FirstRand Corporate Centre

Murex Specialist (Back Office)

FirstRand Corporate Centre  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  9 hours ago
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Job Description

The Murex Specialist is responsible for understanding the full lifecycle of a trade from Pricing to Settlement and the impact on Market Risk, Finance, Credit Risk and Collateral. Continuous development of Murex Platform is done by enhancing current functionality and building out for new business requirements.

The role performs across the Markets, Banking and Treasury Business Units.

Are you someone who can do the following:

Analysis and solution development

  • Analyse existing processes and facilitate improvements with stakeholders.
  • Work with traders and other stakeholders to gather and document requirements
  • Conduct impact analysis, understand trader's pain points and propose solutions
  • Coordinate and participate in the test effort to ensure that the delivered solution meets agreed business requirements and functional/process specifications.
  • Configure/Develop Solutions in the Murex Platform to meet business needs
  • Participate in analytical queries such as Risk, PnL and Pricing as well as technical queries linked to Workflows, Integrations and Reporting

Service Excellence

  • Compile training material and provide end-user training to stakeholders where relevant.
  • Collaborate with internal technical team/users in the resolution of critical production incidents
  • Collaborate with Murex Vendor on suitable short- and long-term solutions for incidents and new requirements
  • Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business.

Effective stakeholder relationship management

  • Build and maintain professional working relationships with all stakeholders, displaying excellent abilities to initiate dialogue, listen, advise, influence and negotiate to achieve win-win outcomes.
  • Initiate meetings with key stakeholders to track progress, manage expectations and ensure stakeholders’ requirements are delivered
  • Build relationships despite arising conflicting views and seeks mutual gains when addressing conflicts
  • Anticipates consequences and adapts problem solving based on continuous feedback

Self-management and teamwork

  • Plan and manage own workflow, anticipating obstacles, juggling priorities and following through on objectives within agreed time-frames and according to quality standards
  • Stay relevant and up to date with legislations and new development
  • Take ownership of personal career development, leveraging formal and informal opportunities
  • Act in an ethical, transparent and morally defensible manner
  • Adapt communication styles to meet the needs of different audiences
  • Continually share, debate and communicate learning’s, also flag and debate issues constructively to ensure the best outcome for business stakeholders and altimately the bank
  • Contribute to a friendly, co-operative climate in working with others to achieve collective goals

You will be an ideal candidate if you have the following:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or related discipline is required
  • ACI Dealing Certificate advantageous

Strong functional knowledge of:

  • The Capital Markets Products and Business environment
  • Trade life cycle and financial markets asset classes like Derivatives, Interest Rate, Money Market, Fixed Income;
  • Agile Scrum project execution process
  • Murex system modules - Front Office Configuration / Modules, Sensitivity, Risk issues, P&L Analysis, Pre-Trade Rule and Pricing Template setup

Experience:

  • At least 3 years of experience in implementing and supporting Financial Markets systems and their interfaces between systems
  • Experience in Murex and/or MX TEST

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Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

27/07/26

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.

FirstRand Corporate Centre

About FirstRand Corporate Centre

The FirstRand Corporate Centre houses many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services group. The Corporate Centre’s stakeholders are external, such as regulators, shareholders, global developmental institutions and government; and also internal, mainly the market-leading businesses that service the group’s customers. These critical functions cover risk, compliance, governance, internal audit, treasury, finance and tax amongst many others. They require deep specialist and technical skills and ultimately represent the custodianship of the FirstRand group’s licence to operate.

Employees of the Corporate Centre develop a very unique perspective of the group because nowhere else can you own or be part of a mandate that operates across the portfolio. This allows for both big picture thinking and operational learning. It is also a great place to drive collaboration and a place to have a significant impact.

The Corporate Centre has adopted a blended approach to working, with a focus on balancing remote working and connections with colleagues in the workplace. Face-to-face interactions remain important to its way of working as these connections protect the business’s social capital, which is key to ensuring that FirstRand’s unique culture stays alive and continues to thrive.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Sandton, ZA
Year Founded
Unknown
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