Job Openings at FirstRand Corporate Centre

Job Description

• To provide expertise, advice and support by executing data modelling standards, principles, frameworks and tools for the Segment/ Pillar/ Domain/ Functional area; designing and developing of logical and physical data models and databases to meet the needs of the organisation's information systems and business requirements; and coordinate and proritise data modelling within business area.
• Execute on data modelling standards, principles, frameworks and tools.
• Review and approve data model extensions to the Enterprise Data Model as members of the Data Modelling Design Authority Committee.
• Coordinate and prioritise the data modelling work within the Segment/ Pillar/ Functional/ Domain area.
• Represents Pillar/Functional/Domain/Segment area at the Data Modelling Design Authority.
• Involved in the entire data modelling lifecycle i.e. Logical to Implemented Physical Model.
• Understand the reference and master data requirements and co-ordinate the use of surrogate keys and enterprise code values when building out data products with relevant stakeholders.
• Provide input into key metrics related to measuring the progress with respect to data modelling.
• Ensure the logical models for data entities across Segment/ Pillar/ Domain/ Functional area (e.g., Customer, Channel, Product, etc.) are appropriately implemented.
• Optimise and update logical and physical data models to support new and existing projects for Segment/ Pillar/ Domain/ Functional area.
• Ensure that the source to target mapping is done in accordance with the requirement.
• Maintain all extract, transform, load (ETL) and business rules within the data model.
• Maintain all model related metadata.
• Recommend opportunities for reuse of data models in new environments.
• Work with data transformation teams to ensure that the model design and development is properly communicated.
• Review modifications to existing data modeling software to improve efficiency and performance.
• Evaluate data models and physical databases for variances and discrepancies.
• Conduct data modelling training, awareness and support for Segment/ Pillar/ Domain/ Functional area.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders across the Segment/ Pillar/ Domain/ Functional area to socialise data modelling standards, frameworks and tools to be adopted.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to the data modelling community for the Segment/ Pillar/ Domain/ Functional area.
• Provide subject matter expertise and thought leadership in area of expertise.
• Manages risks in own area of responsibility.
• Ensure development and continuous value add improvement to operational processes.
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions.
• Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs.
• Deliver customer experience excellence in own service delivery aligned to Organisational values and service standards.
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation.
• Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across area of specialisation.

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Job Description

• To play a supportive and investigative role in performing operational processes to ensure that FirstRand and clients are operating within local and cross-border exchange control rules and regulations
• Deliver against operational and cost targets
• Prioritise resource allocation to minimise and reduce wastage
• Monitor costs for the financial year according to the operational plan
• Allocates and approves expenditure
• Review cost reports and resolves or explains variances to the budget
• Identify, control and escalate potential risks that may lead to increased costs
• Manage costs or expenses within approved budget to achieve cost efficiencies
• 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
• Deliver customer experience excellence aligned to Organisational values and service standards
• Build professional long-term relationships with customers based on trust that builds the brand
• Collect and interrogate information and feedback to ensure full understanding of customer needs to deliver a quality service
• Deliver service that exceeds customer expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solution selection and application
• Provide customers with relevant information to keep them informed of products and service options Implement, monitor and control business processes according to quality standards; policy; and compliance and governance requirements in area of accountability
• Ensure the development, alignment, mapping and implementation of end-to-end processes aligned to the customer journey map
• Research, enable and consult on improvements and opportunities to harness technology and platform enablement
• Review existing processes and suggest innovative ideas to improve and streamline processes to drive efficiencies and minimise redundancy
• Monitor customer feedback reports and align processes to maximise efficiencies Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence (information) together with analysing trends and data
• Provide regular reports on delivery of services against agreed service level agreements and in terms of overall customer targets
• Accumulate information to review work progress that provides input to reporting, decision making and the identification of improvement opportunities
• Assess own performance against competencies and skills required delivery
• Identify development needs and select effective solutions to address own development need
• Prepare a personal development plan with management to implement and review as required
• Monitor own progress against development plan and measure impact of results
• Promote teamwork and inclusivity amongst team members and demonstrates behaviours that respect diversity
• Partner and collaborate with team members to achieve team success
• Share information and knowledge that benefits the team

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Job Description

• Exciting new opportunity in Enterprise Risk Management to join the Model Risk team. Have a good understanding of Credit Risk models and be able to perform tasks that include model independent validation, reporting, presenting at governance committees, shaping of frameworks, researching methodologies, etc, that contribute to the management of model risk.

