Product Controller

**Job Classification**

Job Family

Finance

Career Stream

Accounting

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Others

FAIS Affected

**Job Purpose**

To direct; add value and enable business decisions through effective trade lifecycle management; 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
- 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
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

Chartered Accountant

CFA Charterholder / Financial or Investment Management / Engineering / M.Sc or equivalent

Essential Certifications

Preferred Certifications

Type of Exposure
- Conducting root cause analysis
- Developing ways to minimize risks
- Managing conflict situations
- Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas
- Sharing information in different ways to increase internal stakeholders understanding
- 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

Minimum Experience Level

5 to 8 years in Product Control, Trade Support, Financial Modelling or Markets Trading environment and 2 years managing others

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Banking procedures
- Business Acumen
- Cluster specific operations
- Data analysis
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Industry trends
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Remuneration policies and principles
- 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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