Job Opportunities at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description

• To provide operational financial direction to business units The role includes implementing and enhancing the accounting workflow systems and processes within business while ensuring financial controls and procedures are followed and adhered to for various internal and external stakeholders In addition, the role includes compiling statutory, regulatory and management reporting for corporate bank

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• Are a CA(SA) (Preferred) or relevant Hons degree
• Financial Services / Banking experience

 Are you someone who can: 

• Understand the trading desk markets and products including accounting for these
• Ongoing assessment of business process efficiencies
• Identifying areas for improvement.
• Work with stakeholders from different business units
• Bring new ideas and innovative ideas to established processes
• Ensuring all Financial and Management reporting and other deadlines are met
• Engage with internal and external auditors

You will have access to: 

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Working
• Opportunities to innovate and add value to reports sent to front office
• Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support
• Build relationships that allow for sharing of knowledge and diverse insights

We can be a match if you are: 

• Have an analytical mind
• Quick learner
• Team player
• Problem solver
• 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

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Job Description

• To ensure the oversight and compliance of collective investment schemes with regulatory standards and maintain the integrity of investment standards
• To collaborate with internal stakeholders and clients to implement oversight processes and provide key insights to support decision-making while mitigating potential risks

Are you someone who can: 

• 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
• Oversee and provide guidance and support to collective investment scheme management companies in terms of the Act and the Deed to ensure the protection of underlying participatory interest holders
• Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with peers and stakeholders, such as Credit, Legal and Risk and Compliance, to achieve team goals and objectives to fulfil the Trustee responsibilities as prescribed in the act, deed, and subordinate regulation·
• Keep abreast of draft regulation up for comment that impacts collective investment schemes and provide required input
• Ensure regulatory changes and updates are incorporated into the Trustee Services oversight processes in conjunction with the Fiduciary Portfolio Oversight Manager
• Review, investigate, and provide feedback on the manager’s investment due diligence, provided to the Trustee for Foreign CIS and unlisted instruments as required by regulation, to determine permissibly for inclusion into the CIS portfolios
• Review and provide comments on the valuation, liquidity, repurchase and risk management policies of the Collective Investment Schemes ensuring the policies are aligned with the act, deed, and subordinate regulation
• Provide expert guidance and support to Trustee Services teams in the onboarding and offboarding of new clients and CIS portfolios
• Share information and expert knowledge that benefits the team in support of technical compliance and regulatory queries

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Finance, Audit, Accounting, Risk, Mathematics, or Investment-related field
• Preferably 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
• Minimum of 8-10 years in a Trustee Services team/environment or in an asset management organisation. Prior custody experience is an advantage.
• A deep understanding of regulations, and the interpretation of compliance requirements
• An understanding of financial analytics and the interpretation of financial information
• Proven exposure to and understanding of Collective Investment Scheme accounting and financial statement reviews.
• Proven exposure to investment due diligence and risk assessments

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
• A deep understanding of regulations, and the interpretation of compliance requirements
• An understanding of financial analytics and the interpretation of financial information
• Proven exposure to and understanding of Collective Investment Scheme accounting and financial statement reviews.
• Proven exposure to investment due diligence and risk assessments

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Job Description

• To automate the processes between software development and IT teams to enable continuous delivery through designing, developing, testing and releasing software frequently, faster and more reliably in an agile environment 
• To ensure continuous delivery through continuous integration and continuous deployment Using Lean thinking, ensure continuous improvement and collaboration between development testing and operations

Are you someone who can: 

• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness
• Control costs for business area
• Plan, implement, manage and report on cost effectiveness and communicate or escalate any variances
• Manage high risk and problematic financial issues in area of accountability and contribute to the development of policy
• Build relationships that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights; and the creation of buyin
• Engage in crossfunctional relationships to obtain and to provide work support
• Contribute to sustaining a competitive edge through external networking, benchmarking and representation on related forums
• Assess client needs utilizing a structured requirements process i.e. gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes

You will be an ideal candidate if you have:

• Minimum 5 years of experience with Microsoft Azure
• AZ104 certification, AZ305 would be a plus
• Experience with version control tools like Git, BitBucket.
• Experience with provisioning and operating CI/CD tools, either from Azure or using Jenkins
• Operating systems: Windows Server, RHEL
• Platforms: AKS, OpenShift would be a plus
• Runtime Environments: .net, IIS, Tomcat, Wildfly

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

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Job Description

• To plan, build, optimise and implement innovative quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, products and advanced mathematical models that provide analytical support and interpret insights, to address business opportunities and problems and implement business strategy, with minimal guidance.
• Take all necessary actions to 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 expert 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 business.
• Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes within area of specialisation and identify risks.
• Innovate by finding the best fit solution for the situation such as the flexibility of delivery and customised solutions which result in more efficient outcomes.
• Maintain ownership of models through regular audits and updates to ensure relevance.
• Plan and perform regular model updates that capture evolving business complexity in current models
• Challenge current models to ensure relevance and accuracy of outputs.
• Test outputs and accuracy of models to ensure relevance.
• Use data and analytic insights to provide input into improving customer experience through a better understanding of the customers context to identify monetisation opportunities and monitoring implementation of business decisions to recommend enhancements utilising statistical modelling and data analysis.
• Validate, interpret and create reports and presentations for data analytics management and relevant stakeholders.
• Review and assist more junior Quantitative Analysts with processes and models.
• Adhere to model building policies, standards, frameworks, and governance process.
• Ensure own ethical usage of information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classification.
• Understand and ensure implementation and adherence to Privacy business requirements, legislation and policy.
• Ensure reporting of any Information Privacy Incidents and escalate appropriately for resolution of Privacy and Protection Audit, Findings, Complaints, Incidents, Investigations and Privacy and Protection Assessments.
• Provide input into creation of delivery plans for achievement of outputs / deliverables in collaboration with business stakeholders to understand information requirements for strategy delivery and define metrics that track performance.
• Assist in analysis of available data to identify information commercialization opportunities that have not been explored to address business needs and revenue options.
• Assist in productionilisation of analytics in the approved FirstRand architecture by translating technical data information into practical business information that addresses identified needs.
• Analyse information requirements, availability and quality of data to feed into management for resolution.
• Contribute to the development of core analytical capabilities or model libraries using advanced statistical, quantitative or econometric techniques and utilize as appropriate.
• Collaborate with numerous departments across the business to aid them in the proper use of data to ensure delivery of desired operational results.
• Participate in relevant project related to the businesses overall analytical needs and opportunities.
• Assist as SME for analytics applying own understanding of the operations of the business product or service.
• Determine the business questions that need be answered and determine appropriate analytics models for utilization.
• Source and do some preparation (20-30%) of relevant data sources for analysis.
• Translate business requirements into tangible models utilizing own understanding of the business value of projects, models and processes.
• Develop and apply analytical algorithms and methods to build, test and implement robust mathematical models and analytical solutions that address business problem, opportunities and improve business outcomes i.e., reduced risk and costs, increased profitability, optimized efficiency and to facilitate strategic decision-making.
• Build models that analyze processes to recommend areas for optimization to achieve cost savings, revenue generation or efficiency improvements for the business.
• Document and audit relevant processes.
• Document and implement models to address specific business requirements.
• Conduct appropriate manipulation and analysis of data to pro-actively identify and meet needs of the business for the purpose of future work and to ensure high information-quality and reliability across the business.
• Deliver within broad parameters.
• 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.
• Identify, control and escalate potential risks which may lead to increased costs.
• Manage costs or expenses within approved budget to achieve cost efficiencies.
• Deliver against operational and cost targets.
• Prioritise resource allocation to minimise and reduce wastage.
• Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across the FRG.
• Assess own performance through seeking timely, and clear feedback and request training where appropriate.
   

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Job Description
To deliver on predefined work objectives while gaining structured work experience in the business area

• To perform varied tasks which may include research, analysis, administration, process and project work that add value to the business area
• Adhere to the organisations shared values, service standards and Treating Customers Fairly outcomes with regards to customer interaction
• Resolve customer dissatisfaction or complaints and take ownership of the problem
• Communicate with customers according to agreed standards
• Collect customer feedback to help improve customer service
• Ensure that product knowledge and advice is technically accurate
• Work with enhanced processes and procedures to maintain operational efficiencies
• Ensure that quality standards are adhered to
• Adheres to c policies and procedures
• Maintain accurate activity reports
• Investigate innovative ways to optimise processes
• Contribute to the alignment of business processes to customer service
• Advise line management on potential opportunities for process and system improvements
• Demonstrate the shared value of, I get better and better
• 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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Job Description

