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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- This role is within the Credit Risk management team. The DevOps Engineer will manage and enable the relevant platform environments for example test, development, production, disaster recovery so that Business Technology delivery is agile and integrated. Be first Line support to the FRSPL (First Rand Services Private Limited) Operations Support Team in India).
Are you someone who can:
- Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness
- Control costs for business area
- Plan, implement, manage and report on cost effectiveness and communicate or escalate any variances
- Manage high risk and problematic financial issues in area of accountability and contribute to the development of policy
- Build relationships that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights; and the creation of buy-in
- Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support
- Contribute to sustaining a competitive edge through external networking, benchmarking and representation on related forums
- Assess client needs utilizing a structured requirements process i.e. gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes.
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in information technology or Business Computing.
- 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 1 to 2 years ideally at specialist level
- Experience with Office 365
- Working knowledge of Control-M
- Working knowledge of relevant operating systems, Windows, Linux
- Working knowledge of database administration, Oracle, SQL
- Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Good organization, time management and prioritization
- Understanding of testing concepts i.e., testing methodologies and techniques.
- Conceptual thinking and Detail-Oriented
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- This role entails efficiently supervising the Trade Operations function, whilst being mindful of risk, process and compliance adherence, and the International Chamber of Commerce rulings and processing. Taking unit costs and capacity into account in order to create greater efficiencies.
Are You Someone Who Can:
- Setting targets for the portfolio in line with turnover.
- Planning strategic objectives for the portfolio.
- Assisting in building and managing the opportunity tracking tool
- Communicating client interactions and feedback to stakeholders with regards to developments.
- Initiating client scoping sessions road shows and quarterly client visits to gain client insights.
- Initiating brainstorming sessions to identify opportunities across the group and manage action items thereof.
- Creating innovative solutions for specific product areas.
- Interrogating and manage MIS data to identify potential turns in business cycles or client behavior.
- Reviewing MIS data in order to ensure that internal trading desk turnover targets are met as well as migrating risk from internal trading books.
- Proactively managing credit facilities to ensure adequate limits are in place.
- Making cold calls in order to originate business to grow the portfolio.
- Managing escalated unresolved client issues.
- Interacting with IBD DCM team on a regular basis in order to gain insight into client activities to strengthen client relationships.
- Following through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
- Staying relevant and up to date with legislations and new development.
- Planning and manage own workflow anticipating obstacles juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time-frames and according to quality standards.
- Taking ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities.
You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:
- Have a Diploma/Degree in Business Management
- Have 3 to 5 years' experience in a similar role
You Will Have Access To:
- Opportunities to network and collaborate
- Challenging Work
- Opportunities to innovate
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Job Description
- To design and implement finance processes and control across multiple business areas within business projects or as part of finance continuous improvement projects. Ensure that there is financial integrity across the financials systems and provide business with effective, reliable, and timely financial information for management, strategic operational and financial reporting.
- Generate end to end finance process design and complete a detailed BRS document on projects, in particular but not limited to Master Data requirements, Business Rules, Clear and Detailed Process Maps, Accounting Rules/Entries, Control requirements and reporting requirements.
- Conduct workshops with relevant stakeholders to understand and document finances business requirement across multiple departments/divisions.
- Liaise with Project Manager/IT with regards to project plans and agree deliverables and timelines.
- Provide input to project plans and timelines.
- Provide feedback on project risks including financial risks, time risks and requirements risks.
- Work with the Systems Analyst to communicate the business requirement and ongoing interaction to ensure that any development meets the business need.
- Develop test scripts in line with business scenarios.
- Conduct thorough System and Integration Testing.
- Resolve any integration errors on a weekly basis.
- Responsible for developing business requirement specifications for processes and documenting enhancements.
- Responsible for investigating and resolving incidents logged by the business on a weekly basis.
- Provide input into finance policies, principles, and procedures.
- Help ensure that environment is setup for business change which includes analyze process changes, risks and impacts and facilitating communication thereof and assist with the analysis of process changes, risk impacts and communication required.
- Compile training material and delivery thereof responsible for supporting the business during implementation.
- Support the users until processes and systems have stabilized.
- Responsible for weekly status reporting, feedback on issues and risks.
- Responsible for ensuring that all documentation and portfolio of evidence is saved on the network.
- Identify, analyze, and define business requirements received from Business Owners, Subject matter experts and/or Project teams.
- Make recommendations for the enhancement or replacement of existing applications used with modern, practical, cost-effective solutions.
- Identify opportunities where new technology, digital developments and/or automation can be value adding.
- Clearly document and articulate business requirements to development- and testing teams using appropriate solution diagrams, user stories, use cases or high-level functional requirements documents.
