Capital Market Officer

Perform technical and administrative functions in the origination, structuring, negotiation and execution of funding transactions in line with the Bank’s funding strategy and its overarching objectives of cost optimisation and source diversification.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Funding Desk**
- Conduct market research and actively participate in funding initiatives to provide insights into new opportunities and increase funding diversification in the Bank’s capital markets projects required for the broadening and deepening of target markets.
- Keep abreast of financial markets developments and make recommendations in relation to funding opportunities and changes in the International financial markets (i.e., pricing points / new funding structures etc).
- Participate in the negotiations held with various fund sources and ensure understanding of funding agreements.
- Manage bilateral funding agreements and monitor that the Bank meets all its obligations, including commitments to clients in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Provide information and consolidate draft reports for management, board committees, credit rating agencies, lenders and other investors on liquidity position and funding requirements.
- Provide inputs into the preparation and update of the annual borrowing and investment plan including the foreign exchange limit for approval by the Ministry of Finance.
- Review contractual agreements and ensure that the conditions of funding are fair, acceptable and within the confines of the Banks standards and policies.
- Prepare drafts for documentation associated with bonds issuances under the Domestic Medium-Term Notes (DMTN) program in line with the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) debt listing requirements.
- Monitor compliance requirements and adhere to JSE regulations, loan covenants and undertakings as well as other regulatory statutory bodies.
- Provide information on the cost of funding and funding status reports to the working group committees.
- Monitor liquidity requirements against disbursements forecast.

**Stakeholder Relations and Reporting**
- Create investor interest in DBSA by keeping investors informed about developments at the Bank.
- Manage core relationships and expectations with the Bank’s group of international development finance institutions and other lenders, domestic and offshore.
- Report on use of proceeds instruments as and when required.
- Contribute to management reporting and providing ad hoc reports as and when needed.

**Expertise & Technical Competencies**:
**Minimum Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferably in Law or Finance or Accounting.
- 8 years’ experience preferably in capital markets or investment banking.
- Solid experience in negotiating, structuring, executing bilateral loans, syndications or club transactions.
- In depth knowledge of Loan Market Association (LMA) standards.
- Good understanding of the functioning of the capital markets and JSE Debt Listing Requirements.
- Good understanding of legislation and regulations relevant to the DBSA including FMA, PFMA, SARB FX controls, etc.
- Advanced Proficiency with Microsoft Office (MS Word, MS Excel, Power Point).

**TECHNICAL**

**Written & Verbal Communication**
- Writes effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
- Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
- Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs.
- Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others.

**Business Acumen**
- Thinks and plans in future-oriented terms.
- Develops annual business plans that take into account longer-term activities, issues, problems or opportunities.
- Develops and establishes broad scale, longer-term objectives, goals or projects (e.g., affecting a business, department, or organisation).

**Problem Solving**
- While remaining guided by organisational values, identifies optimal solutions, thinking first in terms of possible approaches and flexibilities in the system vs. blind adherence to rules or procedures.
- Implements solutions to complex problems, then evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions and identifies needed changes.

**Financial Acumen**
- Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community.
- Assist in preparing Treasury budget submissions and forecasts for own department.

**Required Personal Attributes**:
**BEHAVIOURIAL**

**Customer Service Orientation**
- Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customized products and services.
- Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
- Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.
- Thinks of new way