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Events Specialist
Listing reference: jse_000587
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 20 December 2024 Read More
Position summary
Industry: Financial Services
Job category: Stock Exchange
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
Purpose of the role is to support the events team in managing the events portfolio of the group, focusing on strategic projects such as conferences and sponsorships. The incumbent will be responsible for planning, development and delivery of internal and external clients’ events and conferences to meet stakeholder needs and build positive experiences, elevating the JSE’s brand and reputation.
Job description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Business and Financial Results Management
- Contribute to the development of package benefits and elements for externally sponsored events to drive revenue generation.
- Management of each event’s budget whilst meeting the client’s event specifications and requirements.
- Support the department meeting its expense budget by tracking costs, closing out invoices and reporting on deviations from budget.
- Assist in budget forecasting aligned with key departmental activities, ensuring financial planning is accurate and timely.
- Apply cost effective strategies to deliver JSE events within cost, while meeting timelines and desired quality.
Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Engage with event and sponsorship stakeholders before and after events to ensure their needs are understood and met.
- Provide guidance to the business to ensure group sponsorships are delivered in line with the overall marketing strategy and brand promise.
- Collaborate with various JSE stakeholders in planning and executing JSE conferences, ensuring alignment of objectives and resources.
- Utilise technology platforms to engage stakeholders effectively, enhancing communication and collaboration throughout the sponsorship and event lifecycle.
- Build relationships with colleagues, peers, and staff using effective interpersonal skills to foster collaboration.
- Document event feedback and promptly share insights with the events team and vendors to facilitate corrective and preventive actions.
Operational delivery – Events
- Plan and execute events in accordance with the Group’s Sponsorship and Events playbook, utilising project management processes.
- Co-ordinate delivery of multiple conference and events elements, leveraging on digital technology and vendors.
- Develop comprehensive event briefs and function sheets, clearly outlining client needs and expectations.
- Utilise marketing and events planning technology to streamline end-to-end event processes, ensuring efficient communication and coordination among all stakeholders.
- Gather real-time feedback from delegates, clients and the events manager during events to address urgent issues promptly.
- Ensure adequate resources for events, including registration and support services, to deliver on-time and according to service level agreements.
- Work with Events Manager to source new vendors and maintain contracts and service level agreements (SLAs) to deliver according to clients’ requirements.
- Partner with technology service providers to deliver virtual events and conferences, ensuring they meet best-in-class standards for engagement.
- Guide and supervise temporary staff and interns in the events team to ensure they deliver according to JSE standards and procedures, and effectively support events managed by the division.
Operational delivery- Sponsorship
- Contribute to the development and planning of enterprise-wide conferences and sponsorship events, in collaboration with management and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Implement events management processes to enhance stakeholder engagement and maximize partnership value throughout the event lifecycle.
Ensure event benefits are delivered as per sponsorship contractual agreements with clients - Provide oversight and governance of the Events’ supplier base to optimise their performance in delivering eventing elements.
Implement compliance requirements related to sponsorships within the operational framework. - Collect feedback and information to assess the effectiveness of Sponsorships and Events delivery, to ensure alignment with brand objectives and key performance metrics, and identify areas for improvement
Minimum requirements
Minimum Qualification
- Grade 12 and relevant tertiary qualification
- Related Diploma or certificate would be an advantage
Minimum Experience
- 4-5 Years of experience in an Events Management role
- Experience co-ordinating large-scale conferences and events
- Project administration experience an advantage
Knowledge:
- Principles of project management
- Basic software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
- Bulk email sending platform or technologies
- Virtual Eventing platforms and software
- Event management platforms
- Capacity planning
- Client service management
- Resource allocation principles
- Stakeholder management
- Service quality standards
- Basic Occupational Health and Safety knowledge
Skills:
- Giving presentations
- Drafting reports
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers / managers
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Budget management
- Knowing how supplier and competitor offerings are priced and is aware of customer’s budget
- Managing multiple projects
- Managing Sponsorships
- Completing a project with constraints
Application Support Specialist
Listing reference: jse_000576
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 31 December 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
We are currently recruiting for an experienced Application Support Specialist to join our team.
Job description
Job summary
The primary function of the Application Support Specialist is to provide 1st line operational technical support to JSE business critical applications to ensure that JSE Production systems execute accurately, timeously and within agreed SLAs. To deploy and support 3rd party and in-house developed technology capabilities within the Information Technology division. Engagement is expected with both internal and external stakeholders when required.
