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Product Owner: Commodities
Listing reference: jse_000552
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 30 September 2024
Position summary
Industry: Financial Services
Job category: Banking, Finance, Insurance. Stockbroking
Location: Sandton
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
About our company
WHY JOIN THE JSE? The JSE recognises that its success and strength depend on the quality of its employees. We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and high standards of performance. Our employee wellness programme is designed to encourage work-life balance for employees. We naturally seek to empower staff and encourage diversity and opportunities for all.
Introduction
To maximise business value (including optimisation of ROI) through representing the voice of the customer and acting as an ambassador for trading operations and technology to ensure the right products are delivered to customers (internal and external).
Job description
Results Delivery
- Ensuring the existence of a shared vision for trading (across front office, ops and technology) and be the champion for realising this vision through the delivery of the right products to customers (mainly internal focus and responsibility.
- Coordinating prioritisation of the Product Backlog by making clear recommendation in accordance with business value and customer requirements.
- Formulate and develop a consolidated technology roadmap and business processes to ensure more efficient delivery of business outcomes in achievement of a forward-looking trading and associated services strategy.
- Helping the Team Members to understand what to build and why, including clear communication and explanation of customer requirements.
- Accepting the delivered product increment at the end of each iteration according to criteria agreed with customers
- Managing the release plan.
- Contribute to the development of the trading and associated business strategy.
- Responsible for drafting and co ordinating feedback on project related documentation submitted for prioritisation at organisation wide prioritisation sessions.
- Provide subject matter guidance and knowledge to assist with business-as-usual activities.
- Champion the Product Owner role in Agile development processes as applied at the JSE from time to time.
- Continuous communication to stakeholders and clients regarding progress and managing their expectations including making trade-offs where required.
- Ensure solutions are used by customers and that they understand the value proposition.
- Manage client relationships including delivery and prioritisation to ensure maximisation of business value
- Help the Scrum Master organize Sprint Review Meetings and ensure team effectiveness in the meetings.
- Attend sprint planning meetings and ensure team effectiveness in the planning.
- Inspire and motivate a team of diverse specialists to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency.
- Identify problems and provide effective solutions to ensure ongoing delivery.
- Work with project managers and technical leads to determine scope and priorities for product development cycles.
- Identify and implement mitigations to effectively manage risks.
- Give input to budgets and business cases and contribute to continued compliance to targets for ROI and productivity.
- Participate in relevant committees and industry bodies to drive out related industry standards that align to the JSE vision and strategy.
- Provide subject matter and industry expert input in various JSE projects to ensure that the correct functions are implemented to maintain or improve market quality and integrity using research, insight and experience obtained.
- Conduct Remote Disaster Recovery testing to assess processes and systems readiness against the Business Continuity (BC) during every Disaster Recovery cycle.
- Perform systems testing on new enhancements to introduce new functionalities into the systems which will contribute to efficient business operations and/or improved customer satisfaction.
- Compile and maintain the client facing system documentation for enhancements or new products, review documentation and apply necessary changes to ensure that all market participants have the relevant information on JSE system functionality.
- Provide support and training on the client facing documentation to all stakeholders to ensure appropriate understanding of JSE systems and adherence by market participants to JSE operations and procedures.
- Work with IT Trading teams on how to configure the trading system to meet business requirements.
- Collaborate with IT and other JSE divisions on relevant initiatives to ensure that all critical aspects of any initiatives or products are considered early on so that the JSE can deliver products or initiatives that are in line with the client’s needs and requirements.
- Draft and submit relevant system changes required for CDM and interface with internal stakeholders and software vendors including representing the CDM team at Service Forums to jointly develop release schedules to implement agreed changes.
- Alert line manager and relevant stakeholders of any change in scope or work effort that could result in not meeting the delivery schedules and take appropriate action accordingly.
- Attend to ad-hoc duties and responsibilities as assigned by the line manager in continuation of business and increased productivity.
- Manage own delivery against agreed delivery plan and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required to ensure continued business operations for own focus area.
- Report and consult with manager when necessary to review progress and quality against CDM team plans and targets and identify areas where corrective actions are required to ensure delivery of agreed results.
Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Interact with EXCO members, peers, department members, direct reports and manager/s in a way that promotes openness and trust and gives them confidence in one’s intention.
- Lead, manage and collaborate with cross-functional teams, business partners, customers and stakeholders.
- Ensure a solid understanding (through business owners) of customers, users, the marketplace, the competition, industry developments and of future trends that will impact operations/technology delivery.
- Manage stakeholders’ expectations by listening to their needs and influencing the outcome to meet the requirements whilst remaining within system constraints, cost and resource capacity.
