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RMB - Rand Merchant Bank is a division of FirstRand Bank Limited, a fully integrated financial services group in South Africa, distinguished by our traditional values and innovative ideas. We have adapted investment banking solutions to suit your personal financial needs and this, together with an entrepreneurial approach, attracts like-minded, discerning clients.
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Job Description
To provide guidance on appropriate architecture to assist Hyphen to achieve its business and IT strategies and reduce cost and complexity through the implementation of common standards and principles.
- Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.
- Drive business profitability in the context of cost management through Information technology solutions
- Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME's, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements.
- Liaise and communicate the system requirements to the necessary audiences e.g. testers, developers, business analysts.
- Comply, understand and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements.
- Define and document each function that the system is required to perform and the functional boundary of the system by defining and analyzing the required.
- interactions between the system and its environment in terms of interface constraints to ensure that business needs/requirements are satisfied by the system requirements.
- Analyse the integrity of the system requirements and perform a risk assessment on each requirement and document and maintain the set of system requirements together with the associated rationale, decisions and assumptions.
- Manage traceability between the system requirements and derived artefacts.
- Explore ways to constantly improve quality of existing services, processes and systems in order to be more efficient.
- Proactively engage with business units and colleagues to understand underlying needs and opportunities and identify Information Technology (IT) innovative solutions in a timely manner.
- Manage own development to increase own competencies.
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Job Description
- To contribute to the design and development of new applications / systems to meet the business requirements of the data platform environment.
- To analyse business or system requirements and build and enhance the data platforms.
- To participate in and provide input to the Architect during the compilation of solution design documentation for new and existing data platforms.
To translate business needs into practical Information Technology (IT) systems solutions, high level implementation plans, influence prioritization of execution of business initiatives through the use of IT solutions design thinking and to lead an Information Technology systems solutions team with the purpose of supporting and enabling the realisation of business strategies and objectives.
- Builds and maintains effective relationship with business management and stakeholders.
- Ensure implementation of the business Transformation plan and creation of an inclusive culture for employees.
- Design and deliver customer service solutions, systems and interactions aligned to Organisational values and service standards that build the brand.
- Draw up a budget aligned to tactical delivery plans to facilitate the provision of adequate financial resources.
- Manage team or teams in areas of responsibility in delivery against performance targets and achievement of wider human capital objectives.
- Develop tactical strategy and delivery plans in support of functional strategic objectives in partnership with leadership.
- Analyse information and reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
- Oversees IT Governance, Risk and Compliance.
- Leads Solution Development and Maintenance.
- Develops and maintains Applications.
- Contributes towards the development and implementation of the business unit’s information technology strategy.
- Identify, drive and implement ideas, policies, procedures, standards and frameworks to enhance sales and increase profit and manage future fit practice.
- Monitor Key Performance Indicators and metrics affecting the organization's technology assets; engage technical team as needed to meet goals or address issues.
- Provide thought leadership within the organization; research and evaluate cutting-edge practices and enabling technologies for internal adoption; assess potential partnerships and acquisitions.
- Respond to feedback from stakeholders and use it to make improvements or adjustments to technology.
- Select technology suppliers, vendors, and third-party integrations to design the organization's architecture and the technology stack.
- Establish and nurture effective relationships with collaborators, engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to make appropriate architectural and build vs. buy decisions.
- Lead the internal and external development teams to build and upgrade the platform.
- Own all technology and product to external stakeholders, partners, investors and future recruitment.
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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.
- Devise pricing and risk management solutions along with related IT processes and maintenance, testing and production support.
- Construct and/or critically analyse financial models i.e., product pricing, curve stripping, scenario analysis etc.
- Engage in process design, analysis, testing and troubleshooting in the area of pricing/risk-analysis.
- Analyse systems capability/fit in the area of pricing or risk-analysis.
- Analyse data and situation, identify and solve problems, reason logically and drive valid conclusions.
- Analyse, design and implement purchased or in-house software applications.
- Test and validate logic and processes implemented.
- Take ownership of recurring production incidents by working with multiple stakeholders to resolve system issues.
- Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities, and trends that would add value to the required analysis work.
- Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business.
- Prepare and share recommendations for process and systems improvements in relevant area of accountability.
- Participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment.
- Engage with key stakeholders to gather information with regards to changes and developments in the respective business area that would impact demand for allocated technologies.
- Review demand items in partnership with business to better understand impacts on the relevant system, processes, and systems environment.
- Partner with process owners to create suitable roadmaps for business development and in anticipation of system and process enhancements.
- Test and identify where service gaps would exist should different technologies be applied to the same process or where business process changes would not be accommodated by existing technology.