Are you someone who can do: 

Model independent validation and model risk management

• Review and/or reperform model building process.
• Document and communicate independent validation findings, corrective actions and advise on model appropriateness
• Apply risk proportionate approach to different model validations.
• Assess the adequacy and/or best practice in strategy, frameworks, policies and business process alignment to modelling practice.
• Present to designated validations committee independent validation outcomes and corrective actions.
• Communicate effectively and maintain a good relationship with key stakeholders.
• Optimize processes through continuous updates to frameworks and governance design.

Education/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Honours preferrable) in one of the following disciplines: Statistics, Mathematics, Quantitative Risk Management, Engineering, Actuarial science, Data science or similar.

Skills and Competencies

• 5+ years of financial modelling, risk modelling and/or model validation experience within a banking context.
• Proficiency in programming languages that can include SAS, SQL, Excel, Python and R.
• Experience with developing the following model types/usage advantageous:
• Scorecard models (Application and Behavioural)
• Credit Risk Regulatory Capital and Provisioning models
   

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Job Description

• To review, evaluate and analyse user needs to document system requirements and  create system specifications that drive system development and implementation of overall business objectives
• Prevent wastage and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs.
• Assess, analyse and optimise end-to end business processes to improve business efficiencies, customer/employee experience and remove inefficient processes to meet new requirements.
• Facilitate and coordinate the end-to-end implementation of prioritised and approved projects.
• Analyse business processes and workflows to identify improvement or automation opportunities and facilitate implementation.
• Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships within business and/or across the FRG.
• Assess own performance through seeking timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.
• Develop new insights into situations and apply innovative solutions to make organisational improvements.
• Ensure compliance to legislative and audit requirements and adherence to relevant processes.
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions.
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions relating to building technical equipment.
• Focus on providing optimal services and improving service delivery processes to meet or exceed customer expectations.
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation.

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Job Description
To perform business requirements analysis for products processes, procedures and/or systems

• Identify business process improvements (Cost Savings or efficiency improvements)
• Business Process Communications to key stakeholders and the required stakeholder sign off has been obtained.
• Interacting and maintaining good relationships with business stakeholders (business users, change management resources, developers, testing and training teams)
• Assessing, Analyzing, Optimising end-to end business processes that are signed off by the business by documenting business process requirements through research, interviews or facilitation sessions and assessing current business processes, procedures and business rules
• Comply with governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements by providing business process content in order to get the operating procedures updated (Golden Rules) and updating standard Operating Procedures with requisite changes
• Designing new and existing business processes, in conjunction with business partners by process mapping – As-Is and To-Be and ensuring that process maps are according to design principles and methodology.
• Perform a quality assurance by escalating issues so that delivery timeframes are not compromised by ensuring that process changes are measured so that unit cost calculations and turnaround times are accurate (Time standards calculated)
• Manage own development to increase own competencies.
• Providing information which contributes to building training manuals/material and providing guidance and support to team members
• Plan for value-added process improvements, initiatives, and services to deliver on operational strategy and objectives and continuously review objectives and goals
• Produce high quality work by adhering to predefined standards and procedures and in accordance with compliance and governance standards
• Provide subject matter expertise and thought leadership in area of expertise
• Integrate business information, and compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes
• Provide business specific input to technical IT teams and third-party vendors to enable system migration projects and the activation of products on the relevant platforms Integrate business information, and compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation

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Job Description

• To provide required support within guidance of set processes and procedures to ensure effective movement, collection, integration, storage and provisioning of data to build solutions and meet business objectives through understanding of business unit requirements and collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to cost efficiencies through responsible utilisation of work related resources
• Establish relationships with relevant individuals and departments to deliver on work expectations
• Adhere to relevant service level agreements to build trust in the relationship
• Produce high quality work by adhering to predefined standards and procedures and in accordance with compliance and governance standards
• Work with enhanced processes and procedures to maintain operational efficiencies
• Deliver work in an accurate manner to ensure consistent results
• Draw on knowledge and experience to identify and develop solutions that leads to improved service delivery and quality
• Adhere to quality standards, turnaround times and company policies and procedures
• Complete relevant administration, reporting and updating of information accurately and on time
• Conduct research on emerging technologies.
• Recommend and implement technologies that improve cost effectiveness and systems flexibility.
• Confer with end users, clients, or senior management to understand business requirements for complex development or enhancements under guidance
• Assist with gap analysis and business cases including cost and effort analysis
• 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
• Create change scripts and sets scripts up to be ready and implemented in production
• Participate in 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
• Under guidance and supervision work with Senior Engineer to present technology solutions to senior leadership and influence architectures that will lead the transformation of the data analytics platform
• Learn from the Subject Matter Expert on technical environment or tools for own area of expertise
• 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
• Assist and work on projects to roll out and support to team members
• Identify and utilize opportunities to assess and improve own performance
• Contribute to teamwork and inclusivity within own team

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• To interpret the business requirement specification and translate into a detailed system design specification to enable the development of innovative, flexible and efficient solution of a business problem

Are You Someone Who Can

• Deliver customer experience excellence in own service delivery aligned to Organisational values and service standards
• Ensure system, process and efficiency improvements (including innovations)
• Analyse system technical requirement
• Conduct a system requirement risk assessment
• Define, develop and document how business systems interface functionally
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation
• Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs
• Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across area of specialisation
• Display and encourage an appreciation of teamwork and inclusivity
• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own development
• Ensure development and continuous value add improvement to operational processes
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions
• Manages risks in own area of responsibility
• Creates solutions to meet customer demands to deliver internal and external customer service excellence through adherence to quality service standards

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Job Description
To assist with project plans to develop and improve risk reporting initiatives and ensure outputs are compliant

• Manages risks in own area of responsibility.
• Ensure development and continuous value add improvement to operational processes.
• 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 Organizational values and service standards.
• Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs.
• Analyse risk data and present results in the form of a report, interpreting and converting data into a simplified form.
• Assist risk manager in setting up and reviewing risk metrics and procedures.
• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own development.
• Display and encourage an appreciation of teamwork and inclusivity.

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Job Description

• Manages the utilisation of resources on investigative assignments and projects

Are you someone who can:

• Provide management over a portfolio of clients and deliver high quality audit and assurance service, including preparing and reviewing audit plans and work.
• Maintain the highest technical and professional standard.
• Think strategically about client needs by understanding their business and key risks.
• Manage the quality of audit work output to ensure excellence is achieved through the application of end-to-end integrated risk-based reviews.
• Ensure that the audit team continually identify and report on potential financial, operational risks (including IT risks) and regulatory risk when conducting audits
• Ensure that actual vs. approved/revised plan (including special requests) achieve the required coverage %
• Manage the Annual Audit Plan, continually reassessing and revising based on key or emerging risks.
• Identifying ways to maximise the relationship with clients and deliver added value by elevating our status to trusted partner / trusted advisor.
• Ensure excellence in reporting to governance structures (Audit Committee, Risk Committee, Regulatory Committee)
• Ensure the efficient utilisation of tools / techniques to improve audit efficiencies (CAAT's, flow charts, research, ADR/Google, analytical reviews)

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• A qualified Chartered Accountant/CIA/ BCom honours Degree with financial savvy, a strong background in Financial, Operational (including IT) and Regulatory Risk Management.
• 5+ years of internal / external audit experience is a must with minimum 2 years supervisory or management experience.
• Experience within financial services and banking is beneficial.
• A post-secondary qualification in IT e.g., CISA/CISM accreditation would be advantageous.
• Experience using data analytics is advantageous.