Job Vacancies at Standard Bank Group

Job Description

• To effectively support the relevant Financial Insights Lead (FIL) in the provision of high quality analytics and insights to the respective Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or Business Head. This role will help the FIL enable the business to drive business performance and ensure the delivery of operational plans and Business Unit (BU)/Corporate Investment Banking (CIB) strategy by communicating the financial performance of the business at a Global, portfolio, legal entity and regional level, with a product and client view.

Qualifications

• Honours Degree in Finance and Accounting, Business Commerce or Mathematical Sciences
• Qualified Accountant (CA / CIMA / ACCA)

Experience

5-7 Years of Experience in:

• Advising and collaborating with individuals in both front office finance and business positions in banking or a similar industry, allowing the individual to have gained a more broad insight into banking or similar industry’s key activities and processes.
• Producing high quality regular reporting and additional analysis which will include the provision of insight via commentary. This will have allowed the individual to have a deep understanding of key drivers which influence typical management decisions, specifically within the banking or similar industry.
• Production and delivery of planning, budgeting and forecasting within banking or similar industry. In addition, experience is required in having provided financial oversight in the creation and review of business cases.
• Management accounting field of the banking industry, which has allowed the individual to be involved in the process of identifying and reporting data for management decision making purposes, including experience in manipulation of key ratios and development of creative, relevant correlations.

Additional Information

• Behavioural Competencies
• Generating Ideas
• Providing Insights 
• Challenging Ideas 
• Articulating Information 
• Convincing People 
• Team Working
• Meeting Timescales

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JOB DESCRIPTION

To maintain service and application stability, availability and reliability through the facilitation of the various Service Management processes and associated activities which include providing level two technical support coupled with business or domain knowledge to ensure continued and quality service across geographies.

• Adhere to and apply defined standards, tools and frameworks ensuring achievement of service stability for the business line or corporate function across all markets
• Apply common communication standards when communicating to business stakeholders during high impact service impact and restoration events
• Capture all relevant service-related information using the relevant service management tools enabling reporting which is both accurate and reliable
• Communicate and manage all changes within the function as well as externally to the relevant area to ensure effective understanding and use of the service
• Coordinate technical teams and drive the operational execution of the incident management process, determine the level of risk and liaising with relevant technical teams. Make recommendations and obtain the necessary permissions, outside of the mandate, to make changes to processes or applications enabling the most effective response for the resolution of incidents raised.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology

Additional Licences and Certifications

• Industry related certification and membership e.g. ITIL certification - Required

Experience Required

• 5-7 years Experience gained in providing level 2 technical support to an area of the business. Gain understanding and experience of the various disciplines within technology and how these relate to each other.
• 5-7 years Proven experience in application of service management processes and frameworks.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Behavioral Competencies:

• Challenging Ideas
• Checking Details
• Developing Strategies
• Documenting Facts
• Establishing Rapport

Technical Competencies:

• Application Knowledge for Support
• Application Support
• Data Analysis and Inference
• Documenting
• Service Level Management

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• To work independently and provide end-to-end People and Culture value chain business partner support for the Corporate and Investment Banking, Risk & Marketing portfolio applying specialist knowledge and judgement to resolve complex challenges. To provide business partnering advisory support to business stakeholders within the allocated portfolio/s of responsibility in the Risk & Marketing portfolio within Corporate and Investment Banking, giving P&C guidance in support of the overall people experience and business objectives in an ever-changing environment.

QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum qualifications

• Degree in Human Resources Management / Behavioural Science / Social Science.

