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  • Posted: Jan 27, 2025
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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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    Portfolio Manager

    Job Description

    • Hello Future Portfolio 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 2023, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

    Are you someone who can: 

    • 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
    • Preserve relationships despite airing conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
    • Anticipate consequences and adapts problem solving based on continual feedback
    • Act speedily to resolve problems queries and complaints
    • Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
    • Obtain instructions from Transaction Managers based on signed legal agreements
    • Load agreed upon deal profiles on the Loan Management System
    • Validate that overall deal position is within expectations
    • Hedge overall interest rate risk inherent in cash flow profiles
    • Measure open FX exposure
    • Consider and if applicable trade specific or macro hedges for the above
    • Obtain relevant deal profiles credit ratings and LGDs from Transactors sense check and provide comment where information appears insufficient
    • Use Pricing Wizard Reuters and Bloomberg to determine funding credit capital and hedging costs as well as FX components
    • Validate the prospective deal profitability
    • Ensure portfolios and all new deals are adequately funded
    • Determine whether match funding or pool funding is necessary
    • Monitor daily funding and rolling of funding as well as sourcing additional funding
    • Liaise with Group Treasury on an ongoing basis
    • Risk reports, including Key Rate Analyser, indicating current residual position
    • Consider key macro-economic factors in order to position the net portfolio interest rate and FX position
    • Execute appropriate hedges if required
    • Extract information from Loan Management System as well as central RMB market risk systems in order to generate risk reports on a daily basis
    • Investigate and resolve exceptions identified by risk reporting process
    • Take appropriate action to change portfolios position given output of risk report
    • Demonstrate pride in the organisations brand services and products by consistently delivering on the brands promise

    You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

    • Have 1-2 years minimum prior experience in a quantitative role in an Investment bank 
    • OR 1-2 years trading desk experience - Derivatives, Interest rates, bonds or Treasury desks

    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

    Job Details

    • Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.
    • 13/02/25

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    Murex Specialist (Extractions)

    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:

    Support role:

    • 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:

    • 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

    Job Details

    • Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.
    • 14/02/25

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    TWC Transactor: Corporate Client Group

    Job Description

    • Hello Future TWC 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 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

    Purpose:

    • 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:

    • 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.).
    • Preparation and analysis of various financial reports required in the preparation of the insights required for client strategies.
    • Interface with CIB Finance on monthly management accounts and resolve queries raised by frontline. Feedback results to Equity team monthly at team meetings.
    • Adhere to internal controls and procedures to alleviate risk and prevent losses by following internal procedures and agreed processes to effect financial management (prepare cash flows, obtain signatures, sending instructions to various departments, etc.).
    • Identify and understand potential risks which may lead to increased costs and collaborate with relevant stakeholders on risk mitigation strategies.
    • Build trusting relationships with stakeholders through consistent and timeous communication and adherence to their requirements (systems and procedures) and evidencing an understanding thereof.
    • Respond to queries from stakeholders by understanding their requirements and providing information timeously.
    • Provide quality service delivery by understanding and being proactive and evidencing a good understanding of the transaction.
    • Contribute to client service delivery culture through adherence to approved organizational service delivery principles
    • Prepare model and reminders for required activities by using available systems.
    • Manage documentation by obtaining supporting and legal documents in formats required and lodge with securities, where applicable.

    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
    • Are you interested to take the step? We look forward to engaging with you further. Apply now!

    Job Details

    • Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.
    • 01/02/25

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