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Graduate – CEO’s Office

Listing reference: jse_000562

Listing status: Online

Apply by: 23 October 2024

Position summary

Industry: Financial Services

Job category: Banking, Finance, Insurance. Stockbroking

Location: Sandton

Contract: Fixed Term Contract

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

The JSE is looking for a highly motivated, ambitious and organized recent graduate to join our CEO’s Office as a Graduate employee. This unique opportunity will provide the grad with insight into the strategic decision-making processes at the highest level of the organization. This individual will play a key role in supporting various projects and initiatives, gaining valuable exposure to the business operations and leadership.

Job description

• Manage stakeholder communication from the CEO’s office.
• Draft communication, speeches, and presentations for the CEO.
• Support in developing briefing notes, and coordinate external engagements as needed.
• Provide the CEO with feedback from various workstreams being led throughout the business.
• Undertake research on key topics relevant to the CEO’s office.
• Ad hoc responsibilities.

Minimum requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree – Finance, Economics, Econometrics, Business Management, or related fields.

Knowledge and skills required:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to prioritize tasks.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunities for professional development.
• A collaborative and supportive workplace culture.
• Exposure to senior leadership and strategic business operations.

Product Owner: Issuer Regulations

Listing reference: jse_000548

Listing status: Online

Apply by: 31 October 2024

Position summary

Industry: Financial Services

Job category: IT and Telecommunications

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 issuer regulation thereby ensuring the right products and services are delivered to Issuer Regulation and its customers (internal and external) within regulatory requirements and obligations whilst balancing the risk the JSE faces and the need to be business enabling whilst achieving the JSE strategic priorities Ensuring that the issuer regulation team as well as our regulated entities are prepared and ready for the implementation of strategic JSE initiatives that impact them by using experience and knowledge to drive change

Job description

Business and Financial Results Management and Delivery

• Provide thought leadership and input into the Issuer Regulation Divisional strategy.
• Provide input into divisional budget to meet requirements and targets Manage and develop all LPM deliverables for Issuer Regulation Division, Capex budgets and business cases and ensure continued compliance to targets for ROI and productivity. Monitor expenses against allocated Capital budgets ensuring cost effective ways of achieving departmental goal
• Managing and prioritise the Product Backlog in collaboration with the Issuer Regulation team in accordance with business value and customer requirements
• Implement departmental IT strategy by ensuring there are business and project release plans in place, monitor activities according to plans, ensure execution of deliverables within agreed timelines, identify cross dependencies between plans and take corrective action when required
• Ensuring the existence of a shared vision for IR Solutions and be the champion for realising this vision through the delivery of the right products to customers (internal & external)
• Manage all and ensure continuous communication to stakeholders and clients regarding progress and manage their expectations including making trade-offs where required
• Enforce and maintain min set of divisional Business Continuity and Recovery procedures, Disaster Recovery checklists and documents and coordinate IR team member participation and responsibilities during mandated internal and Disaster Recovery test execution.

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Understand clients’ needs by listening to their needs and influencing the outcomes to meet the requirements within project constraints whilst still protecting the JSE project delivery
• Build long term relationships and networks with stakeholders through effective communication, holding regular stakeholder forums continuous engagement and collaboration
• Provide training to internal and external parties on new and amendments to Issuer Regulation systems.
• Manage all communication with Regulated entities on systems and business continuity events requirements.

Process Management

• Gather requirements from internal and external parties on Issuer Regulation systems, develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the various groups of stakeholders e.g. development teams, customers, support teams, etc
• Translate functional strategy into department delivery strategy for IT systems, project plans, backlogs and deliverables. Develop user readiness and communication approach and plan and monitor progress against plan.
• Identify risks and issues to the project or market readiness by continuously being in touch with stakeholders for the project to ensure the right mitigation is in place.
• Quality Assure documentation provided to clients to ensure it meets JSE corporate branding and project standard and avoid ambiguity to clients.
• Produce status reports to monitor readiness to check on track against timelines.
• Coordinate the market facing activities by ensuring various activities and business scenarios are executed to track progress and assess readiness internally and externally.
• Actively participate and prepare accurate and concise IR inputs required for Programme Increment (PI) or Big Room Planning
• Prepare and conduct Iteration Planning sessions by reviewing and reprioritizing items on the backlog.
• Compile and maintain the IR technology program vision, roadmap and content presentations.
• Collaborate with other Product Owners to understand, manage, and coordinate cross dependencies.

Team Management

• Collaborating across teams, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.

