Job Opportunities at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description
Supports the BU Head of Human Capital in delivering the Business Units Human Capital strategy aligned to key business and human capital priorities 

• Provides relevant people management strategies and interventions.  In operationalizing HC strategy, collaborates with Centers of Excellence and the broader Human Capital team, to ensure that People Attraction and On-Boarding, Development, Engagement and Retention Program and Interventions meet Business Unit needs
• 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.

You will be responsible for the following:

• Drive performance management processes within agreed timelines
• Drive Talent Management practices in area of accountability
• Build management team succession plans for critical roles in own area and influence strategic resource planning of partners
• Provide direction, regular feedback and coaching to direct reports to improve performance
• Ensure implement employment equity plan target achievement in all recruitment and employee movement activities
• Identify current and future human capital needs and skills requirements
• Influence the alignment and adoption of different priorities in people management strategies as articulated through the strategic people levers
• Build a culture of recognition and fairness across business aligned to HR policies
• Establish an enabling climate and culture to energise employees, give meaning to work, minimise work disruption and maximise employee productivity
• Establish people-focused management strategies
• Influence the development and enablement of a culture and climate where the organisational values are demonstrated and lived
• Influence the understanding and adoption of the organisational strategic direction across all levels of the organisation and its stakeholders
• Define and create a long term human capability strategic framework to enable sustainable business performance
• Create a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared
• Collaborate with various stakeholders to co-create solutions and share information within and across teams for development and improvement

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Job Description
Hello Future Business Analyst (Credit Experience)! 

• 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 role is within the Credit Risk management team. The Credit Business Analyst will take responsibility for defining requirements and product sets for configuration and maintenance of existing modules of the Murex product suite. Currently this suite comprises the Murex Limits Controller, and Basel II Credit Capital Calculator modules.

Are you someone who can: 

• Demonstrate an understanding of credit processes, systems, information requirements, flows and functional system requirements.
• Build, develop, and maintain the business processes for Credit to help identify and understand the workings of the business, and thereby to derive the business requirements and constraints that the resultant systems implementations must address (Including current and to-be business processes).
• Analyse the gaps between the current and future state to determine the extent of change required to realise the future state objective. Identifies processes in need for re/design (e.g. due to inefficient operations) and identifies options to improve them gaining stakeholder buy-in.
• Supports the efficiency measures and targets of end-to-end Credit processes including touch points in Business Units.
• Assisting project teams with touch points in the Murex configuration to translate business needs into system functionality.

You will be an ideal candidate if you have: 

• A relevant degree or Qualification
• Previous Business Analyst experience
• At least 2 - 5 years demonstrated practical experience in major projects / areas with relevant exposure to the credit business.
• A strong background in implementation of build and buy business solutions.
• Experience in the Investment banking sector (advantageous)
• Excellent excel skills are required for creating and maintain test packs and test scenarios

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
• 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
Hello Future Transactor,

• 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.

Are you someone who can: 

• Manage and maintain the transaction by complying with internal procedures and agreed processes to effect management (prepare cash flows, obtain signatures, sending instructions to various departments), apply knowledge of Companies Act, Excon, FICA, Tax, Accounting to transaction where applicable, in implementing and managing the transaction.
• Achieve sales targets in line with performance scorecards and achieve an acceptable cost of sales ratio through pipeline managements and sales quality.
• Identify opportunities to increase sales revenue and to grow the organizational client base while containing costs
• Develop tactical strategies with retaining or signing unbanked customer base with a view to improve and increasing profitability.
• Maintain specialized knowledge on all FirstRand approved products, application procedure, fulfilment processes and timelines to drive and achieve relevant sales targets.
• Drive the maximizing of cross-selling opportunities where possible and in consultation with more experienced Transactors.
• Directly inform the client inputs during legal drafting processes, implement and manage transactions in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements and ensure full understanding of transaction.
• Achieve expected financial targets and uphold associated service levels.
• Provide a professional service to stakeholders by ensuring that transactions are managed and accounted for in accordance with legal agreements, relevant legislation and that deal activities are executed by following agreed business process.
• Understand and manage financial aspects of transactions through understanding and adherence to Legal agreements and all applicable regulatory aspects (Companies Act, Excon, IFRS, FICA, Bank’s Act, etc.), to prepare financial activities required on the transaction (e.g. Diary reminders, payments, drawdowns, invoices, etc.).

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• Minimum 5 year's experience in a Transactor role
• Investment Banking experience, within Infrastructure

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

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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
• Chameleon Developer using SmallTalk language
• 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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• The data engineer will be responsible for developing features, ongoing support and administration, and documentation for the service. The platform provides a messaging queue and a blueprint for integrating with existing upstream and downstream technology solutions.
• Our data engineers create robust and scalable computing environments which bring data-driven technologies to our users. We are constantly challenging ourselves to build more effective data architectures, flexing our freedom to incorporate new technologies and expand our computing power.

Are you someone who can: 

• Develop and deploy of data applications
• Design & Implement of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries
• Create data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack
• Automate application back-end workflows
• Build and maintain backend services created by multiple services frameworks.
• Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications.

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• 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
• Ability to configure repository projects using Ab Initio EME for creating a common development environment.
• Have Knowledge of Control M to automate and schedule jobs.
• Informatica PowerCenter and EDC.
• Programming languages (SQL, XTML, Java, Python).
• Data platforms (Oracle, Teradata, Hadoop, SQL).
• Worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera, or Hortonworks).
• Experience in designing and setting up large data systems, with an ability to assess the tradeoffs in architectural decisions.
• Knowledge of large data architectures (data warehouses, lakes, meshes, etc).
• Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean).
• Experience with some of the following: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, HDFS, ZooKeeper, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools.
• Experience with reporting like PowerBi.

You will have access to: 

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Opportunities to innovate
• Working directly across RMB with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects, and business constituents to develop and enhance the big data service.

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 resolve issues being experienced by Traders, systems or operations as efficiently as possible as well as report on profits daily
• 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.

Are you someone who can: 

• Validate PnL movements, investigate variances and provide daily commentary for reporting to front office, finance management and business unit executives.
• Promote teamwork and inclusivity amongst team members and demonstrate behaviours that respect diversity.
• Lead and facilitate difficult conflict situations into agreements.
• Improve efficiencies to reduce operational risks and cost to serve.
• Report relevant PnL and balance sheet positions and review the applicable reconciliations, identifying and resolving any issues.
• Ensure that internal financial controls over PnL are operating effectively.
• Liaise with operations teams to resolve any settlement issues.
• Liaise with platform support teams to resolve any source system issues.

You will be an ideal candidate if you: 

• Have a Finance/Risk related qualification
• Solid financial markets experience is key
• Deep knowledge of various financial instruments

You will have access to: 

• Collaboration and networking
• Challenging work
• Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are: 

• Curious and courageous - you're driven by always wanting to learn more and expand your knowledge and understanding
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to the point of excellence
• Innovative – you’re a self-starter and willing to look for ways to improve controls and/or processes