Hot Jobs at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

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.

The purpose of the role is as follows:

• To perform the day-to-day oversight of the administration and conduct of the collective investment scheme to ensure the safekeeping of the unit holders (investor), in compliance with the act, deed and subordinate regulation

Are you someone who can:​

• Work with project managers to proactively assess Fiduciary Risks within new business initiatives and products Identify and utilise opportunities to assess and improve own performance
• Optimise work through the application of learning experiences
• Build and maintain stakeholder relationships
• Investigate new ways to optimise processes
• Flag opportunities to migrate to platform and supports the use of technology in process and system improvements
• Draw on knowledge and experience to identify and develop solutions that lead to improved service delivery and quality
• Ensure operational excellence through the delivery of work processes according to defined quality standards
• Analyse and document economic conditions affecting industry and / or segments
• Keep up-to-date with market developments, new commercial products and all other areas that can affect the markets, e.g. movements in the economies of relevant countries, considering how the economic implications of factors such as natural disasters, weather, wars, etc., might affect the performance of companies and funds
• Provide subject matter expertise and maintain expert knowledge on local legislation, financial instruments and specific investment products
• Identify potential metrics to measure Key Risk Indicators for Fiduciary Risk
• Maintain and upload accurate and timeous scanning of all documentation on the system
• Prepare basic trust documents governing different transactions (trustee resolutions, donation agreements, loan agreements, compliance documents etc.) in compliance with business objectives
• Contribute to teamwork and inclusivity within own team
• Deliver customer service through adherence to quality service standards

You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Finance, Audit, Accounting, Risk, Mathematics, or Investment-related field
• Preferred qualification: Honour’s Degree or Post Graduate Diploma in Commerce, Finance, Audit, Accounting, Risk, Mathematics, or Investment-related field CFA / FRM, or studying towards these qualifications

Experience and Skills

• Minimum of 3-5 years in a similar environment or in an asset management organisation. Prior CIS experience is an advantage.
• An understanding of regulations, and the interpretation of compliance requirements
• An understanding of financial analytics and the interpretation of financial information
• Understanding of Collective Investment Scheme fund accounting, investment compliance and risk

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

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Job Description

• To develop innovative, reusable competitive solutions and contribute actively to a collaborative Developer community
• To collaborate with BDMs and Delivery Heads to make recommendations on the use of new and emerging technologies, which provide the competitive advantage and a clear technical roadmap
• To maintain stability of all technical platforms
• Initiate dialogue to build professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to listen, advise, influence, negotiate and present at all levels
• Lead and facilitate difficult conflict situations into consensual agreements
• Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources to make strategic decisions
• Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
• Continually scan the industry to identify opportunities to create strategic partnerships with key individuals and bodies
• Follow best practice and principles governance policy frameworks and utilisation of tools for the technology of the domain
• Engage with the designated standards team for specific guidance and delivery of solution components to maximise impact
• Understand and contribute to a knowledge sharing environment
• Produce a well operationalised solution on time that surpasses the requirements and performance expectations
• Drive scalable and sustainable solutions built based on best development practices
• Adopt a framework centric approach to prompt feasibility and reduces failure demand
• Reduce the technical debt as much as possible or revisit the business expectations
• Ensure technical follow up and a commit to allow for this-flexibility
• Take full responsibility for performance management of all direct reports managing their performance in relation to quality standards and agreed benchmarks and objectives focusing on all aspects of sound people management
• Engage in recruitment development, performance management, remuneration and rewards, career path planning, on the job training, coaching, and mentoring
• Ensure appropriate levels of management and accountability
• Motivate, delegate, and empower appropriately, enabling direct reports to take responsibility and display appropriate creativity and initiative
• Work with the team to actively grow their skills and lead them in operational excellence
• Demonstrate pride in the organisations brand services and products by consistently delivering on the brands promise
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new developments
• Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
• Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others
• Plan and manage own workflow anticipating obstacles juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time frames and according to quality standards
• Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities
• Read situations and organisational realities
• Set aside personal agenda for the greater good
• Act in an ethical transparent and morally defensible manner including highlighting unethical practices
• Share debate and communicate learnings
• Flag and debate issues constructively
• Promote a friendly cooperative climate

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• To oversee and manage Market Conduct Operations with integrated Customer Centric conduct principals to deliver on the business ability to produce the applicable Board-level Market Conduct measurement metrics and enrich business with meaningful KRIs that measure Market Conduct monitoring.
• To assist the business to identify Market Conduct risks, oversee, critically assess, and monitor market conduct initiatives and assist the business to embed conduct principles in everyday operations. This includes the implementation of relevant tools e.g., conduct metrics, reporting to relevant governance forums and driving the implementation of Group level guidelines.
• Implement best practice to achieve good customer outcomes.
• Establish mutually beneficial relationships with stakeholders that support thought leadership, innovative and integrated practice solutions.
• Research emerging local and global trends and regulatory risk.
• Review effectiveness of Market Conduct programmes and interventions.
• Identify and highlight possible material group-wide risks of market abuse and/or poor conduct practices.
• Evaluate adherence to Market Conduct standards and codes of conduct.
• Evaluate remediation plans in relation to poor market conduct practices.
• Design and deliver customer service solutions, systems and interactions aligned to conduct principles and best practice.
• Analyse information to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Use the insights gained through integrated business reports to measure success and realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately.
• Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provide advice to relevant stakeholders.
• Provide thought leadership and expertise.
• Ensure analysis of current data to create data sets that identify opportunities for the Pillar.
• Drive implementation of FSCA supervisory programme (with Compliance). This also includes any other relevant external supervisory body engagement.
• Translate strategies into actionable goals and execute relevant projects /initiatives aligned to strategic objectives with specific performance measures and control systems to track progress.
• Oversee and ensure the management of Market Conduct operations with integrated customer centric conduct principals.
• Drive the market conduct “tone from within” with line managers across the business by advocating for market considerations in all business processes.
• Delivers on business ability to produce the applicable Market Conduct measurement metrics for the adequate monitoring of conduct risks.
• Understand and guide on how MC will impact business KPIs within the pillar and help Senior Management formulate business responses.
• Coordinate product reviews across the pillar and set up metrics within the NPA process to emphasise key MC principle.
• Enrich current conversations to agree applicability and fine tune metrics.
• Fewer metrics, rather than more, delivering on more contextual measurements.
• Metric value – read together, the metrics must give an overall picture of conduct quality.
• Drive quality data availability - Data may require a (short) journey for some BU’s – different levels of data maturity.
• Agree metric owners and begin data mapping, calibration of metrics including Customer Experience insights.
• Pro-actively identify Conduct risks within the business and to guide the business in establishing controls to manage the risk.
• Reporting and updates to the various market conduct forums like Reporting into FirstRand Conduct governance structures where required – FSR S&G Exco and FSR SETCOM.
• Deliver on a reporting framework that contributes to the bottom-line value delivery.
• Perform broader and more granular reporting on market conduct objectives at a Pillar level and deliver on a reporting framework that contributes to the bottom-line value delivery.
• Roles and Responsibilities are defined and are in place.
• Manage reputational risk through ongoing monitoring of Market Conduct with integrated Customer.
• Experience and partner behavioural trends.
• Identifies and manages business Market Conduct risk.
• Participates in planned activities that are appropriate for own development.
• Manages people performance.
• Ensure integrated view and reporting of relevant business information.
• Assist the Senior Management/Pillar Chairs with cross segment collaboration on MC topics.
• Coordinate Product Head collaboration within the pillar to raise key MC topics from within business units in the pillar.
• Collaborates with key stakeholders.
• Monitor and evaluate all customer touch points to ensure the effectiveness of conduct principles.

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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.

The purpose of the role is to:

• To design, specify, build, configure, and test solutions for delivering the necessary capability to business that enables quality solutions and a client centric orientation.

Are you someone who can:

• Devise pricing and risk management solutions along with related IT processes and maintenance, testing and production support.
• Construct and/or critically analyse financial models i.e., product pricing, curve stripping, scenario analysis etc.
• Engage in process design, analysis, testing and troubleshooting in the area of pricing/risk-analysis.
• Analyse systems capability/fit in the area of pricing or risk-analysis.
• Analyse data and situation, identify and solve problems, reason logically and drive valid conclusions.
• Analyse, design and implement purchased or in-house software applications.
• Test and validate logic and processes implemented.
• Take ownership of recurring production incidents by working with multiple stakeholders to resolve system issues.
• Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities, and trends that would add value to the required analysis work.
• Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business.
• Prepare and share recommendations for process and systems improvements in relevant area of accountability.
• Participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment.
• Engage with key stakeholders to gather information with regards to changes and developments in the respective business area that would impact demand for allocated technologies.
• Review demand items in partnership with business to better understand impacts on the relevant system, processes, and systems environment.
• Partner with process owners to create suitable roadmaps for business development and in anticipation of system and process enhancements.
• Test and identify where service gaps would exist should different technologies be applied to the same process or where business process changes would not be accommodated by existing technology.
• Analyse business requests to clearly understand business requirements and translate this into clear technical terms and specifications to best solve business problems.
• Coordinate the integration activities of service providers
• Monitor benefits against what was detailed in the business case.
• Control specific measures and mechanisms to measure benefits.

You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Finance or another quantitative discipline
• Preferred qualification: Post-graduate qualification in Mathematical Finance or another quantitative discipline

Experience and Skills

• 3 - 5 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 1 - 2 years ideally at a junior specialist level, with specific reference to relevant quantitative, risk and business analysis experience
• Experience in designing and implementing integrated solutions
• Experience in designing, testing, and configuring quantitative systems
• Working knowledge of SQL and ability to analyse data
• Multi asset class, and trade life cycle knowledge beneficial
• Business process modelling and design capabilities
• Understanding of data models and ability to validate data flows between and within systems

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

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Hello Future Business Analyst (TTS)!

• 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.
• This Business Analyst vacancy within Treasury and Trade Solutions

Are you someone who can:  

• Review, evaluate and analyse user needs to document system requirements and create system specifications that drive system development and implementation of overall business objectives
• Provide guidance and support to team members
• Perform a quality assurance role with colleagues
• Communicate regularly with business around progress with regards to the user requirement/functional specification and processes (Managing Expectations)
• Provide information which contributes to building training manuals/material Interacting and maintaining good relationships with business stakeholders (business users, change management resources, developers, testing and training teams)

You will be an ideal candidate if you:  

• Have a relevant Diploma or Degree in related fields
• Have previous experience as a Business Analyst in a similar environment
• Have experience documenting business process requirements through research, interviews or facilitation sessions in conjunction with business partners, designing new existing business processes
• Are able to compile test cases where required and executing test cases and providing written feedback relating to progress and categorising high medium and low business impact

You will have access to: (Examples below) 

• 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 
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it

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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.
• The Senior Software Developer role is responsible for software development, maintenance, testing and production support for the front office suite of applications within Markets.

Are you someone who can: ​

• Develop, test, and maintain scalable, reliable, and high-performance applications using Java and C#
• Have a keen interest in architecting solutions
• Resolve problems with software and respond to suggestions for improvements or enhancements
• Troubleshoot production problems relating to software applications
• Collaborate with IT and Business Stakeholders to understand requirements
• Document work and demonstrate implemented solutions to the team
• Be able to align communication with internal clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions
• Suggest areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions and demonstrate POCs

Working hours:

• We are an Agile team with backlog grooming, sprint demo, prioritization, and sprint planning ceremonies held in two-week cycles
• Delivery of work is targeted and planned quarterly, with a mix of Business-As-Usual (50%) and project work (50%)
• Development and analyst teams subscribe to a 5-day support and standby roster at a rotational basis of 2-3 week cycles
• Our support is handled in two shifts (7am – 2pm being morning, and 2pm – 6pm being afternoon, thereafter is standby until the next day) ensuring smooth systems operations and dealing queries
• In-office at RMB Sandton offices – Mandatory attendance for at least two days a week with the whole team during core business hours and
• In-office meetings – Candidate will be expected to attend in-person meetings as and when required.
• Working from home – Candidate will be required to be 100% online and available within the core business hours, or alternatively arrange to be in the office

You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:

MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 3 -6 years technical work experience in a team environment as a software developer
• Basic understanding of fundamental programming principles (SOLID, Design Patterns, etc.)
• Solid Java experience, working extensively with J2EE and Spring frameworks
• Solid C# experience, working mostly with .Net and .Net Core frameworks
• Experience working with relational (MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL) and no-SQL (MongoDB) databases
• JavaScript development experience, working with Angular or React frameworks is a plus
• Basic experience working with CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, Nexus, TeamCity, SonarQube, etc.)
• Basic experience working with server application software (JBoss WildFly, Apache Tomcat, Microsoft IIS)

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Minimum of 3-6 years technical work experience in a team environment as a software developer
• Experience with Docker and Docker orchestration frameworks
• Experience with TeamCity for CI/CD automation and Jenkins for batch process automation
• Experience with Azure Cloud and basic understanding of cloud technology concepts
• Basic experience in python development
• Experience working in and understanding of the Agile methodology, tools and principles
• Experience working in the trading and investment banking sector is a plus

MINIMUM EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• A qualification specializing in software development

PREFERRED EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience and technical training

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Software development best practices
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Communication and planning skills
• Assertiveness and persistence is required to be effective in the front office environment
• Strong awareness and interest in the financial markets

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