Experience required

• Minimum 5 -7 years experience in People & Culture, with strong preference to a partnering role.
• Experience within a multinational company working with senior management teams in a complex environment.
• Track record of successfully implementing integrated, effective People & Culture solutions in support of business specific objectives & driving for a sustainable performance in the businesses.
• Demonstrated knowledge & understanding of the role People & Culture management plays in enabling business commercial & social relevance, whilst remaining relevant to the people within the business.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Behavioural Competencies

• Interpreting Data
• Providing Insights
• Articulating Information
• Establishing Rapport
• Team Working
• Taking Action
• Embracing Change

Technical Competencies

• Organisational Navigation
• Integrative Leadership 
• Decision Making
• Inclusive Facilitation
• Digital Advocacy

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• To carry out all aspects of the Flow Sales execution process related to the receipt and transmission of orders for diverse types of financial instruments (FX, FI and MM), in order to ensure alignment with the requirements and standards of the bank. To provide execution analysis, structured pricing and sector relevant research in order to facilitate the client advisory process whilst adhering to compliance standards and regulatory and market norms.

Outputs:

Portfolio Management

• Manage a portfolio of high and medium touch clients.  Achieve annual sales targets by conducting execution analysis and proposing restructure ideas that address the interests and needs of the client. 

Policies, standards, processes, procedures and tools

• Implement applicable policies, systems, processes, procedures so that all relevant risk and business control requirements are fulfilled. Contribute to the continuous improvement of business control systems, processes and practices.

Structured pricing

• Receive and provide price request. Provide baseline price (within mandated limits), set the varied price and in instances where there is no mandated limit, request price from traders, in line with market vision and trading strategy.  Where necessary, engage trading on opportunities to optimise pricing to better enable sustainable client solutioning and liquidity. Work closely with Treasury specialists to dynamically manage margins and provide structured pricing ensuring fair spreads to clients.

Execution

• Receive instruction to execute deals and place orders (Buy/Sell) on the system for the assigned portfolio of clients on a timely basis.  Prepare and complete all the necessary documentation and paperwork and acquire required approvals to execute the transaction / process the deal in a timely manner and within approved policies and guidelines, while performing suitability and risk analysis.

Compliance Checks and Due Diligence

• Complete all due diligence, proper verifications and conduct compliance checks of all trade orders to ensure error-free transactions and to ensure trades conform to regulations of regulatory bodies to the required standard.

Reporting

• Log and file all communications to/from clients and departments for tracking purposes. Provide daily profit/loss and position reports to management to support effective maintenance of financial control within the team. Ensure periodical reports (quantitative and qualitative) as well as daily/weekly monthly reports are produced timeously and according to defined formats and procedures.

Risk management

• Work with the Treasury Specialist, Traders and Operations to ensure daily operational efficiency while minimising market risk and firm exposure. Promptly escalate complex issues and flag and report any suspicious transactions that contravene the Bank's risk limits. Inform management of any changes in the product portfolio or in legislation that may affect the bank’s operations. Where required allocate risk to the appropriate book.

Client relationship management

• Maintain regular contact with clients to assess and understand their requirements, broaden existing relationships and solicit business development opportunities that meet their respective business interests. Engage in proactive client calling (telephonic) or push notifications.

Specialist and trusted advice

• Provide clients with specialist treasury advisory services and propose appropriate risk management solutions to them whilst leveraging our African expertise. Stay abreast of product developments and market regulations and intricacies. Ensure clients are provided with industry relevant market developments and currency / commodity movements to support their day to day decisionResearch collect data and analyse current and expected market developments and trends. Conduct client performance analytics and report on findings to facilitate the advisory process and ensure client compliance with the regulatory and market norms.
• making. Advise client on required regulatory compliance and ensure the involvement of required specialists.

Client service excellence

• Ensure and maintain client satisfaction. Directly or indirectly answer any client questions, advise clients and guide them toward a product or service that fits their needs. Discuss GM flow sales function and offerings articulately and accurately and continually update own knowledge through training and educational programs.

