Current Vacancies at Secondments

Job Advert Summary    

• To find innovative commercial restructuring solutions for Corporate Banking clients identified as in need of a proactive intervention to mitigate risk and prevent or minimise losses. To give technical expertise using the turnaround methodologies to develop, implement and monitor business rescue plan. To manage the end-to-end process of identified distressed Corporate Banking clients.

Minimum Requirements    

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• 3 years Business / Commercial Qualification (BCOM)
• 3-5 years Corporate Banking experience which includes:
• Corporate Finance/Banking deal structuring
• Structured trade and commodity finance
• Strong Financial and Credit Analysis and Assessment background
• Formulating business turnaround plans
• Evaluation of business restructures or workouts
• Managing turnaround of distressed clients.

Critical Competencies

• Microsoft Office
• Business Acumen 
• Legal procedures
• Deal structuring 
• Turnarounds, workout and restructuring
• Credit and Financial Analysis
• Credit assessment / evaluation

Additional Requirements

• Travel as and when required.
• Extended hours as and when required / Time management
• Willing to work outdoors
• Valid SA Driver’s License
• Stress management

Duties and Responsibilities    

Innovative restructuring solutions to Corporate accounts

• Obtain all the necessary and required information to conduct a full diagnostic analysis and undertake a preliminary due diligence and recommend procuring external due diligence where necessary and justifiable.
• Conduct research through engaging various stakeholders and sources to determine long term business and financial viability
• Conduct a business operation, industry and financial analysis of customers which have been identified for intervention
•  Critically review business plans, turnaround plans and business rescue plans to ensure that the bank’s interests are protected
• Establish the business needs and financial requirements through a needs analysis.
• Perform a security analysis to review and assess the Bank’s risk position to ensure that the Bank’s interests are protected at all times

Manage the implementation of the approved restructure of customer accounts

• Engage clients, all relevant internal and external stakeholders on the outcome of the restructure proposal.
• Negotiate an equitable deal considering the Bank’s interest.
• Gather all the necessary documents required in drafting the new agreements.
• Provide input to drafting loan agreements, equity agreements and security documents in collaboration with the Legal Team and in line with the approved Terms and Conditions by the various Credit Committees.
• Issue the client with signed agreements.
• Manage and coordinate the conclusion of any inter-creditor agreements.
• Check all conditions of approval (precedent) have all been complied with prior to disbursements.

Monitoring and Evaluation of restructured customer accounts

• Obtain management information from client within prescribed timelines, analyse and engage clients regarding performance variances ensuring that action plans are in place to close the gaps of any negative variances.
• Provide regular (as prescribed) performance status update for each client and represent the account at the various governance structures (EXCO, Credit Committee or Board).
• Provide portfolio and client information to Finance Division for consideration in impairment calculation.
• Make recommendations regarding a proposed change in strategy for the clients (e.g. debt to equity conversion, debt pardon, moratoriums, return to normal (retain), structured exit, business rescue proceeding/debt counselling, legal recovery and liquidation).
• Engage other 3rd parties where required to intervene (e.g. government departments, potential investors, other creditors, other lender, etc.).
• Undertake reviews (interim or annual) based on Management Accounts and Annual Financial Statements and business performance as prescribed by Bank’s credit policy or Credit Committee.

Provide advisory services to internal and external stakeholders where required.

• Provide advice and guidance to the Portfolio Performance Management teams and the Corporate Banking team with respect to the identification of client accounts that should be flagged for a workout intervention based on lessons learnt in managing high risk clients.
• Participate in the reviewing of policies and procedures where workout and restructuring subject expertise may be required.
• Accompany Corporate Banking team members on request to client meetings to provide support and expert opinion on possible workout and restructuring related issues, processes and procedures.
• Attend internal and external forums at request where subject expertise is required on turnaround, workout and restructuring matters.
• Engage in negotiations and discussions on Land Bank Corporate Banking client matters with third parties (other lenders, potential investors, Attorneys, Consultants, Business Rescue Practitioners, etc.).

Record Keeping and Reporting

• In consultation with Client Administration, Performance Analytics and Reporting, ensure that client information is managed in terms of the Bank’s record management policy.
• Compile reports as required for the different governance structures and management.
• Ensure that client’s information is updated on the relevant systems as and when required in collaboration with the Specialist: Compliance and Administration.
• Furnish various trend reports to various governance structures on matters that will potentially be worked out and those that are currently being worked out.
• Attend to audit findings providing corrective actions.

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Job Advert Summary    

• To support and execute the funding activities of the bank, optimise returns on surplus cash and manage overdrafts and overnight loans for the short and long term. Execute risk management activities and manage asset and liability management reporting. To raise funds for the bank (Including grants and refinancing of the debt)

Minimum Requirements    
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• B Com degree or equivalent 
• 5 years sound knowledge of the money and capital markets
• 5 years sound knowledge of the company Business
• 5 years activities – negotiations, report writing, financial modelling, funding model development; accounting and knowledge of SAP 

Critical Competencies    

• Microsoft Office
• SAP 
• Treasury/ Financial reporting system
• Knowledge of Money and Capital Markets
• Additional Requirements    
• Travel as and when required
• Extended hours as and when required

Duties and Responsibilities    
Customer & Stakeholder Relationships

• Creates, implements and monitors the Funding and liquidity processes for consistent application and management of deals
• Stakeholder Management: National Treasury (NT)
• Stakeholder Management: Domestic & Multi-lateral funders
• Stakeholder management

Funding and Liquidity Management

Cost of Funding (COF)

• Sets standards and parameters for operations to manage the COF process
• Continuously monitor movement in money and capital market rates in the domestic and global markets during trading hours;
• Sign-off cost of funding calculations compiled by specialist: funding / liquidity.