Stakeholder Management
- Manage vendors and cross functional teams to ensure that tasks are completed where there is a dependency
- Engage business users, development and task teams to ensure clarity regarding requirements in terms of data related issues, problem resolving initiatives etc. to ensure needs are met
Business Objectives / Financial
- Focus on continuous improvement initiatives to improve overall effectiveness and efficiency of all Production and Testing environments
- Support and monitor systems to ensure that JSE Production systems execute accurately, timeously and within agreed SLAs
- Apply cost effectiveness principles in everyday delivery to contribute to achievement of departmental financial targets
Self-Management
- Improve personal capability and professional growth in line with JSE objectives by discussing development needs and proposed solutions with management
- Be an effective team member encouraging teamwork and freely sharing knowledge
- Visibly live the JSE values contributing to the achievement of divisional objectives
- Manage self in terms of development, delivery and act as a self-starter
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
- Drive the adoption of the JSE leadership brand
Minimum requirements
Minimum Qualification
- Bsc Computer Science or Information Technology
- Microsoft Azure / Devops relevant certifications
- Certifications: MS SQL (including SSRS, SSAS and SSIS)
- Linux related certifications
- Microsoft relevant certifications
Minimum Experience
- Minimum of 5 years in a specialist application support position.
- Extensive experience in supporting core mission-critical systems.
- Extensive experience in supporting multiple core-application landscape.
- Working a highly pressurised environment with an understanding of the nature of the systems being supported.
Knowledge and Skills required
- Implementing and supporting of the respective technologies – Microsoft, Linux, 3rd party applications
- Adapting behaviour to meet major changes at work
- Adapting to a major organisational change
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Communicating complex information orally
- Communicating complex written information
- Communicating internally
- Conducting Business Impact Analysis * Conducting root cause analysis Developing educational materials (e.g., training manuals, multimedia visual aids)
- Evaluating information systems
- Interacting with external clients
- Managing work queues
- Monitoring adherence and compliance
- Preparing and delivering presentation Providing expert advice/opinion Providing technical support
Senior Developer – Shared Services (Billing, Finance, and Web)
Listing reference: jse_000579
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 26 December 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 develop and support software that is specific to the needs of the JSE to help the business achieve its strategic objectives.
Job description
Results Delivery
- Contribute to crafting of departmental business plan to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of IT strategy.
- Apply cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional financial targets.
- Provide input into the formalisation of the divisional budget.
- Manage allocated budget by tracking costs
Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Build strategic JSE / Industry/ Global network of thought leaders and relationships utilising social media, attending and presenting at conferences and training interventions.
- Maintain on-going collaborate relationships with business through structured processes and ad hoc customer contact to ensure proper understanding of customer needs and delivery of appropriate solutions.
- Familiarise self with business requirements by attending relevant meetings with associates (developers, testers, business analysts, project managers etc) to share knowledge as well as play the expected role in various projects.
- Comply with the Service Level Agreements by ensuring that applications are developed, implemented and supported in line with cost, quality and timelines
Process Management
- Manage own delivery against agreed delivery plan and set timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required.
- Receive business requirements and conduct technical impact analysis to understand the impact of the required process change and decide on the scope of the project and how it will be delivered.
- Develop software to meet business requirements utilising the relevant coding design patterns.
- Conduct unit testing of the code written by to ensure that if fulfils the requirements as set out in the business functional requirements specification.
- Create supporting documentation to ensure that there is an accessible reference detailing how the application was developed and tested, thereby making it easy to support the solution in future and train end users.
- Assist with the deployment of the application into production by providing relevant documentation for deployment, creating a deployment artefact to make the system available for business users.
- Support the business during user acceptance testing by resolving any queries and defects to ensure delivery of a system that meets business requirements.
- Support production queries by resolving any queries and defects to make the system available for business usTake responsibility for own work by developing tracking matrix to ensure that work is delivered in line with agreed timelines.
- Ensure that you are available for DR, health checks or any weekend environment checks.
- Ensure that all audit findings in the operations environment are close timeously.
- Provide a stable Production Environment which is predictable and reliable.
- Conduct requirement analysis and planning on new work requests/projects from business
- Ensure change process is followed and test evidence provided for production changes.
- Where possible – ensure all processes that can be automated are. No Manual work where it can be avoided.
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 utilising networks.
- 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.
- Ensure self and team members has required skill and professional/ technical expertise by assessing gaps and development areas and creating development plans.
- Engaged with team in such a way that the feel motivated to achieve better performance feel respected and diversity is valued.
Transformation and Innovation Contribution
- Analyse, research, develop and implement improvement/innovative ideas and value adding solutions contributing to divisional and JSE results
Minimum requirements
Minimum Qualification
- Degree/Diploma in Information Technology
- Any other technical certificates
Minimum Experience
- 5 years’ experience using multiple Microsoft technologies and platforms
Knowledge and Skills
- Basic software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email
- Source code management
- Proficient .NET/C#, MS SQL Server, MS Azure, Microsoft Power Platform, Proficient in client and server-side Javascript, HTML, CSS3, Knowledge with relational databases, algorithms and design patterns, experience with front end design
- Advantage – SharePoint Online knowledge
- Software design patterns
- DevOps Principles
- SDLC
- Divisional service offerings
- Data analysis
- Decision-making process
- Industry trends
Financial Risk Specialist
Listing reference: jse_000550
Listing status: Online
Apply by: 24 December 2024
Position summary
Industry: Financial Services
Job category: Credit Analysis and Risk Management
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 develop, implement and maintain a robust credit, liquidity, counterparty credit and market risk management infrastructure and performing critical quantitative functions to create market integrity and enable the JSE to operate the cash and derivative markets.
