Quantitative Analyst

Requisition Number and Talent Acquisition

REQ: 133514

Location: Sandton, Johannesburg

Closing Date: 30 April 2024

Talent Acquisition: Saranya Govender

Career Stream

Quantitative

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

The role will be focused on maintaining, monitoring and refining the IFRS9 impairment models, general credit risk analytics and reporting analyses within the Retail and Business Banking Credit Provisions team. The role provides in-depth exposure to the banks credit risk measurement methodologies used for the calculation of credit impairments. Furthermore, it offers high visibility as the analyses and reports will be tabled at executive level committees and the banks internal and external auditors. This is a balanced role, focusing on technical expertise as well as behavioral competencies (e.g. conflict resolution, negotiation skills). This role will suit a passionate and ambitious individual interested in Credit Risk modelling and analytics.

Job Responsibilities

The incumbent of the role is accountable for driving the accurate and timeous completion of key credit risk analytics as well as continually developing analytics to aide accuracy of reporting in line with Nedbanks strategic goal of being operationally excellent in all we do.
Maintain, monitor and refine IFRS 9 ECL credit impairment models in SAS and the Nedbank Model Implementation Platform.
Alignment of credit provisioning and reconciliation
Monthly production of high-quality credit impairment reporting
Monthly analysis and assurance of portfolio movements
Assisting management with various ad-hoc tasks, reports, specific deep dives and analyses
The incumbent must keep abreast with accounting standard (IFRS 9) requirements.
Increase efficiencies through programming and automating processes.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level