Business Engineering Lead

Who are we?

Sanlam Financial Markets (“SFM”) is the business unit in Sanlam Group that is responsible for managing

shareholder credit, market, and liquidity risks, developing balance-sheet enabled products, and developing

solutions to optimize Sanlam’s balance sheet(s) to generate shareholder value. SFM works closely with the

Balance Sheet Management function of Sanlam to assist the Balance Sheet Management Function in its

pursuit of optimising returns on the Sanlam balance sheet.

The role may be based at Alice Lane Sandton or Tygervalley Cape Town

What will you do?

Ensures that business application requirements are effectively and efficiently managed, including the definition of business process needs, consideration of alternative sources, review of technological and economic feasibility, execution of risk and cost-benefit analysis and the design, development or purchase, implementation and monitoring of business applications.  Identifies, prioritises, specifies and agrees business functional and technical requirements covering the full scope of all initiatives required to achieve the expected outcomes. Enables investment programme, including changes required to the nature of the enterprise's business, business processes, people skills, resources and competencies, organisation structure, and enabling technology. Adheres to testing and quality standards. Applying development management technologies and methodologies such as Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) e.g. Agile, Waterfall or other pattern, practices and development frameworks.  Architecture models utilised such as technology architecture, data architecture, Access, Identity, security management and change management models.

Qualification and Experience

• BSc (Hons) with Mathematical / Statistical / Finance subjects.
• 5-10 years’ experience in a similar role.
• Counterparty credit risk modelling.

Candidates with the following experience will be given preference

• System-specific knowledge:
  • Murex
  • Bloomberg
  • Knowledge of Moody’s Credit Edge
  • MS SQL
  • VBA programming
• Other
  • Mathematics of Finance degree and/or

Knowledge and Skills

• Manages complexity – Contributing Independently
• Drives results – Contributing Independently
• Customer focus – Contributing Independently
• Cultivates innovation – Contributing Independently

Personal Attributes

• Liquidity risk assessment programme – Contributing Independently
• Business processes – Contributing Independently
• Reporting and administration – Contributing Independently
• Liquidity risk management – Contributing Independently
• Quality, compliance and accreditation – Contributing Independently

Build a successful career with us

We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets and Santam – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.

Due date for applications:

Closing date is Monday, 28 October 2024.