Open Vacancies at South African Reserve Bank

Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Support, maintain, enhance and administer the integration applications within the SARB. 
• Take responsibility for the testing and deployment of integration changes in the production and disaster recovery (DR) landscape.
• Engage with relevant stakeholders, displaying a service orientation in own work.
• Develop and maintain business continuity procedures, integration support guides and deployment guides to ensure business continuity and the maintenance of service standards.
• Perform an impact analysis based on business requirements to identify and mitigate operational and business risks.
• Proactively broaden knowledge of functional area, displaying a willingness to make improvements in own work (including methods and practices). 
• Provide regular status updates on system performance and availability to the team leader and team members.
• Evaluate own performance against given criteria and identify and address task-specific learning needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

Job requirements

• To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:
• a National Diploma in Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent NQF 6 qualification; and
• at least two to five years of job-related experience within an integration administration environment. 

The following would be an added advantage:

• working experience (development and/or administration) in:
• IBM integration technologies such as API Connect, Cloud Pak 4 Integration, Datapower, IIB/ACE, MQ and Redhat Open Shift;
• Oracle integration technologies such as Oracle SOA; and
• Globalscape; and
• extensive working experience in:
• Linux and Unix; and
• Bitbucket, Confluence and JIRA.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and professional development;
• IT transformation and innovation;
• infrastructure design and development;
• infrastructure support;
• systems integration;
• collaboration; 
• operations.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas: 

• Assist with compiling and maintaining mandatory project documentation (e.g. project charter, business case, project plan and change requests) to ensure project compliance in terms of the Programme Management Office (PMO) standards and procedures.
• Collate and manage project information and reports to ensure that the relevant stakeholders are adequately informed of the project status.
• Liaise with various stakeholders (internal and external) throughout the project life cycle to maintain the effective communication on all matters relating to the project.
• Update and maintain the project schedule, highlighting deviations to ensure the adherence to project timelines while allowing for planning adjustments.
• Maintain a project repository to ensure that the project information is accessible to all stakeholders and available for audit purposes.
• Schedule meetings, consolidate information for meetings, maintain and disseminate minutes and ensure that actions are followed up as per the minutes.
• Record, update and maintain lessons learnt, risks, issues and action logs to allow for the effective management of project risks by the Project Manager.
• Contain and follow up on project activities in the absence of the Project Manager to ensure project continuity. 
• Maintain an audit trail of all project expenditure, process invoices for payment and reconcile the project budget on a monthly basis. This includes liaising with vendors and the department’s financial management section to ensure the timely payment of invoices.
• Assist the Project Manager with the preparation of project reports.
• Conduct resource onboarding with regard to vetting, logistics, project documentation, templates to be used, standard operating procedures and the use of tools such as SharePoint and OpenText.
• Assist the project team with travel and accommodation arrangements.

Additional requirements include: 

• analysing and problem-solving;
• learning focus;
• drive for results;
• teamwork;
• verbal and written communication;
• flexibility; and
• service and stakeholder focus.

QUALIFICATIONS

To be considered for this position, candidates must have: 

• a Higher Certificate (NQF 5) in Project Administration or Project Management.
• a minimum of two to five years’ experience in a project environment; and
• solid knowledge of the project management discipline with an emphasis on project administration. Programme administration experience will be an advantage.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Assist with the implementation, review, update and maintenance of the operational risk management and compliance framework.
• Coordinate and plan the annual operational and strategic risk assessment workshops with the Risk Management and Compliance Department (RMCD) and relevant stakeholders. 
• Provide advice on risk and compliance management issues relating to the operating area within the NPSD.
• Develop operational risk profiles and risk action plans relating to the national payment system (NPS) operating area.
• Coordinate, plan and execute activities relating to the management of specialised operational risks (including cyber-risk, change management, project risk management and business continuity management). 
• Conduct operational risk assessments, prepare reports, develop risk mitigation plans and report on progress, in line with RMCD and the Board Risk and Ethics Committee agendas.
• Actively stay abreast of new approaches (best practices), methods, analytical techniques and procedures in risk management. 
• Implement risk monitoring processes for risk and compliance management. 
• Assist in preparing for briefings and presentations with relevant stakeholders. 
• Assist with the preparation of scenarios, coordinate training and awareness sessions, and provide training in areas of governance, risk management and controls relevant to the NPSD. 
• Coordinate and liaise with RMCD, internal and external audit, as well as any other relevant stakeholders to improve and enhance audit, risk and compliance activities.
• Log risk incidents relating to the operational area. 
• Monitor and report on risk action plans relating to the logged risk incidents. 
• Build sound professional relationships with stakeholders through collaboration, client focus and excellent execution.
• Manage relationships with peers through teamwork, knowledge sharing and positive attitude, and providing support to colleagues.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and add value to the NPSD.

