Job Vacancies at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To manage the provision of a language risk mitigation service to the Nedbank Group its alliances and associates.

Job Responsibilities

• Deliver a world-class language and editorial service by ensuring a client-centred culture.
• Ensure best practice. Optimise efficiency and embed correct values by ensuring direct reports understand and support Nedbank's vision, values and strategy.
• Mitigate risk by identifying, monitoring and managing communication non-compliance and managing others doing this.
• Mitigate risk for Nedbank Group by managing and ensuring clear, accurate and appropriate communication.
• Manage the development, standardisation and contribution to the publication of business terminology across identified languages to meet Nedbank Group Language Policy requirements.
• Manage performance of reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their reports by implementing performance agreements and ensuring a clear vision Identify relevant development needs.
• Maintain a high performing team by identifying a talent pool through conducting career conversations and using the talent grid principles and developing talent retention programmes.
• Build depth of skills and knowledge in the team of managers by sharing knowledge and insight with team members.
• Ensure continuous improvement goals are achieved by creating an environment whereby self, managers and team are encouraged to challenge the status quo by initiating constructive debates about work practices and areas for improvement.
• Ensure that the training offering is relevant by aligning it to business needs.
• Meet business requirements by monitoring the quality of training delivered by the facilitator.
• Manage the negotiation and management of deadlines to meet Nedbank Group its alliances' and associates' business requirements.
• Managing the provision of editorial and language guidance to ensure that the Group meets language policy requirements.
• Monitor and execute document production to ensure compliance with policy and due process within agreed timeframes.
• Ensure compliance with language policy.
• Provide assurance on compliance by compiling and presenting reports.
• Mitigate risk.
• Formulate the Group Language Policy.
• Meet Nedbank Group Language Policy requirements.
• Satisfy internal and external client requirements.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external clients and stakeholders.
• Contribute to stakeholder relationships.
• Satisfy internal client requirements.
• Ensure clear, accurate and appropriate communication.
• Ensure transformational target are met.
• Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values, leading by example.
• Ensure issues raised in culture survey are addressed and results are improved.
• Identify areas of resource inefficiencies and promote optimisation.
• Manage the operational spend in line with the approved budget.
• Provide input into the budget forecasting process.
• Ensure recovery targets of the department are met.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Honours in Applied Linguistics/English/Language Practice

Minimum Experience Level

• 8 years as Senior Editor in the financial industry
• Minimum of 3 – 4 years in a managerial role

Preferred Qualification

• A Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics/English or equivalent

Preferred Certifications

• Accredited with South African Translators Institute or equivalent.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Business administration and management
• Business principles
• Capacity planning
• Change management
• Communication Strategies
• Diversity management
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms

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Job Purpose

• The Specific Technology Specialist messaging specialist will be responsible for all activities involving messaging, including but not limited to analysis, development, modification, installation, testing and maintenance of messaging software. The successful candidate needs to possess a strong understanding of messaging systems (including hardware and software solutions), cloud computing as a concept, the Z/OS operating system and assisting architecture in creating direction. They will evaluate vendor-supplied software packages and make recommendations to IT Management. Modifies and/or debugs vendor-supplied utilities and packages. Modify, install, and prepare technical documentation and keep messaging standards up to date. Additionally diagnose, isolate, and debug software problems and performs problem resolution while participating in forums addressing outages. Monitors systems capacity and performance, plans and executes disaster recovery procedures and provides Tier 2 technical support. This function include periodic capacity planning as well.

Job Responsibilities

• Consult and provide advice on the use of the specific technology. Address the needs of the bank by deploying, supporting and configuring the specific technology.
• Develop solutions using knowledge of the technology.
• Ensure ongoing availability within the SLA requirements.
• Ensure maximum exploitation of the technology features across multiple business initiatives.
• Identify further opportunities for use of the technology.
• Contribute to a culture of transformation by participating in Nedbank culture building initiatives, business strategy, and CSI.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.
• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and values, leading by example.
• Identify opportunities to influence the improvement or enhancement of business processes and methodologies.
• Participate in Research and Development related to specific technology.
• Ensure alignment with emerging technologies, and impact on Nedbank technologies.
• Participation in design forums, project forums, user groups and Request For Proposal (RFP).
• Design optimal technical solution in the Nedbank technologies. Contribute expertise into a design document related to specific technology and its impact on Nedbank technology.
• Participate in proof of technology and proof of concept, with recommendations.
• Document and maintain documents relevant to specific technologies and its standards.
• Maintain technology road map in alignment with strategic IT policies and procedures.
• Ensure implementation of solution is aligned to best practice.
• Enable skilling and required corrective action taking place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes to improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses.
• Maintain up to date landscape views and technical guidelines of how specific technology is implemented at Nedbank.
• Attend technology specific industry forums and compile and present technical papers.
• Provide problem solving in high impact incidents.
• Present to stakeholders on any impact or change to specific technology.
• Engage with vendors related to specific technologies.
• Present on the exploitation of the technology.
• Become a trusted consultant by providing trustworthy information and acknowledging if advice cannot be provided.
• Expand IP beyond own technology speciality. Review Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensure delivered systems, process, services and solutions are aligned to support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
• Contribute to the content of the curricula for stakeholders.
• Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place.
• Grow the profession through technical mentoring.
• Review vendor training offerings. Ensure the continuity of the technical specialist pipeline.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