- Ensure effective communication and sustainable relationship networks through one-on-one meetings with manager, weekly team meetings and through regular interaction with various internal and external stakeholders.
- Build sustainable relationships with customers to build trust and confidence in JSE products.
- Gauge client satisfaction internally through 360 feedback reports and externally through surveys which will include any positive or negative feedback received from the stakeholders regarding the professionalism and timeous nature of interaction.
- Act as an ambassador for enterprise trading solutions.
- Represent product areas from operational and technical perspective when dealing with internal and external service providers.
- Provide input and coordinate communication to market during crises management and system enhancements/initiatives.
- Conduct training on new system applications and enhancements for customers.
Process Management
- Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the various groups of stakeholders e.g. development teams, customers, marketing team, etc.
- Ensure a fundamental understanding of end-to-end customer experience and dependencies.
- Ensure that detailed requirements from stakeholders or customers are translated into sound functionality functional requirements.
- Ensure that business requirements are clearly communicated between the operations and technical development teams to meet customer requirements.
- Ensure that implemented product features add value to the end user and increase company returns.
- Actively engage with market product specialist to understand the evolving clients’ needs.
- Collaborate with other product owners where clients’ requirements involved more than one feature team to ensure that a quality solution is delivered to meet client needs.
- Act as coordinator for JSE system changes and new releases for the relevant products/markets (including testing).
Self-Management
- Improve personal capability and professional growth relating to field of expertise, in line with JSE objectives by discussing development needs and proposed solutions with management.
- Upskill team and other professionals by sharing knowledge and research results.
- Epitomise living the JSE values, displaying professional conduct and adherence to required technical standards.
- Take accountability for contributing to the success of the team by removing obstacles to team performance and success
Transformation and Innovation Contribution
- Analyse, research, develop and implement improvement/innovative ideas and value adding solutions contributing to divisional and JSE results.
- Actively participate in product development and innovation to contribute to assess class growth.
Minimum requirements
Minimum Qualification
- Commerce, Engineering or Information Technology Degree
- Certified Product Owner, RPE, CFA, Registered Stockbroker (All preferred but not essential)
Minimum Experience
- Minimum of 5 to 10 years working experience in financial services industry related to trading in various products spot or derivatives markets including at least 3 years at in a business/product owner level/ product specialist with specific operations and/or technology focus
Knowledge and Skills required
- Basic software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
- Business principles
- Decision-making process
- Stakeholder management
- Industry trends
- International Standards for Professional Practice
- High level understanding of Financial Market Infrastructure legal and regulatory landscape
- Basic compliance techniques and approaches
- Assurance/Audit core concepts
- Basic Audit practices and techniques
- Deep market knowledge of the trading conventions and end to end market practices in equity, bonds and derivatives markets (equity, currencies, commodities, bonds and interest rates)
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Networking and building relationships
- Resolving a difficult conflict
- Collecting and interpreting information
- Integrating different sources of information
- Assessing and measuring risk
Senior Surveillance Analyst
Listing reference: jse_000551
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 30 September 2024
Position summary
Industry: Financial Services
Job category: Banking, Finance, Insurance. Stockbroking
Location: Sandton
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
About our company
WHY JOIN THE JSE? The JSE recognises that its success and strength depend on the quality of its employees. We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and high standards of performance. Our employee wellness programme is designed to encourage work-life balance for employees. We naturally seek to empower staff and encourage diversity and opportunities for all.
Introduction
To monitor and review trading activity of JSE listed security with the objective of identifying market abuse and the referral thereof to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority for further investigation. To monitor trading activity and ensure compliance with the JSE trading rules.
Job description
Key Performance Areas (KPAs)
Insider trading reviews across all asset classes (cash equities, equity derivatives, corporate bonds)
- Real time monitoring and review of significant share price and share volume reactions
- Monitor and review price-sensitive company announcements falling on your allotted roster
- Preparation and presentation of referral documentation to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority for further investigation at monthly market abuse meetings
- Provide ongoing support to the FSCA investigations until the completion of the investigation
Price manipulation reviews across asset classes (cash equities, commodity derivatives, bond market)
- Monitor and independently conduct reviews of allegations of prohibited trading practices to identify prohibited trading practices
- Review and signoff of market abuse alerts
- Conduct quarterly alert optimization reviews
- Real time monitoring and review of share price reactions to identify prohibited trading practices
- Preparation and presentation of referral documentation to the Financial Sector Conduct Authority for further investigation at monthly meetings
- Provide ongoing support to the FSCA investigations
Derivative profit and loss reviews
- Execution of derivative profit and loss reviews
Surveillance (operational) processes
- Adjudication of error trades across asset classes
- Execution of all other surveillance processes in line with agreed timelines
Minimum requirements
Minimum Qualification
- Degree in Financial/Quantitative Field (Maths, Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Big Data, etc.)
