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Hello future Communications Specialist 

• Ashburton Investments is a new generation investment manager that offers investors access to more sources of return and more ways to manage risk. We pride ourselves on offering solutions to address clients’ holistic needs. As a place to build a career, Ashburton represents many opportunities as it is still very much in a growing phase. Its ambition is to innovate and disrupt. It is still small and agile with great runway to contribute to the group’s success over the medium to longer term.
• We are looking for a Communications Specialist to support the implementation of the Ashburton Investments communications strategy, with a focus on both internal and external communications. This role is responsible for the development and execution of communication plans and marketing content, ensuring consistency of messaging across multiple channels, including digital and social media.
• The successful candidate will work closely with the broader Ashburton Investments marketing team and broader business stakeholders locally and internationally and will be responsible for running the PR and media portfolio and contributing to the strategic direction of communication campaigns.

Are you someone who can: 

• Contribute to the formulation and execution of internal and external communication strategies
• Write, edit and proofread a range of materials including thought leadership content, investor communications, annual reports, brochures, internal updates and social media posts
• Manage media relations, oversee the press release process and support agency management
• Work closely with the marketing team, external agencies and suppliers to implement cohesive and consistent communication campaigns to clients, internal stakeholders and Ashburton Investments staff
• Coordinate communication for campaigns and events, including messaging, social media and post-event coverage
• Manage information flows (editorial input, articles etc. - as required by the business), in terms of content, frequency and appropriateness, to the broader client base
• Collaborate with investment professionals and subject matter experts to produce high-quality, relevant content
• Track the effectiveness of communication campaigns, share insights and apply learnings to improve future efforts
• Support the maintenance and distribution of marketing collateral including fact sheets
• Represent the communications function in internal forums (e.g., MDD, forms and external comms) and champion initiatives that improve the client communication experience
• Recommend innovative approaches to raise the profile of key people, products and achievements within the business
• Contribute to the generation of campaign ideas and building of campaign content
• Support the events team with drafting of invitations and executing communication and social media activities that are event related
• Assist in drafting content for internal and external communication, across all channels e.g., email, social media, web and intranet 
• Assist with the distribution of group communication within Ashburton Investments

You will be an ideal candidate: 

• Have complete a relevant tertiary qualification in Communications, Journalism, Marketing or related field
• Have 5 years’ experience in a communications or marketing role, ideally within the financial services industry
• Strong editorial experience, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, engaging content
• Experience managing media relationships and working with PR agencies
• Proven ability to deliver strategic communication plans and contribute to broader marketing objectives
• Familiarity with digital and social media platforms and related analytics

You can be a match if you have  

• Excellent communication and writing skills in business English
• Strong editing and proofreading skills
• The capability to work efficiently under pressure and meet strict deadlines
• A creative flair and enthusiastic approach
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of digital marketing tools and analytics
• Consistency and a meticulous eye for detail, especially in understanding financial topics and data
• Self-motivation and confidence, with the ability to work accurately and independently
• Excellent multi-tasking skills and enjoyment in collaborating with a close-knit team across multiple jurisdictions

Behavioural competencies 

• Analysis and attention to detail
• Building relationships
• Building the brand
• Customer Service Orientation
• Organisational awareness
• Planning and organising
• Problem solving
• Programme and project management
• Teamwork
• Time and self-management
• Verbal and written communication

