Company: Absa Bank Limited | Category: Product Management | Experience: 5 Years
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Product Control Group Officer at Absa Bank Limited
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
Product controller – Global Markets and Treasury plays a key role in ensuring an independent validation, substantiation and reporting of financial information. In addition, they provide insights and analysis from the information drawn.
• Substantiation and reporting of Markets & Treasury Statement of Comprehensive Income (Balance Sheet)
• Substantiation and reporting of Markets and Treasury Financial Position (P&L)
• Monitoring trading activity for compliance with related suitable policies.
• Providing management with technical and operational analysis of the trading activities
• Providing insights being drawn from the data being generated and happenings in the Global Markets and Treasury industry.
Job Description
P&L and Balance sheet substantiation:
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Reporting of daily, monthly and year to date P&L for assigned desks.
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Ensure the assigned portfolio is accurately represented within the general ledger.
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Ensure correct fair valuation of the products handled in the assigned desk.
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Provide daily, monthly, and quarterly beneficial commercial analysis of Foreign Exchange Trading
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Build good working relationships with stakeholders.
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Ensure compliance of trading limits for the assigned desk
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Regular (Daily, weekly, or Monthly) substantiation of balance sheet line items affecting Global Markets & Treasury. This includes investigating all breaks and resolving them in a timely manner.
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Analyze and report on material adjustments to the P&L, including discrepancies to the Front Office flash.
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Meet team’s KPI and SLA
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Provide appropriate P&L and balance sheet commentary / analysis.
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Attend to ad hoc queries from the traders and other infrastructure partners relating to trading revenue and the Balance Sheet
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Timely and accurate submission of returns to regulatory authorities (CBM, etc.)
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Perform month end processes (Bid-Offer, Price testing etc.)
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Agree positions and results between Front and back-office systems and submit them for sign off at the appropriate level.
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Monitor trading activity for compliance with various related policies.
Governance and control:
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Circulate key weekly & monthly management information to senior management.
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Ensure clean audit results from internal and external reviews.
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Identify and drive process re-engineering constantly for control improvement and process efficiency.
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Perform Critical Process Assessments and participate in continual enhancement of key Finance risk metrics.
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Participate in essential administration tasks required in the department
Education
Further Education and Training Certificate (FETC): Financial Sciences (Required)
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