Product Control Analyst

1 day ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Nedbank Full time

**Job Classification**
- Job Family- Finance
- Career Stream- Accounting
- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional- FAIS Affected**Job Purpose**
- To direct; add value and enable business decisions through effective trade lifecycle management; financial analysis; reporting and controls within the Markets business; in line with Nedbank business strategy.**Responsibilities**:

- Trade Lifecycle Management, including setting up market data required to book & value trades and positions. Booking and amending where necessary, including recons and trade documentation for complex trades
- Profit and Loss validation, attribution and reporting
- Independent price verification and valuation of instruments and market data
- Close working relationship with the Front Office, and bridging the gap between the trading desks and support areas
- Provide meaningful recommendations, explanations and highlights of concerns or anomalies by analysing and interrogating trading information.
- Protect the trading environment by ensuring controls are adhered to.
- Ensure accurate financial results by reviewing reconciliations and following up on unreconciled items.
- Comply with relevant legislation by reviewing and submitting statutory returns timeously.
- Understand and meet stakeholders requirements through ongoing engagement.
- Assist in the achievement of group collaboration initiatives by identifying opportunities to create beneficial partnerships and synergies.
- Ensure relevant, best practice analysis and reporting by providing ongoing guidance and coaching to the team.
- Meet deadlines and targets through prioritising effectively, planning and communicating.
- Maintain high standards of analysis and reporting within defined timeframes by planning, organising and monitoring workflow.
- Contribute to intellectual capital development by providing continuous motivation, mentoring, coaching and on the job skills training.
- Achieve business objectives within a specific timeframes by scheduling and coordinating activities and identifying appropriate resources to perform these activities.
- Manage defined risks in the finance function and risk categories at targeted levels by adhering to internal and external guidelines/policies/ procedures/business rules/ compliance and governance requirements.
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems, process, services and solutions are aligned.
- Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
- Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
- Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational 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.

**People Specification**
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
- Preferred Qualification- Bachelor of Commerce: Financial Management-
- Essential Certifications- Preferred Certifications-
- Type of Exposure- Problem solving
- Developing ways to minimise risks
- Drafting reports
- Managing conflict situations
- Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas
- Comparing two or more sets of information
- Writing business proposals
- Conducting needs analysis
- Communicating standards to others
- Answering customer questions
- Preparing and delivering presentations
- Conducting gap analysis between scope and proposals
- Interacting with various levels of management
- Using different approaches in new work situations business proposals
- Identifying trends.
- Minimum Experience Level- New Graduate up to 3 years’ experience in Banking / Engineering / Quantitative Analytics / Financial Modelling**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Business Acumen
- Business principles
- Communication Strategies
- Data analysis
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Nedbank policies and procedures
- Principles of financial management
- Research methodology
- Business writing skills
- Microsoft Office Product
- Regulatory knowledge
- IT / Banking knowledge
- Behavioural Competencies- Applied Learning
- Communication
- Decision Making
- Innovation
- Work Standards
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and S



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