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Results Delivery

• Provide strategic input into departmental/divisional revenue and costs budget to ensure appropriate resource allocation in achievement of departmental goals by also ensuring team is researching, analysing trends and macro-economic factors, revenue drivers and benchmark against other exchanges and how it impacts the market.
• Provide strategic input annually into the divisional budget by investigating new products and conducting research to ascertain potential value of new products to include in the budget.
• Apply cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to the achievement of divisional financial targets.
• Provide input into the formalization of the IRC budget.
• Manage portion of allocated revenue and costs budget through monitoring and seeking cost effective ways of achieving departmental goals.
• Manage processes to ensure systems, products or projects delivered contributes to improve client/companies service by providing input on budgets, resources required, and process based on the understanding of costs, business objectives and relationship with external suppliers and stakeholders.
• Manage own and teams’ revenue targets depending on market specialty as determined by Manco/Exco and manage the monitoring of revenue drivers monthly and take action proactively to meet targets through engaging with new clients, promoting existing and new products, monitoring team targets and taking appropriate action.
• Establish and implement billing models by analyzing market data and work with IT and financial specialists within the organisation to determine the correct billing models.
• Conduct an annual to 3-year review process prior to billing clients to build an effective billing model with other company resources to finalize billing models and get final approval to present to clients.
• Manage and lead the crafting of client and product development strategy and take action to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of department and companies’ business strategy.
• Be accountable for team delivery and take independent action to ensure team delivery.
• Identify innovations in the market and generate additional revenue through building new and existing client relationships that encourages trading of existing and new products.
• Make conclusions and judgments based on market conditions and act by providing professional guidance and opinions regarding listed products identified as potential business for traders.
• Act as a specialist advisor for internal stakeholders to resolve queries as well as provide input on the end-to-end process of trading to ensure excellent client service and delivery.

Stakeholder Relationship Management:

• Build strategic Industry/ Global network of thought leaders and relationships utilizing social media, attending, and presenting at conferences and training interventions.
• Build strong customer relationships to convince customers of the value of organizations services and solutions by using appropriate interpersonal styles and by constantly engaging with customers/vendors/suppliers on new offerings and understanding their value propositions to their clients.
• Responsible and accountable for planning and running with international and local road shows to identify potential clients and network with existing clients to build and maintain relationships and grow client base.
• Manage, maintain, and develop relationships with existing and potential new clients by managing the team to liaise with clients to understand their business and align product offerings with their business requirements and vision.

 Process Management:

• Manage own and team member delivery against set delivery plans and targets by setting timelines, identifying obstacles to delivery, and taking appropriate action where required to achieve results.
• Manage team to identify what products are listed and conduct research for new product models to ascertain viability of new product in market under guidance from Manager on ideas for new product to generate revenue over the long-term to meet and achieve business growth and sustainability of client relationships.
• Design product and engage with market to gain acceptance of new product by continuously hosting bi-lateral conversations with all stakeholders, before finalizing product for market release.
• Engage with policy stakeholders and buy-side (asset managers) and sell side (banks) to ensure the market is ready to accept products and facilitate trading of product.
• Design various product solutions for clients by understanding their needs, conducting research to determine viability of solution in market, confirming product meets client’s needs taking cognizance of various procedures and approval processes.
• Enhance the existing product offering by way of new instruments, technology, or features and devise strategies to shift some Bond and Repo Market activity on-screen.
• Ensure self and team has full understanding of the Bond portfolio made up of Spot Bonds, Repo Market, Electronic Trading Platform which have all different, managed differently, have different clients/traders and own budgets and nuances.

Education:

Essential;

• Bachelor’s degree in finance / economics / business

Preferred

• Post-graduate (Honors / Masters /CFA) degre

Previous Experience:

Essential;

• 8 - 10 years having worked in financial markets and have a thorough knowledge of Bonds and Repo markets and products.

Preferred

• 2 - 3 years’ experience in managing staff.

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Execute the design:

• Understand the requirement (business need and purpose)
• Understand the existing systems that will be affected by new requirements
• Understand the impact on other systems (i.e. Front-End)
• Set-up a functional description (FD)  handover/ technical specification (TS) high-level design meeting
• Ensure the design is simple, easy maintainable, user orientated & user friendly, efficient and adhere to the Bank’s Enterprises design standards, tooling and methodologies.
• Develop major performance efficient enhancements in the production environment according to the provided technical specifications.
• Ensure the application of simplistic and effective Java code
• Understand the impact of code: engage with Bancs Core technical and Business Analysts for specific scenarios to be tested & impact of code changes on other parts of the BANCS system
• Develop new requirements for specific projects under leadership of Project Team Leader
• Fix major and minor bugs in the Production environment
• Fix escalated bugs for existing Back-End products in the Production environment
• Conduct investigations based on requests  
• Provide feedback to investigation requester and Team Leader of relevant Business Analyst
• Perform unit and integration testing on existing environments and new developments
• Provide testing assistance to developer(s)
• Update / amend test plans according to solution development to ensure coverage of all areas
• Provide implementation instructions for new development
• Provide support to the Development / QA / Production environment(s)
• Take and perform a lead role in projects
• Design and develop new products for specific projects as per the book of work initiatives; unpack what exactly needs to be done at a technical level and break it down into work packets for the developer to complete

