Analyst - Climate Risk Analytics

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.Job Summary

The Climate Risk Analytics Analyst will be involved within the Enterprise Risk Measurement function. The Enterprise Risk Measurement function is responsible for the development of Climate Risk, Economic Capital, and Stress Testing models.

The Climate Risk Analytics Analyst will assist in the development, maintenance, and implementation of various climate related models in the bank.

**Job Description**:
**Job Description**:

- Develop models in-house by ensuring model build data are of sufficient quality, completing statistical data analysis and producing detailed model build documentation.
- Develop various forecasting models to evaluate various impacts on the group.
- Develop Physical and Transition Risk, and other climate related models to evaluate the impact on the group.
- Work with climate related and bank related datasets - sourcing, analysing, and processing.
- Use the latest techniques, coding languages and packages to develop solutions.
- Stay abreast of climate related topics, modelling techniques and discussions.
- Work with stakeholders across the bank to develop tailored solutions in relation to climate related analytics.
- Ensure full governance processes for modelling are complied with from model inception and build through to validation.
- Ensure successful implementation of models.

Stakeholder management would be required, that mainly includes:

- Actively engage stakeholders to be fully engaged in the process and delivery.
- Generate appropriate challenge on model builds by discussing model build detail and ideas.
- Manage key stakeholders across the business by ensuring their issues, objectives and priorities are reflected in the agreed solutions.
- Develop and maintain relationships with relevant business units by understanding the business units' requirements and obtaining feedback.

Education and Experience requirements
- A relevant Postgraduate Degree in a numerate field, e.g., Maths, Stats, Engineering, Actuarial Science, etc.
- Minimum of 2-4 years of banking related experience.
- Climate risk related experience will be advantageous.
- Coding abilities in Python will be preferred.
- Studying toward a professional qualification (e.g., Fellow of the Actuarial Society of SA) will be preferred.
- Climate risk related courses, certifications or education will be preferred.

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_


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