Latest Vacancies at RMB - Rand Merchant Bank

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Enablement and delivery of project and programme execution through management of project management office and resources (time, people, budget, scope, quality)

• Assist and run with the process to prioritise project scheduling and delivery, and the alignment thereof to tactical and/or strategic business objectives.
• Effectively implement, manage, report on and make recommendations related to talent management strategies in area of accountability.
• Develop and implement people capacity plans in line with delivery and performance objectives, on budget and in partnership with specialised areas.
• Ensure the review and monitoring of compliance against organisational rules, codes or practice, business ethics, internal guidelines, principles and legislation.
• Control the budget for area, including the authorisation of expenditures and implementation of financial regulations.
• Contribute to the development of functional budget, develop an aligned tactical budget, monitor effectiveness, report on variances and adjust.
• Develop and ensure implementation of practices, which build service delivery excellence and encourage others to provide exceptional customer service.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and stakeholders that promote cross functional prioritisation, solutions and delivery.
• Effectively manage procurement related risks to ensure no material audit findings relevant to the procurement process occurs.
• Communicate a meaningful tactical context that guides and directs best practice integration and process alignment with service delivery objectives.
• Ensure timeous communication on project progress and challenges in achieving project objectives to impacted stakeholders for decision making and resolution.
• Co-Design and drive the implementation of a project framework, ensuring delivery of comprehensive services that focuses on project delivery.
• Ensure alignment and consistent application of business unit project practices, processes and standards to ensure value chain integrity.
• Develop and maintain an accurate, efficient, timely and effective project reporting process that complies with project frameworks, policies, procedures and SLA’s.
• Drive benefit and value realisation through identified project delivery to achieve business objectives through the scheduling and management of resources through timely and effective planning, scoping and monitoring.

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• To manage the development of innovative product solutions for all identified segments and ensure that existing products and solutions are effectively delivered and provide organisation and client value
• To manage and facilitate the product development process from concept through to product launch, maintaining a focus on identifying and meeting market requirements and achieving corporate business and product objectives

Are you someone who can:

• Initiate dialogue to build professional working relationships with all stakeholders displaying excellent abilities to listen, advise, influence, negotiate and present at all levels
• Lead and facilitate difficult conflict situations into consensual agreements
• Integrate opinions and information provided by various sources to make strategic decisions
• Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
• Continually scan the industry to identify opportunities to create strategic partnerships with key individuals and bodies
• Establish and maintain product pricing governance and compliance frameworks with due consideration of market trends and including assessments regarding settlement risks credit and capital utilisation
• Engage in pricing in collaboration with the relevant segments or coverage teams
• Monitor product cost structures and market penetration versus the cost of product delivery
• Improve efficiencies to reduce operational risks and cost to serve
• Ensure adherence to compliance requirements and that the team is competent and updated on compliance risk and process training.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have a B. Com in Finance / Accounting
• Preferably an Honors degree in the above disciplines
• Solid banking and / or financial markets experience is key
• Experience in products design, new product capability, process re-engineering, sales, client service

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Challenging Working
• Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are:

• Curious & courageous - you're driven by always wanting to know more and learn more and you're brave enough to
• Obsessed with mastery - you know what it takes to become good at what you do and are constantly pushing yourself to do it

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To support in the execution of financial transactions, engaging in parts of, or the full transaction management lifecycle, participate in client interactions, and adhere to regulatory compliance and defined policies and procedures. Real Estate/ Property experience
To increase operational quality and turnaround time of transactions according to industry standards and internal policies.