QUALIFICATIONS

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor’s degree in Risk Management; and
• five to eight years’ experience in a banking, finance and payment environment, of which at least two years must be in risk management.

Additional requirements include:

• sound knowledge of recognised risk management frameworks, processes, standards and practices;
• experience in the use of relevant risk management computer software applications;
• proven facilitation and presentation skills;
• excellent interpersonal as well as verbal and written communication skills;
• proficiency in the use of MS Office products (Word, Excel and PowerPoint);
• proven scribing and minute-taking skills; and
• the ability to function independently (self-starter).

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Take responsibility for driving business analysis initiatives, from initiation to implementation, on projects of low/medium risk with a cycle of up to 12 months.
• Facilitate workshops independently and consult with business owners and stakeholders in respect of problem definitions and the identification of business requirements/needs.
• Review business processes and procedures, analyse business needs and associated data, identify and assess possible solutions, and define the associated requirements.
• Elaborate on the scope and feasibility of solutions and develop the supporting business case.
• Manage change requirements and supporting specifications. 
• Investigate problems and propose solutions by interacting with users, developers and other stakeholders.
• Develop manuals and plans, and present training courses in support of implementation.
• Stay abreast of changes to analytical tools and methodologies, and identify opportunities to improve and standardise work processes, and apply these in the course of own work. 

QUALIFICATIONS

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an Honour’s degree in Information Technology (IT) or equivalent
• a relevant Business Analysis certificate; and
• five to eight years’ experience within a business analysis environment. 

Additional requirements include:

• industry, business and organisational awareness knowledge and skill;
• continued learning and/or professional development knowledge and skill;
• quality assurance knowledge and skill; 
• continuous improvement knowledge and skill;
• business transformation and optimisation knowledge and skill;
• elicitation techniques knowledge and skill;
• business analysis practices, methodology and tools knowledge and skill;
• realisation and testing practices knowledge and skill; and
• IT domain management knowledge and skill

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Drive or lead the monitoring of the underlying Business Intelligence environments (databases and application servers) to ensure capacity management, systems availability and optimal long-term performance.
• Provide recommendations in BI Solution implementations on hardware and software configuration.
• Exposure to BI Technologies such as SAS, Microsoft Power BI, Oracle Data Integrator, Oracle Analytics Server (OAS), Informatica and OBIEE.
• Take responsibility for ensuring system availability, configuration, upgrades and general support for all BSTD applications.
• Take responsibility for driving enhancements of all BI applications through the installation of new features and configuring of solution architecture throughout the application lifecycle to ensure delivery of new functionality.
• Provide guidance and technical input to resolving high complexity issues across all BI applications.
• Lead engagements with cross-functional stakeholders and take responsibility for managing the relationship. 
• Keep abreast of industry best practices and technologies, and lead implementation thereof to optimise effective and efficient business applications.
• Impart knowledge of the technical environment to the system development team. 
• Proactively identify and drive initiatives to ensure compliance and adherence to security and application standards across all BSTD applications.
• Identify and manage the mitigation of risks relating to all BI applications.
• Provide reporting and recommendations on solution performance and system availability to senior management and relevant stakeholders.
• Assist and develop application technical specialist by providing technical guidance, quality assure and take accountability for the output specialists.

QUALIFICATIONS

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor Degree (NQF 7) in Computer Science, Information Management/Information Technology or equivalent qualification; and
• eight to ten years of experience in supporting, maintaining and enhancing the business intelligence and collaborations environments. 

Additional requirements include:

• effective communication;
• judgement and decision-making;
• client and stakeholder focus;
• drive for results; 
• planning and organising;
• problem-solving and analysis; 
• conceptual thinking; and
• building and managing relationships. 

