FirstRand Corporate Centre

Quantitative Business Analyst

FirstRand Corporate Centre  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

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Now, is the time to imagine your next move with South Africa’s number one employer in Financial Services for 2025, where you can embrace the power of collective thinking to unlock unique opportunities for our clients and society.

They purpose of the role is as follows:

To design, specify, build, configure, and test solutions for delivering the necessary capability to business that enables quality solutions and a client centric orientation.

Are you someone who can do the following:

  • Devise pricing and risk management solutions along with related IT processes and maintenance, testing and production support.
  • Construct and/or critically analyse financial models i.e., product pricing, curve stripping, scenario analysis etc.
  • Engage in process design, analysis, testing and troubleshooting in the area of pricing/risk-analysis.
  • Analyse systems capability/fit in the area of pricing or risk-analysis.
  • Analyse data and situation, identify and solve problems, reason logically and drive valid conclusions.
  • Analyse, design and implement purchased or in-house software applications.
  • Test and validate logic and processes implemented.
  • Take ownership of recurring production incidents by working with multiple stakeholders to resolve system issues.
  • Engage with the macro-environment to look for new opportunities, capabilities, and trends that would add value to the required analysis work.
  • Suggest changes in executing work processes to better drive value and benefits for the business.
  • Prepare and share recommendations for process and systems improvements in relevant area of accountability.
  • Participate in team, cross-discipline and vendor-driven collaboration sessions or forums to increase understanding of the working environment.
  • Engage with key stakeholders to gather information with regards to changes and developments in the respective business area that would impact demand for allocated technologies.
  • Review demand items in partnership with business to better understand impacts on the relevant system, processes, and systems environment.
  • Partner with process owners to create suitable roadmaps for business development and in anticipation of system and process enhancements.
  • Test and identify where service gaps would exist should different technologies be applied to the same process or where business process changes would not be accommodated by existing technology.
  • Analyse business requests to clearly understand business requirements and translate this into clear technical terms and specifications to best solve business problems.
  • Coordinate the integration activities of service providers
  • Monitor benefits against what was detailed in the business case.
  • Control specific measures and mechanisms to measure benefits.

You will be an ideal candidate if you have:

Qualifications

  • Minimum qualification: Bachelor’s degree in Mathematical Finance or another quantitative discipline
  • Preferred qualification: Post-graduate qualification in Mathematical Finance or another quantitative discipline

Experience and Skills

  • 3 - 5 years’ experience in a similar environment, of which 1 - 2 years ideally at a junior specialist level, with specific reference to relevant quantitative, risk and business analysis experience
  • Experience in designing and implementing integrated solutions
  • Experience in designing, testing, and configuring quantitative systems
  • Working knowledge of SQL and ability to analyse data
  • Multi asset class, and trade life cycle knowledge beneficial
  • Business process modelling and design capabilities
  • Understanding of data models and ability to validate data flows between and within systems

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Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

15/06/26

All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.

FirstRand Corporate Centre

About FirstRand Corporate Centre

The FirstRand Corporate Centre houses many of the critical functions required by a large and complex financial services group. The Corporate Centre’s stakeholders are external, such as regulators, shareholders, global developmental institutions and government; and also internal, mainly the market-leading businesses that service the group’s customers. These critical functions cover risk, compliance, governance, internal audit, treasury, finance and tax amongst many others. They require deep specialist and technical skills and ultimately represent the custodianship of the FirstRand group’s licence to operate.

Employees of the Corporate Centre develop a very unique perspective of the group because nowhere else can you own or be part of a mandate that operates across the portfolio. This allows for both big picture thinking and operational learning. It is also a great place to drive collaboration and a place to have a significant impact.

The Corporate Centre has adopted a blended approach to working, with a focus on balancing remote working and connections with colleagues in the workplace. Face-to-face interactions remain important to its way of working as these connections protect the business’s social capital, which is key to ensuring that FirstRand’s unique culture stays alive and continues to thrive.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Sandton, ZA
Year Founded
Unknown
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