Economic Research Assistant

**Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact**
- 121952 - Busi Radebe- Job Family- Investment Banking
- Career Stream- Strategic Research and Analysis
- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional

**Job Purpose**
- To provide accurate and timely economic intelligence as well as original; useful analysis and economic forecasting for Nedbank's internal and external stakeholders in order to support strategic decision-making; and to raise the bank's profile through an effective presence in the media.**Responsibilities**:

- Build and maintain strong internal and external relationships by providing input at meetings; as well as regular communication; formal presentations; and media comments.
- Build trusting professional relationships by sharing knowledge; meeting deadlines; providing quality; timely information and contributing to consistent workflow.
- Develop collaborative relationships as a bank spokesperson; providing expert viewpoints and working as part of various project teams.
- Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals by participating in Nedbank culture-building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc).
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy (e.g. Green Strategy).
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes and systems by identifying and recommending effective ways to operate and adding value to Nedbank.
- Provide expertise and professional guidance in the business credit process by assessing economic risk. Support client acquisition by giving business presentations at relevant forums.
- Contribute to Nedbank's financial planning process by providing economic forecasts and strategic advice and direction.
- Provide historic data and economic intelligence and analysis by reading widely; gathering; distilling and analysing data; building models and preparing reports.
- Update and manage databases by extracting and linking data from external database services and sourcing and manually updating files.
- Provide appropriate resolution for tasks and unmet deadlines by planning; preparing in advance and taking corrective action.
- Ensure personal quality and productivity standards are met by conducting self; peer and line manager reviews; using credible sources of information and checking publications with Nedbank Editorial Services.
- Adapt to change by reading widely; continuous learning; adjusting models; obtaining and updating software and by becoming a change agent.
- Ensure compliance by following regulations; policies and procedures; keeping up to date through training; and escalating risk-related matters.
- Resolve conflicts in external meetings by managing the discussions and being consistent with the business unit's and Nedbank's views.
- Enhance bank credit policies and procedures by suggesting changes and being part of expert groups.
- Integrate economic forecasts in the planning process. Support the achievement of the business strategy; objectives and values by reviewing Nedbank's and the business unit's plans and ensuring systems; processes; services and solutions are aligned to them.
- Identify training courses and career progression for self through input and feedback from management
- .Ensure all personal development plan activities are completed within specified timeframe.
- Share knowledge and industry trends with team and stakeholders during formal and informal interaction.
- Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes (e.g. operational processes) that will improve the functioning of stakeholders' businesses by highlighting the benefits of implementing recommendations.

**People Specification**
- Essential Qualifications - NQF Level- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree
- Preferred Qualification- Masters Degree in Economics or Econometrics- Minimum Experience Level- 5 years' related experience

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Business writing
- Communication Strategies
- Data analysis
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Industry trends
- Microsoft Office
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Decision-making process
- Business Acumen
- Behavioural Competencies- Communication
- Continuous Learning
- Customer Focus
- Delivering High-Impact Presentations
- Managing Work
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566_