Available Jobs at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Are you someone who can: 

• Meaningfully engage with clients to identify opportunities to support their sustainability ambitions
• Originate and execute transactions that deliver both financial returns and positive impact
• Innovate and grow our business and offering aligned to emerging trends in sustainability and impact, both in South Africa and beyond
• Produce consistently high-quality outputs within agreed deadlines

You will be an ideal candidate if you have: 

• 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
• At least five years of experience in a deal making role, with one to two years ideally at mid to senior management level
• Strong client and internal relationships to support collaboration
• Availability to travel as required (including broader Africa) to support business opportunities and growth

You will have access to:

• A team that is passionate about impact
• Scope to innovate to deliver market-first solutions
• Opportunities to collaborate and build relationships with a broad set of internal stakeholders
• Clients across the entire RMB ecosystem

We can be a match if you are:

• Passionate about impact – structuring credible solutions that address society’s most pressing challenges
• Excited to be part of team – willing to get involved wherever required to achieve our collective ambition
• Obsessed with execution – motivated self-starter who knows how to get deals over the line
• Embracing of innovation – excited to build new solutions and deliver market-first transactions
   

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Are you someone who can: 

• Manage and maintain the transaction by complying with internal procedures and agreed processes to effect management (prepare cash flows, obtain signatures, sending instructions to various departments), apply knowledge of Companies Act, Excon, FICA, Tax, Accounting to transaction where applicable, in implementing and managing the transaction.
• 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 specialized knowledge on all FirstRand approved products, application procedure, fulfilment processes and timelines to drive and achieve relevant sales targets.
• Drive the maximizing 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.
• Achieve expected financial targets and uphold associated service levels.
• Provide a professional service to stakeholders by ensuring that transactions are managed and accounted for in accordance with legal agreements, relevant legislation and that deal activities are executed by following agreed business process.
• Understand and manage financial aspects of transactions through understanding and adherence to Legal agreements and all applicable regulatory aspects (Companies Act, Excon, IFRS, FICA, Bank’s Act, etc.), to prepare financial activities required on the transaction (e.g. Diary reminders, payments, drawdowns, invoices, etc.).

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• Minimum 5 year's experience in a Transactor role
• Investment Banking experience, within Infrastructure

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
   

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Job Description

• To utilise specialist knowledge and experience of the business environment to establish and maintain. an effective control framework by identifying, assessing and minimising risks across the organisation. 
• To evaluate business processes, implement internal controls and ensure compliance with regulatory standards in focusing on risk mitigation.To work and collaborate with stakeholders across various departments and lines of defence to optimise operations and drive sustained business performance.
• Understand the entire breadth of the control framework within the department.
• Assess the existing control framework to identify, evaluate and mitigate operational, financial and compliance risks.
• Collaborate with 1LOD colleagues to ensure that the Bank’s risk management framework is understood and adhered to, providing support where needed.
• Conduct detailed root cause analysis on Risk events and accurately identify control breakdowns and resultant risk, and to understand the extent of the impact.
• Facilitate risk assessments and scenario analyses to evaluate the impact of identified risks on business operations and provide input and recommendations into the development of mitigation plans.
• Analyse data and performance metrics to identify emerging risks, trends and anomalies that may impact business objectives.
• Actively identify opportunities for the improvement and automation of manual tasks, strengthening the control fabric and enhancing the overall control environment.
• Recommend and implement both new and enhanced control methods to improve the risk environment, making use of local and global leading practices.
• Ensure that risk mitigation controls and actions are embedded, and assess the adequacy of the controls by quantifying a reduction of risk.
• Monitor and track the implementation of corrective actions to address findings, control deficiencies and gaps.
• Act in alignment with operational risk management frameworks to reactively and proactively manage risk.
• Prepare comprehensive reports (regulatory, governance, and other) detailing findings, recommendations, and action plans to address control deficiencies and mitigate risk.
• Ensure that all business review, internal audit, Operation risk, Finance, COO, Management assurance activities are closed, and serve as a key point of contact, ensuring the timely resolution of audit findings.
• Participate in and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared.
• Promote teamwork and inclusivity amongst team members and demonstrates behaviours that respect diversity.
• Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement.
   

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Job Description

• To ensure that deals are booked correctly and that the correct processes are followed.
• Attend DCF's for all new deals. Comment on Legal Agreements and ensure that the legal agreements can be operationalized. Engage with the Deal Team and the TM on the deal, in order to ensure that deal intention is understood and operationally, Transaction Management can provide the support required to implement the deal and conduct the ongoing maintenance required.
• Ensure all approvals are done inline with required supporting documentation and audit requirements. Making sure processes are followed and backdate approval is required where necessary. New Deal implementation is approved according to Legals and the DCF.
• Ensure that deals are booked accurately and holistically.
• Identify training needs and knowledge gaps within the team. These may be evident from approvals and deal implementation.
• Initiate strategic 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
• Find opportunities to leverage relationships and promote knowledge sharing, ideas and insights
• Represent the organisation on relevant bodies
• Build and maintain relationships with key industry players both to position the brand favorably and provide direction to industry