Transformation and Innovation Management

• Build a culture of improvement to ensure optimisation of the function as business demands change by encouraging and recognising appropriate ideas etc.
• Optimise and improve systems and work processes to drive productivity and reduce cost. Analyse, research, develop and implement improvement/innovative ideas and value adding solutions contributing to divisional and JSE results.

Transformation and Innovation 

• Support implementation of business optimisation improvement through team engagement
  Encourage innovation, listen, and act upon ideas from team and provided technical / expert contribution.

Minimum requirements

Minimum Qualification

• Commerce or Information Technology Degree. Post Graduate Qualification

• Member of Agile forums (preferred but not essential)

Minimum Experience

• Minimum of 10 years working experience in Financial Services or IT industry including at least 5 years in a lead role on projects and solutions engaging with large and diverse groups of stakeholders or as a business/product owner level

Knowledge and Skills required

• JSE culture and values
• JSE policies and procedures
• JSE vision and strategy
• Data Analysis
• JSE Human Resources policies and practices
• Relevant JSE product and system knowledge
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant Industry knowledge Business continuity and resilience standards and procedures
• Agile and DevOps knowledge
• Competency in software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
• Assurance/Audit core concepts and standards
• Delivery Risk Management
• Divisional service offerings
• High level understanding of Financial Market Infrastructure legal and regulatory landscape
• Business principles
• Decision-making process
• Diversity management
• Industry trends on products relevant to the Regulatory function
• Business terms and definitions
• Business writing
• Business metrics
• Change Management and Stakeholder Management
• Resource allocation principles
• Stakeholder management 
• Support and empower a high performing delivery team
• Prepare and Present to senior leaders and external stakeholders
• Decision making
• Identifying trends
• Challenging the status quo with a view to improving the environment or peoples understanding
• Managing customer expectations
• Drafting reports
• Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers / subordinates / managers
• Creating a business plan
• Monitoring implementation plan status
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Maintaining and producing capex budgets for the divisional IT solutions
• Developing a client service delivery plan
• Displaying high level of ethics, integrity and confidentiality
• Excellent communication – verbal and written
• Completing a project with constraints
• Developing multiple creative solutions
• Prepare training material and facilitate stakeholder training sessions
• Collect, research and interpret information and integrate different sources of information

Issuer Services Manager – Registry Operations

Listing reference: jse_000559

Listing status: Online

Apply by: 2 November 2024

Position summary

Industry: Banking

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

Job Purpose/ Job Summary: To administer and manage Issuer Operations and Meetings with regards to regulatory compliance and overall functioning in Registry.

Job description

Operations Management

• Manage and monitor daily Issuer operational tasks administered by the operations team of the following departments, to ensure operations are executed to the highest standards:
• Issuer Services – Responsible for carrying out direct instructions from Issuers such as allotment of new shares, cancellations, execution and mailing and E-Comms and analysing the share register, facilitating and perform the duties of Scrutineers at shareholder meetings. Internal audit of all transactions performed on the share registers.
• Meetings – Responsible for back-office processing, administration and facilitation of legacy client meetings, provision of pre-lim and final meeting results and communication of all current, future, and historic client meeting information.
• Assist with back-office processing and facilitation of meetings for large clients.
• Administer the migration and balancing of new share registers and establish operational relationships with the respective Issuers.
• Attend meetings with previous Transfer Secretaries and project manage new migrations to obtain and record special company instructions and information on sub-register requirements.
• Peruse daily SENS, news portals, SARS portal, Companies Act and JSE updates to identify and align business processing to legislative changes on behalf of JIS and Issuers.
• Review and compare monthly departmental billing sheets to Issuer invoices for all Registry companies to identify and eliminate revenue leakage.
• Attend Issuer operational meetings when required and provide guidance to Relationship Managers, Meetings Specialist and Issuers on complexed requirements and special project planning.
• Attend meetings with legislative institutions such as Strate, SARS, FSCA, Compliance etc. to provide technical feedback from a Registry perspective in the event of tabled legislative changes.
• Assist business unit managers to review and amend standard operating procedures for all business units within Registry.
• Assist with technical testing of new IT and operating developments for all Registry companies.
• Assist all business unit managers in Registry with periodical review and alignment of risk registers prior to final review and sign-off by Registry Executive.
• Identify operational risk areas in line with projected system developments and legislative changes to create awareness in the business and inform Registry Executive.