Qualifications: 

• Matric 
• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or similiar degree

Knowledge:

Minimum:

• IT systems development processes
• Application development
• Standards and governance
• Testing practices
• Banking systems environment
• System architecture (technical design and implementation processes)
• Agile development life cycle

Ideal Knowledge:

• UML
• Systems analysis and design
• System architecture (technical design and implementation processes)
• Solid understanding of:
• Banking systems environment
• Banking business model
• Best practices for Quality Assurance (QA)
• Object Orientated Development environment (i.e. Java, Spring Framework, JBoss, Hibernate)

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Experience

• 3-5 years’ proven experience in software development
• Experience in the following development languages:
• Minimum
• 3-5+ years solid Android software development experience
• Java & Kotlin development Experience
• Android 5+ expertise; Android Studio expertise
• Knowledge of new Google API’s and libraries in deprecation, and conversion solution
• Experience in using 3rd party libraries.
• Experience and good understanding of push notifications and submitting apps to store.
• Huawei HMS Ecosystem exposure an advantage
• Qualifications (Minimum)
• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational
• Higher Diploma in Information Technology - IT Engineering or Information Technology - Computer Science
• Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred)
• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology

Knowledge:

Min:

Must have detailed knowledge of:

• JavaScript, JSON, HTML5, CSS, NodeJS
• Maven
• Altlassian products, Confluence
• Bitbucket & Git
• Springboot & Microservices
• Microosoft SQL Server
• SQL
• IT systems development processes (SDLC)
• Application development
• Standards and governance
• Agile development life cycle
• Testing practices

Ideal:

Knowledge of:

• Original app published in store
• Public Github
• Capacitor, React Native, Ionic, Flutter Exposure
• Continues Integration.
• Docker and supporting technologies
• Cordova & Hybrid app development experience
• UML
• Systems analysis and design
• System architecture (technical design and implementation processes)
• Solid understanding of: Banking systems environment
• Banking business model
• Best practices for Quality Assurance (QA)
• Object Orientated Development environment (i.e. Java, Spring Framework, JBoss, Hibernate)

Skills:

• Communications Skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Problem solving skills

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 Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: 

• Sourcing candidates for vacancies
• Posting adverts
• Building a candidate pipeline 
• Typing Candidate CV's 
• Interviewing Candidates
• General administration

 Minimum requirements:

• Tertiary education 
• Strong Microsoft Office Skills – non-negotiable
• Working well under pressure
• Good and effective communication skills

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Key Responsibilities:

• Working with the client to understand their procurement processes and requirements.
• Configure and implement the SAP Ariba solution supporting the client’s procurement process.
• Work with project managers, functional teams, technical teams, and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
• Provide guidance to clients on best practices for using the SAP Ariba platform.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to SAP Ariba functionality.
• Create and maintain project documentation, including functional specifications, test plans, and training materials.
• Keep up to date with SAP Ariba product updates and enhancements.

Experience (Minimum):

• At least 5 years’ relevant experience.

Qualifications (Minimum)

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Systems.
• Grade 12 National Certificate / Vocational.
• Qualifications (Ideal or Preferred)
• A relevant post graduate degree in Information Technology.

Skills:

• Communications Skills.
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills.
• Negotiation skills.
• Influencing Skills.
• Facilitation Skills.
• Presentation Skills.
• Analytical Skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Commercial Thinking Skills.
• Planning, organising and coordination skills.
• Attention to Detail.

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 Responsibilities: 

• Typing and formatting documents
• Managing diaries and setting up appointments
• Filing
• Answering phones
• General administration

Minimum requirements:

• Strong Microsoft Office Skills – non-negotiable
• A tertiary education 
• Good and effective communication skills

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• Key Performance Areas:
• Translate business rules logic and processes into working solutions.
• Strategy optimisation and continuous improvement with business leads.
• Analysis of requirements and low code development and review.
• Setup effective test cases and perform unit, integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Quality and on-time delivery of business rules and process system support.
• Research and continuous improvement.
• Ensure system availability is within the set standard.

Job Requirements: 

Qualification: 

Minimum: 

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Management, Credit, Mathematics or Statistics

Qualification: 

Ideal: 

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology - Computer Science or Information Technology - Other

Knowledge & Experience: 

Minimum:  

• Advanced knowledge and understanding of:
• Strategy Automation tools
• Testing tools
• Project Management and coordination:
• Business Strategy Documentation including assistance with drafting source documents for training purposes
• Experience: 4 - 6 years’ experience in Scored and other lending automation toolsets: 
• Experian PowerCurve
• FICO Blaze
• Certification / Experience: 
• Salesforce
• nCino

Knowledge & Experience:

Ideal:  

• Jira
• Confluence
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of:
• Business and Systems Analysis Methodologies
• ITIL Principles and the application thereof
• Good understanding of:
• Banking systems
• Banking business models
• Credit operational processing
• Best practices for Quality Assurance (QA)