Investment Pricing Analyst

3 days ago

Cape Town, South Africa Nimble Group Full time

**ABOUT US**

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.

Culture-wise, we are 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 are a team of self-starters who enjoy pushing the boundaries of what it takes to stay ahead of the game

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

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

This winning team is growing and we are looking for a highly energetic individual who is curious to explore and would like to make their mark as part of our pricing team.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

Under the management and direction of the Head of Pricing, the Investment Pricing Analyst will have the following responsibilities (including but not limited to);
- Understand and review large sets of data - including the interrogation of both internal and external data sets to ensure its accuracy and completeness.
- Identification of relevant trends and /or data anomalies which may provide useful insights and /or highlight pricing risks.
- Data enhancement and preparation - utilise additional data (internal and external) to enhance the data sets received from clients.
- Collaborate in the team in ways to enhance existing pricing models and build new pricing models to:

- Predict future performance of debt portfolios using the data available.
- Incorporate financial modelling to value the debt portfolios.
- Present pricing model outputs to a senior team of executives.
- Assist the senior executives in preparing investment proposals for presentation to the Group's Investment Committee.
- Monitor and report on investment performance.

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- A statistical, mathematical and or a financial degree
- The individual should have 2 - 3 years of relevant work experience (experience at a credit provider or professional services firm will be beneficial)
- The role will require proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel to perform financial modelling and analyse data.
- Proficient and have a working knowledge of analytical tools such as SQL; Python or similar.

**COMPETENCIES / SKILLS**
- Understand the role of predictive analytics in credit management and have experience in working with and analysing large sets of data.
- Strong inter-personnel and communication skills to ensure an ability to clearly communicate at various levels of management including the senior executive team.
- Self-motivated, analytically minded and inquisitive
- Able to work to a high degree of precision while ensuring that you are able to keep the broader objective in mind.
- Worked in or you are ready to work in a high performance deadline driven team.

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