Jobs Available at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

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 provide operational financial direction to business units
• To implement and enhance 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
• To compile statutory, regulatory and management reporting for corporate bank
• Compile suspense accounts age analysis on a monthly basis
• Manage ICP's
• Monitor and reconcile internal bank accounts i.e. volunteer bank accounts on a monthly basis
• Balance information received to what was submitted on the system for mandates, workflow proving, GL upload, cost company journals upload and internal bank account sweeping journals
• Attend SteerCo when required to discuss reconciled pack
• Compile and present a monthly governance report which focuses on B S items, highlighting potential issues
• Analyse, review and question the ageing of suspense accounts as well as accounts receivable and payable
• Highlight month on month variances and movements
• Sample testing and review
• Understand the GL structure and maintenance and ensure alignment with the reporting
• Compile and submit timeous monthly financial reports
• Ensure monthly dashboard is accurate and submitted to business
• Adhere to reporting guidelines for FAS and Tax  Packs
• Resolve monthly audit and reporting queries
• Ensure that operational counting in terms of processes, restructuring of business, recoveries, allocation, VAT etc. are dealt with on a monthly basis
• Compile monthly management reports and send to relevant stakeholders in order to add business insights to numbers
• Track and analyse performance across the board
• Compile presentations for relevant stakeholders to present
• Proactively highlight issues, both strategic and material, in report by early identification and engagement across finance and business teams
• Review reports to streamline and propose report enhancements where possible
• Compile and reconcile CB consolidated headcount template on a monthly basis
• Update rolling monthly forecast in alignment with business expectation
• Ensure that Essbase system is updated accordingly
• Provide input into the generic budget guidelines document with principles
• Adhere to budget timelines in terms of SLAs loaded for each subfunction of the budget process
• Provide ongoing communication around external cost changes i.e., SLA and interdivisional
• Ensure all Essbase loads are loaded within deadline
• Ensure SLA recoveries are amended when budget changes are received
• Ensure recover document is amended a SLA recoveries are amended
• Submit monthly commentary on budget variances
• Ensure headcount templates updated and consolidated
• Submit budget headcount allocation to align with business restructures
• Present budget to various stakeholders i.e., business enablement and other stakeholders
• Upload budgets onto HFM and ensure alignment with business sign off
• Compile all management reporting and presentations for corporate bank budgets
• Manage consolidated Capex
• Monitor completeness of budget results throughout process against business expectation – highlight issues and concerns for discussion and resolution
• Compile the CB budget and Essbase document
• Maintain chart of accounts, mappings, new companies and cost centres
• Ensure that Essbase numbers reconcile to HFM for both monthly and budget numbers
• Maintain Essbase for special roll-up created and propose changes where identified
• Forecast budgets on Essbase on a monthly basis
• Act as the central point for all GL maintenance forms and submit to FNB FAS
• Contact point for CB with FNB, RMB and FirstRand central finance teams around structure and monthly results
• Complete FAS packs and schedules on HFM on a monthly basis
• Load ICP's on HFM for corporate bank
• Clear all validations on the schedules and promote HFM packs
• Upload forecasts on HFM and promote
• Coordinate business commentary in order to enable team to explain variances
• Proactively manage deadlines by providing monthly deadlines schedule to GMCB finance teams
• Ensure statutory view is always aligned to management view i.e., reconciled, able to explain different views etc.
• Promote BA returns on HFM input analysis schedules onto returns accurately
• Clear validations and promote BA returns
• Coordinate and consolidate business commentary in order to explain monthly variances to RMB and FirstRand regulatory
• Calculate monthly credit provisioning numbers
• Conduct monthly capital split workings
• Raise provisions on a monthly basis based on business input
• Distribute to various stakeholders
• Highlight material monthly and annual movement in provisioning and capital schedules – appropriate commentary provided
• Assist with the completion of the BA200
• Monitor bad debts schedule for NPLs
• Complete quarterly reports timeously and accurately, and complete interim and annual reports timeously and accurately
• Manage external auditors at year end regarding any issues and group queries
• Engage auditors on potential issues to resolve during audit process or escalate to central level for resolution
• Contribute to projects as and when required
• Interact with impacted parties and formulate a solution for approval and implementation
• 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
• 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 design, specify, build, configure and test solutions for delivering the necessary capability to business that enables quality solutions and a client centric orientation These include pricing and risk management solutions along with their related IT processes.
• The BA needs to understand the end-to-end trade lifecycle, including payments and settlement processes.

Responsibilities:

• Engagement with stakeholders to understand business problems, needs and translate those into detailed business and/or functional requirements that include process, data, people and workflow specifications.
• Analyse and understand the end-to-end flow of the payments system architecture and consider all touchpoints and impacts when analysing new business requirements or changes to existing business requirements.
• Apply business analysis best-practices, consistent with the BABOK principles and standards.
• Identify and promote optimisation, re-use and standardisation opportunities within Platforms
• Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence and negotiate to achieve positive outcomes.
• Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders’ requirements are delivered.
• Engage and collaborate with the vendor on suitable solutions for incidents, production issues or new requirements.
• Assist with query and complaint management in a timeous manner.
• Coordinate and participate in the test effort to ensure that the delivered solution meets agreed business requirements and functional/process specifications.
• Ensure all the business requirements, evaluations and recommendations of business solutions, assessments and feasibility analysis are documented.
• Assist the PM or Platform Lead by advising, investigating, estimating, and calculating costs, timelines, resources and plans approval of the project stage business cases.
• Facilitate workshops in conjunction with the PM in order to obtain business user requirements in terms of the proposed end state of the project.
• Project manage a sub-project or work stream, when required to do so by the PM or Platform Lead.
• Assist the PM or Platform Lead to generate weekly/monthly or adhoc status reports, using input from project teams for reporting to Project Sponsor.
• Perform root cause analysis with stakeholders, conduct interviews or workshops to further evaluate and identify solutions to meet business requirements

Competencies:

• Expert knowledge of SWIFT MT/FIN messages and processes
• ISO20022 knowledge and ISO20022 message processes
• Understanding of the FIN/MT to ISO20022 translation mapping
• Expert knowledge and experience in SWIFT gpi services
• Knowledge of TIBCO integration services
• Understanding the various Payment market infrastructures, for e.g., SAMOS, CBPR, SADC RTGS(SIRESS)
• Work experience within Payment’s domain (processing, clearing, Swift)
• Knowledge of cross-border payments regulations

Additional Requirements:

• Familiarity with vendor management
• Knowledge of integration architecture
• Understanding of the Capital Markets Products and Business environment
• Knowledge of Payment systems

Qualifications and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems/Technology, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline is required, or equivalent work experience

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Job Description

• Hello Future DevOps 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.

Purpose:

• To design, implement, and optimise DevOps practices to support scalable and secure systems within the organisation by building and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, developing automation strategies, and ensuring system reliability through advanced monitoring and incident response processes. 
• Drive innovation by identifying and implementing cutting-edge technologies, enhancing efficiency, and reducing operational risks. 
• Mentor junior engineers and plays a key role in aligning DevOps practices with business objectives.

Are You Someone Who Can:

• Design and implement advanced CI/CD pipelines to support multiple application environments, ensuring efficient and error-free deployments.
• Develop complex automation scripts to streamline provisioning, configuration, and scaling of infrastructure, improving team productivity.
• Architect scalable and secure cloud solutions using platforms, aligning with business needs and technical standards.
• Perform in-depth performance tuning of systems and applications to meet stringent service-level agreements and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Create and enforce DevOps best practices, including version control, testing, and rollback strategies, to improve system reliability.
• Manage and enhance monitoring frameworks using advanced tools to proactively identify and resolve system issues.
• Lead incident response efforts for critical production issues, coordinating across teams to minimise downtime and business impact.
• Mentor DevOps engineers by providing technical guidance, code reviews, and training to enhance team capabilities.
• Develop and implement disaster recovery strategies, including failover testing and system redundancy, to mitigate operational risks.
• Automate security testing and monitoring processes to identify vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with governance frameworks.
• Collaborate with architects and development teams to integrate DevOps practices seamlessly into the software development lifecycle.
• Lead post-incident analysis sessions to identify systemic issues and implement preventive solutions.
• Optimise cloud and on-premises resource usage, reducing costs without compromising system performance.
• Evaluate and integrate new DevOps tools and technologies to enhance operational efficiency and scalability.
• Establish and document advanced DevOps processes, creating reusable templates and frameworks to promote standardisation.
• Demonstrate leadership by taking ownership of complex challenges and driving innovative solutions.
• Cultivate a high-performance culture by setting ambitious goals and fostering accountability within the team.
• Collaborate across technical and business teams to ensure alignment of objectives and seamless project execution.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks, championing a culture of reliability and security in all operations.
• Encourage continuous improvement by driving feedback sessions and sharing insights to enhance team processes.

