Head: Structured Trading Solutions at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• The purpose of this function is to define, drive, and execute the strategic direction of the Global Markets business by aligning client needs, market dynamics, regulatory developments, and organisational capabilities into coherent, profitable, and future-ready solutions.
• The role plays a central part in strengthening the Markets franchise by originating and delivering sophisticated, client-led solutions, while collaborating closely with Investment Banking and other business areas to unlock cross-platform opportunities and enhance overall client outcomes.
• The function carries a mandate to originate, structure, and execute solutions across trading and banking products, ensuring the organisation delivers diversified, sustainable revenues while remaining responsive to evolving regulatory and client requirements.
• It reflects a commitment to building an integrated, client-centric capability that optimises capital, enhances risk transfer, and improves liquidity and regulatory efficiency across the full spectrum of client needs. 

Job Responsibilities

• Achieve set financial results by driving and executing on client-led solutions.
• Design and deliver client-centric solutions across the business (e.g. NBFI solutions and unlisted credit initiatives). 
• Translate client requirements into well-structured, commercially robust solutions and oversee their end-to-end execution. 
• Maintain close alignment with client segments and trading teams to ensure solutions reflect real client needs and prevailing market conditions. 
• Collaborate with Investment Banking where appropriate to enhance solution breadth and client impact. 
• Strategic market insight, risk management, and future readiness (nexus between insurance, corporate balance sheet, and regulatory reform).
• Apply a deep understanding of market conditions and trading book dynamics to inform product design and strategic decision-making.
• Identify and develop new initiatives that position the business for evolving client, regulatory, and competitive landscapes.
• Continuously adapt strategy in response to local and global market shifts.
• Drive “originate-to-distribute” ambitions across the Nedbank ecosystem.
• Strengthen structuring capabilities across jurisdictions to support franchise growth.
• Provide guidance on complex execution challenges and cross-jurisdictional product development.
• Build and maintain high-impact relationships with central banks, ministries of finance, and development finance institutions to unlock and execute strategic opportunities.
• Facilitate product approvals and ensure alignment across regulatory, technical, and governance stakeholders.
• Pan-African strategy execution and regulatory alignment and commercial sustainability.
• Integrate evolving regulatory requirements into product design and overall business strategy.
• Ensure solutions are compliant, commercially viable, and aligned with client expectations.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across presence and non-presence jurisdictions to expand product offerings and drive regional strategy execution.
• Stakeholder leadership and organisational alignment.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

• Post graduate degree in Quantitative Mathematics or similar mathematical sciences

Essential Certification

• Applicable market and regulatory qualifications

Type of Exposure

• Global Markets marking making and trading risk on South African specific IR products, including Bonds, CCY swaps, credit products etc
• Multicurrency, multi asset-class complex non-linear Fixed Income, currency and credit instruments and their relevant markets
• Credit product structuring
• Monetising multicurrency, multi asset-class complex non-linear Fixed Income, currency, and credit risk, particularly credit
• Management of non-linear risk, especially within a multicurve environment
• Managing across-asset classes

Minimum Experience Level

• 10 years trading structured rates products and managing risk

Technical / Professional Knowledge

• Communication Strategies
• Diversity management
• Employee training/development
• Financial Accounting Principles
• Governance, Risk and Controls
• Operations planning
• Organisational systems
• Principles of project management
• Strategic planning
• Business writing skills

Behavioural Competencies

• Aligning Performance for Success
• Applied Learning
• Earning Trust
• Building talent
• Building partnerships
• Driving for Results
• Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
• Delegation and Empowerment