Pricing Analyst

**Quantitative Analyst**

**Reporting to: Head of Pricing**

**Job Purpose**: Nimble Group is a specialist financial services firm that provides credit management solutions to established credit grantors across the banking, retailer, and service-providing industries.

Our success is largely driven by the precision, agility, and accuracy of our investment team. This team has built state-of-the-art pricing models and has developed the skills to balance commercial instincts with statistical models.

We're looking for someone who will contribute to our nimble nature, fast-paced solution engineering mind-set, and continuous exploring of new ideas and concepts. We're a team of self-starters who enjoy pushing the boundaries of what it takes to stay ahead of the game.

**Location**: Woodstock, Cape Town

**Key Prformance Areas**:
Under the management / direction of the Head of Pricing, you will have the following responsibilities (including but not limited to):
**Minimum Requirements**:

- **Honours degree or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (Actuarial Science, Financial Risk Management, Investments, Statistics, Mathematics or similar)**:

- **2 + years of relevant work experience.**:

- **Advanced Microsoft Excel.**:

- **Working knowledge of SQL and Python.**

**Key responsibilities**:

- **Work with a wide range of data to accurately price various credit portfolios ranging across different products, sectors and jurisdictions.**:

- **Present proposed pricing and associated risks to the senior team of executives for various governance approvals (EXCO, Investment Committee and Board of Directors).**:

- **Set required benchmarks for acquired assets.**:

- **Monitor and report on investment performance.**:

- **Back-test pricing models.**:

- **Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to enhance and refine existing pricing models and build new pricing models for different asset classes and new markets.**

**Competencies / skills**
- **Knowledge of forecasting and various predictive-analytics techniques (eg. machine learning).**:

- **Analysing large datasets.**:

- **Attention to detail.**:

- **Strong inter-personnel and communication skills.**:

- **Self-motivated, analytically minded and inquisitive.**:

- **Able to work in a high-performance deadline driven team.**

**Working Hours**:
You will be required to work a maximum of 45 hours per week.

**Monday to Friday**

**How do I Apply?**

**This appointment will be made in line with the Nimble Group Employment Equity plan.