Liquidity Management

• Sets standards and parameters for operations to manage Liquidity Funding (develop an appropriate Liquidity Policy for the Bank)
• Communicate with business in advance to determine business requirements;
• Based on the maturing debt and loan book movement, manage liquidity to meet financial commitments on time;
• Manage and monitor liquidty as per the newly developed Liquidity Management Policy
• Invest surplus cash taking into consideration preservation of capital, maintenance of sufficient liquidity and maximise return.

Funding

• Compile the annual borrowing programme to dovetail the corporate plan;
• Source \cost effective borrowings within borrowings limit approved by Board;
• Subject to investor appetite and market development adjust the type of funding instrument, maturity buckets and develop new funding instruments where applicable;
• Compile and manage funding pipeline for the Bank

Reporting and Management of Relationships

• General Treasury skills transfer
• Transfer specialised skills in financial markets to all Treasury staff;
• Contribute meaningful when Treasury related legal documents and certificates are drawn up by Legal advisors and Attorneys;
• Ability to promote the bank during interaction with financial market participants;
• Contribute to the reporting of Treasury related information in the monthly Finance Division Reports.
• Board / committee contribution
• Compile annual borrowing programme to the Board and Minister of Finance;
• Compile monthly ALCO reports;
• Attend and present at monthly ALCO meetings;
• Attend and present at Liquidity committee meetings;

People Management

• Performance Management
• Capacity Planning
• Financial Management

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Job Advert Summary    

• Our Client is looking for an accounts payable administrator Payment of clients’ rental and electricity to ensure accurate cash flow and control of all vendor accounts. Maintain good long term vendor and client manager relationships. Filing of invoices and proof of payments per supplier, before the next payment run.

Minimum Requirements    

• Minimum of Grade 12 with Accountancy as subject or equivalent qualification / training eg. 
• Association Accounting Technicians well as 2 years relevant experience.
• Telecoms and Utility

Duties and Responsibilities    

• To ensure that invoices meet pre-set requirements (eg. VAT number, tax invoice, address etc.) 
• Ensure that all information is correctly captured: Invoice Number, Document and Posting Dates, Order Number and  Amount. 
• Ensure that invoices are in the name of the Property Owners / VAT No of owner also to be indicated. 
• To drive process of EFT Payments (eg. getting consent). 
• Capturing invoices in time and accuratel.
• Capturing of credit notes
• To ensure that fixed monthly charges pull through to the vendors
• Ensure that monthly charges are comparable to prior months
• Ensure escalations are applied on time
• Handle queries from suppliers.
• Handle queries from regions.
• Any changes to payment run, must be indicated to AP Controller and signed off
• Perform reconciliation on supplier account, (statements with old balances). 
• Reply to audit queries and the follow up. (Supplying of prove of payments) 
• Regular controlling and feedback to AP Controller of blocked invoices report.

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Job Advert Summary    

• To design code and modify complex websites, web-based Business and Mobile applications (Apps) and Information and Interactive Portals (staff and clients) in order to support the organizational strategies and goals relative to internal and external communications. To use applicable technologies to integrate systems, digitize business tools and automate business processes in order to consistently deliver business value.

Minimum Requirements    
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• National Diploma in IT
• 3-5years extensive working experience in the development and maintenance of websites, apps, and web portals.
• 3-5years extensive working experience in the development system interfaces, digitization of business tools and automation business processes
• 3-5years practical experience of SharePoint environment (includes metadata, sites, surveys etc., SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture   
• 3-5years experience of business analysis and design
• 3-5years SharePoint Server and Database Administration knowledge

Critical Competencies    

• Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
• Visual Studio .NET 2005 - 2008
• Microsoft Office Applications
• ASP.Net, HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, C# or JavaScript
• .NET Framework
• ETL Tools

Additional Requirements    

• Extended hours as and when required.
• Travel as and when required.
• Attention to detail is critical.
• Creativity, innovation, and resourcefulness

Duties and Responsibilities    
Key Performance Areas    

Websites, Applications and Portal Development

• Design and build complex web-based applications.
• Design and develop user interface features, site animation and special effects elements.
• Stays abreast of industry trends and all applicable technologies, including scripting, security issues, authoring tools, web design tools and new languages.

Integrate Systems and Digitize Business Tools

• Utilize embedded SQL to interface web-based applications with databases.
• Utilize web design tools and applicable technologies to digitize manual business tools and/or processes. 

Reactive Applications Maintenance

• Attend to calls for 2nd line support in terms of the service level agreement.
• Analyze configuration or development change requests.
• Complete all change control administration, including all relevant documentation.
• Facilitate implementation of changes to production systems

Business Analysis and Systems Architecture and Design

• Support scoping workshops to extract client business requirements.
• Write functional technical designs to support business requirements.
• Work with project teams and apply project standards and methodologies.
• Review and update functional technical designs on a periodic basis.

Monitor SharePoint Server and MSSQL Database (DML)

• Proactively monitor the SharePoint Server to ensure secure services with minimum downtime.
• Use the MSSQL Data Manipulation Language (DML) for adding (inserting), deleting, and modifying (updating) data in a database.
• Track, analyze and report application performance.