- Analyse business requests to clearly understand business requirements and translate this into clear technical terms and specifications to best solve business problems.
- Coordinate the integration activities of service providers
- Monitor benefits against what was detailed in the business case.
- Control specific measures and mechanisms to measure benefits.
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Job Description
To utilize deep, specialist knowledge and experience of the business environment to identify and assess risk and the resultant adequacy of controls.
To work and collaborate with stakeholders across the lines of defense in navigating complex risk and enhancing business assurance practices.
- Understand, at a deep level of specialization, the entire breadth of the control framework.
- Develop an assurance plan through consultation with the respective management teams and various assurance providers.
- Implement and maintain the Bank’s risk management framework across the First Line of Defense (1LOD) within wider bank operations, working closely with 2LOD colleagues to achieve this.
- Collaborate with 1LOD colleagues to ensure that the Bank’s risk management framework is understood and adhered to, providing support where needed.
- Design and ensure the execution of approved sampling techniques, testing strategies on assurance reviews.
- Lead testing and evidencing of control effectiveness to give assurance that the risks are controlled in a proportionate way.
- Conduct detailed investigations, for, and on behalf of team leadership to accurately identify breakdowns and resultant risk, and to understand the extent of the impact.
- Actively engage in the improvement and automation of manual tasks, strengthening the control fabric and enhancing the overall control environment.
- Develop, introduce and implement both new and enhanced control methods to improve the risk environment, making use of local and global leading practices.
- Ensure that risk mitigation controls are embedded and assess the adequacy of the controls by quantifying a reduction of risk.
- Act in alignment with operational risk management frameworks to reactively and proactively manage risk, over and above engaging in the relevant risk reporting.
- Identify and assess new or emerging risks as internal activities or the external environment changes.
- Anticipate potential barriers, issues, and management concerns and create action plans and recommendations to address these concerns.
- Draft high-quality reports with observations which are insightful, addressing the root cause, have agreed actions that mitigate the risk and facilitate the remediation of issues until closure.
- Oversee relevant regulatory reporting and monitoring, ensuring processes are current and take accountability for the production of regulatory reporting within timeframes when contacted by the regulator.
- Create and update an incident playbook in the event of an incident.
- Manage the audit process, facilitating audit visits, information requests and tracking outstanding actions to completion.
- Complete all governance and group credit attestation and submission to center on a regular basis.
- Ensure that all business review, internal audit, Operation risk, Finance, COO, Management assurance activities are closed.
- Contribute to the development of overall area budget and develop tactical budget for area of responsibility that minimize expenditure and manage costs.
- Control the budget for area including the authorization of expenditure and implementation of financial regulations.
- Participate in and contribute to a development culture where information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared.
- Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders to achieve productivity synergies.
- Participate in specialist communities of practice and contribute positively to own and organizational knowledge improvement.
Qualifications
- Minimum qualification: Postgraduate Degree in Finance, Risk, or other relevant field
- Preferred qualification: CA(SA)
Experience and Skills
- Minimum of five to eight years of experience in Financial Solutions Services
- Management experience gained in a Financial Services regulated organisation,
- Experience of risk management within a financial environment.
- Ability to demonstrate effective stakeholder management.
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Job Description
To develop and implement audit processes for conducting quality assurance of all deliverables to contribute to the implementation of a group compliance monitoring methodology in accordance with relevant regulations, applicable codes of conduct and within best business practice principles.
Are you someone who is:
- Willing to work closely with a compliance team.
- Willing to perform trade surveillance and monitoring and providing assurance to the BU Heads.
- Able to work in a small but vibrant front office sales and trading team.
- Build relationships based on trust and openness.
- Produce high-quality outputs within agreed deadlines.
You will be an ideal candidate if you have:
- 2 – 3 years’ experience in operational and/or a trading environment within Global Markets.
- Financial Services / Banking experience.
- Been part of an existing trade surveillance compliance team.
- Experience in global markets preferred.
You will have access to:
- Opportunities to network and collaborate.
- Challenging working.
- Opportunities to innovate.
We can be a match if you are: (Examples below) – list between 1 - 5 points
- 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
To create, debug, verify, maintain and update technical test scripts to run automated testing Is responsible for testing the functionality of a system designed to address business requirements to prevent errors/defects in the live system through the implementation of change control and improvement for payments application.
- Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness.
- Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers’ expectations through proactive, innovative and appropriate solutions by resolving queries fast and effectively.
- Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME’s, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements.
- Build and sustain collaborative working relationships with relevant peers and stakeholders in order to achieve productivity synergies.
- Conduct test plans by unpacking the requirements which include regression testing, system analysis and reviews.
- Create design steps from test cases, execute system validation plans and compile test scripts.
