Investment Pricing Analyst at MindMatch Consulting (Pty) Ltd

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the management and direction of the Head of Pricing, the Investment Pricing Analyst will have the following responsibilities (including but not limited to);

• Understand and review large sets of data – including the interrogation of both internal and external data sets to ensure its accuracy and completeness. Identification of relevant trends and /or data anomalies which may provide useful insights and /or highlight pricing risks.
• Data enhancement and preparation – utilise additional data (internal and external) to enhance the data sets received from clients.
• Collaborate in the team in ways to enhance existing pricing models and build new pricing models to: o Predict future performance of debt portfolios using the data available. o Incorporate financial modelling to value the debt portfolios.
• Present pricing model outputs to a senior team of executives.
• Assist the senior executives in preparing investment proposals for presentation to the Group’s Investment Committee.
• Monitor and report on investment performance.

REQUIREMENTS:

• A statistical, mathematical and or a financial degree
• The individual should have 2 – 3 years of relevant work experience (experience at a credit provider or professional services firm will be beneficial)
• The role will require proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel to perform financial modelling and analyse data.
• Proficient and have a working knowledge of analytical tools such as SQL; Python or similar.

COMPETENCIES / SKILLS

• Understand the role of predictive analytics in credit management and have experience in working with and analysing large sets of data.
• Strong inter-personnel and communication skills to ensure an ability to clearly communicate at various levels of management including the senior executive team.
• Self-motivated, analytically minded and inquisitive
• Able to work to a high degree of precision while ensuring that you are able to keep the broader objective in mind.
• Worked in or you are ready to work in a high performance deadline driven team