Credit Strategist at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• The role involves maintaining an updated understanding of corporate bond issuers traded by the Absa credit trading business. This includes issuers of ZAR-denominated bonds listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and hard currency issuances by African corporates.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for understanding and monitoring the key credit fundamentals that drive the credit profile of these issuers, providing timely insights and trade views to both internal trading desks and Absa clients.
• The ideal candidate will have a bachelor’s degree (Finance/Economics/Math's/Banking) with a minimum of 5 years in credit analysis in an Investment Bank and technical knowledge of Global Markets products.

Job Description

Credit analysis:

• Conduct credit risk analysis on all issuers that are traded by the desk including identifying opportunities for additional issuers that the desk can trade
• Maintenance of credit opinion on names
• Give regular updates to the trading team on financial and operational performance of issuers
• Write credit reviews and pre-auction reviews to be distributed internally and externally
• Create and maintain sector dashboards to give a view of the sector and update that on a regular basis
• Rank issuers by relative value based on credit metrics and other key fundamentals relevant to the industry 
• Monitor financial results and keep track of results releases
• Be able to flag risks when you see them

Client engagement

• Have client engagements where you can discuss and give educated views on issuers
• Work closely with sales team in client engagements
• Write credit notes on issuers to be distributed to external clients on a regular basis
• Contribute to monthly/weekly and ad hoc trading reports distributed by the credit strategy team

Trade ideas

• Provide internal traders and external clients with trade ideas where you see opportunities
• Actively manage the proprietary book and track its performance.
• Management
• Effectively communicate the role of Credit Trading and the Credit Strategist to all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships and a professional profile with internal and external business partners

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

End Date: August 29, 2025