Treasury Operations Consultant

Treasury Operations Consultant

About Discovery 

Discovery’s core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society. 

Job Description

The Treasury Operations consultant will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of Discovery Bank’s Treasury Operations area. You will be a responsible for providing a full range of Treasury Support Services (Back office, Middle Office, and Systems) to the Bank’s Treasury department.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide daily end-to-end Treasury support, including trade and payment verification, confirmation, settlements, General Ledger posting and reconciliation.
• Provide system testing support (UAT) on bug fixes, system enhancements, and treasury new products.
• Reconcile and validate trade capture and day trading activity in timely and accurate manner.
• Assist in resolving trade discrepancies caused from trade failures, breaks, etc.
• Ensure that Treasury related internal accounts are reconciled by clearing all exceptions.
• Perform daily financial reconciliation between front office systems, risk systems & Finance’s GL to ensure data in all systems matches.
• Perform variance analysis between Front Office P&L and Finance GL to ensure variances are analysed & explained.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred. Banking / Payments related qualifications (ACI/PASA) an advantage.
• Three to five years’ experience in a Bank Payments or Treasury support environment.
• Experience in performing system and trade reconciliations.
• Good understanding of the processing of financial markets instruments in the following asset classes; FX, Money Markets and Fixed Income
• Systems experience: Calypso and SAP preferred. SWIFT and/or intermediate excel skills an advantage.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                             
The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.