Valuations Control Specialist

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Job Purpose**
- Valuations Control is a centralised function in CIB Finance responsible for the independent valuation and IFRS compliance of Fair Value positions within CIB. As a Valuations Control Specialist you will be working across Front Office teams (Markets, IB and PF), Finance, Market Risk, Credit Risk and the Nedbank Group Technical teams.**Responsibilities**:

- Taking responsibility for the oversight of valuations of cross asset trades on vanilla and complex structures spanning the trading and banking book
- Ensuring these are IFRS complaint.
- Continuous evaluation of existing (historical) complex structures
- Ensuring proper documentation and governance around valuation methodologies
- Taking responsibility/oversight for implementing valuation/pricing adjustments and reserving methodologies on complex structures and cross-asset trades
- Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.
- 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.
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
- Preferred Qualification- Chartered Accountant / CFA Charter Holder / Financial or Investment Management or Mathematical post graduate qualifications
- Minimum Experience Level- 5 to 8 years in Product Control, Markets Trading, Valuation Control, Market Risk, Financial Modelling or Markets Finance environment

**Type of Exposure**
- Previous experience in IPV or Product Control or IFRS technical within a large global investment bank
- Strong understanding of valuation principles from an IFRS point of view
- Strong understanding of credit and rates products
- Strong Mathematical and Quantitative skills
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal; with the ability to clearly communicate the drivers behind risk and valuation trends
- Brainstorming ways of improving a product or situation
- Challenging the status quo with a view to improve people's understanding of issues
- Managing team dynamics
- Writing business proposals
- Identifying trends and anomalies
- Trading / Markets environment
- Technical Knowledge- Banking procedures
- Business Acumen
- Derivatives and Bond trade life-cycle
- Valuation of derivatives, bonds and/or other complex financial structures
- IFRS treatment of traded instruments
- Data analysis and MI reporting
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Industry trends
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Trading and other relevant software and systems knowledge
- Research methodology
- Behavioural Competencies- Building Partnerships
- Earning Trust
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Planning and Organizing
- Quality Orientation
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_



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