- Conduct systems analyses, design, coding, program debugging, testing and security and performance assessments across user interfaces.
- Comply, understand and implement all steps and methodology within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative, audit risk and process requirements for the Test Analysis Environment
- Create test scripts to effectively test enhancements and new requirements and execute automated test scripts.
- Execute all test activities for allocated projects by conducting test estimation, prepare and submit test plans for sign-off and ensure alignment between test environment and production environment.
- Manage testing defects and involve relevant business staff in quality assurance testing analysis.
- Design content of procedure guides and manuals for business users.
- Provision of an efficient service for the test analysis function through careful and timeous analysis, planning, execution, reporting and updating of all related information.
- Continuously assess own performance, seek timely and clear feedback and request training where appropriate and needed.
- Develop and continuously improve automated tests as new system features and enhancements are developed.
- Execution and monitoring of Automated regression packs.
Required Knowledge & Skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience
- Well established knowledge on JAVA/Selenium essential.
- Excellent organizational, administration and time management skills.
- Highly developed written and oral communication skills.
- 3 or more years’ experience in Software Automation Testing in a financial environment.
- Experience with API Testing, SQL, Java, Selenium, and other technical testing techniques
- Strong knowledge of functional testing, system testing, integration testing, regression testing.
- Excellent understanding of testing concepts and the role of QA within Agile development methodology / Scrum management techniques.
- Build enhancements to test frameworks increasing speed and productivity.
- GUI/API automation/functional solutions using different tools.
- Refinement of automation/functional tech methodologies and approach.
- Perform Test Analysis Design and execution either functionally or through automation.
- Good problem-solving skills, has experience in proposing different options and solutions for approaching and resolving issues.
- Excellent communication skills, adapts style accordingly and demonstrates an understanding of the audience’s perspective. Uses discretion when dealing with sensitive information.
Technology Requirements:
- Selenium
- Bamboo
- Bitbucket
- Jenkins
- Java
- Agile
- Cucumber / Gherkin
- BDD
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Job Description
To provide IT expertise, advice and leadership in the design, creation, testing and documentation of new and enhanced applications and systems in accordance agreed framework of programming standards and assist in development of IT operational implementation plans and associated IT processes, methods and techniques.
- Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness by removal of duplicated processes.
- Produce program specifications and implement system enhancements by addressing specific business needs and resolving queries.
- Cultivate and manage objective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, including end-users, SME's, project managers and senior staff members by providing input to business requirements and being able to present and sell concepts to clients.
- Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customers' expectations through proactive, innovative and
- appropriate solutions by resolving queries fast end effective.
- Monitor systems post change and pro-actively do performance analysis to ensure there is no system.
- failure due to capacity
- Minimize system downtime through pro-active identification of potential issues and ensure minimization of recurring problems by managing defects and performing code reviews.
- Assess, identify and mitigate potential risks within the IT programming environment by complying with technology business policy and process requirements (SDLC and change / release management process definition) to ensure operational performance.
- Comply, understand and implement all steps within IT development and meet governance in terms of legislative and audit requirements during programming execution.
- Produce technical specifications and architecture that is in accordance to agreed standards. Design, code, test and debug to obtain a robust solution with supporting documentation.
- Code, compile, test and implement applications in compliance with the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Support development environments. Responsible for coding standards and peer reviews.
- Maintain maximum system availability by ensuring that incidents are recorded for future reference and adequate root cause analysis is done to eliminate the risk of a recurrence.
- Manage own development to increase own competencies.
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Job Description
Hello Future Credit Analyst,
Welcome to RMB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of the people who make it happen. RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact. United by our proud heritage, strong ethics, and philosophy of traditional values, innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart. Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2023, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.
Unpack and critically think about the risk of new and existing debt and equity deals for clients across a broad range of geographies and industries, which includes:
- Engaging with the client,
- Interrogating a client’s business model and identifying risks,
- Assessing financial data put forward by the client,
- Building a financial model to forecast performance or assessing a model put forward by the client or the client’s advisors for accuracy and appropriateness,
- Working alongside the deal team to structure a deal in line with the risk philosophy of the bank,
- Assessing and managing overall limits for a client in line with the bank’s risk framework,
- Putting forward a deal for recommendation after objectively assessing all the facts.
Prepare and present the risk to risk executives in a committee sitting which involves:
- Taking ownership of the application which requires strong report writing skills,
- Managing the timelines of a deal in line with the agreed-upon submission deadline,
- Presenting a deal at committee and working together with the deal team to take questions and answers which requires strong verbal skills, the ability to debate and manage differing views and ultimately influence and negotiate a good outcome for both the client and the bank.