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

• have a Bachelor’s degree or post-graduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, complimented with advanced certifications in cloud technologies, and/or relevant certifications in DevOps practices.
• have 5 to 8 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 2 to 3 years ideally at specialist level. Control M, schell script and Linux experiences are advantageous. 

You Will Have Access To:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Work
• Opportunities to innovate

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Job Description

• Hello Future Trade Specialist,
• 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.

Purpose:

• To efficiently supervise the team managing the Trade Operations function, whilst being mindful of risk, process and compliance adherence, and the International Chamber of Commerce rulings and processing.
• To take unit costs and capacity into account in order to create greater efficiencies.

Are You Someone Who Can:

• Set targets for the portfolio in line with turnover
• Plan strategic objectives for the portfolio
• Assist in building and managing the opportunity tracking tool
• Communicate client interactions and feedback to stakeholders with regards to developments
• Initiate client scoping sessions road shows and quarterly client visits to gain client insights
• Initiate brainstorming sessions to identify opportunities across the group and manage action items thereof
• Create innovative solutions for specific product areas
• Interrogate and manage MIS data to identify potential turns in business cycles or client behavior
• Review MIS data in order to ensure that internal trading desk turnover targets are met as well as migrating risk from internal trading books
• Proactively manage credit facilities to ensure adequate limits are in place
• Make cold calls in order to originate business to grow the portfolio
• Manage escalated unresolved client issues
• Manage complex relationships within support areas to ensure best outcome for both the client and the bank
• Interact with IBD DCM team on a regular basis in order to gain insight into client activities to strengthen client relationships
• 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

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

• Have a Diploma/Degree in Business Management
• Have 3 to 5 years experience in a similar role

You Will Have Access To:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Work
• Opportunities to innovate

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Job Description

• Hello Future Trade Specialist,
• 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.

Purpose:

• To efficiently supervise the team managing the Trade Operations function, whilst being mindful of risk, process and compliance adherence, and the International Chamber of Commerce rulings and processing.
• To take unit costs and capacity into account in order to create greater efficiencies.

Are You Someone Who Can:

• Set targets for the portfolio in line with turnover
• Plan strategic objectives for the portfolio
• Assist in building and managing the opportunity tracking tool
• Communicate client interactions and feedback to stakeholders with regards to developments
• Initiate client scoping sessions road shows and quarterly client visits to gain client insights
• Initiate brainstorming sessions to identify opportunities across the group and manage action items thereof
• Create innovative solutions for specific product areas
• Interrogate and manage MIS data to identify potential turns in business cycles or client behavior
• Review MIS data in order to ensure that internal trading desk turnover targets are met as well as migrating risk from internal trading books
• Proactively manage credit facilities to ensure adequate limits are in place
• Make cold calls in order to originate business to grow the portfolio
• Manage escalated unresolved client issues
• Manage complex relationships within support areas to ensure best outcome for both the client and the bank
• Interact with IBD DCM team on a regular basis in order to gain insight into client activities to strengthen client relationships
• 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

You Will Be An Ideal Candidate If You:

• Have a Diploma/Degree in Business Management
• Have 3 to 5 years experience in a similar role

You Will Have Access To:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Work
• Opportunities to innovate