Minimum Experience
- 5 years’ experience preferably in market surveillance
- Market surveillance experience from another exchange would be a huge advantage
Knowledge and Skills required
- Experience in interacting with the front office (i.e. experience in a middle office role)
Business Analyst – Trading
Listing reference: jse_000558
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 25 September 2024
Position summary
Industry: Financial Services
Job category: Banking, Finance, Insurance. Stockbroking
Location: Sandton
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position: Yes
About our company
WHY JOIN THE JSE? The JSE recognises that its success and strength depend on the quality of its employees. We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and high standards of performance. Our employee wellness programme is designed to encourage work-life balance for employees. We naturally seek to empower staff and encourage diversity and opportunities for all.
Introduction
To ensure that the JSE’s systems are developed and implemented with a clear understanding of business requirements enabling achievement of business strategy
Job description
Results Delivery
- Conduct appropriate planning to ensure optimal cost budget for projects
- Contribute to crafting of IT business plan to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of IT strategy
- Partner with the relevant stakeholder to ensure the outputs of a successful solution delivery
- Reduce time spent on projects by elicitation, analysis and optimization of business requirements
- Apply cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional financial targets
Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Be physically present in a business area to observe and be involved in the day to day operations to understand the business domain and business requirements
- Manage stakeholder relationships by being transparent with regards to project progress
- Build strategic JSE / Industry/ Global network of thought leaders and relationships utilising social media, attending and presenting at conferences and training interventions.
Process Management
- Receive request from business to start new project and conduct stakeholder analysis to clearly define the relevant people required for information gathering
- Work with business system colleagues to clarify requirements, to plan implementation and to answer queries through the development process
- Gather supporting information by holding interviews, conducting surveys, and reviewing existing documents etc
- Prepare a business case document to validate the business need and get financial approval for project
- Marshals and documents detailed requirements of the activities and outputs of project
- Manage own delivery against project delivery plan and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required
- Adhere to the requirements plan in alignment with Systems Development Lifecycle process to ensure compliance
- Support the business sponsor by assisting with the presentation of the business case
- Host and facilitate workshops to elicit detail business and functional requirements
- Create the business requirements specification document to confirm clarity of business needs and scope
- Create the functional requirements specification document to translate the business requirements into functional requirements
- Present functional requirements specification to all stakeholders to validate the requirements and solution.
- Review the technical design specifications to check that all requirements are included
- Review the test cases to ensure that it covers all scenarios related to the functional requirements
- Assist the development team and testers to perform root cause analysis for any functional defects
- Perform adhoc functional testing for quality assurance
- Ensure correct utilisation of solution developed by creating user training manuals
- Assist business by project co-ordination of deliverables for small initiatives
- Identify obstacles to performance relating to process flow and identify opportunities for optimization in a proactive manner
- Works with the business to understand and prioritise conflicting needs
- Assist users in being effective by utilising the new solution productively
- Facilitate vendor selection by documenting a Request for Proposal, Request for Information or a Request for Quotation
Self-Management
- Improve personal capability and professional growth relating to field of expertise, in line with JSE objectives by discussing development needs and proposed solutions with management
- Keep abreast of changes in legislation or standards by conducting research and utilizing networks
- Up skill team and other professionals by sharing knowledge and research results
- Epitomize living the JSE values, displaying professional conduct and adherence to required technical standards
- Contribute to learning and development of the business analyst team by hosting knowledge sharing sessions
Transformation and Innovation
- Analyse, research, develop and implement improvement.
- Innovative ideas and value adding solutions contributing to divisional and JSE results
Minimum requirements
Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Science or Engineering
- Business Analyst Certification from a reputable institution
Minimum Experience
- Minimum 5-7 years’ experience as a Business Analyst
- Experience in Equities, Bonds or Derivatives trading is an advantage
- Experience working in Agile environments
Knowledge and Skills required
- Analysing Business Operations
- Business continuity standard
- Communicating complex information orally
- Communicating complex written information
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Providing specialist advice/opinion
- Challenging the status quo with a view to improving the environment or peoples understanding
- Conducting a needs analysis
- Decision-making process
- Interviewing people to get needed information
- Budget forecast assumptions
- Verifying process flow
- Business principles
- Conducting business analysis
- Data Analysis
- Decision-making process
- International Standards for Professional Practice
- Adapting behaviour to meet major changes at work
- Conducting root cause analysis
- Adapting to a major organizational change
- Evaluating resource allocation
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers / managers
All the best with your applications.
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