• Prepare, review, and maintain transaction-related documents to ensure completeness and compliance with regulatory and legal standards, thereby minimising risk and ensuring accurate records.
• Engage in the due diligence process by compiling the necessary documentation and liaising with relevant advisors.
• Act as a key point of contact for clients, addressing inquiries, providing updates, and ensuring a high level of service throughout the transaction process to maintain client satisfaction and trust.
• Monitor and ensure all transactions adhere to internal policies and external regulatory requirements, including KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) standards, to prevent legal and financial penalties.
• Assist in the execution of transactions, coordinating closing logistics, finalising documentation, and ensuring all procedural requirements are met for successful transaction completion.
• Perform market research to gather intelligence on market conditions, competitive landscape, and emerging trends, aiding in the development of informed transaction operations.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and client service in transaction management, contributing to operational excellence.
• Track and report on transaction-related risks, collaborating with senior managers to develop and implement effective risk mitigation strategies.
• Foster strong relationships with clients by understanding their needs, providing tailored solutions, and ensuring high levels of satisfaction to drive repeat business.
• Collaborate with internal teams i.e., legal, compliance, credit, and operations to ensure cohesive and efficient transaction management.
• Engage in ongoing training and development activities to build expertise in transaction management.
• 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 organisational knowledge improvement.

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Hello Future Data Engineer!

• 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.

• The Data Provisioning team is responsible for managing the process of providing access to data, ensuring that the right data is available to the right users or systems in a timely and secure manner. The team is tasked with provisioning, delivering, and maintaining data assets to meet the needs of various business stakeholders within RMB. Some of our functions involves Data Catalog and Metadata Management, Data Provisioning Automation, Data Integration and ETL Processes, and Data Access Management
• This role provides an exciting opportunity to roll out a new strategic initiative within the RMB in Data Provisioning. The Data Engineer serves as a development and support expert with responsibility for the design, development, automation, testing, support, and administration of the Data Engineering service. The role require experience with Hadoop, Relational Database Management Systems and ETL. This will involve building and supporting streaming platform utilized by our clients in data engineering community.
• The data engineer will be responsible for developing features, ongoing support and administration, and documentation for the service. The platform provides a messaging queue and a blueprint for integrating with existing upstream and downstream technology solutions.
• Our data engineers create robust and scalable computing environments which bring data-driven technologies to our users. We are constantly challenging ourselves to build more effective data architectures, flexing our freedom to incorporate new technologies and expand our computing power.

Are you someone who can:

• Develop and deploy of data applications
• Design & Implement of infrastructure tooling and work on horizontal frameworks and libraries
• Create data ingestion pipelines between legacy data warehouses and the big data stack
• Automate application back-end workflows
• Build and maintain backend services created by multiple services frameworks.
• Maintain and enhance applications backed by Big Data computation applications.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have a relevant Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT, Mathematics or equivalent or related field
• Minimum of 3 years experience within ETL tools such as Ab Initio and Informatica
• Ability to configure repository projects using Ab Initio EME for creating a common development environment.
• Have Knowledge of Control M to automate and schedule jobs.
• Informatica PowerCenter and EDC.
• Programming languages (SQL, XTML, Java, Python).
• Data platforms (Oracle, Teradata, Hadoop, SQL).
• Worked on Big Data platforms (Vanilla Hadoop, Cloudera, or Hortonworks).
• Experience in designing and setting up large data systems, with an ability to assess the tradeoffs in architectural decisions.
• Knowledge of large data architectures (data warehouses, lakes, meshes, etc).
• Experience with Scala or other functional languages (Haskell, Clojure, Kotlin, Clean).
• Experience with some of the following: Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive, HDFS, ZooKeeper, Linux, Bash, version control tools, continuous integration tools.
• Experience with reporting like PowerBi.

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to network and collaborate
• Opportunities to innovate
• Working directly across RMB with developers, operations staff, data scientists, architects, and business constituents to develop and enhance the big data service.

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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To review, evaluate and analyse user needs to document system requirements and create system specifications that drive system development and implementation of overall business objectives

• Documenting business process requirements through research, interviews or facilitation sessions
• In conjunction with business partners, designing new existing business processes
• Compiling test cases where required
• Executing test cases and providing written feedback relating to progress and categorising high medium and low business impact
• Providing information which contributes to building training manuals/material Interacting and maintaining good relationships with business stakeholders (business users, change management resources, developers, testing and training teams)
• Providing guidance and support to team members
• Perform a quality assurance role with colleagues
• Communicating regularly with business around progress with regards to the user requirement/functional specification and processes (Managing Expectations)
• Provide regular feedback to Project Manager where relevant
• Escalating issues so that delivery timeframes are not compromised

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Hello Future Murex Developer!