- Ensure the final deliverable meets project and business specifications and qualifications.
- Sign off User Acceptance Testing and Business Readiness Testing.
- Assist with production enquiries.
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- The Credit Analytics Team in RMB Credit Enablement is responsible for multiple systems, focusing on the core function of Credit Origination, working closely with our Data Warehouse and Exposure & Limits Management teams in the same space. We service multiple divisions in RMB from Banking, Markets and Credit to Risk & Compliance. We are a diverse team with various skills, to enable us to support a varied customer base.
- In this role you will design, specify, build, configure and test solutions for delivering the necessary capability to business that enables quality solutions and a client centric orientation These include pricing and risk management solutions along with their related IT processes
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
- Facilitate one-on-one or group workshops to elicit analyse communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes and policies and where relevant IT systems
- Analyse dashboard statistics daily, weekly and monthly to improve productivity
- Collate data and submit reports as required
- Follow up to ensure flagged issues are resolved and closed-out
- Utilise data to improve efficiency and reduce errors
- Continually identify opportunities to enhance reporting efficiencies
- Demonstrate urgency and initiative in handling and resolving queries
- Follow correct escalation processes in handling client complaints
- Follow through to ensure queries are promptly and efficiently resolved
- Inspire a culture of pride in the RMB brand services and products always act to preserve and enhance brand value behaving in a way that delivers on the brand promise
- Drive best in class solutions and practices
- Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
- Make an effort to stay relevant and up to date with relevant knowledge
- Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities
- Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
- Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others
- Continually share debate and communicate learnings
- Be proactive in anticipating potential problems and continually monitor progress to ensure small details are not missed
- Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities
- Flag and debate issues constructively i.e. be solution focused
- Promote a friendly cooperative climate, understand group dynamics and apply appropriate facilitation techniques in working with others to achieve collective goals
- Be sensitive to others feelings needs values views and attitudes and be courteous and diplomatic when dealing with difficulties and problems others may be experiencing
- Act in an ethical transparent and morally defensible manner including highlighting unethical practices
You will be the ideal candidate if you have:
- Completed a BTech or relevant Degree
- 4 - 5 years' experience in a System Analyst role
- Previous Credit Origination experience
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Job Description
- 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.
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.
General Responsibilities:
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.
Required Expertise:
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).
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).
1SQL (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.
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- The core purpose of this role is to maintain application systems that are beyond the development stage and are running in the daily operations of the business. There is opportunity to be part of the change process, which requires relevant analysis, testing and implementation skills. Incumbents who participate in the development of the system may remain after completion to help maintain / update the system.
Are you someone who can do the following:
Macro environment
- Aware of emerging technologies and remains abreast of industry/ technology concepts and ideas which could impact on their area of accountability.
- Remaining technologically savvy with all platforms in the teams’ portfolio of applications.
- Create a repository of internal learnings and external knowledge materials which could benefit the execution of work within the team.
- Continuously look at improving service delivery through proactive monitoring and alerting.
Software Quality Assurance
- Understand the release.
- Prepare test scenarios to test the release.
- Execute the test cases.
- Hold triage sessions with vendors and stakeholders.
Business service alignment
- Apply experiential knowledge to trouble-shoot and resolve instances where service levels do not meet the agreed requirements.
- Responsible for software quality assurance.
Service handover
- Compile and Enhance user training material and business readiness assessments.
Access management
- Maintain security administration processes and ensure that all requests for support are dealt with according to agreed procedures.
Incident management
- Incident Ownership – Owns incident until resolved
- Prioritise and diagnose incidents within the relevant areas according to agreed procedures.
- Investigate causes of incidents and seek resolution within diverse but standardised precedents and procedures by applying operational knowledge and learnings.
- Escalate unresolved or complex incidents to the appropriate level.
- Document and close resolved incidents according to the agreed procedures and tools.
- Communicate the resolution actions and outcomes to the relevant business stakeholder.
Defect management, upgrades/enhancements and projects
- Ability to scope, plan, execute and close tasks which include defect management, upgrades/enhancements and projects effectively.
- Facilitate one-on-one or group workshops to elicit, analyse, communicate and validate requirements.
- Ensure the consistent and accurate documenting of requirements.
You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:
- Diploma, IT, Degree, Business Intelligence or related qualificatio
Experience
- 2-5 years’ experience in Trading Systems across all asset classes.
- Experience in API’s and FICS Protocol basics.
- Experience in monitoring and alerting tools.
- Experience in scheduling tools.
- Experience with databased and networking protocols basics.
- Experience in SQL.
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Are You Someone Who Can
- Calculate and process journal entries in a wide variety of systems.
- Prepare financial statements
- Contributing ideas and making proposals on the redesign of the processes.
- Manage relationships with intergroup clients and update related SLAs.
- Approve travel bookings, purchase orders and expenses claims in procurement systems.
- Working closely with Product control area around reserves journal processing.
- Working closely with cost (centre) owners in order to be able to calculate and communicate recoveries from intergroup user counterparties.
- Be innovative - Continuously work towards improving processes and procedures (efficiency).
- Communicate financial information to a non-technical audience.
- Provide specialist advice and support to stakeholders.
- Budget business revenue and costs and present multiple views like client, segments, cost type, etc.
- Review, reconciliation, quality control checks and validation of information and commentary.
- Plans, manages and coordinates projects on an ad-hoc basis.
- Train others – be the training custodian of FirstJob trainees.
You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You
- Qualifications: A qualified CA (SA).
- Experience: One (1) year post articles experience.
Attributes:
- Banking, financial and capital markets expertise.
- Strong Analytical skills.
- Strong on details without losing the big picture view.
- Able to deal with conflict and stress in transfer pricing relationships.
- Independence and self motivated
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Job Description
- To search and explore local and international markets for new products and trademarks in order to expand and strengthen the company position in the market
- Achieve revenue targets by either growing a portfolio of existing clients (optimising revenue opportunities) or by acquiring new clients
- Drive an increase in average balance of specific portfolio ofassets as defined in the Financial Performance Report of the business
- Drive an increase in average balance of specific portfolio of liabilities as defined in the Financial Performance Report of the Business
- Achieve rate target on both fix and linked mix for the business
- Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external parties to support the sales strategy
- Maintenance of expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provision of proactive advice and solutions to relevant stakeholders
- Actively seek and contribute to diverse opinions
- Drive strategic relationships to collaterally make sense of the ambiguity and uncertainty inherent to the organisation
- Create alignment, collaboration and synergy between the various specialist areas to provide a comprehensive business solution to customers
- Reshape customer experience journeys to increase self-service and assisted service and employ strategies to maximize customer satisfaction
- Balance interests of a variety of clients, readily readjusting priorities to respond to pressing and changing client demands
- Establish best practices in respect of optimising client service through the full operations value chain, within the appropriate risk appetite and automation vision of the organisation
- Drive an integrated service excellence culture, which enables rewarding relationships and customer feedback in promotion of exceptional service
- Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and FirstRand internal compliance procedures and requirements
- Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by Group
- Design and implement a control framework to ensure the integrity of operations and practices
- Anticipate and apply and policies/procedures to manage and control both financial and non-financial risks
- Align, integrate and innovate area of accountability to enable the creation of integrated and specialised solutions and create a sustainable competitive advantage for Business
- Execute relevant business initiatives aligned to strategic objectives with specific performance measures and control systems to track progress
- Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement
- Maintain a broad knowledge of current and emerging conditions affecting industry and/or business through forecasting and analysis across First Rand
- Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provide of advice to relevant stakeholders
- Maintain up to date knowledge of local and global trends
- Provide thought leadership and expertise
- Ensure that sales strategies are aligned across customer value proposition
- Actively pursue opportunities that may increase revenue
- Design and develop business metrics to ensure sales is measured against financial goals agreed to for the operational areas
- Ensure regular audits and surveys are done to measure and track business performance against financial goals
- Manage performance of teams in areas of responsibility against expected delivery targets
- Ensure alignment of team and individual performance objectives to relevant business area objectives
- Drive and monitor corrective actions to ensure maximisation of team performance
- Drive performance management processes within agreed timelines
- Drive Talent Management practices in area of accountability
- Build management team succession plans for critical roles in own area and influence strategic resource planning of partners
- Provide direction, regular feedback and coaching to direct reports to improve performance
- Ensure implement employment equity plan target achievement in all recruitment and employee movement activities
- Identify current and future human capital needs and skills requirements
- Influence the alignment and adoption of different priorities in people management strategies as articulated through the strategic people levers
- Build a culture of recognition and fairness across business aligned to HR policies
- Establish an enabling climate and culture to energise employees, give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity
- Establish people-focused management strategies
- Influence the development and enablement of a culture and climate where the organisational values are demonstrated and lived
- Influence the understanding and adoption of the organisational strategic direction across all levels of the organisation and its stakeholders
- Define and create a long term human capability strategic framework to enable sustainable business performance
- Create a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared
- Collaborate with various stakeholders to co-create solutions and share information within and across teams for development and improvement
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The purpose of the role is as follows:
