Head of Interest Pricing and Fx

5 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- 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

Accountable for the development and execution of the everyday banking interest and FX margin pricing strategy. Ensure systems and controls to execute interest pricing within organisational risk appetite. Accountable for agreed commercial outcomes resulting from interest pricing and FX margin strategy.

**Job Description**:
Accountability: Pricing Strategy Formulation and Execution
- Conceptualise and implement a medium-term integrated interest pricing and FX margin strategy for the everyday banking franchise in collaboration with relevant Absa group stakeholders (Risk, Relationship Banking, Product Solutions, Corporate and Investment Bank) to realise everyday banking’s vision of becoming the market leader in full value banking.

Accountability: Pricing Management
- Conceive and implement medium term interest pricing and FX margin strategy to ensure sustainability of everyday banking’s net-interest and FX revenue model and competitiveness of its products and services.
- Develop tools, analytical techniques and data to model and track the impact and effectiveness of interest pricing and FX margin strategies across everyday banking core products and revenue lines.
- Provide business insights based on market trends, competitor offerings and global best practices as it relates to interest pricing and FX.
- Manage an integrated pricing value chain from conception to market, to ensure seamless implementation of pricing policy and systems.
- Ensure appropriate controls including an end-to-end pricing change and approval process, supporting governance, reporting and revenue assurance within everyday banking risk appetite.
- Provide relevant pricing input to the medium-term planning (MTP) and short term planning (STP) processes as well as new proposition developments.

Accountability: Pricing Systems
- Provide strategy and roadmap to inform interest pricing and FX related systems development incorporating product and customer specific strategies as well as parametric simplification.
- Develop and maintain systemic controls to ensure adherence to relevant pricing regulations, revenue assurance and internal pricing change and approval governance.

Accountability: Leading Talent
- Accountable for enabling people and culture aligned to brand value.
- Determine and analyse attestation, training, and development needs for direct reports, and ensure that these requirements are met.
- Act as a second-level escalation point for all grievances raised in the functional area.
- Ensure that poor performance is addressed, and relevant corrective actions are implemented.
- Ensure appropriate reward and recognition practices for all employees within the team.

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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