Stakeholder and relationship management, which includes:
- Building and maintaining professional working relationships with all stakeholders, which includes working alongside experienced business and risk executives and acting as a bridge,
- Adaptation of communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences,
- Conflict management.
Key characteristics to thrive in this role include:
- Strong work ethic with a self-starter attitude and a keenness to take ownership of the role’s opportunities and personal development,
- Resilience and an openness to receiving and sharing feedback,
- Ability to handle stress well, which includes self-management of workload (2 to 3+ deals at any point in time), quick adaptation to deal changes, prioritization of deals, and open communication on capacity.
Minimum Requirements:
- CA (SA) ideally with a year or more post-article experience.
- Articles within FIST and/or Banking would be preferable.
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Hello Future Business Analyst!
- RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact.
- United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
- Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2023, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.
- This role is within the Credit Risk management team. The Credit Business Analyst will take responsibility for defining requirements and product sets for configuration and maintenance of existing modules of the Murex product suite. Currently this suite comprises the Murex Limits Controller, and Basel II Credit Capital Calculator modules.
Are you someone who can:
- Demonstrate an understanding of credit processes, systems, information requirements, flows and functional system requirements.
- Build, develop, and maintain the business processes for Credit to help identify and understand the workings of the business, and thereby to derive the business requirements and constraints that the resultant systems implementations must address (Including current and to-be business processes).
- Analyse the gaps between the current and future state to determine the extent of change required to realise the future state objective. Identifies processes in need for re/design (e.g. due to inefficient operations) and identifies options to improve them gaining stakeholder buy-in.
- Supports the efficiency measures and targets of end-to-end Credit processes including touch points in Business Units.
- Assisting project teams with touch points in the Murex configuration to translate business needs into system functionality.
You will be an ideal candidate if you have:
- A relevant degree or Qualification
- Previous Business Analyst experience
- At least 2 - 5 years demonstrated practical experience in major projects / areas with relevant exposure to the credit business.
- A strong background in implementation of build and buy business solutions.
- Experience in the Investment banking sector (advantageous)
- Excellent excel skills are required for creating and maintain test packs and test scenarios
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
- 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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Hello Environment Manager!
- RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact.
- United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
- Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2023, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.
- This role is within the Credit Risk management team. The Environment Manager will manage and enable the relevant platform environments for example test, development, production, disaster recovery so that Business Technology delivery is agile and integrated. Be first Line support to the FRSPL (First Rand Services Private Limited) Operations Support Team in India).
Are you someone who can:
- Liaise with various stakeholders to ensure specific applications are fully functional.
- Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders
- Act speedily to resolve problems queries and complaints.
- Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences.
- Provide oversight and support regarding changes to an application. Once the change has been finalised deploy into the testing environment.
- Ensure that changes are deployed in a controlled manner in accordance with relevant regulations policies and procedures.
- Monitor the application to ensure it performs optimally within acceptable parameters.
- Investigate diagnose resolve and or appropriately escalate problems.
- Provide clients with second-level support.
- Ensure applications are maintained according to FRG and RMBs governance risk and security protocols and procedures.
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in information technology or Business Computing.
- 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 1 to 2 years ideally at specialist level
- Experience with Office 365
- Working knowledge of Control-M
- Working knowledge of relevant operating systems, Windows, Linux
- Working knowledge of database administration, Oracle, SQL
- Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills
- Good organization, time management and prioritization
- Understanding of testing concepts i.e., testing methodologies and techniques.
- Conceptual thinking and Detail-Oriented
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
- 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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Hello Future Chief Data and Analytics Officer (Treasury and Trade Solutions)!
- RMB is a place where exceptional people create their own opportunities by challenging the conventional and driving sustainable impact.
- United by our proud heritage, strong ethics and philosophy of Traditional values. Innovative ideas, it’s the magic of our people and culture that sets us apart.
- Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2023, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.
- This role will report into the Chief Data and Analytics Officer for RMB.
- The Chief Data and Analytics Officer for Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS, which includes Corporate Transactional Banking) will be responsible for the end-to-end data and analytics strategy and execution, including Information Management practices such as data quality and metadata management, data provisioning, BI, analytics and AI to create business value.
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
- Have completed a relevant Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or Actuarial Science
- Have 10+ years’ experience in Data and Analytics, of which at least 2 years in a Senior Management role.
- Have a proven track record in delivering tangible value to business areas using data and analytics.
- Are an excellent communicator and have the ability to influence across a range of stakeholders
You will have access to:
- Opportunities to network and collaborate.
- As part of FirstRand, work in one of the largest data and analytics communities in the country
- Opportunities to innovate.
- Close proximity to business for strategic alignment
We can be a match if you are:
- Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more
- 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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