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Job Description

• We have the below role within Wesbank.
• The main purpose of the role is to maximise new and existing business opportunities with larger, more complex commercial customers, through securing financing of assets, referring of value added products and relationship building at senior levels with internal and external stakeholders in order to grow profitability and market share for the Product House, and ensuring customer excellence.

Are you someone who can:

• Receive and generate customer leads through proactively identifying opportunities for new business and clients, and contacting customers to initiate engagements
• Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across area of specialisation
• Display and encourage an appreciation of teamwork and inclusivity
• Participate in planned activities that are appropriate for own development
• Compile reports that track progress and guide business to make informed decisions
• Ensure development and continuous value add improvement to operational processes
• Manages risks in own area of responsibility
• Build working relationships across teams and functional lines to enhance work delivery, collaboration and innovation
• Deliver customer experience excellence in own service delivery aligned to Organisational values and service standards
• Control expenditure and identify process improvements to contain and reduce costs
• Identify and utilise opportunities for revenue growth to deliver on sales targets
• Manage risks by understanding LGD (loss given default), and motivating the FR (financial risk) rating adjustments

You will be an ideal candidate if you have:

• Degree or 3 year qualification in Commerce, Marketing or Finance
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in a Marketing, Banking, Finance or Fleet environment, of which 1 to 2 years ideally at junior (entry level) management level
• Asset Based Finance experience is mandatory

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

The Executive Personal Assistant provides administrative support to Executives and assists with general Business Area administration. The incumbent provides diary and meeting management and handles all travel arrangements for members of the Executive Team.

• Responsible for administering executive accounts and budgets
• Manage invoices, expenses and payments
• Manage operational guest relations by liaising and negotiating with senior stakeholders internally and externally, receive and manage VIP guests and providing effective day-to-day operational delivery of services to ensure compliance with corporate policies, procedures and operating standards
• Prioritize and draft correspondence and documentation including minutes, agendas, meeting actions, project notes, PowerPoint presentations and other administration procedures for meetings and other gatherings that involve the Executive.
• Keep the Executive informed of various activities within and outside the Group through effective networking and building business relations
• Resolve all customer queries efficiently, and within agreed timelines.
• Provide effective communications and relationships with internal and external contacts, ensuring that messages and relations contribute positively to the Company’s reputation and credibility and are coherent and consistent, in line with the Company’s strategies, policy objectives and legal obligations.
• Provide executive support to the Executive in ensuring compliance with the Company’s values and preferred behaviors, its corporate standards and policies and its legal obligations. Provide a full range of personal administration support to Executive, filtering, prioritizing-routing, drafting and responding to correspondence verbally or in writing on behalf of the Executive using clear judgement and political sensitivity.
• Undertake projects, research, assignments, budget management, administration procedures, processes and activities, including production of documents, reports and financial information for the Executive as allocated.
• Attending Exco, Stratco and other meetings and preparing strategy documents, presentation material and briefing documents, minutes and agenda as required
• Manage the provision and dissemination of confidential and sensitive information to and from the Executive’s office, including drafting, analyzing and distributing sensitive high-level information at senior levels for action and decision making.
• Manage own development to increase own competencies
• Manage complex diary appointments and assist with allocating the Executive’s time appropriately, and screen all telephone calls, enquiries and requests, and responding to them appropriately
• Manage travel arrangements for Executive, as allocated, including transport, accommodation, meals, visa applications, and allocation of travel time, both for national and international travel
• Co-ordinate events and business continuity, ensuring that allocated programmes of work and responsibilities are delivered effectively to time, to standard and to budget, with both internal and external partners, and acting as a key point of contact for advice and support to others in the business.
• Manage executive staff and related functions, as required, including coordinating cover arrangements, and the production of administrative work
• Observe and apply diplomatic protocol while maintaining complete confidentiality
• Deal with sensitive and/or political issues with tact and discretion
• Maintain high degree of personal and professional integrity
• Cope with high volumes of work, varying workloads and interruptions and be able to work extended hours when required

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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

Requirements

• 3-5 Years in a Quantatative Analyst role within a credit environment
• Experience in building credit models (PD , LGD, EAD, IFRS9)

Minimum Qualification

• Bachelor's Degree with Honours in Computer Science / Econometrics / Actuarial Science / Mathematics Degree

Preferred Qualification

• Qualified Actuary or Masters Degree in Computer Science / Econometrics / Actuarial Science / Mathematics Degree

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Job Description

To provide high level operational and administrative support to business

• Reconciles accounts and ensures that the suspense account is cleared
• Optimise work through the application of learning experiences
• Contribute to cost efficiencies through responsible utilisation of work related resources
• Delivers customer service through adherence to quality service standards
• Contribute to teamwork and inclusivity within own team
• Identify and utilise opportunities to assess and improve own performance
• Ensure operational excellence through the delivery of work processes according to defined quality standards
• Pays suppliers and creditors
• Adheres to agreed turnaround times to ensure that costs to the Bank are avoided or minimised