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Job Purpose

To actively contribute to Corporate Finance (CF) transaction development; mandate implementation and client relationship building to generate sustainable revenue streams for Corporate Finance and NedCap.

Job Responsibilities

• Build trust and strong relationships both internally and externally through delivery of good quality work outputs and strong communication skills.
• Ensure provision of timeous resolutions for internal and external stakeholders by addressing specific transaction related queries.
• Developing and using collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Maintain existing client relationships by respecting and assisting in enhancing the relationship.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g. Green Strategy).
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
• Ensure appropriate involvement and contribution to credit assessments by providing input into the presentation to credit committee.
• Contribute towards the successful implementation of funding structures solutions by being an active team member.
• Contribute towards the successful implementation of pricing solutions by being an active team member.
• Ensure accuracy and validity of client information by interrogating assumptions and commerciality of information provided.Participate and assist in managing the deal project streams undertaken by relationship management; credit and admin teams.Maintain competency through keeping up to date with industry trends and legislation.Ensure effective time management by managing turnaround times.Maintain effective oral and written communication.
• Focus on innovative client solutions and problem solving by showing initiative; creative thinking and drawing from previous experience.
• Assist in ensuring effective deal management by being a pro-active team member.
• Ensure compliance with internal processes through developing an understanding of internal procedures.
• Ensure personal time management and assist in ensuring effective deal/project management.
• Ensure that all admin related responsibilities are timeously addressed.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit policies.
• Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

Chartered Accountant (SA), Chartered Financial Analyst, MBA, Masters in Finance, JSE Approved Executive

Essential Certifications

• Chartered Accountant (SA), Chartered Financial Analyst, JSE Approved Executive, Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators

Minimum Experience Level

4-5 years relevant industry / sector experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Industry trends
• Microsoft Office
• Principles of financial management
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Decision-making process
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

• Adaptability
• Coaching
• Communication
• Initiating Action
• Work Standards
• Managing Work
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

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Job Purpose

As a Finance Manager Treasury, CIB you are required to analyse; interpret; collate and present financial and non-financial information in order to drive strategy; enable decision making and support Nedbank Business Units.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.)
• Participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of key business strategies.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance processes; systems and policies and support implementation of new processes; policies and systems.
• Enable business to achieve results by providing insights to enable strategic; operational and tactical decision making.
• Meet financial objectives by coordinating activities in line with budget requirements.
• Minimise costs by considering efficiencies and reducing unnecessary expenditure.
• Minimise financial and reputational risk by responding to customer related issues in a client centric way.
• Ensure research accuracy by validating results.
• Improve productivity by planning tasks; reviewing and taking corrective action when necessary.
• Evaluate vendor contracts by monitoring and ensuring compliance to Nedbank requirements.
• Managing market research database by compiling and updating client; industry and competitor information.
• Ensure compliance by adhering to internal and external regulatory requirements; governance and policies.
• Meet internal client briefs by generating and implementing communications plans.
• Contribute to reports by providing relevant information on market research activities.
• Keep abreast of legislation and other industry changes that impacts on role by reading the relevant newsletters; websites and attending sessions.
• Understand and embrace the Nedbank vision and demonstrate the values through interaction with team and stakeholders.
• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced, and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.
• Ensure information is provided correctly to stakeholders by maintaining knowledge sharing with team.
• Support internal stakeholder’s decision making by delivering market research results; industry analysis and insights.
• Support business to meet client needs through research; communication and follow-up.
• Understand and meet stakeholder needs by identifying; building and maintaining relationships.
• Meet business objectives by facilitating and managing vendor relationships.

Essential Qualifications

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

• Chartered Accountant

Minimum Experience Level

• 2 - 3 years experience in an accounting role

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Banking procedures
• Business principles
• Business writing
• Cluster specific operations
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Principles of financial management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Decision-making process

Behavioural Competencies

• Applied Learning
• Communication
• Decision Making
• Work Standards
• Managing Work
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills

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Job Purpose

To retain, maintain and increase Nedbank's client base through relevant need-based selling and servicing of financial products and services to the In-Retailer market segment.

Job Responsibilities

Deliver on agreed sales and service opportunities by selling Nedbank products in identified In-retailer stores and communities (i.e. Boxer and Personal Loans).

