Macroeconomist

About us, purpose, experience and qualifications

**about us**:
**purpose**:

- The purpose of the Macroeconomist is to conduct economic research, investigate the dynamic macroeconomic relationships and understand how the economy functions in order to gain a better understanding of how a country’s economy works will impact business cycles, unemployment rates, inflation, interest rates, international finance, and its impact on monetary and fiscal policies. The purpose of the Macroeconomist is to use the macroeconomic research findings to aid RMB and its clients which can be multinational corporations, institutional investors, as well as governments, in making informed economic assessments and developing effective business strategies.**experience and qualifications**:

- Masters in degree in Economics majoring in Econometrics or Mathematics or Statistics Experience:

- Proven experience in econometric model building, and modelling and forecasting.
- Experience working with macroeconomic data and analyzing economic trends, as well as a strong grasp of the relationships between different sectors, markets and regions.
- Experience in supporting business development and sales activities.
- Experience with financial analysis and reporting, market analysis, and gathering competitive intelligence, particularly in relation to Strategy Consulting
- Experienced with data and analytics visualization software, as well as econometrics software (e.g., Matlab, Eviews, PowerBI, R, Python, Stata, Tableau)
- Strong quantitative skills and are an analytical thinker with experience in driving insights using statistics or data analysis**additional requirements**:
**responsibilities**:

- Build and maintain a suit of macroeconomic models that are used for the production of forecasting the South African economy.
- Advising clients on global macro trends, both short-term (e.g. inflation, supply chain disruptions) and long-term (e.g., the energy transition, automation of jobs, rise of digital in the economy), as well as other market forces which impact the economy, various industries and company strategies
- Advising clients on how they can enhance enterprise value based on macro, industry, and investor dynamics
- Developing iconic firm-wide thought leadership on macroeconomic trends for external publishing
- Helping support internal account planning and other strategic initiatives while partnering with teams across the business including Applied Intelligence, M& A, Sustainability, Industry Strategy, Technology Strategy, and Research
- Develop engagement strategies focused on helping clients craft rapid, data-driven, and practical strategies to boost their growth and profits.
- Responsible for the economic analysis of typically energy or infrastructure project feasibility studies, as a complement to the financial feasibility studies
- Performing Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis together with the supporting research; estimating social and economic costs and benefits, based on benchmarking or other techniques
- Responsible for ongoing analysis and research for key economic trends related to a wide variety of scopes which includes energy, infrastructure, decarbonisation and regenerative initiatives
- Assessing the likely adequacy of the impacts of projects and their associated economic development initiatives
- Provide insights and actionable results in well-written reports and presentations to clients, as well as defending the findings
- Provide advice and solutions on economic and development issues for private and government clients
- Conduct secondary research and seeking new data sources in order to prepare complete and accurate analysis, reports and recommendations