Quantitative Analyst 41 views

Job Overview

  • Salary Offer Market Related
  • Experience Level Junior
  • Total Years Experience 0-5

Purpose:

A financial services company is seeking a Quantitative Analyst who will be responsible to contribute to the development and maintenance of best practice models and assessment strategies in line with regulations (where applicable) in order to facilitate world class risk management

 

Key Job Outputs:

  • Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in company 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 company
  • 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 company 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

 

Core Competencies:

  • Business acumen
  • Industry trends
  • Principles of project management
  • Relevant regulatory knowledge
  • Relevant software and systems knowledge
  • Risk management process and frameworks
  • Business writing skills
  • Quantitative skills
  • Adaptability
  • Applied learning
  • Earning trust
  • Communication
  • Stress tolerance
  • Driving for results
  • Continuous improvement
  • Technical/professional knowledge and skills
  • MS Office
  • SQL
  • Python
  • Power BI

 

Qualifications:

  • Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
  • Honours / 4-year degree in a Quantitative field (Commerce, Maths, Stats, Actuarial Science, Engineering)

 

Experience:

  • Graduate or 1/2 years’ experience

 

Salary:   Market related

 

Should you not hear from us within 2 weeks, kindly consider your application as unsuccessful.

All personal information received will be processed in accordance with The Protection of Personal Information Act No. 4 OF 2013

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