Senior Specialist, Financial Model Development

Location: Rosebank • Full-time • Business Segment: Group Functions Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa.

Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you. Job Description

Lead a team of financial modelling / planning specialists across the group's Africa Regions and Offshore (AR&O) portfolio to develop fit for purpose financial planning models, apply and enhance specialist techniques and mathematical / statistical models such as time series forecasting and multivariate statistics, evaluate past and current financial performance, forecast trends, identify opportunities, anticipate risks and enable effective decision-making for Standard Bank Group.

Optimise forecasting / scenario analysis capabilities and collaborate with Finance technology to define required technical architecture for AR&O. Qualifications

Type of

Qualification:

Post Graduate Degree

Field of Study: Finance and Accounting, Mathematical Sciences • Experience Required • Financial Insights & Analytics • Finance & Value Management • More than 10 years experience with enterprise wide or business unit level financial planning with focus on sensitivities of financial outcome to alternative macro- economic and financial scenarios. Practical experience in Treasury Capital Management would be essential in order to assess impact of perform scenario analysis and planning on capital and liquidity, and to ensure alignment between risk appetite and strategic plans.

Practical experience in enterprise wide or business unit specific risk model development. • 3-4 years: Coding experience in Python, DAX or similar required. Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud or similar would be required. Practical experience with BI (Power BI or similar) would be important. #J-18808-Ljbffr