Treasury Trader (In-office position)

SUMMARY:
Your role as the Treasury Trader will be to assist the Treasury Manager in managing all aspects of treasury department as prescribed in the treasury mandate of the company. 

Facilitate group companies’ financial markets requests within individual mandates to ensure optimal returns on dealings within the financial markets.

POSITION INFO:
Principal Accountabilities:
1. Liaise daily with financial institutions, gaining market knowledge/experience, build relationships – enabling companies to invest/disinvest financial products to the advantage of the group as a whole.
2. Administrate daily transactions timely, accurately and in coherence to mandates that are in place with group companies, to ensure professional service.
3. Responsible for input into the treasury system (IT2) ensuring correct reporting.
4. Responsible for various reports with economic information pulled from financial platforms, reaching all receiving parties accurate and in time, daily, weekly and monthly.
5. Interest reconciliation of all clients’ investment accounts, on a monthly basis.
6. Compile a monthly report of relevant financial institutions’ credit ratings.
7. Co-responsible for all the filing (electronically only) of treasury department.
8. Assist with the FICA process of treasury clients.
9. Ensuring the mandates of the clients correlates with IT2 and changes are made.
10. Coordinate and drive projects identified to automate and streamline processes, using Power Apps or Power BI in conjunction with the rest of the treasury team.
11. Review and recommend updates to identified Policies & Procedures, control documents, standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and Best Practices documents to keep it relevant and up to date with legislation.
12. Any other tasks that may arise due to the continuously changing needs and requirements from the Treasury Department stakeholders.

Knowledge/Qualifications:
- Holds a recognised qualification as listed in Board Notice 51 of 2017 on the FSCA’s website (List 1).
- Candidates who have successfully passed the RE5 certification will be preferred.
- Should candidates not have the RE5 certification upon application, they will be required to successfully obtain it during the probation period.
- It is a requirement that the incumbent is a registered representative for the Treasury related products listed below:

PRODUCTS APPROVED – CATEGORY 1

• Structured Deposits
• Money Market Instruments
• Debentures & Securitized Debt
• Bonds
• Derivative Instruments
• Long-term Deposits
• Short-term Deposits