Current Vacancies at NedBank

Job Purpose

• To implement long term lending transactions for our clients in order to  maximise sustainable growth for both Nedbank and our clients. Clients include corporates, private equity sponsors and investment holding companies serviced with a product set including term debt and preference share funding across the risk spectrum from investment grade to leverage finance, mezzanine debt and equity-upside transactions.

Job Responsibilities

• Build sound client relationships (existing and new clients) by clear communication; regular meetings and setting clear objectives and timelines.
• Formulate and pitch ideas/solutions for clients that drives new business origination that enables clients to meet their objectives  
• Manage internal stakeholder relationships by collaboration across all clusters; clear communication; agreeing on objectives and timelines and requesting stakeholder input in decision making.
• Build professional relationships by networking. Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g., staff surveys etc.).
• Mentor and grow individuals within the Leveraged and Diversified Finance team
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g., Green Strategy).
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
• Evaluate deal progress in line with set objectives and timelines by scheduling and leading progress meetings; following up on deliverables; scheduling review meetings with client and reviewing own work before submitting to relevant stakeholders.
• Monitor and assess credit exposure for any increase in risk by assessing exposures for appropriateness taking into consideration the client business performance and market conditions.
• Adapt to changes in all relevant legislation and industry trends by attending relevant training sessions or informal meetings with relevant divisions.
• Resolve work obstacles and drive solutions by lobbying and one on one engagements with relevant stakeholders.
• Assist deal teams to close transactions by sharing your professional skills;; engaging with clients, running various pricing scenarios; structuring the transaction; negotiating legal documents; preparing credit applications and executing on compliance and presenting application to credit committee.
• Maintain and build existing and on-board market share by applying your professional skills.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems; process; services and solutions are aligned. 
• Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified time frame.
• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
• Contribute to developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g., operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders’ businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Chartered Accountant , Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA),Master Degree in Sciences or Legal.

Essential Certifications

• Chartered Accountant (SA), Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Not essential)

Minimum Experience Level

• 6-8 years relevant sector experience
• Technical / Professional Knowledge
• Lending/credit fundamentals
• Company/cashflow analysis
• Debt transaction structuring and legal agreements
• Microsoft Office
• Nedbank culture and values
• Nedbank policies and procedures
• Nedbank vision and strategy
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Decision-making process 

Behavioural Competencies

• Client Focus
• Building Partnerships
• Collaborating
• Solution Driven
• Initiating Action
• Work Standards
• Managing Work
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills 

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Job Purpose

• To enable change by defining the needs and the rationale for change, to understand the current state, to define the future state, and to determine the activities required to move from the current to the future state by applying the principles of business analysis, according to the requirements classification schema, from a diverse array of multi-functional perspectives with an agile mindset. Complete complex tasks or larger, well-scoped challenges independently and identifies appropriate actions that have been provided to address a business challenge. Pair with Product Designers (CX/UX), Business Architects, Testers (QA), Business data Managers (BDM) and key roles in the requirements value chain.  Apply the principles of Product Ownership Analysis and the strategy-to-execution framework.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives.    
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders.   
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs. 
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management  tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement 
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution.
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution, and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on Nedbank's delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices.
• Analyse and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements.    
• Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs and metrics, and align requirements accordingly.    
• Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly.    
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate to define the proposed solution.    
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives and dependencies across projects.    
• Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.    
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain.
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect.    
• Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesise the data to articulate requirements.
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialisation.    
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritisation, WSJF, and increment planning and drive Devops and Built-in quality principles.    
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs.    
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies and enterprise delivery up to senior level.    
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.    
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product and BITE Owners.    
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration.    
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• IT qualification,  Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA , Safe Certification 

Preferred Certifications

• IIBA endorsed 

Minimum Experience Level

• 5 - 8 years
• BA experience, manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex  projects, business exposure, industry exposure.  Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques. Demonstrate these skilled proficiency descriptors.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Research methodology
• BA Body Of Knowledge
• Business writing skills
• Agile Concepts
• Data and Business analysis
• Process Engineering Skills
• Global business analysis Trend
• Business Analysis Descipline , Techniques and Practices
• Microsoft Office Product

Behavioural Competencies

• Decision Making
• Building partnerships
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
• Initiating Action
• Continuous Improvement
• Customer Orientation

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Job Purpose

• Responsible for providing guidance to different business areas on the Architectural Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Strategy which includes the collaboration with various business areas regarding their ECM related initiatives, understanding those initiatives and then relaying to the Enterprise Architecture team any gaps in the strategy that has been identified. Also works as an advocate and laisse with Information Services, Technology operational teams and Centres of Excellence, identifying technology requirements and researching possible solutions.  Identify operational opportunities and develop Architectures consistent with the enterprise strategy and vision. Serves as POCLAC 1 Architect in relevant Journeys/Asset. Drives Architectural input into the Programme Increment Planning, setting up and maintaining ECM guardrails, reference architectures and roadmaps. 
• Provide leadership and vision for the optimisation and rationalisation of the ECM domain aimed at increasing capability and/or IT cost savings and/or IT Service Levels. Provide mentorship and coaching w.r.t. the ECM domain technologies to Architecture and technical teams within the organisation

Job Responsibilities

• Define Current-state Capability Architectures
• Define Future-state Capability Architectures
• Define Roadmap for transformation from current to future state Capability Architectures
• Define Guardrails and patterns for the us of the specific technologies
• Organisational understanding and alignment around emerging Domain technologies
• Define and enforce Capability Architecture Principles/ Guardrails/ Roadmaps
• Define and enforce Domain Standards
• Determine Domain Technical Debt Rating
• Participation in Architecture Review Board and Solution Alignment Forum
• Consult to programmes (In time, on budget, great quality)
• Engage user community
• Become Preferred technology advisor by business units

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate

Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualification

• BSc Computer Science, Honours, Industrial Engineering or equivalent degree

Essential (required minimum):

• Degree in Information technology/Engineering in Information Technology

Preferred:

• Degree or Honours or above degree in Information Technology/Software Engineering/Computer Science
• Cloud certification
• TOGAF Certification/ Zachman Certification
• SAFE certification
• Archimate certification

Minimum Experience Level

• At least 5 years Architecture related experience – Domain Enterprise
• Content Management Architecture experience essential

Advantageous experience (not a disqualifier):

• Business Analysis
• System Analysis
• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• Cloud architecture
• Multi Enablement

Skills (Technologies, systems or software knowledge etc.):

• Banking Experience
• Enterprise Content Management experience is essential. Experience in using and architecting the:
• IBM suite of ECM products – FileNet/CMOD
• OpenText Suite of products – Intelligent Capture, Core Capture, Magellan, Exstream
• CloudPak for Business Automation
• Robotic Process Automation knowledge – Blue Prism, UIPath
• Advantage to have experience in IBM BPM (Business Process Management), Blaze Decision Engine
• Advanced knowledge and application of a variety of hardware and software platforms and integrated information systems
• Basic Security architecture knowledge 
• Ability to effectively present information to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
• Assertiveness and ability to influence and reason with key stakeholders
• Able to work in a team environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Analytical, Logical, Lateral and Creative Thinking
• Able to integrate disparate concepts into a cohesive whole
• Able to reason at various levels of abstraction

Behavioural Competencies

• Collaborating
• Decision Making
• Emotional Intelligence Essentials
• Managing Work
• Resolving Conflict
• Technology Savvy