Research, insights and analytics

• Research collect data and analyse current and expected market developments and trends. Conduct client performance analytics and report on findings to facilitate the advisory process and ensure client compliance with the regulatory and market norms

Performance management

• Conduct regular portfolio reviews to identify and manage client retention, lost clients and year-on-year revenue and turnover variances and win loss ratios. Conduct regular gap analysis to ensure clients are serviced in every one of their presence countries where SB overlaps to capture GM opportunities

Digital migration

• Proactively sell digital migration to clients by driving the digital value proposition and leveraging digital transition across the client portfolio. Optimise system utilisation to grow share of wallet.  Promote use of self-service tools to reduce number of client enquiries and address client training issues to achieve predefined E/V ratios for clients on a self-service platform.

Continuous improvement

• Monitor, measure, benchmark and evaluate dealing processes, tools and systems. Recommend improvements / changes to systems and processes, based on the market and industry trends and economic analysis, in order to continuously improve policies, processes and systems. Implement changes and improvements where required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Business Commerce

Experience / Required

FAIS
Macro Generic
Global Markets Client Execution

• 3-4 years
• Relevant experience in trading deal execution and financial markets analysis. Seasoned experience in the asset management sector / financial services. Good understanding of the buy-side industry, practical application of the products payment processing (such as via SWIFT).
• Domestic/local travel may be required
• Experience in working with the Treasury Specialist, Traders and Operations to ensure daily operational efficiency while minimising market risk and firm exposure.
• Manage a portfolio of high and medium touch clients. Ensure and maintain client satisfaction.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Behavioral Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Convincing People
• Embracing Change
• Empowering Individuals
• Establishing Rapport
• Interacting with People
• Making Decisions
• Providing Insights
• Seizing Opportunities
• Showing Composure
• Taking Action
• Team Working

Technical Competencies:

• Business Acumen (Audit)
• Client Retention
• Customer Understanding ( Consumer Banking)
• International Market Knowledge
• Local Market Knowledge
• Market Analysis
• Product Knowledge (Trading, Transacting)
• Trade Execution

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• To grow and retain a portfolio of high value Business Segment relationships by performing a proactive, mobile, value adding financial partnership role within the approved CVP. Adding value to client’s ecosystem through both financial and non- financial (e.g., platform business) solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications

• Business Commerce Degree (FAIS recognised qualification)

Experience

• Years: 5-7 years
• Agriculture experience 
• Experience in client facing role including sales, credit and relationship management.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Additional information

Behavioural Competencies

• Establishing Rapport
• Interacting with People
• Convincing People
• Showing Composure
• Providing Insights

Technical Competencies

• Risk Awareness
• Risk Identification
• Banking Process & Procedures
• Business Process Improvement
• Client Knowledge

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• To support the development of the sovereign and public sector entities related client business and risk positioning of Global Markets across strategic geographies. At a high level the role will require a deep understanding of macro-economic, fiscal, and political landscapes across the African continent. It will be required to liaising internally with economists, strategists, risk, and business colleagues as well as policy makers and other external stakeholders. You will be required to formulate forecasts and views in collaboration with risk departments to support deal teams with business development and risk approvals. The role will also frequently interact with and assist GM sales and trading personnel and interface with external clients and partners to deliver views and insights.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Business Commerce
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Finance and Accounting

Experience Required
Macro Generic

• Global Markets Trading Market Making
• 3-4 years
• Significant experience in analysing and interpreting financial models and large datasets as well as extensive knowledge on financial products to determine potential risk exposure and opportunities to inform business decisions within the global market.
• 5-7 years
• Significant experience in forecasting, analysing, and interpreting the effects of macroeconomic factors within global markets to provide valuable insights to relevant stakeholders.
• 8-10 years
• Significant experience in and knowledge of economics & political science pertaining to global markets to advise business leaders and relevant stakeholders on decision making processes, speculative opportunities, trading risks, and overall risk management.
• Might be required to travel
• Good understanding of the S.A and Pan African Markets

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Behavioral Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Convincing People
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Embracing Change
• Exploring Possibilities
• Interpreting Data
• Making Decisions
• Providing Insights
• Pursuing Goals
• Seizing Opportunities

Technical Competencies:

• Capital Markets
• Economic Analysis
• International Market Knowledge
• Investment Analysis
• Quantitative Analysis
• Research
• Statistical & Mathematical Analysis
• Strategic Planning and Reporting

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JOB DESCRIPTION

To maintain service and application stability, availability and reliability through the facilitation of the various Service Management processes and associated activities which include providing level two technical support coupled with business or domain knowledge to ensure continued and quality service across geographies.

