Associate: Corporate Finance - Africa

Job Purpose

The purpose is to help scale Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (NCIB) corporate finance business in Africa, drive strategic initiatives, and execute high-value transactions in Africa.

This role offers the opportunity to work on high-impact transactions, collaborate with top-tier clients, and gain exposure to strategic decision-making in a fast-paced environment.

Job Responsibilities

• Build and maintain professional relationships with external clients by understanding their needs through the analysis and research process and responding to their queries promptly.
• Establish and maintain trusting working relationships with Cluster and team to enable smooth flow of work through being active member of the team (eg: providing any information as may be required).
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with vendors eg: Bloomberg; INET etc through interaction with them on an ad hoc basis.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (eg: staff surveys etc).
• Ensure continuous improvement of service delivery by keeping abreast of latest trends and developments in the market.
• Support corporate responsibility by participating in corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (eg: . Green Strategy).Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
• Contribute to making Nedbank a great place to work by living the Deep Green values.
• Ensure that work is completed according to plan and expectations by executing duties / tasks / instructions / responsibilities within internal and external guidelines and regulatory / compliance / governance requirements.
• Ensure that resources (eg: own time) are utilised effectively to produce balanced output by effective time management and communication.
• Manage reputational risks by complying with industry regulations; other legislation ( in particular FICA sanctions screening; NDA processes) and acting professionally at all times.
• Solve various problems (eg: client and Nedbank problems) by providing quality advice and recommendations; documenting them into internal and external reports and requisite documentation pertaining to proposals; transactions and implementations.Implement/co-implement transactions or components of transactions by coordinating legal input and requisite transaction administration; and by diligently following due processes and procedures.
• Provide support activities to the team to generate revenue by designing; developing; testing; updating and maintaining financial valuation models of varying degrees and conducting research and analysis into market trends; targeted clients and sector analysis; as well as latest tax; JSE regulation and other legislation.
• Ensure that delivery timeframes are met through being proactive; effective communication and proper time management.
• Ensure that mandates; assignments and pitches are implemented and that feedback is obtained from principals and clients by assisting in the implementation thereof.
• Achieve financial results in line with that of the Corporate Finance team by through performance of daily tasks.
• Ensure Nedbank gets its dues by collecting outstanding debtors
• Ensure that business results are met by assisting in the development of proposals and implementation of transactions.
• Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank and Business Unit Plan and ensuring delivered systems; process; services and solutions are aligned.Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management.
• Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
• Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction to contribute to intellectual capital development in the team.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Post Graduate Qualification / CA (SA) / CFA / Bcomm. LLB. / BSc. Engineering / Actuarial Science

Minimum Experience Level

3-5 years relevant experience in Corporate Finance or Business Development

Additional Requirement

Requirement to travel into Africa and abroad depending on business needs (Having a valid passport is mandatory and if not in possession, then if successful, application should be submitted in first two weeks of employment)

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies