
    Hello Future Credit Analyst,

    • RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact. 
    • United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
    • Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2023, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

    Are You Someone Who Can:

    • Unpack and critically think about the risk of new and existing debt and equity deals for clients across a broad range of geographies and industries
    • Engaging with the client,
    • Interrogating a client’s business model and identifying risks, 
    • Assessing financial data put forward by the client, 
    • Building a financial model to forecast performance or assessing a model put forward by the client or the client’s advisors for accuracy and appropriateness, 
    • Working alongside the deal to structure a deal in line with the risk philosophy of the bank,
    • Assessing and managing overall limits for a client in line with the bank’s risk framework
    • Putting forward a deal for recommendation after objectively assessing all the facts. 
    • Taking ownership of the application which requires strong report writing skills,
    • Managing the timelines of a deal in line with the agreed-upon submission deadline, and
    • Presenting a deal at committee and working together with the deal team to take questions and answers which require strong verbal skills, the ability to debate and manage differing views and ultimately influence and negotiate a good outcome for both the client and the bank. 
    • Building and maintaining professional working relationships with all stakeholders, which includes working alongside experienced business and risk executives and acting as a bridge,
    • Adaptation of communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences, and

    You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

    • Are ideally CA (SA) or CFA with relevant credit analyst experience within Investment Banking, although a newly qualified CA (SA) or a graduate whose degree has a strong quantitative focus will be considered
    • Strong work ethic with a self-starter attitude and a keenness to take ownership of the role’s opportunities and personal development
    • Resilience and an openness to receiving and sharing feedback,
    • Ability to handle stress well, which includes self-management of workload (2 to 3+ deals at any point in time), quick adaptation to deal changes, prioritization of deals, and open communication on capacity. 

    You Will Have Access To:

    • Opportunities to network and collaborate
    • Challenging Working
    • Opportunities to innovate

    We Can Be a Match If You Are:

    • Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
    • Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it

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    Transactor: TWC Broader Africa

    Job Description

    • Hello Future Transactor: TWC Broader Africa,
    • RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact.
    • United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
    • Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.
    • The role requires a deep understanding of trade finance products, market dynamics and the unique challenges and opportunities of the African markets. As we continue to expand in our preferred markets, we are seeking a highly skilled and motivated structured trade specialist to join our dynamic business that is shaping the future of trade finance in Africa. 
    • You will be required to initiate and lead deal origination and structuring, implementation, and client engagement in the allocated sector/product to enable improved profitability, market share and competitive positioning.
    • To articulate and set the desired Products and Services client plan and specific client strategy to retain key Clients, grow their revenue, and enhance client experience

    Are You Someone Who Can:

    • Implement strategies to originate and execute transactions for new clients to the bank (business development)
    • Implement effective sales strategies and plans to ensure delivery of client plans in order to exceed financial targets and the quality of client experience targets
    • Achieve agreed budget targets for new business and revenue from existing client base, and also source new business opportunities externally
    • Understand the activities of competitors and the impact of these on the relationship with the organisation’s clients
    • Develop an intimate understanding of the property sector and the client’s business
    • Manage regular client interaction/visits to maintain relationships and pursue and grow business opportunities
    • Network with key clients and industry players to generate leads and create brand awareness
    • Follow up on all leads, reacting promptly to requests for service and identifying client needs promptly to proactively market appropriate solutions
    • Negotiate and drive deal acceptance by presenting logical, appropriate, and convincing arguments that take into account the needs of all parties
    • Take full accountability for the client relationship and maintain a thorough knowledge of client profiles in the portfolio through regular contact and on-site visits
    • Keep up to date with Financial and capital structures of business, growth plans, strengths and weaknesses, and competitors
    • Balance technical input and marketing skill to address client environment and needs
    • Establish credibility for the bank by the skillful application of specialist knowledge to deal with diverse client environments
    • Manage relationships with internal stakeholders being Credit, Legal, Distribution, etc.
    • Hold primary relationship with clients and handle all aspects of client interaction including coordinating and execution of transactions.
    • Maintain good relations with team members, support staff and other Transactors in other divisions/business areas
    • Structure transactions appropriately by balancing risk and reward and manage the credit application process in a timely and efficient manner
    • Negotiate pricing and financing arrangements with client
    • Have a good understanding of the information and analysis required
    • Perform appropriate financial modelling and cash flow analysis to arrive at appropriately structured financing solution
    • Monitor the portfolio of exposures on an ongoing basis to ensure risk and exposure is managed
    • Create a business plan/strategy for each client and potential client
    • Mine portfolio data to identify opportunities for further business and to identify risk indicators
    • Call on clients, review portfolios and record all client dealings
    • Be disciplined and efficient in ensuring that controls are in order and turnaround times are adhered to
    • Anticipate reviews to be performed on clients and be proactive in managing poor loans on the watch list
    • Conform to the bank’s risk policies and procedures.
    • Assume ownership of initial credit assessment and decline business that presents an unacceptable credit risk to the organisation with sound justification to the client
    • Prepare and present all potential new business with existing clients to the Pre- Credit Committee (PCC) prior to proceeding to Credit
    • Work closely with the Credit Manager to initiate business deal proposals for new facilities, or facility modifications that require the assessment of credit or other risk, and motivate the deal with insightful information regarding business strengths and vulnerabilities
    • Remain alert to changes in risk profiles of the portfolio and structure alternative mitigation or remedial plans to contain or minimise potential losses
    • Understand pricing for risk
    • Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own and employee development
    • Coach team through providing advice about subject matter, solutions, principles and processes and personal progression with the aim to improve performance
    • Develop, encourage, and nurture collaborative relationships within RMB and/or across the FRG

    You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

    • have a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting
    • have 4 to 5 years experience in a similar role, preferably within Banking

    You Will Have Access To:

    • Opportunities to network and collaborate
    • Challenging Work
    • Opportunities to innovate

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