Head of Proprietary Portfolio Management

2 months ago


Sandton, South Africa Sanlam Full time

About us**Sanlam Financial Markets (“SFM”) **is the business unit in Sanlam Group that is responsible for managing shareholder credit, market, and liquidity risks, developing balance-sheet enabled products, and developing solutions to optimize Sanlam’s balance sheet(s) to generate shareholder value. SFM works closely with the Balance Sheet Management function of Sanlam to assist the Balance Sheet Management Function in its pursuit of optimising returns on the Sanlam balance sheet.
- Purpose of the roleLead the asset-liability capability within SFM and drive execution of its long-term strategy to optimise risk-adjusted returns.
- Key Responsibilities- Overall responsibility for managing financial market and liquidity risk within (Sanlam Group?)
- Serve a member of the SFM exco and contribute to all exco initiatives
- Develop alternative hedging strategies
- Ensure fit-for-purpose control environment relating to the execution of financial instruments and risk management
- Lead and develop a team of financial markets professionals
- Manage relationships with key internal and external stakeholders
- Assist in facilitating balance sheet optimisation transactions
- Role experience- 5+ years’ experience in South African insurance and financial markets across various asset classes including fixed income, equity and currency derivatives markets
- Asset-liability management including market and liquidity risk management
- Structuring financial products and instruments
- Balance sheet optimisation
- Derivative pricing, modelling and risk management
- Managing portfolios of financial instruments, including derivatives
- Knowledge of trading systems
- Trading derivatives and other financial instruments
- Qualifications- Post Graduate or Professional Qualification in Finance, Financial Mathematics, Mathematics or similar
- Technical Competencies- Collaborating across functions
- Communicating complex financial concepts effectively
- Leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Adapting and responding to change
- Complex problem solving
- Tactical and strategic thinking
- Core Competencies- **Cultivates Innovation **- Creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful
- **Client focus **- building strong client relationships and delivering client centric solutions
- **Drives results **- consistently seizing opportunities and achieving results even under tough circumstances
- **Collaborates **- building partnerships and working collaboratively and inclusively with others to meet shared objectives
- **Being Resilient **- rebounding from setbacks and adversity when facing difficult situations
- Behavioral Competencies- **Action Orientated **- Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm
- **Manages Ambiguity - **Operating effectively even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
- **Communicates Effectively - **developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
- **Plans and Aligns - **Planning and Prioritising work to meet commitments aligned with organisational goals
- **Ensures Accountability **- Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments

**Build a successful career with us**
- The Sanlam Group is committed to transformation and embracing diversity and our employment equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse workplace with employment equity as a key goal to create an inclusive workforce, representative of the demographics of our society as well as people with disabilities._



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