- To search and explore local and international markets for new products and trademarks in order to expand and strengthen the company position in the market
- Achieve revenue targets by either growing a portfolio of existing clients (optimising revenue opportunities) or by acquiring new clients
- Drive an increase in average balance of specific portfolio ofassets as defined in the Financial Performance Report of the business
- Drive an increase in average balance of specific portfolio of liabilities as defined in the Financial Performance Report of the Business
- Achieve rate target on both fix and linked mix for the business
- Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with internal and external parties to support the sales strategy
- Maintenance of expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provision of proactive advice and solutions to relevant stakeholders
- Actively seek and contribute to diverse opinions
- Drive strategic relationships to collaterally make sense of the ambiguity and uncertainty inherent to the organisation
- Create alignment, collaboration and synergy between the various specialist areas to provide a comprehensive business solution to customers
- Reshape customer experience journeys to increase self-service and assisted service and employ strategies to maximize customer satisfaction
- Balance interests of a variety of clients, readily readjusting priorities to respond to pressing and changing client demands
- Establish best practices in respect of optimising client service through the full operations value chain, within the appropriate risk appetite and automation vision of the organisation
- Drive an integrated service excellence culture, which enables rewarding relationships and customer feedback in promotion of exceptional service
- Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and FirstRand internal compliance procedures and requirements
- Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by Group
- Design and implement a control framework to ensure the integrity of operations and practices
- Anticipate and apply and policies/procedures to manage and control both financial and non-financial risks
- Align, integrate and innovate area of accountability to enable the creation of integrated and specialised solutions and create a sustainable competitive advantage for Business
- Execute relevant business initiatives aligned to strategic objectives with specific performance measures and control systems to track progress
- Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement
- Maintain a broad knowledge of current and emerging conditions affecting industry and/or business through forecasting and analysis across First Rand
- Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provide of advice to relevant stakeholders
- Maintain up to date knowledge of local and global trends
- Provide thought leadership and expertise
- Ensure that sales strategies are aligned across customer value proposition
- Actively pursue opportunities that may increase revenue
- Design and develop business metrics to ensure sales is measured against financial goals agreed to for the operational areas
- Ensure regular audits and surveys are done to measure and track business performance against financial goals
- Manage performance of teams in areas of responsibility against expected delivery targets
- Ensure alignment of team and individual performance objectives to relevant business area objectives
- Drive and monitor corrective actions to ensure maximisation of team performance
- Drive performance management processes within agreed timelines
- Drive Talent Management practices in area of accountability
- Build management team succession plans for critical roles in own area and influence strategic resource planning of partners
- Provide direction, regular feedback and coaching to direct reports to improve performance
- Ensure implement employment equity plan target achievement in all recruitment and employee movement activities
- Identify current and future human capital needs and skills requirements
- Influence the alignment and adoption of different priorities in people management strategies as articulated through the strategic people levers
- Build a culture of recognition and fairness across business aligned to HR policies
- Establish an enabling climate and culture to energise employees, give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity
- Establish people-focused management strategies
- Influence the development and enablement of a culture and climate where the organisational values are demonstrated and lived
- Influence the understanding and adoption of the organisational strategic direction across all levels of the organisation and its stakeholders
- Define and create a long term human capability strategic framework to enable sustainable business performance
- Create a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared
- Collaborate with various stakeholders to co-create solutions and share information within and across teams for development and improvement
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Job Description
- Global Markets Technology Platform Lead in Enablement is a senior leadership role responsible for a cross functional team that is at the forefront of Finance Technology and Risk Technology platform for Global Markets. The role has accountability for people leadership, technology delivery and management of associated budgets.
- This role leads talented platform team of specialists involved in all the stages of software delivery lifecycle across all asset classes. Core to the role of the platform leadership is active stakeholder management and is part of Global Markets Technology and Data management committee (ManCo).
- This is a great opportunity to join a rewarding Global Markets Technology and Data team based in Sandton, Johannesburg and become an invaluable contributor in designing and implementing industry-leading Finance and Risk technology platforms.
Are you someone who can:
- Navigate technological shifts, economic realities, regulatory compliance and operational challenges to ensure a seamless yet cost effective trading experience.
- Builds and maintains effective relationship with business management and stakeholders.
- Ensure implementation of the business transformation plan and creation of an inclusive culture for employees.
- Design and deliver customer service solutions, systems and interactions aligned to organisational values and service standards that build the brand.
- Draw up a budget aligned to tactical delivery plans to facilitate the provision of adequate financial resources.
- Manage team or teams in areas of responsibility in delivery against performance targets and achievement of wider human capital objectives.