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

Essential /Preferred Certifications

• IBM MQ System Administration V9 and above would be advantageous
• Azure / AWS cloud certifications would be advantageous

Essential Certifications

• Accredited where formal expert certification on technology is available FPL or JMP or equivalent

Working Knowledge

• Z/OS Operating System, IBM MQ V9 and above, IBM MQ Systems Administration, The IBM MQ Appliance M2001/M2002/M2003. TCP/IP, MQIPT termination in DMZ, Azure Essentials, AWS Essentials, IBM Cloud Pack for Integration (CP4I), Automation, MQ Monitoring Products, JCL, VSAM, TSO, SDSF, Containers on OpenShift, Scripting Languages (YAML), Orchestration (Kubernetes), Automation and automated deployments.
• Sound knowledge and understanding of MQ administration
• Security standard and protocols (SSL)
• Understanding and experience across multiple operating systems/platforms

Minimum Experience Level

• 5 - 7 years experience in an IT environment of which at least 2 years in a senior role from feeding career streams and at least 3-5 years specialisation in the specific technology
• Sound knowledge and understanding of MQ administration
• 5 yrs Technical Experience (Message Queuing Administration
• 2 yrs BM MQ system administration

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Banking knowledge
• Business Acumen
• Business principles
• Change management
• Industry trends
• Principles of financial management
• Principles of project management
• Research methodology
• Business writing skills
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Data Analysis and Interpretation
• Relevant governing body practises and guidelines
• Product trends
• Compliance of license contracts knowledge
• Mentoring
• Industry best practise frameworks
• Business consulting and facilitation
• Relevant Governance controls and regulatory knowledge
• Information Technology concepts
• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)
• Role relevant related technologies
• Service orientated Architecture (SOA)
• Systems design
• Knowledge of specific technology
• Single technology
• Object Orientation (Devlopers)
• IT Solutions Architecture
• IT Infrastructure Architecture

Behavioural Competencies

• Applied Learning
• Decision Making
• Innovation
• Stress Tolerance
• Driving for results
• Quality Orientation
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

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Job Purpose

• To assist in the development of analytics and reporting through the delivery of insights and analytics to stakeholders for business application in alignment with Nedbank's strategic focus areas.

Job Responsibilities

• Corporate sustainability reputation and and stakeholder engagement management.
• External stakeholder education and awareness.
• Staff Education and Awareness.
• Deliver on Financial commitments as per the performance scorecard.
• Effective self-management green staff leadership Media Relations Public Affairs

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

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

Preferred Qualification

• B degree that includes Economic, Mathematics, Statistics, Information Systems and/or Finance

Minimum Experience Level

• 3 years' experience in information management

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Administrative procedures and systems
• Business principles
• Business terms and definitions
• Data analysis
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Business writing skills
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

• Communication
• Customer Focus
• Decision Making
• Managing Work
• Quality Orientation
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

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Job Purpose

• To ensure that the Group Risk Framework is embedded; operationalised and implemented. Advise business on strategic direction to meet business objectives; mitigate risks and meet regulatory requirements.

Job Responsibilities

• Establish and embed enterprise-wide and operational risk frameworks and policies.
• Collaborate with other risk functions across the Cluster and Group.
• Manage and assist with coordination of divisional and cluster enterprise risk committees.
• Manage risks associated with payments ecosystem.
• Collaborate with payments functions in Group Risk, Corporate and Investment Banking and Group Technology.
• Manage innovation and product development risk.
• Provide strategic risk advise to the Divisional Executives and Managing Executive of function.
• Report, present accurate and insightful operational risk information at various management and oversight committees.
• Develop risk plans that enable the implementation of the business strategy.
• Ensure compliance with policies and regulations.
• Ensure alignment of area business processes to the Group Risk Framework.
• Keep business updated on a regular basis and analyse information generated from the risk exercises.
• Ensure business processes and systems are functioning by identifying and documenting risks.
• Lead and create an environment of teamwork, encouraging staff to participate in decision-making processes.
• Mitigate risks by providing the business with relevant information, guidance, and advice.
• Actively assist the business to manage all risk types and participate in business and risk forums.
• Keep abreast of regulatory and banking trends including digitisation of banking services.

Minimum Experience Level

• At least 8 years’ experience in Banking/ Financial services.
• At least 3 years’ experience in operational risk/ enterprise risk management and/or credit risk management and/or external/internal audit at a senior manager level.
• Exposure to Nedbank Operational Risk Management Framework (ORMF) and Enterprise-wide Risk Management Framework (ERMF).
• Exposure to Nedbank Commercial Banking, Retail Relationship Banking and Consumer Banking products, processes, and systems.

Preferred Qualification

• Honours degree in finance/commerce/risk management/ Equivalent.
• Master’s degree in finance/commerce/risk management/ Equivalent will be considered an added advantage.

Type of exposure

• Commercial Banking, Retail Relationship Banking and Consumer Banking products, processes, and systems.
• Managing a team of managers
• Coaching and mentoring others
• Identifying/select talent
• Developing a divisional strategy plan
• Developing a stakeholder management grid for the business
• Developing resource plans to execute functional strategies
• Developing a client service delivery plan
• Managing business risks

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Ability to engage professionally and build relationships with stakeholders.
• Extensive knowledge of banking products, segments and sound understanding of how financial institutions operate and key risks in the environment.
• Presentation skills
• Business acumen.
• Data analysis.
• Business writing skills.
• Industry trends.
• Banking and Risk Management knowledge.