Finance Technical Team Leader
Finance Technical Team LeaderApply locations Pinelands posted on Posted 9 Days Ago job requisition id JR-60706
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Job Description Role Description: The main aim and purpose of the role is to ensure accurate and timely Pricing for various Product Administration Systems. The role is responsible for managing the Daily and monthly pricing and ensuring that all customers receive consistently correct investment fund prices by effectively managing the Pricing processes. Where staff supervision is required, the incumbent must develop all available resources (staff, systems, processes) and ensure that a high-performance culture becomes entrenched in the team. This role shall require liaising with internal and external stakeholders to ensure all requirements have been met. This role will also include managing the processing of monthly distributions for investment funds across the above platforms, ensuring that the rates are captured timeously and accurately.
Please note that as a number of these functions do not fall within core hours, the incumbent will be required to work outside of normal business hours.
SPECIFIC KEY RESULT AREAS: Review the current pricing processes to ensure effectiveness and quality standards.Implement new processes where none are in existence.Ensure all Pricing processes are documented, and changes are updated.Ensure processes are inclusive of all regulatory requirements.Take up and deliver on any other activities/projects that may be delegated by management.Ensure standardized processes are in place and service and quality standards are being adhered to.Achieve results through personal efficiency.Identify, manage, and minimize risks/control breaks on the Pricing process.Escalate risks/control breaks to management when identified.Ensure pricing compliance to all regulatory requirements and internal policies.Ensure no gaps in pricing and be held accountable for any claims and/or errors that impact financials and customer claims.Monitor internal controls and reporting on controls and processes, as well as recommending and implementing amendments to internal controls where appropriate.Planning and Assigning Work Set team priorities and performance objectives.Align mini-business objectives to business unit strategy.Monitor and measure delivery of outcomes.Achieving Results through the Performance of the Team Achieve the performance objectives set for the team.Display a clear bias for action.Provide training/training support for new and existing personnel where necessary.Coach new and existing personnel.Team player to ensure delivery of team objectives.Relationship Building Maintain good relationships with internal and external clients, stakeholders and service providers.Collaborate with others to achieve personal and team objectives.Team Effectiveness Balance own priorities with directing and motivating others.Individually accountable for others' time, tasks, and output quality, over periods of up to three months.Supervise a team of Specialist Pricing Administrators.Role Qualifications: Matric.Financial tertiary education (NQF7 or higher).Knowledge and experience in Pricing - calculating NAV's, Money Market yields, etc.Relevant management experience/potential.Good interpersonal skills.Ability to interact at all levels with staff and stakeholders.Strong technical and numeric skills.Good application of business principles.Attention to detail.Competencies Collaboration (Relating).Customer First.Execution.Innovation (Perspective).Leading with Influence.Personal Mastery (Learning).Strategic.This role manages a team in a typical finance environment, with some individual deliveries and is individually accountable for achieving results through others, over periods of 3 months to one year. The person holding this role will lead a team that generally focuses and concentrates on one or two major processes.
Responsible for the management of a unit of finance staff (typically accounts administrators and/or senior accounts administrators, and occasionally technical specialists (mostly role size M), in support of business objectives.Normal functions pertaining to management (people, process, customer and finance) apply.Team size would vary but would mostly be between 5 and 15 staff members.Also responsible for technical deliveries themselves (high level of technical knowledge in related field to their own staff).Technical skills would relate to a field within the Finance ambit, i.e. product/process/business unit, etc.Carries responsibility to deliver on operational projects within field of expertise.Skills Money Markets.Numerical Aptitude.Pricing Processes.Risk Management.Technical Skills.Competencies Business Insight.Communicates Effectively.Ensures Accountability.Financial Acumen.Manages Complexity.Optimizes Work Processes.Organizational Savvy.Plans and Aligns.Education NQF Level 7 - Degree, Advance Diploma or Postgraduate Certificate or equivalent (Required).
Closing Date 13 January 2025, 23:59.
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