Careers at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

• The role entails managing 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 the ideal candidate if you have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or related field.
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in a middle office TM operations environment or equivalent
• Experience with transaction management software and related tools.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements in Corporate and Investment Banking.

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Job Description

• We are looking for a dynamic and commercially driven Regional Head: FX Product House (FXPH) to lead our regional Forex business. This role is responsible for driving revenue growth, executing sales strategies, and delivering innovative foreign exchange and cross-border solutions to our clients. 
• As a senior leader and FAIS Representative, you will play a critical role in shaping regional strategy, building high-performing teams, and ensuring strong governance and compliance.

Key Responsibilities 

• Drive Revenue Growth: Deliver on regional FX and cross-border revenue targets while expanding wallet share and market presence
• Lead Sales Strategy: Develop and execute a regional Forex sales strategy across key industries and client segments
• Client Leadership: Build and maintain strategic relationships with key clients, providing tailored solutions aligned to their needs
• Commercial Execution: Oversee structuring and execution of complex FX and hedging solutions in collaboration with product and global markets teams
• Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing regional sales team, driving a culture of accountability and excellence
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate across FNB and RMB coverage, product, risk, and operations teams to deliver integrated client solutions
• Market Development: Identify new growth opportunities, including cross-border corridors and emerging markets
• Risk & Compliance: Ensure adherence to SARB, Exchange Control, and FAIS requirements, maintaining a strong risk and governance culture

What We’re Looking For 

• 8–12+ years’ experience in FX, Global Markets, Trade Finance, or Payments
• Proven leadership experience in sales, client coverage, or business development
• Strong understanding of Forex, Trade, and cross-border payments solutions
• Demonstrated ability to drive revenue growth and execute strategy
• FAIS compliance (RE exams and regulatory requirements)
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• Strong commercial acumen, strategic thinking, and problem-solving ability

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• This role entails delivering technology solutions for the division, which may entail the development or acquisition of software solutions, the implementation of those solutions as well as the ongoing maintenance of those solutions. The role will support the TTS / Corporate channel delivery for employee and client facing channels.

Are You Someone Who Can:

• Identify, control and escalate potential risks which may lead to increased costs.
• Manage costs or expenses within approved budget to achieve cost efficiencies.
• Deliver against operational and cost targets.
• Prioritise resource allocation to minimise and reduce wastage.
• Ensure that delivery is accurate, timeous and of an acceptable standard.
• Ensure that product or service knowledge and advice is technically accurate.
• Know and understand customer needs to deliver a quality service.
• Propose ideas to improve customer service.
• Ensure the Product Owners know how to arrange the product backlog to maximise value.
• Find techniques for effective product backlog management.
• Support Product Owner and coach business on agile practices.
• Understand product planning in an empirical environment.
• Ensure sufficient time is allocated to grooming and sprint planning.
• Ensure business involvement at all stages of developments.
• Plan training interventions which support RMB and Group strategies.
• Keep abreast of learning opportunities, changing products and trends.
• Analyse the internal service delivery processes and comes up with innovative ideas and/or participate in working groups to improve and streamline processes, increase revenue, drive efficiencies and minimise redundancy and waste.
• Monitor and control the quality of agile processes in terms of defined standards
• Assist development teams to create high-value products i.e. through visibility of sprint backlog or scrum board and an updated sprint burn down chart.
• Facilitate scrum events as requested or needed.
• Recommend and implement improvements to the environment for Development Teams.
• Facilitate Agile coaching sessions for business and IT.
• Recognise areas for improvement and implementing improvements in collaboration with other Scrum Masters.
• Provide updates to the business on the progression towards the desired maturity level.
• Drive delivery of projects that advances the business objectives defined in our strategy.

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience as a Scrum Master / IT Project manager.
• Proven track record managing large-scale, cross-functional projects.
• Proven success in coaching cross functional teams.
• Experience with transformational programmes and SDLC frameworks.
• Familiarity with tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, and Confluence.

Skills & Competencies:

• Deep understanding of SDLC principles and IT Project management / Development practices
• Strong facilitation, conflict resolution, and servant leadership skills
• Ability to mentor juniors and lead by example
• Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skill