Job description
Business and Financial Results Delivery
- Provide strategic thinking and contributions to crafting of departmental business plan based on professional knowledge and experience, to ensure delivery of focus areas for the year in support of departmental strategy
- Apply cost effectiveness principles in planning and delivery to contribute to achievement of divisional financial targets
- Provide input into the formalisation for the divisional budget
- Develop a robust risk management plan by identifying weaknesses in the current framework, research possible solutions, quantify impact of the solution and finally make a recommendation to present to governance committees and JSE EXCO to mitigate risks
- Measure performance by identifying and managing exposures to mitigate and minimise impact to the JSE and market participants
- Develop methodologies to measure/monitor risks and to mitigate risks on a per risk basis
- Propose solutions by analysing risks using industry best practices, past experience and mathematical skills to develop a risk framework
- Assess and efficiently implement regulatory standards and requirements regarding settlement assurance
- Ensure systems, products or projects delivered contributes to improve client/JSE service by providing input on budgets, resources required and process based on the understanding of costs, business objectives and relationship with external suppliers and stakeholders
Stakeholder Relationship Management
- Build strategic JSE / Industry/ Global network of thought leaders and relationships utilising social media, attending and presenting at conferences and training interventions.
- Manage stakeholder relationships by understanding new products, investigating risks and advising on best solutions to consistently meet client’s needs
- Build and maintain networks across the JSE and the financial market industry by seeking and providing guidance on financial instruments to gain information of new risks and engaging clients on exposures, products and trends
- Provide risk monitoring tools such as dashboards, logs and escalate if necessary
Process Management
- Manage own delivery by establishing a delivery plan and setting timelines, identify obstacles to delivery and take appropriate action where required
- Deliver work consistently by identifying, monitoring, measuring managing and mitigating Market, Credit, Counter Party credit, Operational and Liquidity risk by measuring and analysing processes and exposures, come up with potential future scenarios and quantify the impact those scenarios can have on the JSE, its clearing members and clients
- Identify risks for stakeholders and the JSE by applying First – Principles and using thresholds and limits and historical information
- Develop, assess and entrench Risk Management Frameworks and regularly conduct independent evaluations thereof and propose same to the board when appropriate
- Design risk reports, conduct evaluations using exposure reports to assess levels of risk an d identify new risks and escalate when appropriate
- Propose levels of risk appetite
- Analyse results of daily risk quantification by comparing performance of model market performance against regime, quantify risk mitigation to assess whether the new mitigations need to be implemented and if so, at what stage
- Determine appropriate collateral types including risks and levels of discounting thereof
- Assess exposures and collateral placed against the exposure, reassess the exposure and calculate required collateral and report findings to the appropriate division
- Establish and monitor key risk indicators, as well as propose and implement corrective action plans to mitigate risks
- Participate in ad hoc projects by developing models and quantification procedures ensuring outputs meet business expectations
- Conduct research to keep abreast of best industry practices and regulatory changes to ensure effectiveness of the company’s risk frameworks
- Establish bank capital calculations with regard to contributions to any mutualised default fund
- Propose methodologies for and establish regulatory and economic capital quantification for the JSE to ensure the solvency of the JSE
- Liaise with regulators to respond to regulatory queries, comment on draft regulations and reporting to regulators
- Supply clients with information to help them analyse and understand capital requirements by applying methodologies and make information as intuitive and explanatory as possible
- Assist with queries when clients enquire on a valuation models and initial margin calculations
- Develop models for new products to help understanding
- Assess accuracy of valuation models on a regular basis by using methodologies and established processes and procedures
- Develop various new risk methodologies, propose to relevant governance committees, document risk methodologies and implement risk methodologies after approval
- Assess new products by analysing the risk to JSE, conducting quantification on products, conducting and implementing risk mitigation methodologies, ensuring compliance with JSE
- Provide input into the new products committee by making recommendations on whether to support new product to ensure compliance with JSE.
- Make proactive recommendations to Board and Risk committee and to EXCO on capital and risk related policies, including risk appetite of the JSE to help establish complete and comprehensive risk frameworks, appetites and policies
- Design and specify new systems and processes for implementation for internal and external clients
Minimum requirements
Minimum Qualification
- Degree in Risk
- Post-graduate (Honours / Masters / PhD in quantitative field and/or FRM, CFA or similar industry qualification
Minimum Experience
- 5 years risk management experience in a trading, investments quantitate or market risk environment.
Knowledge and Skills required
- Basic software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
- Divisional service offerings
- Budget forecast assumptions
- Business continuity standard
- Business principles
- Data analysis
- Decision-making process
- Industry trends
- International Standards for Professional Practice
- Communication Strategies
- Research methodology
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