• To identify, initiate and execute transactional sales origination, cross-sell and client engagement to achieve transaction banking financial goals and secure primary banker status with clients in the C&I segment
• Formulate annual tactics for the area of accountability to enable enhanced revenue growth in collaboration with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to package the best solution
• Implement the sales strategy, and monitor the implementation thereof for the benefit of the area of accountability
• Understand key competitors, new technologies, sector dynamics and key macro environmental forces to analyse and identify sector-wide opportunities and challenges for transactional sales
• Understand the critical micro-environmental impacts and relationships i.e. client performance trends, client financial data, competitive positioning in the sector to identify relevant sales solution tactics
• Provide consistent, professional and superior delivery of sales and client management disciplines including pipeline ownership, RFP responses, pro-active proposals, presentations, call reports, lead generation, and implementation oversight and alignment to best practice standards and metrics
• Assess the effectiveness of sales tactics by measuring revenue target achievements, qualified leads, reduced sales cycles, and value creation for the client, managing projects to ensure successful deployment of origination and cross-sell initiatives
• Understand the organisational and Corporate Transactional Banking (TxB) objectives to ensure the alignment of sector transactional sales tactics, which includes a detailed understanding of transactional banking products and solutions
• Establish and maintain relationships with business partners to strengthen collaborative working relations to improve the effective and efficient execution of sector sales objectives in line with Transactional business requirements
• Understand the needs, demands, perceptions and banking behaviours
• Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support
• Contribute to sustaining a competitive edge through external networking, benchmarking and representation on related forums
• Apply a customer-centric approach that focuses on creating a positive experience for the customer by maximising service and/or product offerings and building relationships
• Ensure that the customer is at the centre of the business philosophy, operations and ideas
• Provide input into, and implement, corporate governance, compliance, integrity and ethics policies in are of accountability to identify and manage risk exposure
• Stay abreast of relevant industry risk management best practices and legislative amendments and suggest ways to leverage these to ensure continuous improvement
• Creates risk awareness and manages audit findings
• Brainstorm, identify, implement and drive innovative best practice ideas within the organisation to ensure increased efficiencies
• Ensure and encourage adherence to an operational framework of policies and procedures
• Ensure the development and implementation of multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks
• Identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives, driving best practice solutions
• Be aware of, and responsive to local conditions
• Influence the development of appropriate organisational structures, capacity and delivery systems.
• Identify development needs and select effective solutions to address personal development gaps to facilitate self-improvement
• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own development, demonstrating a commitment to continuous personal improvement as a life-long learner
• Participate and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared
• Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders to achieve productivity synergies
• Lead specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organisational knowledge improvement
   

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Job Description

• To manage the life-cycle of a transaction and mitigate associated operational risks - Leverage Finance
• Coordinate and participate in any ad hoc project as required
• Read and understand legal agreements in order to draw up an amortisation schedule and book deals 
• Derive payment amounts from the legals and amortisation schedule 
• Prepare notification to clients and submit payments to team leader for approval
• Ensure all legal requirements are fulfilled before draw down can occur
• Ensure all ongoing deal management tasks are performed in line with the legal agreements
• Settle all instruments on the correct systems
• Clear reconciliation and exception report items within SLA timeframes
• Respond to queries from internal and external stakeholders
• Prepare financial statements, investor reports and other reports required by the regulators
• Continually look for ways to enhance efficiencies
• 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 development
• 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
• Continually share debate and communicate learnings
• Flag and debate issues constructively
• Promote a friendly cooperative climate
   

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Job Description
Hello Functional Business Planning and Delivery Manager (Production Support)!

• This role is within the Production Support team reporting to the Business Solutions Head. This role will provide expertise, advice and support to the Business Solutions Head 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.

Are you someone who can: 

• Manage relevant strategic implementations against project plans to ensure delivery targets are met and provide operational and technical support to management of function.
• Facilitate strategic engagements to critically analyse and enhance proposed operational risk and business strategies and implementation plans to deliver on business objectives.
• Focus on tactical service plans to deliver and continuously provide a consistent, seamless and positive customer experience.

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• Have a Bachelor’s degree in information technology or Business Computing.
• Have experience in a Technology environment
• Previous experience within Investment Banking
• Are able to prevent wastage and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs.
• Have experience supporting executives with financial and strategic planning activities and execute relevant reports, presentations, speeches and other written material.
• Can perform research and analyses to provide key strategic business insights for input into business decisions.
• Can build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation.
• Can contribute to the development of a budget aligned to operational delivery plans, monitor effectiveness, and report on variances

You will have access to: 

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• 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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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

Responsibilities

• Drive scalable and sustainable solutions built based on best development practices
• 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
• Understand and contribute to a knowledge sharing environment
• Produce a well operationalised solution on time that surpasses the requirements and performance expectations
• Adopt a framework centric approach to prompt feasibility and reduces failure demand
• Initiate dialogue to build professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to listen, advise, influence, negotiate and present at all levels
• Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources to make strategic decisions
• Engage in recruitment development, performance management, remuneration and rewards, career path planning, on the job training, coaching, and mentoring of development team
• Motivate, delegate, and empower appropriately, enabling direct reports to take responsibility and display appropriate creativity and initiative
• Demonstrate pride in the organisations brand services and products by consistently delivering on the brand’s promise
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained
• Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
• 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
• Take accountability for promoting and actively driving team culture

Qualifications and relevant experience

• 10+ years of software development experience, with an emphasis on web application development
• 2+ years of team leadership/ management experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, Computer Science or related field
• The following skills and experience would be highly advantageous:
• Angular and Microsoft technology stack (including ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, and Microsoft Azure PaaS)
• Cloud architecture, AWS and/or Microsoft Azure
• Platform operations and DevOps practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation, and collaboration between development and operations teams, to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery
• Knowledge of financial markets and debt capital markets
• PowerBI or similar Business Intelligence tools
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
   

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This role will report into the Chief Data and Analytics Officer for RMB. 

• The Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Enablement will be responsible for the end-to-end data and analytics strategy and execution, including Information Management practices such as data quality and metadata management, data provisioning, BI, analytics and AI to create business value.

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• Have completed a relevant Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or Actuarial Science
• Have 10+ years’ experience in Data and Analytics, of which at least 2 years in a Senior Management role.
• Have a proven track record in delivering tangible value to business areas using data and analytics.
• Are an excellent communicator and have the ability to influence across a range of stakeholders

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate.
• As part of FirstRand, work in one of the largest data and analytics communities in the country
• Opportunities to innovate.
• Close proximity to business for strategic alignment

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

• To grow transactional banking, or TXB wallet share for C and I segment, across Rest of Africa corporate transactional banking countries of presence, by sourcing new business, retaining and cross-sell opportunities to achieve transactional banking revenue goals
• Contribute to the attainment of the TxBbudget by formulating annual tactics for the sector and country to enable enhanced revenue growth, in collaboration with TxB Product teams, other Banking Division teams, Coverage, Service, Markets as well as in country sales team to package the best solution
• Provide consistent, professional and superior delivery of sales and client management disciplines including pipeline ownership, RFP responses, pro-active proposals, presentations, call reports, lead generation, and implementation oversight and alignment to best practice standards and metrics
• Understand the company and Corporate Transactional Banking objectives to ensure the alignment of sector transactional sales tactics, including gaining s a detailed understanding of transactional banking products and solutions
• Establish and maintain relationships with business partners to strengthen collaborate relationships
• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue listen advise influence and negotiate to achieve win win outcomes
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress manage expectations and ensure stakeholders requirements are delivered
• Preserve relationships despite airing conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
• Anticipate consequences and adapts problem solving based on continual feedback
• Act speedily to resolve problems queries and complaints
• Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
• Make cold calls and obtain leads and referrals from stakeholders
• Be creative in generating new leads
• Identify opportunities through different sources and stakeholders
• Meet with potential clients and understand their needs
• Provide and propose solutions around the requirements, and assist with the implementation of the deal
• Identify credit requirements from the client
• Submit GM credit requirements to a Credit Analyst for submission to the Credit Committee
• Attend credit forums and provide support to the presenter as required
• Assist with relationship pricing
• Make regular visits to clients to maintain relationship and business
• Create calling plan and entertainment plan
• Review pricing constantly to ensure pricing is competitive
• Understand the clients business and identify opportunities to cross sell and introduce new products or additional solutions
• Review pricing to maximise revenue
• Keep abreast of changes to clients business
• Interrogate reasons for loss of client
• Gather all required documentation from client and submit to KYC team
• Originate the need for KYC, and inform the client of completion of KYC process
• Continue with the additional take on process
• Oversee this process and handle concerns or obstructions and resolve issues
• Oversee loading of client on the system
• 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