Career
experiences

RMB Africa risk

DRESS:
Smart casual – with jeans on Friday

LOCATION:
1 Merchant Place – in Sandton, Johannesburg

ENVIRONMENT:
Dynamic environment with daily consolidated risk reporting for the African subsidiaries. Initiative and calculated intuition is needed to keep abreast of emerging markets in order to report risk as accurately and efficiently as possible. Regular interaction with in country risk managers, integration engineers, central quants and central risk team will be required during investigations and enhancements.

BENEFITS:

• Fast and steep growth curve in the risk environment
• Opportunity to understand the functioning of the bank from a holistic point of view as the risk management for the African subsidiaries spans across various risk areas in both corporate and investment banking

FOCUS AREAS:

• Risk management and quantitative analytics across the market and credit risk for RMB Africa
• Building and validating models for financial risk and return
• Instrument valuations and financial modelling/engineering
• Risk reporting and monitoring across market, credit, liquidity and other risks

RMB Central finance
RMB Investment banking division

DRESS:
Smart casual – with jeans on Friday

LOCATION:
1 Merchant Place – in Sandton, Johannesburg

ENVIRONMENT:
Flexible, busy, get involved in as many places as you can, bring cake on your birthday, pressured, deadline driven, process driven, Friendly and extroverted, don’t take a back seat, fast paced, jump right in, speaking to anyone and everyone.

BENEFITS:

• Come to grips with group procedures and systems
• Learn structure from divisional and legal perspective
• Accumulate hours in ALL financial accounting competencies. Exposure to all accounting functions in the group

FOCUS AREAS:

• HFM support
• Accounts payable
• Business technology
• Procurement
• Corporate accounting

RMB Credit

DRESS:
Formal – with smart casual on Friday

LOCATION:
1 Merchant Place – in Sandton, Johannesburg

ENVIRONMENT:
RMB credit is a very exciting and challenging environment that gives trainees exposure to the core business of banking: lending solutions. The environment requires and helps trainees to understand the South African market and business landscape – from property finance, resources, retail, public sector and infrastructure finance. Trainees present credit papers to the FirstRand credit committee from day one, so if you are willing to put yourself out there, the team will help you all the way. We work hard and we play even harder.

BENEFITS:

• You get business analysis skills
• Learn more about how people run their businesses
• Lesson one – cash is king
• Gain strong sales skills as you have to sell the viability of businesses at credit committee
• You learn the core element of banking and the different funding structures
• Get your financial management competencies

FOCUS AREAS:

• Credit risk
• Business analysis (both fundamentals and market trends)
• Debt finance

RMB Credit and market risk

DRESS:
Smart casual – with jeans on Friday

LOCATION:
1 Merchant Place – in Sandton, Johannesburg

ENVIRONMENT:
Flexible, busy, get involved in as many places as you can, bring cake on your birthday, pressured, deadline driven, process driven, Friendly and extroverted, don’t take a back seat, fast paced, jump right in, speaking to anyone and everyone.

FOCUS AREAS:

• Responsible for providing quantitative analysis and support across the market and credit risk areas
• Building and validating models for financial risk and return used in pricing and rating of individual loans and positions and the allocation and optimisation of economic capital to the different business units