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Job Description

• To coordinate credit packs and agendas for credit committee meetings and provide administrative support to credit committee members.
• To oversee credit risk management by managing, monitoring and reporting according to requirements.
• To manage a Credit graduate within the team and ensure appropriate training and development
• Ensure all reports are in accordance with delegated mandate, and that reports are accurate and valid.
• Submit reports within deadline to relevant stakeholders.
• Adapt approach to reporting according to stakeholders changing needs and requirements.
• Manage the training and development of the Credit Graduate
• Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across area of specialisation.
• Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability.
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions.
• File documents and prepare required documents for/from formal governance forums and meetings.
• Assess current operational process and ways of work to identify bottlenecks, challenges, inefficiencies etc.
• Recommend and implement improved ways of work, taking into consideration the requirement to remain responsive to stakeholders’ expectations.
• Constantly assess areas for improvement and process optimisation, levering efficiencies, and individual team members’ strengths to drive service delivery.
• Provide feedback on process changes and the impact thereof on service delivery.
• Assess the team’s capability and structure a resource utilisation plan to position the team for success, making use of the individual contributions of each team member.
• Produce high quality work by adhering to predefined standards and procedures and in accordance with compliance and governance standards.
• Build working relationships to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation
• Send a weekly email reminder to credit analysts to request submissions
• Receive submissions from credit analysts and create an agenda for the weekly credit committee meeting
• Liaise with Portfolio Managers to finalise the agenda
• Collate submissions into credit committee meeting packs and ebooks
• Coordinate timing around late submissions and update agenda accordingly
• Distribute meeting packs to credit committee members 2 to 3 working days prior to the meeting
• Send meeting agendas to the wider credit team
• Resolve ongoing queries and issues as they arise
• Manage content of packs to avoid conflict of interest in relation to nonexecutive team members
• Keep a track of required meeting attendees and who has been nominated to take minutes, so that information may be distributed appropriately
• Provide ongoing support to committee members regarding changes in agenda, meeting times and venuesJob Description
• To coordinate credit packs and agendas for credit committee meetings and provide administrative support to credit committee members.
• To oversee credit risk management by managing, monitoring and reporting according to requirements.
• To manage a Credit graduate within the team and ensure appropriate training and development
• Ensure all reports are in accordance with delegated mandate, and that reports are accurate and valid.
• Submit reports within deadline to relevant stakeholders.
• Adapt approach to reporting according to stakeholders changing needs and requirements.
• Manage the training and development of the Credit Graduate
• Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across area of specialisation.
• Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability.
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions.
• File documents and prepare required documents for/from formal governance forums and meetings.
• Assess current operational process and ways of work to identify bottlenecks, challenges, inefficiencies etc.
• Recommend and implement improved ways of work, taking into consideration the requirement to remain responsive to stakeholders’ expectations.
• Constantly assess areas for improvement and process optimisation, levering efficiencies, and individual team members’ strengths to drive service delivery.
• Provide feedback on process changes and the impact thereof on service delivery.
• Assess the team’s capability and structure a resource utilisation plan to position the team for success, making use of the individual contributions of each team member.
• Produce high quality work by adhering to predefined standards and procedures and in accordance with compliance and governance standards.
• Build working relationships to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation
• Send a weekly email reminder to credit analysts to request submissions
• Receive submissions from credit analysts and create an agenda for the weekly credit committee meeting
• Liaise with Portfolio Managers to finalise the agenda
• Collate submissions into credit committee meeting packs and ebooks
• Coordinate timing around late submissions and update agenda accordingly
• Distribute meeting packs to credit committee members 2 to 3 working days prior to the meeting
• Send meeting agendas to the wider credit team
• Resolve ongoing queries and issues as they arise
• Manage content of packs to avoid conflict of interest in relation to nonexecutive team members
• Keep a track of required meeting attendees and who has been nominated to take minutes, so that information may be distributed appropriately
• Provide ongoing support to committee members regarding changes in agenda, meeting times and venues

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Job Description
Hello future Data Engineer!

• 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 Data Provisioning team is responsible for managing the process of providing access to data, ensuring that the right data is available to the right users or systems in a timely and secure manner. The team is tasked with provisioning, delivering, and maintaining data assets to meet the needs of various business stakeholders within RMB. Some of our functions involves Data Catalog and Metadata Management, Data Provisioning Automation, Data Integration and ETL Processes, and Data Access Management
• As a Data Engineer you will plan, design and implement scalable and robust data models and physical data models and ensure effective movement, collection, integration, storage and provisioning of data to meet business objectives through sound understanding of business unit requirements and frequent collaboration with relevant stakeholders (such as Enterprise Architecture, Database and Solution Architects, Business Intelligence Developers, Data Scientists and Product Owners, etc.)

Are you someone who can:

• Provide input into the budget and manage and report on budget usage that reflects delivery of planned work within agreed parameters
• Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation
• Deliver customer experience excellence in own service delivery aligned to Organisational values and service standards
• Conduct hands-on work related to profiling, documenting and validating the clients
• Execute remediation actions as agreed with client Install or update required system components
• Implement the necessary components and frameworks required for automated deployments and task scheduling
• Build unit and systems tests to ensure successful delivery of components into production
• Manage the user acceptance testing UAT and associated signoff through change control
• Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability
• Ensure implementation of relevant policies, governance and practice standards across the business
• Maintain knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and internal compliance procedures and requirements
• Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by organisation and review in response to audit findings and changes
• Develops an understanding of risks and risk management approaches
• Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes within area of specialisation and identify risks
• Educates others and makes suggestions for improvements
• Networks and participates in specialist risk forums where required
• Test relevant data coming from database to ensure it is not corrupted to ensure use of best practices and technologies
• Perform data quality assessments and introduce monitors and alerts to ensure data quality is maintained throughout all managed systems
• Confer with end users, clients, or senior management to understand and translate business requirements for complex development or into technical requirements enhancements
• Assist with gap analysis and business cases including cost and effort analysis
• Work with team and stakeholders to continually assess and redefine data technology stack to support changing data patterns and business use cases and to bridge the gaps between Data Engineering, Business and Product by constantly collaborating with all parties to understand data needs
• Take ownership of data delivery end-to-end for specific business use cases, as well as set and manage SLAs (Service Level Agreements)
• Tackle complex, intricate production-scale problems with tenacity, following them wherever they may go throughout the technology stack
• Work closely with Data Head/Manager and the Data Architect to meet business area relevant objectives and ensure delivery of effective solutions
• Build and/ or propose infrastructure to automate extremely high volumes of data delivery and creatively solve data volume and scaling challenges within area of accountability
• Contribute to the design and architecture of innovative solutions to difficult problems
• Create change scripts and set up scripts to be ready and implemented in production
• Contribute and add value to architecture forums and solutions design
• Utilise various components and tools which make up the data platform for enhanced service delivery
• Create requirements and design of the technical architecture, Design and development, testing, and deployment of the proposed solution
• Present technology solutions to senior leadership and influence architectures that will lead the transformation of our data analytics platform
• Conduct research on emerging technologies and provide expertise on technical environment or tools
• Recommend and implement technologies that improve cost effectiveness and systems flexibility for own area
• Provide Analytic infrastructure or big data technologies related support to Data operations and Analytic teams
• Grow online technical knowledge platform, identify best practices and develop guidelines for optimum usage of tools
• Provide required support for project roll out and support team members
• Design, implement, quality assure and deploy ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) transformations to enhance the Data Eco System and workflows that load, analyse and archive customer transactional data
• Train relevant employees on accessing Data Eco System and how to make the best use of its contents
• Design, build, and evolve custom ETL processes for feeding consumer systems
• Acquire and collect data via ETL processes from source systems into the Reservoir and Enterprise Data warehouse, adhering to the appropriate data platform standards
• Integrate data from multiple sources through the enterprise data platform architecture to meet the business objective
• Develop and maintain the physical data marts and databases
• Automate tasks related to data pipelines for the deployment of operational analytics
• Prepare and provision data for advanced analytical modelling by data scientists (as and when applicable)
• Perform data quality assessments and introduce monitors and alerts to ensure data quality is maintained throughout all managed systems
• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own development
• Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across area of specialisation

You will be an ideal candidate if you have:

• BSc in Computer and Information Science
• 4 to 5 years’ experience in Data Management, Maintenance and Security
• Have a relevant Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics or equivalent or related field
• Minimum of 3 years experience within ETL tools such as Ab Initio and Informatica
• Are proficient with programming languages (SQL, XML, Java, Python).
• Are familiar with data platforms (Oracle, Teradata, Hadoop, SQL).
• Have worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera, or Hortonworks).
• Have experience in designing and setting up large data systems.
• Have knowledge of large data architectures.
• Have experience with Scala or other functional languages.
• Have experience with reporting tools like PowerBi.

You will have access to:

• A dynamic and innovative work environment.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Collaborative and supportive team culture.
• Cutting-edge technologies and tools.

We can be a match if you are:

• Passionate about data engineering and technology.
• A proactive and innovative thinker.
• A strong communicator and collaborator.

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Job Description

• To provide expertise, advice and support to Functional Executives in articulating and coordinating the delivery of the business and risk strategy, project management and financial business plans of various strategic activities and supporting the delivery of key objectives.
• 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.

Are you someone who has an interest / experience in: 

Deliver Business Solutions:

• Analyze business needs and develop solutions to support the GM Structured Solutions Business objectives.
• Manage project implementations to ensure timely and successful delivery.
• Support the development and launch of new products.

Operational Excellence:

• Manage daily operations, including process improvements, risk management, and compliance.
• Ensure efficient and effective use of technology and resources.
• Monitor and improve operational performance.

Strategic Alignment:

• Align with the overall business strategy of the GM Structured Solutions Business and Global Markets.
• Participate in strategic planning and decision-making processes.
• Identify and mitigate operational risks.

Stakeholder Management:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with all levels of management.
• Collaborate with other teams across the organization.

Project Management:

• Manage projects within budget and on schedule.
• Ensure adherence to project methodologies and best practices.
• Track progress and report on project status.

Personal Development:

• Continuously develop skills and knowledge.
• Seek feedback and identify areas for improvement.
• In essence, this role requires a highly organized and analytical individual with strong project management, communication, and problem-solving skills. They must be able to work independently and as part of a team and have a strong understanding of the financial markets.

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• An understanding of the Structured Solutions Business in Global Markets
• A broad-based understanding of the different asset classes traded in Global Markets, including derivative products
• Experience in leading implementations of business solutions in a project environment
• Honours Degree or postgraduate qualification in finance or related field
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a CIB environment

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