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will, among others, be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Review and evaluate the strategies, policies, procedures and practices related to credit exposure and the ongoing management of the portfolios of regulated financial institutions.
• Develop analytical methods to analyse and interpret risk-based regulatory data submissions.
• Prepare detailed reports based on the outcome of the analysis performed.
• Ensure regulated financial institutions’ compliance with prudential regulatory requirements applicable to creditrisk.
• Monitor banks’ exposures to credit risk, as reported to the PA under the standardised and internal ratings- based approaches.
• Provide specialist credit risk support.
• Contribute to risk-based meetings with regulated financial institutions, their auditors and other related parties.
• Interact with external credit assessment institutions when necessary.
• Participate in the internal capital adequacy assessments (ICAAP) of banks and the own risk and solvency assessments (ORSA) of insurers.
• Inform the PA of the aggregate behaviour of regulated financial institutions regarding credit risk.
• Stay abreast of international best practices and developments surrounding credit risk.
• Conduct research and provide input into the regulatory frameworks of the regulated financial institutions (e.g., the Banks Act 94 of 1990, Insurance Act 18 of 2017, Regulations relating to Banks, Prudential and Joint Standards, circulars, directives, guidance notes, etc.) in line with international best practices.
• Develop internal policies and processes for supervising credit risk in regulated financial institutions.
• Participate in international and domestic related forums in the establishment of regulations pertaining to credit risk.
• Ensure widespread cognisance and understanding throughout the PA of the concepts and developments in the field of credit risk.
• Assist the team with other functions, as may be required from time to time, in line with the PA strategic and operational objectives.

QUALIFICATIONS

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• A Postgraduate qualification in Commerce, Accounting, Financial Risk, Financial Management, Risk Management or Banking); and
• five to eight years’ relevant working experience in the financial, banking or regulatory sector or in a financial risk management environment.

Additional requirements include:

• knowledge of the risks facing regulated financial institutions;
• knowledge of financial products;
• good working knowledge of Microsoft Office software packages (i.e. Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and other related software packages;
• innovative analytical/problem-solving skills;
• strong verbal and written communication skills;
• ability to work in a team and contribute to team success;
• decision-making abilities with the ability to initiate action; and
• effective time management skills.

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The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Engage in short-term planning and perform tasks against work plans as defined with the team leader.
• Assist with financial/budgetary challenges, diagnose problems and choose and/or modify routines to deal with them, displaying the ability to provide solutions for problems within a defined context.
• Coordinate and compile the annual departmental budget.
• Administer the approved budget in terms of controlling expenditure and reporting on variances. 
• Monitor and verify orders to ensure that expenditure is within the approved budget and in accordance with the SARB’s procurement procedures.
• Perform general accounting duties and reconciliations in accordance with accounting and SARB policies, relevant accounting standards and applicable legislation.
• Perform general administration tasks, including the preparation of payment instructions, data capturing and record-keeping to ensure the smooth running of the department’s operations.
• Effect the payment of suppliers/vendors according to the SARB processes.
• Collate and provide relevant management information for decision-making purposes to ensure complete and relevant information for the department.
• Ensure compliance with the procurement policy, budget guidelines and other relevant SARB policies.
• Engage with stakeholders (internal and external), displaying the ability to solicit information as well as deliver a coherent and convincing message.
• Perform general administrative tasks in support of the programmes, strategy, business continuity management (BCM) and overall operations of CMD, which include records management, correspondence, governance, risk and compliance and procurement-related matters.
• Perform general administrative tasks in support of CMD’s financial administration and ensure the timely submission of accurate payment information.
• Support the team leader in his/her role as a sub-records manager as well as a training, facilities, information technology (IT) and fixed assets representative, and in effectively managing the requirements and resources of CMD.

QUALIFICATIONS

•  To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:
• a National Diploma (NQF 6) in Financial Accounting or an equivalent qualification; and
• at least two to five years’ job-related experience in a budget and financial support environment.

Additional requirements include:

• resilience;
• service and stakeholder focus;
• planning and organising skills;
• learning focus;
• drive for results;
• problem-solving and analytical skills;
• verbal and written communication skills; and
• judgement and decision-making skills