• Adhere to and apply defined standards, tools and frameworks ensuring achievement of service stability for the business line or corporate function across all markets
• Apply common communication standards when communicating to business stakeholders during high impact service impact and restoration events
• Capture all relevant service-related information using the relevant service management tools enabling reporting which is both accurate and reliable
• Communicate and manage all changes within the function as well as externally to the relevant area to ensure effective understanding and use of the service
• Coordinate technical teams and drive the operational execution of the incident management process, determine the level of risk and liaising with relevant technical teams. Make recommendations and obtain the necessary permissions, outside of the mandate, to make changes to processes or applications enabling the most effective response for the resolution of incidents raised.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: Degree
Field of Study: Information Technology

Additional Licences and Certifications

• Industry related certification and membership e.g. ITIL certification - Required

Experience Required

• 5-7 years Experience gained in providing level 2 technical support to an area of the business. Gain understanding and experience of the various disciplines within technology and how these relate to each other.
• 5-7 years Proven experience in application of service management processes and frameworks.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Behavioral Competencies:

• Challenging Ideas
• Checking Details
• Developing Strategies
• Documenting Facts
• Establishing Rapport

Technical Competencies:

• Application Knowledge for Support
• Application Support
• Data Analysis and Inference
• Documenting
• Service Level Management

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• Provide infrastructure, tools and frameworks used to deliver end-to-end solutions to business problems. Build scalable infrastructure for supporting the delivery of clear business insights from raw data sources; with a focus on collecting, managing, analysing, visualising data and developing analytical solutions. Responsible for expanding and optimising Standard Bank CIB's data and data pipeline architecture, whilst optimising data flow and collection to ultimately support data initiatives.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications

•  First Degree in Information Studies / Information Technology

Experience Required

• 5-7 years' experience with big data tools: Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, etc. Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra. Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc. Experience with AWS cloud services: EC2, EMR, RDS, Redshift. Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc. Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, etc.
• 5-7 years strong analytic skills related to working with unstructured datasets. Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management. A successful history of manipulating, processing and extracting value from large, disconnected datasets. Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable 'big data' data stores.
• 5-7 years working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Behavioral Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Checking Details
• Examining Information

Technical Competencies:

• Data Analysis
• Data Integrity
• Database Administration
• Knowledge Classification

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JOB DESCRIPTION

To apply computer science theories, principals to create, refactor moderate to complex programs/scripts, integration software services. To design complex specifications, code, test, debug, enhance programs within the Continuous delivery pipelines and provide support, maintenance of systems, programmes. To execute software developer responsibilities according to Engineer practice, standards, frameworks, roadmaps and the architects application standards. Participate in reviews of colleagues' work.

• Adhere to application lifecycle management accountabilities, architectural platforms and guardrails and ensure that all activity is digitally recorded and tracked to enhance reporting, to support process review and improvement and to maintain an audit ready posture
• Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enables continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders in order to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer.
• Coach or mentor less experienced Engineers on technical aspects of application development, controls, and documentation standards as well as on engaging effectively with relevant stakeholders.
• Construct, interpret and execute moderate to complex end to end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems.
• Contribute to programmes and platforms for the processing, analysis and visual display of data, integrating new and existing data sources and ensuring the validity and reliability of data to support data driven decision making (as required).

