Title:  Quantitative Analyst

REQUSITION DETAILS

REQ ID: 145993 Thembi Mtshali

Location: Johannesburg 

Closing Date: 22 May 2026

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

Job Purpose

Job Responsibilities

• Be involved in the independent validation of market risk quantitative models that are strategically important from banking book and trading book perspective.
• Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
• Research and make recommendations for corporate citizenship initiatives in area of influence
• Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g. Green Strategy).
• Seek opportunities to improve business processes; models and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
• Contribute to the development of differentiated; superior solutions (solution engineering) that meet stakeholder and business requirements through analysis.
• Ensure product and/or solution design is congruent with the required business specifications through meeting stakeholder requirements timeously.
• Contribute to the development of differentiated; superior solutions (solution engineering) that meet stakeholder and business requirements through analysis.
• Ensure product and/or solution design is congruent with the required business specifications through meeting stakeholder requirements timeously.
• Ensure business needs are met by engaging and assisting business through face-to-face interaction and attendance at forums and committees.
• Assist the business to address queries by extracting and analysing data. Perform ad hoc analysis and complete data requests through monitoring of data as per client specification.
• Ensure continuity and knowledge base through documenting and recording processes and models.
• Provide insights enabling growth through analytical research; systems and marketing insights by delivering analytical results and making recommendations to stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance to policy through data analysis and monitoring.
• Create efficiencies and streamline processes through analysis.
• Establish understanding of processes by bridging the gap between operational and analytical concepts through communication.
• 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.
• Improve personal capability and stay abreast of developments in field of expertise by identifying training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from managers.
• Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities by ensuring all learning activities are completed; experience practiced, and certifications obtained and/or maintained within specified time frames.
• Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction
• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting benefits in support of the implementation of recommendations.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Post graduate degree in Statistics/Mathematics,  CFA/ FRM/CQF

Minimum Experience Level

Completed Graduate Trainee Program

Technical / Professional Knowledge

•    Business Acumen
•    Industry trends
•    Microsoft Office, LaTex
•    Principles of project management
•    Relevant regulatory knowledge
•    Relevant software and systems knowledge
•    Risk management process and frameworks
•    Business writing skills
•    Microsoft Excel, R, SAS, Python, Matlab
•    Quantitative Skills

Behavioural Competencies