Specialist, Treasury & Capital Management

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

To provide specialist advice on the end-to-end balance sheet management business process for Standard Bank Namibia Asset and Liability Committee (ALCO), business unit heads and management committees,  in  ensuring compliance to the Treasury and Capital Management (TCM) frameworks, policies, procedures and minimum standards, regulations and international best practices to manage liquidity risk, interest rate risk in the banking book, capital resources and to optimise the balance sheet.

• Bachelor’s Degree (Honours) in accounting 
• CA or CFA will be a distinct advantage

Experience:

• 5-7 years: Deep specialist experience within the banking industry specifically modelling and analysis.
• Ability to provide detailed insights regarding financial statements and regulatory requirements to senior and executive leaders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate and execute stress testing within TCM to ensure that capital, liquidity and interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB) stress testing are fit for purpose for input into strategic documents.
• Provide advice to ALCO in connection with the Basel 3 ratios, namely Capital Adeqacy (CAR), Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) for into the Standard Bank Namibia regulatory returns ensuring the Standard Bank Namibia is complaint with Bank of Namibia and prudential authority regulatory reporting requirements.
• Conduct research and use specialist expertise to evaluate local market dynamics and the regulatory environment to ensure alignment to international asset and liability management (ALM) best practises.
• Engage with regulators on matters pertaining to IRRBB exposures and evaluate the impact of changes in regulatory requirements as pertains to IRRBB.
• Monitor and review TCM related processes and activities to align to policies and risk appetite frameworks as per the Finance frameworks as well as regulatory and international best practices to ensure the successful execution of tactical and strategic TCM responsibilities.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Articulating Information
• Developing Expertise
• Documenting Facts
• Examining Information
• Exploring Possibilities

Technical Competencies:

• Economic Analysis
• Financial Analysis
• Financial and Accounting Control
• Liquidity Management
• Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting