Head : Equities Trading

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Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together...one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group. Job Summary The Head Trading Desk is accountable for leading the Stockbroking Trading Desk, ensuring the effective execution of client trading activities across relevant asset classes, markets and platforms. The role is responsible for driving trading excellence, market conduct, operational discipline, client service, risk management and commercial performance within the Stockbroking business. The role provides operational leadership to the trading function, ensuring that execution standards, regulatory requirements, client outcomes and business performance objectives are consistently met. The Head Trading Desk acts as a key interface between portfolio managers, clients, operations, compliance, risk, technology, product teams and external market participants. Job Description Trading Desk Leadership and Execution Excellence Lead and manage the Trading Desk to ensure accurate, timely and compliant execution of trades across approved markets, instruments and platforms. Key responsibilities include: Oversee daily trading activity and ensure execution is aligned to client mandates, instructions, best execution principles and internal policies. Monitor market conditions, liquidity, pricing, volatility and trading risks that may affect client outcomes. Ensure trades are executed efficiently, accurately and within agreed turnaround times. Drive disciplined pre-trade and post-trade controls. Manage escalation of execution issues, failed trades, price disputes, system outages or market incidents. Ensure trading practices comply with JSE rules, FSCA requirements, FAIS obligations, internal governance standards and market conduct principles. Maintain a high-performance trading environment that balances speed, accuracy, client outcomes and risk discipline. Strategic and Commercial Leadership Contribute to the strategic growth and competitiveness of the Stockbroking business by ensuring the Trading Desk supports revenue growth, client retention and market relevance. Key responsibilities include: Support the business strategy for Stockbroking, Wealth, Private Banking, Financial Advisers and Portfolio Management channels. Identify opportunities to improve trading capability, client experience, revenue generation and operational efficiency. Partner with product, platforms and technology teams to enhance digital trading solutions and adviser/client enablement. Provide market insights to business leadership to support strategic decision-making. Support growth in assets under management, assets under advice, brokerage income and client trading activity. Drive trading desk productivity, cost efficiency and service excellence. Contribute to pricing, margin, brokerage and execution model reviews where applicable. Client, Adviser and Portfolio Manager Enablement Ensure the Trading Desk delivers a professional, responsive and trusted service to internal and external stakeholders. Key responsibilities include: Act as a senior point of contact for complex trading queries, high-value clients, adviser escalations and portfolio manager requirements. Support advisers and relationship managers with execution-related insights, trading processes and market updates. Ensure client instructions are handled with care, confidentiality and urgency. Promote a client-first culture focused on fair outcomes, transparency and professionalism. Strengthen collaboration between the Trading Desk, advisory teams, portfolio management, client service, operations and digital platforms. Ensure high standards of communication during volatile markets, corporate actions, major market events or trading disruptions. Risk, Compliance and Market Conduct Accountable for ensuring that the Trading Desk operates within regulatory, operational, conduct and reputational risk appetite. Key responsibilities include: Ensure adherence to all relevant trading rules, regulatory requirements and internal control frameworks. Maintain strong oversight of market abuse risks, insider trading risk, conflicts of interest, order handling, client priority and personal account dealing requirements. Embed a culture of ethical trading, accountability and market integrity. Ensure all trading activity is appropriately recorded, monitored and auditable. Partner with Compliance, Risk, Legal and Internal Audit on reviews, incidents, remediation and control enhancements. Ensure timely reporting and escalation of breaches, near misses, complaints, failed trades or control weaknesses. Support business continuity planning for trading operations, including system failures and market disruption scenarios. Maintain robust segregation of duties and control stand