• 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, using the Murex MLC system, experience with integrating and consolidating information across teams, debugging issues, and managing end-to-end workflows.

Are you someone who can:

• To develop innovative, reusable, competitive solutions and contribute actively to a collaborative developer community
• To work closely with key business stakeholders to make recommendations on the use of new and emerging technologies, which provide the competitive advantage and a clear technical roadmap to maintain stability of all technical platform
• Produce consistently high-quality outputs within agreed deadlines

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have a Degree in computer science, information systems, or related fields
• 2 years development experience
• Previous experience within Credit
• You should have an understanding of regulatory requirements and or compliance, be able to provide examples of working with cross-functional teams to meet project requirements.
• Have a strong mathematical background
• Strong analytical skills

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To develop innovative, reusable, competitive solutions and contribute actively to a collaborative developer community. To work closely with key business stakeholders to make recommendations on the use of new and emerging technologies, which provide a competitive advantage and a clear technical roadmap. To maintain the stability of all technical platforms.

• Increase operational efficiency and suggest solutions to enhance cost effectiveness
• Deliver exceptional service that exceeds customer expectations through proactive, innovative, and appropriate solutions by resolving queries quickly 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 and being able to present and sell concepts to clients
• Product program specifications and implement system enhancements by addressing specific business needs and resolving queries
• Code, compile, test and implement applications in compliance with the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• Support development environments
• Engage in the development of coding standards and peer reviews
• Comply, understand, and implement all steps within IT development

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• In this role you will liaise with Business Analysts, development teams, business users, project teams and vendors to provide end-to-end production and project support for all applications in production to ensure the smooth running of day-to-day activities and to optimise the efficient performance of the applications and related process

Are you someone who can:

• Provide specialist business and systems support to Corporate and Investment (C&I) banking clients to help minimise business disruption and enable business continuity. This role provides support to a platform that operates 24x7 with business hours- Monday to Sunday and will include some out of hours activity to support both anticipated and unplanned system changes.
• Serve as a liaison between various product and client engagement teams.
• Provide end to end resolution of production queries raised by the client engagement teams while also ensuring constant liaison activities with relevant stakeholders till resolution.
• Troubleshoot existing integrations and providing technical support to our C&I clients.
• Communicate product and detailed data specifications to clients and partners as needed in technical or non-technical client meetings.
• Perform full system, data integrity and user acceptance testing with technology platforms.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to clients’ representatives and technical specialists.

You will be an ideal candidate if you:

• Have a relevant Degree
• Have 3-5 years technical and support experience and experience of working hands-on with a variety of platform technology
• At least two years’ exposure to Foreign Exchange preferably in a Banking environment and/or related Industry knowledge
• In-depth knowledge of SWIFT (MT and MX message formats); ISO 20022 cross-border payments and reporting (CBPR+) messages.
• Knowledge of Balance of Payments Reporting (BOP) reporting to SARB and exchange control processes.
• An understanding of a Dealing desk which facilitates trades.
• Knowledge of API integrations and providing technical support on the same, preferably in a Banking environment, and experience in reading log files
• Knowledge of relevant internet and connectivity protocols.
• Experience with SQL and a variety of databases .e.g. MySQL etc. (internal and external APIs, file transfers, and SQL queries).
• Knowledge of API's (REST) and the ability to understand JSON/XML/SQL files.
• Expert experience in reading log files, understanding of reading traceroute and telnets.
• Experience with SQL and a variety of databases .e.g. MySQL etc. (internal and external APIs, file transfers, and SQL queries).

You will have access to:

• Opportunities to colborate and create innovative solutions for our clients
• Work in a dynamic team and hone your Foreign Exchange knowledge and skills