Job Opportunities at FirstRand Corporate Centre

Job Description

• To define the business requirements and technology-independent business and data models for technology solutions that meets the needs for various business areas 

Are you someone who can:

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Banking experience and background
• Strong Business Analysis experience
• Capital Markets experience.

You will have access to:

• Challenging work in a complex and exciting environment
• Opportunities to innovate and create efficiencies.
   

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Job Description
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.
• Interact with all assurance providers and actively participate in various executive and committees’ meetings.
• Ensure that the audit team reach their goals through monitoring and performance management.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• B.Sc. (IT/Computer Engineering/Software Engineering ) or BCom (Information systems) honours Degree or IT Audit Qualification
• Are financial savvy, a strong background in Financial, Operational (including IT) and Regulatory Risk Management, including data analytics.
• 5+ years of internal / external audit experience, ideally with exposure to financial services and the banking industry.
• A post-secondary qualification in IT e.g. CISA/CISM accreditation would be advantageous.
• Team player with strong interpersonal, communication and project management skills including leading teams of at least 5 team members.
• Have a good understanding of the risks associated with South African payment infrastructure systems i.e. Society for Worldwide Infrastructure Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) and South African Multiple Option Settlement (SAMOS) systems
• Risks associated big data infrastructure systems and platforms.
• Have a good understanding of Balance of Payment (BoP) reporting and ability to co-ordinate entity wide reviews in this regard.
• Ability to execute on risks in terms Disaster recovery (DR) testing
• Group Treasury experience in terms of the Asset and Liability Management (ALM) risks.

You will have access to:

• Challenging work in a complex and exciting environment
• Opportunities to innovate and create efficiencies.
• Senior management and Group level governance structures
• 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.
• Have a general understanding of different risk types.