Regulatory & Financial Risk (RFR) - Senior Manager - Treasury

Deloitte Africa; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading advisory firm in financial services seeks a Senior Manager to oversee regulatory and financial risk management. This role requires cultivating high-level client relationships, leading major projects, and ensuring operational excellence while fostering team development. Candidates should possess extensive experience and relevant educational qualifications in finance or risk management.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years' experience in Treasury/Liquidity Risk roles.
• Professional certifications like FRM, PRM, CFA preferred.
• Extensive expertise in risk domains including Credit, Market, Liquidity, Operational Risks.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate executive-level relationships in financial risk management.
• Lead large-scale, high-impact projects, ensuring excellence in delivery.
• Mentor and develop senior professionals, nurturing a high-performing team.

Skills

Risk Management

Data Analytics

Leadership

Communication

Education

Degree or Post Grad in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Accountancy, or Risk Management

Tools

Python

SAS

R

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Company Description

At Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters for our clients, our people, and society. This is the lens for which our global strategy is set. It unites Deloitte professionals across geographies, businesses, and skills. It makes us better at what we do and how we do it. It enables us to deliver on our promises to stakeholders, while creating the lasting impact we seek.

Harnessing the talent of 450,000+ people located across more than 150 countries and territories, our size and scale puts us in a unique position to help change the world for the better—by bringing together the services we provide, the societal investments we make, and the collaborations we advance through our ecosystems.

Deloitte offers career opportunities across Internal Client Services, Audit & Assurance (A&A), Tax & Legal (T&L) and our Consulting services business, which is made up of Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory (SR&T) andTechnology & Transformation (T&T).

Are you ready to apply your knowledge and background to exciting new challenges? From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level.

Job Description

About the Division

Regulatory & Financial Risk (RFR) is an established advisor within the financial services industry. Our vision is to be the leading provider of advisory services to financial services institutions and corporate treasury operations across Africa.

We advise clients by simplifying regulatory and compliance initiatives, while building great visibility, efficiency and confidence in future regulations. We work with clients to help them optimize compliance programs, standardize processes and transform compliance to protect value across the business.

The RFR team comprises a strong mix of business, risk and regulatory practitioners. In so doing we are able to bring our clients practical solutions that look to address their end-to-end strategic and business model requirements.

Our service offering includes Credit Risk, Treasury, Capital and Liquidity Management, Valuations, Regulatory Advisory and Regulatory Assurance.

Your role as a Senior Manager

At Deloitte, we believe in the importance of empowering our people to be leaders at all levels. We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose and shared values, challenging themselves every day to identify issues that are most important to our clients, our people and the communities, and to make an impact that matters. In addition to living our purpose, Senior Managers across our Firm are expected to:

• Establish a strong leadership brand by inspiring others through passion, integrity, and appreciation.
• Create opportunities to drive impact by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams.
• Apply deep knowledge of trends and activity to drive continuous improvement and build lasting relationships across a diverse network.
• Translate and communicate broader strategy into a convincing team vision and goals, in order to align the team and set priorities to achieve objectives.
• Actively contribute to building the talent pipeline by championing a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams.
• Ability to work efficiently against demanding timelines while maintaining high-quality standards.

Main Purpose of the Role:

• Cultivate and manage executive and board-level relationships, positioning the firm as a trusted advisor in financial risk management and regulatory compliance.
• Identify growth opportunities, strengthen client partnerships, and deliver impactful strategic presentations while providing innovative solutions to complex financial risk and regulatory challenges.
• Ensure excellence in governance, quality assurance, and operational delivery across all client engagements.
• Serve as the firm’s subject matter expert on regulatory frameworks (e.g., Basel, IFRS9, Liquidity, Credit Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk) and industry-driven risk management methodologies, while driving innovation in quantitative modelling, analytics, and governance frameworks to address complex technical and strategic challenges.
• Foster collaborative relationships across regional and global teams, promoting knowledge exchange, consistent delivery excellence, and thought leadership.
• Lead large-scale, high-impact projects, managing resources, risks, and deliverables to ensure successful client outcomes.
• Mentor and develop senior professionals, nurturing a high-performing, future-ready team.
• Represent the firm as a recognized industry leader, actively engaging in thought leadership activities, speaking engagements, industry forums, and publications.
• You will be primarily responsible for execution on client engagements and growing the business through contributing to achieving the revenue targets for the business unit.
• As regulations and market conditions continuously evolve in this space, this is a dynamic role that will offer and require consistent upskilling.

Our client projects primarily cover:

• Liquidity risk, including contingency funding plans (CFPs), recovery plans, funds transfer pricing. (FTP), and regulatory aspects such as the LCR, NSFR and BA300 & BA310.
• Our flagship liquidity stress simulation service offering.
• Latest developments with respect to liquidity risk regulations for insurers.
• Interest rate risk in the banking book, including NII and EVE sensitivity, Credit Spread Risk in the Banking Book (CSRBB) and the BA330.
• Capital management, including Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Programme (ICAAP)
• Forecasting, stress testing and risk appetite.
• Treasury best practices and controls.

Required competencies:

• Understanding of pricing models and common risk metrics (sensitivities, stress tests, VaR, LCR, NSFR).
• Governance and controls, policies and procedure documentation.
• Demonstrates extensive expertise in one or multiple risk domains, including Credit Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk, Liquidity Risk, and Climate Risk, as well as relevant regulations.
• Advanced proficiency in data analytics and statistical modelling tools such as Python, SAS, and R, with advanced Excel and visualization software (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data interpretation skills, with high attention to detail and a meticulous work approach.

Required Experience

• At least 5-7 years’ experience in Treasury / Liquidity Risk roles that encompass responsibilities such as:
  • Liquidity, funding and interest rate risk management within a bank’s treasury function
  • Liquidity risk management, funding, funds transfer pricing.
  • FTP and CFPs
  • Capital demand and supply management within a bank, best practice w.r.t. ICAAP
  • Stress testing and risk appetite
  • Understanding of financial instruments and how these are utilised by banks for treasury and financial risk management purposes.

Qualifications

• Possesses a Degree or Post Grad in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Finance, Accountancy, Risk Management, or a related field.
• Professional certifications such as FRM, PRM and CFA are strongly preferred

Additional Information

At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day.We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. Weseek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

Note: The list of tasks / duties and responsibilities contained in this document is not necessarily exhaustive. Deloitte may ask the employee to carry out additional duties or responsibilities, which may fall reasonably within the ambit of the role profile, depending on operational requirements.

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At Deloitte, we want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work—in every country, in everything we do, every day.We aim to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly and with respect, including reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. Weseek to create and leverage our diverse workforce to build an inclusive environment across the African continent.

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