- Develop tactical strategy and delivery plans in support of functional strategic objectives in partnership with leadership.
- Analyse information and reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
- Oversees IT Governance, Risk and Compliance.
- Accountable for stability and maintenance of all platforms in the Finace and Risk Domain.
- Manages and maintains the monitoring toolsets.
- Contributes towards the development and implementation of the business unit’s information technology strategy.
- Identify, drive and implement ideas, policies, procedures, standards and frameworks to enhance sales and increase profit and manage future fit practice.
- Monitor Key Performance Indicators and metrics affecting the organization's technology assets; engage technical team as needed to meet goals or address issues.
- Provide thought leadership within the organization; research and evaluate cutting-edge practices and enabling technologies for internal adoption; assess potential partnerships and acquisitions.
- Respond to feedback from stakeholders and use it to make improvements or adjustments to technology.
- Select technology suppliers, vendors, and third-party integrations to design the organization's architecture and the technology stack.
- Establish and nurture effective relationships with collaborators, Finance and Risk technology specialists, product managers, and designers to make appropriate architectural and build vs. buy decisions.
- Own all technology and product to external stakeholders, partners, investors and future recruitment.
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
Qualifications
- Minimum qualification: A graduate qualification in Computer Science, Accounting, Investments, Engineering or Technology – combination an advantage
- Postgraduate business degree is an advantage
- All above from a reputable institution
Experience and Skills
- 10+ years’ experience in a variety of management technical roles managing teams preferably within a Global Markets environment
- 5+ of people leadership
- Knowledge in software delivery lifecycle
- Strong software technical background covering architecture, integration, data warehousing, API’s, business analysis, testing and production software management
- Strong understanding the trade life cycle
- Have a good knowledge and understanding of finance relating to trading of asset classes and related risk management
- Particularly good experience with proactive technology monitoring and alerting tools
- Understanding of investment banking
- Experience managing vendor relationships and relevant engagement.
- Strong understanding of multiple asset classes and banking products and how they are executed
- Good understanding of technical integration tools like Control M, Tibco, Informatica, Reporting tools, Market Data
- Good understanding of mainstream programming languages like Java, C#, Python, etc
- Good knowledge of mainstream software databases
- Good understanding of Agile work methods
- Good understanding of project/program management
- Strong stakeholder management skills and networking
- Willingness to coach and mentor others
- Commitment to lifelong learning
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Job Description
- The Murex Specialist is responsible for understanding the full lifecycle of a trade from Pricing to Settlement and the impact on Market Risk, Finance, Credit Risk and Collateral. Continuous development of Murex Platform is done by enhancing current functionality and building out for new business requirements.
- The role performs across the Markets, Banking and Treasury Business Units.
Are you someone who can do the following:
Analysis and solution development
- Analyse existing processes and facilitate improvements with stakeholders.
- Work with traders and other stakeholders to gather and document requirements
- Conduct impact analysis, understand trader's pain points and propose solutions
- Coordinate and participate in the test effort to ensure that the delivered solution meets agreed business requirements and functional/process specifications.
- Configure/Develop Solutions in the Murex Platform to meet business needs
- Participate in analytical queries such as Risk, PnL and Pricing as well as technical queries linked to Workflows, Integrations and Reporting
Service Excellence
- Compile training material and provide end-user training to stakeholders where relevant.
- Collaborate with internal technical team/users in the resolution of critical production incidents
- Collaborate with Murex Vendor on suitable short- and long-term solutions for incidents and new requirements
- Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business.
Effective stakeholder relationship management
- 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
- Build relationships despite arising conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
- Anticipates consequences and adapts problem solving based on continuous feedback
Self-management and teamwork
- Plan and manage own workflow, anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time-frames and according to quality standards
- Stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new development
- Take ownership of personal career development, leveraging formal and informal opportunities
- Act in an ethical, transparent and morally defensible manner
- Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
- Continually share, debate and communicate learning’s, also flag and debate issues constructively to ensure the best outcome for business stakeholders and altimately the bank
- Contribute to a friendly, co-operative climate in working with others to achieve collective goals
You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline is required
- ACI Dealing Certificate advantageous
Strong functional knowledge of:
- The Capital Markets Products and Business environment
- Trade life cycle and financial markets asset classes like Derivatives, Interest Rate, Money Market, Fixed Income;
- Agile Scrum project execution process
- Murex system modules - Front Office Configuration / Modules, Sensitivity, Risk issues, P&L Analysis, Pre-Trade Rule and Pricing Template setup
Experience:
- At least 3 years of experience in implementing and supporting Financial Markets systems and their interfaces between systems
- Experience in Murex and/or MX TEST
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