Johannesburg: Manager – Treasury Finance, Operations (Back Office) and Technology posted by The Skills Mine

Qualifications:

• A Bachelors degree preferred (or relevant qualification in Finance/Commerce).
• Banking or payments-related qualifications (ACI, PASA) are an advantage.
• Industry certification in banking and financial markets is a plus.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in a bank payments or treasury support environment.

Experience:

• Experience in a major financial services institution, with exposure to end-to-end Treasury Operations, Systems, and Control (Front, Middle, and Back Office).
• Proven experience in managing the implementation of treasury and risk systems (FIS experience is an advantage).
• Experience integrating systems into Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW), such as DataBricks, is preferred.
• Experience in performing system and trade reconciliations.
• Strong understanding of financial market instruments across FX, Money Market, Fixed Income, and Derivatives (FX and IRR).
• Systems experience with Calypso and SAP preferred; SWIFT and intermediate Excel skills are an advantage.
• Knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements, local laws, and jurisdiction.
• Experience managing vendor relationships.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting to the CFO and CTO, this role will be responsible for providing the full range of support services to Treasury and Payment operations.
• Providing expert guidance and overseeing the efficient and effective day-to-day operations of the following functions so that new financial market instruments in mitigating Liquidity, IRRBB and Market risk can be implemented in the TMS in a timely and efficient way.
• Perform daily and monthly financial reconciliation between front office systems, risk systems & Finances GL to ensure data in all systems reconciles.
• Perform variance analysis between Front Office P&L and Finance GL to ensure variances are analysed & explained.
• Provide daily end-to-end Front Office support, including trade verification, confirmation, settlements, reconciliation and reporting (as well as events processing, and margining & collateral management.
• Drive process efficiency and improvements; focus on digitisation and optimisation of resources.
• Provide system testing support (UAT) on bug fixes, system enhancements, and treasury new products.