Latest Opportunities at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

Job Description

To ensure smooth implementation of clients onto our host to host platform

• Installation of appropriate security protocols (XCOM/SFTP) with client
• Migration of clients from FTP to SFTP
• End to end client implementation of Host services
• Provision of technical assistance/support to clients in development of applicable file formats
• Assist clients with Line of Business integration into the various existing host products
• Identify alternate methods of connectivity, development or integration methods to achieve a successful implementation.
• Ensure clients are trained in the use of services provided
• Assist clients with project planning and mapping of the end to end expected implementation process
• Manage client implementations in terms of agreed solutions
• Adherence to implementation project time lines and deadlines

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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.

• 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.
• Facilitate one-on-one or group workshops to elicit analyse communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes and policies and where relevant IT systems.
• Analyse dashboard statistics daily, weekly and monthly to improve productivity.
• Collate data and submit reports as required.
• Follow up to ensure flagged issues are resolved and closed-out.
• Utilise data to improve efficiency and reduce errors.
• Continually identify opportunities to enhance reporting efficiencies.
• Demonstrate urgency and initiative in handling and resolving queries.
• Follow correct escalation processes in handling client complaints.
• Follow through to ensure queries are promptly and efficiently resolved.
• Inspire a culture of pride in the RMB brand services and products always act to preserve and enhance brand value behaving in a way that delivers on the brand promise.
• Drive best in class solutions and practices.
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.
• Make an effort to stay relevant and up to date with relevant knowledge.
• Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities.
• Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback.
• Handle stress in ways that do not negatively impact others.
• Continually share debate and communicate learnings.
• Be proactive in anticipating potential problems and continually monitor progress to ensure small details are not missed.
• Take ownership of personal career development leveraging formal and informal opportunities.
• Flag and debate issues constructively i.e. be solution focused.
• Promote a friendly cooperative climate, understand group dynamics and apply appropriate facilitation techniques in working with others to achieve collective goals.
• Be sensitive to others feelings needs values views and attitudes and be courteous and diplomatic when dealing with difficulties and problems others may be experiencing.
• Act in an ethical transparent and morally defensible manner including highlighting unethical practices.
• Payments business analysis with experience in Payments domain SWIFT FIN/MT messaging and understanding adoption to ISO 20022 standards.

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Job Description

To design and maintain the organisations solutions architecture and applicationse
To ensure all solutions best practices, standards and processes are enforced through the solutions governance process within RMB projects and maintenance environment

• Manage budgets and forecasts and ensure delivery of budgeted items
• 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 seek mutual gains when addressing conflicts
• Anticipate consequences and adapt problem solving based on continual feedback
• Act speedily to resolve problems queries and complaints
• Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
• Research new technologies and ways of using existing technologies to improve the platform i.e., utility reliability and performance
• Optimise and automate internal processes where possible
• Take responsibility for defining standard operating procedures standards guidelines and processes and update as required
• Based on stakeholder needs develop strategy and roadmaps for the specific platforms
• Liaise closely with business stakeholders to forecast capacity requirements
• Design solutions platforms and monitor availability up-time performance and stability against industry best practice
• Ensure CSI on managed platforms by reviewing information systems and reporting for incidents anomalies threshold breaches etc and provide solutions to remediate
• Resolve third line escalations
• Manage and deliver on projects and provide feedback thereon
• Manage project resources to ensure delivery
• Review and consolidate all calls incidents requests problems etc for management reporting
• Report on risks for the platforms to management
• As required analyse trends and propose mitigating and preventative actions
• Communicate proactively to manage expectations.
• 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 lead the establishment of an enterprise-wide, cross functional capability, as a world class service provider to First Rand.
To define and commercialise business value creation though the delivery of capability use cases.

• Strategically influence the implementation of effective costing, pricing, profitability and stakeholder management across a business or functional value chain.
• Define organisational budgetary structures and financial strategies aimed at driving stakeholder value and creating the context for future success.
• Establishment, alignment and management of target and budget goals whilst ensuring effective control of costs for a range of functional areas to increase cost efficiency.
• Create and sustain an organisational culture which encourages others to provide the quality of service essential to high performance.
• Drive cultural change within the organisation to encourage diversity and impact transformation.
• Enable an environment where diversity and individual differences are valued and where everyone is treated with respect in the workplace.
• Ensure that employees are treated in a fair and equitable manner.
• Proactively support and develop talent in line with local legislative requirements.
• Align strategic workforce plan to local legislative requirements.
• Foster an inclusive environment where all people, including those with disability, can thrive and contribute towards the sustainable success of the organisation.
• Initiate and manage market research, data mining and quantitative analysis to ensure sustainability and future competitive growth.
• Explore local and international markets for new products and trademarks in order to expand and strengthen the business' market position.
• Facilitate the conversion of knowledge and ideas into new or improved products, processes and services
• Strategically influence organisational wide development, implementation and adherence to triple bottom line corporate governance and king principles
• Strategically influence the development and implementation of effective corporate governance in relation to external socio-economic requirements
• Encourage, establish and maintain strategic relationships, across multiple functional areas to enable collaboration and knowledge sharing across function
• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own and employee development
• Plan and manage performance, talent, succession and culture across function to improve performance.

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Job Description

To manage and improve the implementation of operational systems, processes, and policies in support of the compliance strategy to support better management reporting, information flow and management, business process and programme delivery planning within the group and segment compliance teams

• Plan, direct and coordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished
• Demonstrate leadership behaviour through personal involvement, commitment and dedication in support of organisational values
• Manage team or teams in areas of responsibility in delivery against performance targets and achievement of wider human capital objectives
• Analyse information and reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes
• Deploys integrated risk management, governance and compliance frameworks throughout area of responsibility
• Ensure optimised customer experience and service throughout the value chain
• Analyse information and reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes
• Identify, drive and implement ideas, policies, procedures, standards and frameworks to enhance sales and increase profit and manage future fit practice
• Achieve integration of processes in areas of responsibility in collaboration with other areas, delivering required service levels by monitoring operational requirements and the overall running costs in relation to  productivity ratios, maintaining targeted outputs and financial discipline
• Plan, direct and coordinate the activities of enterprise-wide projects to ensure that project goals are accomplished
• Manage team or teams in areas of responsibility in delivery against performance targets and achievement of wider human capital objectives

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To analyse individual business' financial results by ensuring adherence to financial controls.
To perform financial partnering activities with including financial planning and reporting, data analysis, and assisting leadership with overall strategy.
Perform daily reconciliations and reconcile discrepancies to minimize losses. Monitors accounts payable to ensure that all payments are up to date. Produce accurate and complete business reports on a monthly basis.

• Initiate dialogue to build professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to listen advise influence to negotiate and present at all levels.
• Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources to make strategic decisions.
• Provide input for reporting of financial information.
• Obtain data for stakeholders on status of projects.
• Compile reports for submission to various boards
• Analyse month-on-month movements of the data and interpret and provide reasons for the movements.
• Provide commentary on income statement and balance sheet items.
• Explain deviations from forecast and targeted income, all once-offs (unexpected income) and losses.
• Analyse and break down GL entries by preparing additional schedules.
• Identify ways to enhance reporting and, as the business changes, adapt reporting accordingly.
• Prepare budget information in conjunction with relevant stakeholders.
• Interact with Business and Finance to obtain anticipated budgets, and consolidate information received in prescribed format.
• Interact with Finance to merge all financial performance and position components and have a complete view within deadline.
• Assist with budget presentation for various stakeholders for approval.
• Perform relevant analysis and advise to stakeholders.
• Ensure that all reports and presentations are taken through the appropriate review mechanisms and are submitted timeously.
• Mitigate and manage audit findings and operational risk events and provide input into the scope of individual audits.
• Continuously identify gaps and enhance the overall control environment.
• Ensure the team is abreast of any changes to regulations and deadlines and manage and monitor compliance to regulations.
• Track any audit findings until they are resolved and report the status of audit findings to various committees.
• 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.
• Follow through to ensure that personal quality and productivity standards are consistently and accurately maintained.

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Job Description

To package large transaction deals by assessing and structuring credit applications mitigating risk and facilitating sound working relationships with relevant stakeholders

• 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
• 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
• 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

To assume and advanced role in financial analysis, reporting, and strategic decision making.
To lead complex projects, providing expert financial advice, and contribute to the development of innovative solutions to drive business growth and profitability.

• Lead the development and implementation of advanced financial models to evaluate opportunities and assess risk.
• Provide expert guidance and mentorship to team members on financial analysis techniques and best practices.
• Conduct in-depth financial analysis and scenario modelling to support strategic decision making and business planning processes.
• Analyse financial statements, performance metrics and key performance indicators to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead the preparation of comprehensive financial reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders, including executive leadership and clients.
• Act as a subject matter expert on accounting principles, financial regulations, and industry standards, providing guidance and recommendations as needed.
• Lead cross-functional teams in the execution of due diligence processes for strategic transactions.
• Drive process improvements and efficiency enhancements in financial reporting, analysis and forecasting activities.
• Evaluate the financial impact of proposed business initiatives and strategic projects, providing insights and recommendations to senior management.
• Collaborate with investment bankers, financial advisors and other stakeholders to structure and execute complex transactions.
• Lead the preparation and review of pitches, proposals and transaction documents, ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Manage relationships with external auditors, regulators, and other third-party stakeholders, ensuring timely and accurate responses to inquiries and requests.
• Stay abreast of market trends, industry developments and emerging technologies in finance and accounting, incorporating relevant insights into decision-making processes.
• Represent the organisation in meetings, conferences and at industry events, building and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders and thought leaders.