Financial Management

• Review all media notices to identify new business opportunities which will increase revenue.
• Assist with administration and review of monthly and ad-hoc billing and invoicing.
• Administration of various reports to assist with review and feedback on monthly financial management accounts.
• Assist with effective, efficient, economical, and transparent use of financial and other resources.
• Assist with maintaining the existing client base and avoid loss of any current clients.

Stakeholder Management

• Work collaboratively with stakeholders by establishing and maintaining effective internal and external relationships.
• Represent JIS in meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
• Solve problems creatively whilst demonstrating a high level of integrity in line with the company’s core values.
• Provide advice and guidance to relevant parties on stakeholder related matters.
• Manage relationships in accordance with policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
• Establish and maintain operational relationships with all Issuers.

People Management

• Monitor and measure performance according to policy by conducting employee appraisals.
• Identify areas of development and compile action plans to address poor performance.
• Ensure ongoing training and development of employees.
• Address employee relation matters fairly and promptly.
• Set performance objectives for team by cascading of the organisation’s initiatives into individual performance contracts.
• Ensure that all employees have signed performance agreements.
• Coach and mentor staff as appropriate to improve performance.

Risk Management

• Continuously assess any risks in line with current processes and implement controls to ensure that the risks do not materialise in losses either financially or reputationally.
• Review and submit risk registers in accordance with Compliance requirements.
• Provide feedback to Internal Audit and Compliance in relation to enquiries on the risk register.
• Administer departmental complaints register and provide feedback to Compliance within the required timelines.

Minimum requirements

Minimum Qualification

• Degree will be advantageous

Minimum Experience

• 10 years of Registry operational experience, with at least 7 years in a managerial capacity.

Knowledge and Skills required

• Understanding of regulatory environment, laws, acts, and rules.
• Understanding the functions of all business units within Registry.
• Knowledge of all Transfer Secretarial services.
• Understanding the different functions of all legislative institutions.
• Knowledge of current and historic shareholder classifications on registers.
• Trading, settlement, and timelines for certificated and dematerialised accounts.
• All types of elective and non-elective corporate events for listed companies.
• Knowledge of unlisted share registers and OTC license requirements.
• Extensive knowledge in the administration of sub-registers and related control accounts to process IID requirements.
• Extensive experience and operational knowledge of listed and unlisted Issuers.
• Distribution of shareholder communication timelines in terms of the Companies Act.
• Meeting timelines as outlined in the Companies Act.
• Company’s Act knowledge on all sections that affect Issuers.
• Extensive tax knowledge and awareness of SARS requirements.
• Strate Rules and Directives.
• General Financial knowledge.
• SA Financial markets.
• JSE Listing Requirements
• Well established relationships with clients in the market.
• Well established relationships with identified industry bodies such as Strate.
• Experienced scrutineer and TS representative for Issuer meetings.
• Former committee member / TS representative in operational workshops to facilitate and execute operational testing for market and legislative changes

Johannesburg Stock Exchange Bursary – 2025

Listing reference: jse_000567

Listing status: Online

Apply by: 30 November 2024

Position summary

Industry: Financial Services

Job category: Other: Banking, Finance, Insurance, Stockbroking

Location: Sandton

Contract: Fixed Term Contract

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

The JSE is committed to upskilling and developing future leaders of SA. As the great Nelson Mandela said, “education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” In this spirit, the JSE Empowerment Fund (JEF) was established to support students as they strive to reach their academic goals. The JEF offers bursaries to previously disadvantaged students in their 2nd and 3rd year or post-graduate (Honours) level of studies.

Job description

1.You must be a top performer who is studying (full time) towards a degree in:

• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Actuarial Science
• Information Technology
• Informatics
• Data Analytics
• Economics
• Finance
• Accounting

2.Only applications from the following Universities will be considered:

• University of Pretoria
• University of Johannesburg
• University of the Witwatersrand
• Nelson Mandela University
• University of Cape Town
• University of Limpopo
• North-West University
• Fort-Hare University
• University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
• University of the Free State 

3.The following supporting documents must be attached to your application:

• Certified ID Copy
• Proof of registration
• Academic Record
• Proof of household income
• Proof of residence

N.B! Please note that all applications must include an affidavit confirming the information provided. 

Minimum requirements

• Applications are restricted to students who are South African citizens within the designated group.
• The joint income of the students’ parents/caregivers should not exceed a joint income of R650 000 per annum.
• Only applications for 2nd year, 3rd year, or Honors level of studies will be considered.
• Applicants must have achieved a minimum aggregate of 70%.

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All the best with your applications.