Active Jobs at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

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.

The purpose of the role is as follows:

• To conduct research and provide analysis on the financial stability of an entity to make recommendations to investors regarding credit risk.

Are you someone who can do the following:

• Analyse JSE-listed credit and formulate strategies to equip and enable clients to make informed decisions on investments 
• Provide subject matter expertise in analysing issuers across sectors (banks, corporates, SOEs and securitisation)
• Conduct extensive financial research and analysis on entities within specific sectors or industries, and collaborate with internal contacts (trading, sales, investment banking, etc.) and external clients (money managers, pension funds, hedge funds, etc.) to better evaluate the credit markets
• Perform detailed research on credit history and utilise financial and other information i.e., income information, credit history, balance sheets etc., to make a judgement on creditworthiness
• Perform investigations on financial data to evaluate the extent of credit risk posed to the organisation
• Develop and use analytics and formulas to determine a basic assessment of overall risk posed
• Provide the organisation/business unit with information pertaining to loan history or lines of credit, the timeline of repayment, available financing to cover credit etc.
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions
• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence, and negotiate to achieve win-win outcomes.
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders’ requirements are delivered
• Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support
• Contribute to sustaining a competitive edge through external networking, benchmarking, and representation on related forums

You will be an ideal candidate if you have:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification: BCom Honours, B Bus Sc in a finance or accounting-related field
• Preferred qualification: CA(SA), CFA or equivalent ​

Experience and Skills

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in a listed credit market environment, or, preferably, alongside listed credit dealers/traders, with at least five years’ experience leading a team of credit analysts.  

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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Job Description
Hello Future Transaction Manger,

• 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.
• 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.

Are You Someone Who Can: ​

• 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.

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

• Bachelor of Finance
• 4 - 5 yrs Experience in a Banking Environment

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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Job Description
Helo Project Manager! 

• 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  
•  To lead and manage complex projects from initiation to completion, ensuring successful delivery in line with organisational goals.
• To engage in long-term planning, resource management, risk assessment, and stakeholder communication to drive project success.
• To oversee the project team(s), manage budgets, and ensure that all project deliverables meet quality standards.

Are you someone who can: ​

• Develop, present, and implement detailed project plans, including definitions of project scope, objectives, timelines and resource requirements.
• Manage the project planning and prioritisation process by communicating the project planning process and requirements to relevant stakeholders and reviewing high-level project proposal business case to ensure fitness for the prioritisation process.
• Manage project budgets, monitor expenditures, and ensure financial accountability.
• Identify project risks and develop comprehensive risk management plans to mitigate potential issues.
• Coordinate cross-functional project teams, ensuring effective collaboration and communication among team members.
• Monitor and control project progress, making adjustments as necessary to ensure successful project completion.
• Facilitate regular project status meetings and provide updates to senior management and stakeholders.
• Ensure that project deliverables meet quality standards and are delivered on time and within scope.
• Facilitate benefits realisation process, ensuring all parties are aware of their areas of responsibility and that benefits delivered by projects are accurately measured and tracked on an ongoing basis.
• Oversee project documentation, including project charters, plans, schedules, and reports.
• Manage stakeholder relationships, addressing concerns and ensuring their needs are met throughout the project lifecycle.
• Implement project management best practices and continuously seek opportunities for process improvement.
• Track and report on project portfolio performance and provide a real time comprehensive and prioritised view of all projects.
• Conduct post-project evaluations and lessons learned sessions to identify areas for future improvement.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to other project team members.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory organisational policies and standards.
• Utilise project management software and tools to enhance project tracking and reporting.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with vendors, contractors, and other external partners.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• have completed a relevant Degree
• Have 6-8 years experience within Project Management
• Experience within Investment Banking would be preferred but not essential
• Have strong Excel and Power BI experience and have worked with large data sets
• Are able to demonstrate knowledge of project management principles and methodologies

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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Job Description

• Dear Future Client Service Management Integration Specialist,
• 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.
• In this role, you will be required to deliver accurate fee invoices in a timely manner to clients monthly.
• In this role, you will be required to drive deployment of new standard integrated client facing IT solutions

Are You Someone Who Can:

• Collaborate closely with relevant business units and product houses as per strategy to identify revenue opportunities
• Drive opportunities for revenue growth and cost reduction such as adoption of digital and other self service options across client base
• Deliver customer experience excellence aligned to Organisational values and service standards
• Build professional long-term relationships with customers based on trust that builds the brand
• Collect and interrogate information and feedback to ensure full understanding of customer needs to deliver a quality service
• Deliver service that exceeds customer expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solution selection and application
• Provide customers with relevant information to keep them informed of products and service options
• Build relationships that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights; and the creation of buy-in
• Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support. Implement, monitor and control business processes according to quality standards; policy; and compliance and governance requirements in area of accountability
• Ensure the development, alignment, mapping and implementation of end-to-end processes aligned to the customer journey map
• Research, enable and consult on improvements and opportunities to harness technology and platform enablement
• Review existing processes and suggest innovative ideas to improve and streamline processes to drive efficiencies and minimise redundancy
• Monitor customer feedback reports and align processes to maximise efficiencies
• Provide input into the development of the business area tactical strategy in achievement of the overall business strategy
• Develop and implement an area operational plan in achievement of Business objectives
• Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence (information) together with analysing trends and data
• Provide regular reports on delivery of services against agreed service level agreements and in terms of overall customer targets
• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities
• Assess own performance against competencies and skills required delivery
• Identify development needs and select effective solutions to address own development need
• Prepare a personal development plan with management to implement and review as required
• Monitor own progress against development plan and measure impact of results
• Promote teamwork and inclusivity amongst team members and demonstrates behaviours that respect diversity
• Partner and collaborate with team members to achieve team success Share information and knowledge that benefits the team

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

• Have a Diploma/Degree in Business Management
• Have 3 to 5 years' experience in a similar role

You Will Have Access To:

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

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Job Description
Hello Future Lead Banker,

• 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.

Job Purpose:

• To drive the growth in flow and event business activity for a specific client and/ or for a portfolio of clients within a sector
• To translate the sector strategy into a tactical client portfolio strategy and drives execution thereof. To drive the effective delivery of solutions by collaborating with the relevant internal and external stakeholders, to define and distil the sector strategies into executional tasks, create shared success metrics, and then lead the client engagement and services teams in the execution of the service and support delivery tactics for retention and growth of the customer
• To own a sector’s portfolio client relationships, and to anticipate client challenges, coordinate solutions for those challenges, and manage and develop the relationships necessary to increase the value of the client’s portfolio and/or product basket working with respective bankers, banker support teams and banking suite teams
• Are You Someone Who Can:
• Lead transactors and specialists within the cross functional team, providing leadership, oversight, and driving performance of the specific client set
• Develop and deliver on client plans that aligns to the Sector Strategy by identifying and utilising opportunities for revenue growth to deliver on sales targets
• Develop, in collaboration with the Sector Head and key stakeholders, the Sector Strategy to drive revenue growth and generate client leads within the allocated client set
• Manage the origination process, anticipating client needs and ideation of innovative solutions to client’s emerging needs
• Analyse financial and client information and reports to identify trends, and insights for decision making purposes and driving cross sell within the client portfolio
• Identify key target clients and opportunities from future trends in the sector that can improve the bank’s earnings
• Collaborate closely with relevant business units and product houses as per strategy to identify new revenue opportunities
• Define and drive the tactical moves as part of the sales strategy for specific product areas alongside the product and client teams
• Develop and maintain key client relationships across the sector portfolio
• Build deep sector insights on the various sub-sectors, as well as an understanding of the client ecosystem
• Develop a strong understanding of the bank’s full product and service offering, linking that to key client needs
• Establish and maintain relationships with product/ solution partners to strengthen collaborative working relations to improve the effective and efficient execution of the Client Action Plan as part of a cross-functional team
• Apply a customer-centric approach that focuses on creating a positive experience for the customer by maximising service and/or product offerings and building relationships and ensure that the customer is at the centre of the business philosophy, operations and ideas
• Seek innovative, digitally oriented, assisted and unassisted solutions to clients’ needs, and crafting strategies for implementing client-specific solutions
• Manage team or teams in areas of responsibility in delivery against performance targets and achievement of wider human capital objectives

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

• Undergraduate degree (minimum)
• Post graduate qualifications preferred
• > 8-10 years Investment Banking or Coverage experience
• Ability to unlock client relationships at a C-suite level and engage in strategic conversation building trust and “go-to” status with clients
• Strong structuring abilities
• Deep understanding of risk
• Experience in managing teams and multiple internal stakeholders in the bank
• Hunger and energy to build and grow a new business with RMB

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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Job Description
Hello Future Transactor,

• 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.

Job Summary:

• To originate, source, structure and manage a portfolio of investment banking clients from implementation through to termination and to ensure that the defined client transactional requirements reflected in the relevant approvals and legal agreements are implemented and adhered to.
• To develop client relations through originating, structuring and execution of deals, compiling proposals as well as overseeing the transaction.
• To directly participate in deal origination and structuring processes and participate in deal implementation processes in the allocated sector/product to enable improved profitability, market share and competitive positioning.

Are You Someone Who Can: ​

• Achieve sales targets in line with performance scorecards and achieve an acceptable cost of sales ratio through pipeline managements and sales quality.
• Identify opportunities to increase sales revenue and to grow the organizational client base while containing costs
• Develop tactical strategies with retaining or signing unbanked customer base with a view to improve and increasing profitability.
• Maintain specialised knowledge on all FirstRand approved products, application procedure, fulfilment processes and timelines to drive and achieve relevant sales targets.
• Drive the maximising of cross-selling opportunities where possible and in consultation with more experienced Transactors.
• Directly inform the client inputs during legal drafting processes, implement and manage transactions in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements and ensure full understanding of transaction.
• Preparation and analysis of various financial reports required in the preparation of the insights required for client strategies.

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

• Minimum: Post Graduate Diploma or an Honours Degree in Finance or Economics or Business Science or Accounting or a CA (SA) with a CFA
• Preferred: Masters Degree in Finance or Economics or Business Science or Accounting or a CA (SA) with a CFA or an MBA
• 3-5 years as a Transactor in an Investment Bank

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