• Accept and implement advice to fulfill on sales opportunities and through involving local the community.
• Understand and meet the In-retailer market client need through conducting client needs-based analysis aligned to Nedbank procedures and the FAIS Act.
• Create synergy and build relationships with internal stakeholders by participating in collaboration meetings and adhering to standard operating procedures.
• Build and maintain internal and external vendor and supplier relationships by identifying improvement opportunities and by meeting with vendors and suppliers according to Service Level Agreements.
• Ensure work completed to plan, progress reviewed and corrective action taken by monitoring activities, reviewing action plans and taking corrective action.
• Deliver agreed results and create an environment in communities for selling Nedbank products and services by utilizing resources according to Nedbank policies and procedures.
• Manage risk by meeting technical, company standards, practices and resource management (e.g. ultraviolet lights to identify false identity documents).
• Comply with risk standards, monitor and ensure corrective action taken.
• Resolve challenges in community sales areas through following managerial escalation channels and by maintaining a client centric approach.
• Identify and resolve work obstacles and problems through participating in team meetings, sharing information and reviewing performance against targets and standards.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values.
• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise.
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities.
• Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy.
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Minimum Experience Level

• Relevant 1-2 years' experience in a customer service and/or sales environment, in a financial institution.

Preferred Qualification

• Diploma or Degree in Finance or FAIS-related qualification.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge
• Business terms and definitions
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Administrative procedures and systems
• Data analysis
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Banking knowledge
• Banking procedures
• Relevant regulatory knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

• Sustaining Customer Satisfaction
• Building Trusting Relationships
• Driving for Results
• Planning and Organizing
• Building Networks
• Qualifying Sales
• Sales Persuasion
• Targeting Sales Opportunities

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Job Purpose

To develop, implement and monitor the investment offering for Nedgroup Investments including the domestic and global Best of Breed range, in line with Nedbank Group strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct asset manager research and selection to ensure that we have the best fund managers overseeing a given mandate.
• Conduct and compile Industry research and product development to provide the most appropriate range of products to clients.
• Use quantitative and qualitative analysis to make investment recommendations and strategic decisions.
• Identify and interpret relevant information using logic to seek cause and effect relationships.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g.. Green Strategy).
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
• Evaluate performance of fund/investment through regular review.
• Develop software proficiency to deliver required outputs.
• Express ideas or facts clearly in written documentation so that the content is understood by the recipient.
• Develop sound product and industry knowledge.
• Assess the impact of regulation on the business and implementing required changes.
• Interact with internal and external clients to assess needs and provide solutions.
• Provide feedback and presentations to stakeholders.
• Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems; process; services and solutions are aligned.
• Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.

People Specification

We believe in employing highly motivated, sharp and quality orientated people that thrive in a culture that celebrates and supports diversity within an environment that is creative, collaborative, challenging and dynamic. Aligned to our core purpose of enabling our investors to achieve their investment goals, we are committed to enabling our staff achieve their full potential and long-term career growth at Nedgroup Investments.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) / Masters of Business Administration (MBA) /M.Com (Finance specialisation).
• Preferred Certifications
• Essential Certifications
• Minimum Experience Level
• Minimum 7 tears experience in Financial Services Industry or 3 years Asset Management experience
• Commerce degree with a postgraduate qualification.
• A CFP is advantageous.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Communication Strategies
• Data analysis
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Industry trends
• Principles of financial management
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Decision-making process
• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

• Aligning Performance for Success
• Building Partnerships
• Coaching
• Customer Focus
• Driving for Results
• High-Impact Communication

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Job Purpose

To enable change by defining the needs and the rationale for change, to understand the current state, to define the future state, and to determine the activities required to move from the current to the future state by applying the principles of business analysis, according to the requirements classification schema, from a diverse array of multi-functional perspectives with an agile mindset. Complete complex tasks or larger, well-scoped challenges independently and identifies appropriate actions that have been provided to address a business challenge. Pair with Product Designers (CX/UX), Business Architects, Testers (QA), Business data Managers (BDM) and key roles in the requirements value chain. Apply the principles of Product Ownership Analysis and the strategy-to-execution framework.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct iterative and adaptive planning and monitoring tasks to estimate, organize and coordinate the BA efforts on large/complex enterprise initiatives.
• Conduct elicitation and collaboration tasks to obtain information from stakeholders.
• Conduct requirements analysis and design definition to structure, organize, specify and model requirements and designs.
• Conduct Requirements Life Cycle Management tasks to manage and maintain requirements and design information from inception to retirement
• Conduct strategy analysis to define the future and transition states needed to address the business need, the work required to define that need and the scope of the solution.
• Conduct Solution Evaluation to assess the performance of and value delivered by a solution, and eliminate barriers/constraints that prevent the full realization of the value.
• Execute according to IIBA best practices, agile product delivery and lean principles based on Nedbank's delivery approach as per the BA methods, frameworks, standards, tools, techniques, competencies and practices.
• Analyse and document requirements based on changes to users, interfaces, processes, data flows, constraints, environments, and non-functional requirements.
• Understand the portfolio's strategic themes, product roadmap, vision, KPIs and metrics, and align requirements accordingly.
• Understand all elements of the program and team backlog and align requirements accordingly.
• Explore and articulate the opportunity/problem to be solved and identify stakeholder wants and needs and participate to define the proposed solution.
• Use visual diagrams and collaborative games to model scope, interfaces, story context, data flows, processes, retrospectives and dependencies across projects.
• Decompose and document epics, features, themes, hypothesis statements, PI objectives and user stories by identifying gaps, missing stories and acceptance criteria, scenario development and all requirement categories.
• Own decomposition of portfolio epics, features, elicitation, analysis, story writing and acceptance criteria writing throughout the requirements value chain.
• Collaborate/co-create process and capability alignment by pairing with the PE and Business Architect.
• Support the team in working on impediments and spikes and enabler epics, enabler stories, and synthesise the data to articulate requirements.
• Work with development/QA to identify test cases/scenarios, conduct user acceptance testing and train the trainer/user and support change management commercialisation.
• Conduct/participate in Backlog Refinement, prioritisation, WSJF, and increment planning and drive Devops and Built-in quality principles.
• Analyse/document data requirements and model data flows through all seven product dimensions on a solution/program level by pairing with BDMs.
• Foster stakeholder relationships and engagement for discovery and delivery, backlog refinement, dependencies and enterprise delivery up to senior level.
• Conduct system demos and contribute to I&A and offer and implement suggestions for improvement.
• Actively participate and lead program/squad ceremonies by pairing with Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, Product and BITE Owners.
• Drive minimum viable thinking, continuous deployment and integration.
• Ensure early remediation by reducing waste, rework, identify risks, issues.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

Preferred Qualification

• IT qualification, Certificate in BA endorsed by IIBA , Safe Certification

Preferred Certifications

• IIBA endorsed

Minimum Experience Level

• 5 - 8 years
• BA experience, manage multiple IT Projects and exposure to complex projects, business exposure, industry exposure. Guiding others on how to effectively use common techniques. Demonstrate these skilled proficiency descriptors.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Research methodology
• BA Body Of Knowledge
• Business writing skills
• Agile Concepts
• Data and Business analysis
• Process Engineering Skills
• Global business analysis Trend
• Business Analysis Descipline , Techniques and Practices
• Microsoft Office Product

Behavioural Competencies

• Decision Making
• Building partnerships
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
• Initiating Action
• Continuous Improvement
• Customer Orientation

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Job Purpose

This is a front office role within the Specialised Distribution’s Structured Products team, which is part of the greater Investment Bank. Structured Products is focused on originating, implementing and maintaining of structured debt finance solutions. Some of the focus areas of the team are on secured note programmes (credit repacks), securitisation and other secured funding solutions. This includes solutions to be funded in the debt capital markets. Incumbent needs to be proficient with investment banking credit portfolios, banking regulations and knowledge of debt capital markets would be beneficial.

Job Responsibilities

Meaningfully contribute to the Structured Products unit within Specialised Distribution.

Contribute to revenue generation, with acceptable risk adjusted return.

Grow Structured Products’ business by supporting Principals, building networks, and contribute to developing Nedbank CIB’s brand.

Implement and close transactions by sharing your professional skills, completing deal assessments, running various pricing scenarios, structuring the transaction, preparing presentations/proposals to internal/external clients and presenting well written credit applications to the Credit Committee.

Monitor market trends by researching and recording market developments, competitor activities and innovation of structured products and services.

Contribute to innovation and product development in Specialised Distribution.

Grow bank wide profitability by attracting and retaining clients and supporting cross-sell to relevant product areas.

Deliver quality structured funding solutions to meet requirements of existing and potential customers.

Manage portfolio risk to maintain profitability and acceptable credit loss ratios.

Manage risks by ensuring compliance with the relevant credit, investment and compliance policies of the bank.

Identify and mitigate operational risk by implementing controls.

Build and sustain trusting internal and external relationships and alliances across functional and organizational boundaries through collaboration with relevant stakeholders.

Be proficient in Microsoft Excel and a passion for financial modelling. Strong quantitative skills will be a requirement.

Knowledge of the Debt Capital Markets will be an advantage

Essential Qualification - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree (Commercial /Sciences/Accounting).

Preferred Qualification

• CA(SA) / CFA / Engineering/ Quantitative Degree/ Relevant Postgraduate Qualification.

Essential Certifications

• Chartered Accountant (SA), Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (Not essential)

Minimum Experience Level

• 3+ years relevant experience with a demonstrated track record of originating, structuring and executing investment banking transactions.

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Microsoft Office
• Nedbank culture and values
• Nedbank policies and procedures
• Nedbank vision and strategy
• Principles of financial management
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Decision-making process

Behavioural Competencies

• Building Partnerships
• Collaborating
• Customer Focus
• Initiating Action
• Work Standards
• Managing Work
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills