46 Investment Banking jobs in South Africa

Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking

Location: Johannesburg, Baker Street 30, ZA

• Young people who are invested in Africa’s sustainable growth
• Courageous problem solvers
• Collaborative team players
• Inquisitive minds with a relentless desire to learn
• Ambitious go-getters who are driven to win
• Individuals that subscribe to the highest ethical standards

“If you want to be the best, you need to learn from the best.”

Standard Bank placed 18th in the 2024 edition of Forbes' annual ranking of the World's Best Employers, a list that includes 850 top large multinational organisations. The bank emerged as the highest ranked company from Africa and ranked second in the Banking and Financial Services sector globally.

Postgraduate or 4-year degree in:

• Accounting
• Business sciences
• Economics
• Math/ Statistics

Additional Requirements:

• South African Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Full-time student or very recent graduate
• Minimum of 65% average over all years of study

Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking

Location: Johannesburg, Baker Street 30, ZA

• Young people who are invested in Africa’s sustainable growth
• Courageous problem solvers
• Collaborative team players
• Inquisitive minds with a relentless desire to learn
• Ambitious go-getters who are driven to win
• Individuals that subscribe to the highest ethical standards

“If you want to be the best, you need to learn from the best.”

Standard Bank placed 18th in the 2024 edition of Forbes' annual ranking of the World's Best Employers, a list that includes 850 top large multinational organisations. The bank emerged as the highest ranked company from Africa and ranked second in the Banking and Financial Services sector globally.

Postgraduate or 4-year degree in:

• Accounting
• Business sciences
• Economics
• Math/ Statistics

Additional Requirements:

• South African Citizen or Permanent Resident
• Full-time student or very recent graduate
• Minimum of 65% average over all years of study

Head, Infrastructure (Corporate & Investment Banking)

Job Overview

Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking

Location: ZA, undefined, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

To lead and direct the platform team to deliver cost-effective end-to-end design, architecture and performance of the platform, ensuring availability of the platform and its associated services are stable, secure, compliant to standards, consistently within agreed service levels and resulting in customer satisfaction

• Analyse the costs associated with delivering the platform service/s and identify opportunities for improvement through applicable investment plans
• Assess and monitor the end-to-end performance of the service/s supported by service improvement plans and lead relevant vendor management performance discussions in aid of improvement of overall service delivery
• Authorise at functional level the allocation of resources for the planning, development and delivery, as appropriate, of services and products
• Build and maintain relationships with the Technology teams, CIO communities, and partner with 3rd party partners and the broader industry, influencing their contribution to be fit for purpose for the organisation
• Collaborate closely with other planning roles, architecture, portfolio managers and capacity planners to assist with and determine forecast demand for each service, determining the scope and value proposition of the platform service

• Post Graduate Degree:Information Technology/Similar(Min)

Experience Required: Technology Operations / Infrastructure Production

5-7 years:

• Experience in network planning, engineering and architecture, managing the inventory of all networking components.

8-10 years:

• Comprehensive understanding of IT Infrastructure including cloud and development integration.
• Experience in Service Support and Management, Information Technology, Operations Support Change and Project Management, Strategy Implementation.
• Experience in leading engineers to evolve and implement a cohesive platform strategy, with teams operating across the entire networking stack.
• Experience in leading a diverse team to design, architect and deliver various platform services.

Reference: NFR003330-Abi-1
A leading firm is seeking an Investment Banking Associate. You would be working on some of the most challenging mandates within the company’s rapidly transforming landscape. M&A, Financial Modelling and advanced Excel skills would paint a picture that the hiring manager would love to see!

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Execution of M&A Mandates and Transactions.
• Financial Modelling and Valuations.
• Investment Report writing and presentation to Investment Committees.
• Managing all stages of transactions.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a Business, Finance or Management.
• 5 or more years of Experience in Investment Banking/Corporate Finance/Private Equity.
• MBA from a top Business School or CFA is an advantage.

800 000.00 - R 1300 000.00 - Annually

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply directly.

Our client, a leading Investment bank, is on the hunt for an Associate Principal to join their growing team. The successful candidate would need to assist with conceptualizing, identifying, developing and executing profitable long-term debt, preference share and quasi-equity solutions in South Africa and in the rest of Africa and acting in collaboration with internal and external clients and stakeholders, including our alliance partners.

Job Responsibilities:

Origination and Cross Sell:

1. To perform a supporting role in the client and deal origination targets through:

• Identifying potential new clients for the company;
• Identifying potential new transaction opportunities for the company;
• Display innovative thinking and creativity.

• Identifying opportunities for IB teams, i.e., Debt Finance teams, Corporate Finance;
• Identifying opportunities for Markets;
• Identifying opportunities for Transaction Banking.

Manage Internal Processes:

• Ensure regulatory compliance by Sanctions checking and adherence to regulations, policies and procedures (FICA, KYC, etc.).
• Execute credit / IC approval process by providing support with structuring, rating, pricing and analyzing the client/deal, as well as collaborating in the completion of the credit / IC application through constructive communication and consultation.
• Ensure ongoing risk management by undertaking client site visits, completing annual Credit Reviews reviewing the risk annually, assessing performance & undertaking regular client visits in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Improve deal origination by providing multidisciplinary solutions, identifying and resolving work problems and delivering the required output to clients, and refining and enhancing coverage.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (Hons) in Finance or Accounting, Sciences, Economics, Legal or Bus Science (Hon) Accounting, Finance, Statistics, Actuarial Science Economics and any BSc (Hon)
• CA (SA), CFA, master’s degree in commerce

Experience:

• Minimum of 6-8 years banking / relevant sector experience, with a strong background in lending and/or supporting lending teams in the leveraged finance and/or corporate lending industry.

Technical / Professional Knowledge:

• Microsoft Office – Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• The company’s culture and values
• The company’s policies and procedures
• The company’s vision and strategy
• Principles of financial management
• Principles of project management
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant software and systems knowledge
• Research methodology
• Decision-making process
• Ability to digest complex data, then make reasonable conclusions and recommendations

Behavioural Competencies:

• Building Partnerships internally and externally
• Collaborating across various teams within the company
• Customer Focus
• Outgoing personality with the ability to meet new people and strike up conversation
• Initiating Action, self-starter and ability to work independently
• High Work Standards
• Managing Work and Life balance
• Technical / Professional Knowledge and Skills

Architect, Data (Corporate & Investment Banking)

Job Overview

Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

To lead multiple products or work streams relating to the design and implementation of Cloud solutions, operating across a number of Service Teams across the Group, and proactively engaging with internal stakeholders. To guide and coach less-experienced peers to become more productive and effective team members.

• Acts as a subject matter expert from an information architecture perspective and provides input into all decisions relating to data engineering and the use thereof. Educate the organisation on information architecture perspectives on new approaches, such as testing hypotheses and statistical validation of results. Ensure ongoing knowledge of industry standards as well as best practice and identify gaps between these definitions/data elements and company data elements/definitions.
• Assess systems against the information architecture to ensure system and information architecture alignment and integration, liaise with relevant stakeholders should risks or incompatibilities arise.
• Define and manage strategic business and functional requirements into usable and enterprise information architecture. Ensure customer experience is incorporated into all enterprise information architecture designs. Engagement with external customers, relevant senior stakeholders within Standard Bank and other architects.
• Design, implement and continuously update information structure workflows and collaborate with internal technology project stakeholders to ensure effective project delivery.
• Determine how data and information is obtained, labelled and categorised through metadata standards. Responsible for shaping and managing Metadata standards and their effective implementation across Standard Bank.

Experience Required:

Enterprise Technology & Solutions Architecture

1-2 years: Leadership experience in driving technical engineering and development teams in the delivery of cloud solutions.

3-4 years: Experience implementing Continuous Integration or Continuous Delivery processes in engineering teams and experience leading and integrating test automation into various points in a deployment pipeline. Prior programming background in at least one or more languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Go, or scripting experience in Shell and Perl.

More than 10 years: Experience in using large scale production systems and technologies, for example load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, micro services, and configuration management. Designing and executing small to medium scale systems automation projects with strong autonomy. Familiarity with and enthusiasm for software engineering best practices such as testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery. Familiarity with systems and configuration management tools.

• Articulating Information
• Challenging Ideas
• Developing Expertise
• Empowering Individuals
• Agile Concepts
• Business Analysis Environments and Perspectives
• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning

Job Overview

Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street

To design, code, test, debug, and maintain programs in development environments. Apply agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result. Work within a strict framework of programming standards under the supervision of senior technical resources.

• Adhere to application lifecycle management accountabilities, architectural platforms and guardrails and ensure that all activity is digitally recorded and tracked to enable continuous delivery and development in the engineering environment, by effectively collaborating with stakeholders to deliver on required targets to add value to the clients.
• Adopt and adhere to suitable and agreed development methodologies and principles through work outputs and behaviours that enable continuous delivery and development across the production environment as well as ensuring effective collaboration with all colleagues and stakeholders in order to meet required targets and therefore deliver value to the customer.
• Develop code, build, assemble, implement, test and perform data conversion for applications and ensure that processes are accurately documented. Perform system enhancements for the applications as required to ensure the delivery of the engineering function.
• Construct, interpret and execute moderate to complex end-to-end system and program tests to verify correct operation of completed systems, to ensure that technical requirements are adhered to and test execution activities to ensure seamless and effective implementation of engineering systems.
• Contribute to programmes and platforms for the processing, analysis and visual display of data, integrating new and existing data sources and ensuring the validity and reliability of data to support data-driven decision making as required. Ensuring continuous deployment and operation to deliver the engineering objectives.

Experience Required:

Software Engineering

5-7 years: Broad experience in translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications and developing the programming code to create the solutions.

8-10 years: Proven experience in modern engineering practices i.e. dev ops, agile etc., Proven experience across multiple, broad IT Engineering disciplines, with demonstrated specialization in at least one. Experience within the required scope of expertise.

Analyst, Feature (Corporate & Investment Banking)

Job Overview

Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

To clarify business requirements, documenting associated user stories and acceptance criteria, through in-work collaboration with business stakeholders, cross functional teams and product owners contributing to the accurate and effective end-to-end delivery of expectations. To assume the role of scrum master within the Feature team if required.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams comprised of product management, User Experience (UX), technology, support, testing and other subject matter experts to gather and analyse functional needs and user story requirements.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to create and refine user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate within the feature team to ensure that stories are delivered effectively, and quality standards are adhered to.
• Conduct business interviews, facilitate workshops or procedures and map user stories enabling these to come together as a cohesive whole.
• Continuously improve the team's process through individual contribution and retrospectives in support of Product Owner, influence and steer the various team members (developers, testers and user experience team) ensuring the business context is fully understood and delivery on the backlog achieved.

Degree: Information Technology

5-7 years: Good understanding of Agile working practices and LEAN and SCRUM proficiency and working collaboratively across teams.

5-7 years: Proven experience in requirements elicitation, gathering, documentation and management and analysing business needs and provide solutions, working in an agile environment.

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Job Overview

Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking

Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, Baker Street 30

To shape, plan, and lead Portfolio delivery providing expert Engineering skill, directing system capabilities, priorities, and resources ensuring solutions are developed and maintained to standards and practices. To synthesize and mature Engineering Practices (Software Quality; Change & Release; DEVOPS) across Portfolio delivery teams. Lead and manage resources: software and quality engineers, technical system team (50-80 resources), building capacity, capability, and competencies in the Engineering team.

Qualifications

• Degree - Information Technology (Required)
• Post Graduate Degree - Information Studies (Preferred)

Experience Required:

Software Engineering

8-10 years

• Proven ability to work effectively as both a team leader and as a member of a small team of technical staff working in an agile development environment.
• Track record in capability and competency building and coaching of staff is required.
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience as a senior manager running a portfolio of 10+ technical experts.

More than 10 years

• Come from a background of full lifecycle design and development.
• Broad experience of application development methodologies, database methodology, programming languages, database concepts, and IT infrastructure and operations.
• Proven track record to a broad spectrum of stakeholders including senior executives. Knowledge of Agile and Lean frameworks.

Please note: All our recruitment processes comply with the applicable local laws and regulations. We will never ask for money or any form of payment as part of our recruitment process. If you experience this, please contact our Fraud line on +27 800222050 or