Valuation Controller

5 months ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together one story at a time.
- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

**Job Description**:
The overall job purpose is to independently verify the appropriateness of the Fair Valuation of the Trading Positions.
- Decomposing trades into various risk factors, providing alternative valuation methodologies when parameters aren’t

observable and performing stress testing to quantify uncertainty ranges.
- Reviewing IPV methodology and implementing improvements and efficiencies.
- Reviewing valuation adjustment methodologies for their appropriateness to ensure positions are marked to fair value.
- Inventory valuation and control; which includes supervising the production quarterly disclosures, the reporting of Fair Value

Measurement and Option, completeness controls and SOX documentation / testing

**Job Description**:
Accountability:

- Ensure that implications of Absa Group requirements and policies (including changes in accounting standards) are understood and communicated.

Any new developments in IFRS/ accounting standards impacting valuations are being

implemented.

Review reporting for compliance with key external requirements and with audit requirements

Accountability: Staff development and team management (20 %)
- Develop staff knowledge in Valuations Control functions, technical expertise and market risk concepts
- Build skills base and competences through facilitation of appropriate trainings.

Manage careers of staff members.
- Maintain and develop own knowledge and expertise at the leading edge of banking industry practice.
- Embed formal Performance Development and informal coaching in the team.

Review training needs of team members.
- Establish and maintain a succession plan for the key roles in the team.

Interview and recruit direct reports.
- Review workforce and recruitment plans for the team and reallocate resources where required.
- Demonstrates pride in the organisation's brand, services and products by consistently delivering on the brands promise
- Provide measurable and specific real-time feedback to team members to ensure that daily operations are in line with agreed performance measures
- Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
- Contribute to a friendly, co-operative climate in working with others to achieve collective goals
- Act as escalation point for all grievances raised in the team.
- Review overall team performance and provide input to consistency check meetings.

Recognize the efforts of their staff members

Accountability: Valuations Control Core responsibilities (70%)

Calculation and implementation of fair value adjustments of fair value adjustment calculations across all desks or product/asset class (i.e. Rates, FX, Commodities, Equities, Credit)
- Price Testing
- Counterparty credit risk adjustment
- Bid Offer testing
- Day 1 PnL
- Model Risk adjustments
- Challenge balance sheet numbers
- Engage with the Deal Conclusion Forum (DCF) on an ad hoc basis to provide them with comfort around the model, propose market norms and identify down-the-line issues.
- Sit on the Market Risk Technical Committee (MRTC) and provide an expert opinion on modelling throughout the bank
- Maintain awareness of country specific regulations and pricing realities, as well as ensuring compliance with regulations regarding valuation and reserving; analyse and research relevant products; and stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new development
- Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence, and negotiate to achieve winwin outcomes.
- Preserves relationships despite airing conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
- Anticipates consequences and adapts problem solving based on continual feedback
- Act speedily to resolve problems, queries and complaints
- Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
- Innovation : Investigate new and better ways to enhance e processes by measuring the effectiveness of all procedures.
- Plan and manage own workflow, anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed timeframes and according to quality standards
- Take ownership of personal career development, leveraging formal and informal opportunities
- Continually share, debate and communicate learning's
- Assist with Projects and Firm wide initiatives
- Interaction with Key Stakeholders:

- Interaction with various areas across the Absa in order to obtain and understanding of the impact these areas have on Valuations Control as well as providing both formal reporting as well as ad hoc query resolut

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