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Information Studies

Experience Required

• 4-5 years Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.
• 7-8 years Proven experience in modern engineering practices i.e. dev ops, agile etc., Proven experience across multiple, broad IT Engineering disciplines, with demonstrated specialisation in at least one. Experience within the required scope of expertise

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Behavioral Competencies:

• Adopting Practical Approaches
• Articulating Information
• Checking Details
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts
• Embracing Change

Technical Competencies:

• Agile Development
• Application Support
• Design Patterns
• DEVOPS
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

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JOB DESCRIPTION

• The roles purpose is selling of all products in an asset class and cross-sell on related products. The requirement of the role is to identify and leverage cross-sell opportunities across the Wholesale Client Segment. And also, be able to solution for a client where their needs are fairly common, and the market is stable. It operates in a single complex market or even across multiple markets.

Client

• Sell products & package solutions to targeted client segments & sectors, to acquire new clients & originate new business with existing clients to grow share of wallet. To provide thought leadership to drive overall relationship management outcomes, market share & competitiveness. Engages & resolves different needs across multiple clients & integrates all client experience touch points in environments with more variable hand-offs. Identifies trends & patterns that impact client requirements.

Data

• The requirement to ensure the integrity and compliant management of GM client data to be able to provide insights and reliable reporting of key client metrics. Applies client and market data, analytics and reporting  to better inform client origination and retention.

Product

• The requirement to sell commoditised products to clients by leveraging price competitiveness. Largely relies on digital channels.  Sells all products in an asset class and also bundles cross-sell opportunities with secondary products. Looks at product performance across multiple clients.
• Solutioning The requirement to leverage client/market insights and trends to provide input into optimal solutioning design outcomes. Solutions (originates) new business opportunities where the client need is aligned to their current business model. Co-ordinates solutioning tactics in an environment that is relatively stable (liquidity and regulations)

Risk, Regulatory, Prudential & Compliance

• The requirement to adhere to the Client SBG risk and regulatory framework, to ensure the transparency of dealings, respect client rights, ensure fair pricing, good execution and after sales client experience. Ensures compliance within relevant risk and regulatory frameworks . Tactics concerned with new solutions and not existing products only.  May be across multiple jurisdictions.

Strategy

• The requirement to look to the internal and external realties and potentials to better plan for the Portfolio by collaborating with other segments and partners to deliver against business objectives. Identifies trends and disruptors to improve performance of the overall business with a 1 year horizon.

Technology & Architecture

• The requirement to be aware of technology evolutions, client digital appetites and requirements and partnering to be able to scale products and solutions to meet client needs.  Drives technology enablement value proposition to create client centric technology evolutions so that the Portfolio can stay ahead of competitors.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Qualifications
Type of Qualification: First Degree
Field of Study: Business Commerce

Experience Required
Macro Generic

• Global Markets Client Management
• 1-2 years
• Demonstrate evidence of knowing how to co-ordinate teams and responsible for shared delivery coach and mentor team members
• 3-4 years
• Demonstrate evidence of deeper understanding of integration across asset classesDemonstrate evidence of knowing how to identify cross-sell opportunities across the bankfilter and leverage multiple sources of credible data to originate sales opportunities (horizon up to 1 year)
• 3-4 years
• Demonstrate evidence of knowing how to interpret trends to apply to clients' businesses to source shorter cycle opportunities.Demonstrate evidence of knowing how to optimise the value chain and key handover points including technology enablement to improve client experience.Successful track record of client portfolio revenues

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Behavioral Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Developing Expertise
• Directing People
• Embracing Change
• Interacting with People
• Inviting Feedback
• Making Decisions
• Pursuing Goals
• Showing Composure
• Thinking Positively
• Upholding Standards
• Valuing Individuals

Technical Competencies:

• Deal Negotiation
• Financial Acumen
• Financial Industry Regulatory Framework
• Product and Services Knowledge
• Product Knowledge (Trading, Transacting)
• Sales Planning and Reporting
• Technology Savvy
• Verbal Communication