Manager Quantitative Analytics: FTP

1 week ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Nedbank Full time R1 200 000 - R2 400 000 per year
Requisition Details and Talent Acquisition Contact

REQ ID: Michelle Thabethe

Location: Sandton

Cluster: Group Finance - Balance Sheet Management: COE

Closing date: 14 November 2025

Job Family

Investment Banking

Career Stream

Quantitative

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Others

Purpose of role

The Funds Transfer Pricing (FTP) team are a high-impact team at the heart of Nedbank's risk adjusted performance measurement engine. As a Manager Quantitative Analytics: FTP, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how the bank allocates funding cost, prices products, and drives profitability and strategic portfolio tilt across clusters.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence key financial levers through advanced analytics, automation, and optimization. You'll collaborate closely with the Executive: Group FTP and NIM Analytics to deliver insights that power strategic balance sheet management and risk-based pricing.

The FTP function plays an important role in Nedbank in terms of:
  • Transferring interest rate risk and liquidity risk to a central unit for the strategic management thereof.
  • Rewarding money-in business for their true liquidity generation and charge money-out business for their true liquidity consumed.
  • Enabling BSM to manage the structural liquidity and interest rate risk mismatch in the banking book.
  • Allowing BSM to perform other balance sheet management activities such as enabling portfolio tilt.
  • Enable Business to perform risk-based profitability measurement (economic profit), net interest margin management and risk-based product pricing.
The Manager Quantitative Analytics: FTP will be responsible for supporting the Executive: Group FTP and NIM Analytics with senior quantitative and qualitative tasks pertaining to FTP and other Asset and Liability Management related matters.

Outputs (deliverables)
  • Strategic Model Optimization: Continuously review and refine FTP methodologies and models to ensure fair, accurate, and competitive pricing across the bank's portfolio.
  • Insight-Driven Decision Making: Translate complex FTP analytics into strategic insights that inform executive-level decisions and strategy, unlock new pricing opportunities and support enterprise-wide financial planning.
  • Advanced Analytics & Automation: Lead the automation and digitization of advanced analytical models and pricing tools, enabling dynamic, real-time decision support across business units.
  • World-Class Reporting: Set the standard for high-impact reporting by optimising processes and designing and implementing business intelligence platforms to optimise time spent on high-value analytics of FTP at product, business unit, cluster and Group level - delivering insights that matter.
  • Residual Mismatch Analysis: Develop and optimize sophisticated models to analyse and explain residual FTP mismatches in Balance Sheet Management (BSM). Provide strategic recommendations to enhance balance sheet management and risk-adjusted performance.
  • Digital Tool Development and Enhancement: Continuously improve FTP pricing tools to reflect liquidity and interest rate repricing components, empowering client-facing teams with user-friendly precision pricing capabilities.
  • Strategic Partnerships: Cultivate trusted partnerships with business clusters, positioning the FTP team as a trusted advisor and partner of choice. Act as a senior advisor, influencing strategic direction and embedding FTP analytics into core decision-making processes.
  • Drive Timely and Accurate Financial Intelligence: As part of the greater FTP and NIM Analytics team ensure the delivery of accurate and timely FTP information to business units, BSM stakeholders and committees. Drive continuous improvement in quality, timeliness and relevance of analytics.
  • Turn Organizational Insight into Financial Advantage: Apply deep knowledge of the organizational systems, structures, policies and procedures to achieve FTP results and analytics to the benefit of the bank.
Formal Qualification
  • Post Graduate Degree in Quantitative Risk Management, Financial Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science or Mathematics.
Experience
  • 4-7 years' experience in an Asset and Liability Management, Treasury or Balance Sheet Management function and a basic understanding of FTP.
  • Proven track record of leading complex model development and strategic analytics initiatives.
  • Programming skills (e.g. Excel VBA, SAS, MATLAB, SQL, Python).
  • Experience with data visualization or business intelligence (BI) tool development.
  • Knowledge of banking book products.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at executive levels.
Personal style and values
  • Must demonstrate a willingness to enhance current methodologies and models (self-starter).
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at executive levels.
  • Must be able to explain complex and/or technical matters clearly, accurately and simply.
  • High levels of resilience, determination and drive.
Professional/Technical Competencies
  • Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
  • Excellent presentation skills.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills.
  • Must be able to handle pressure and to operate with relative ease in a dynamic environment.
  • Focus on detail and potential errors, must be methodical and organized.
  • Detail-oriented and self-motivated.
  • Work hard, smart, productive, business driven, be able to deliver under pressure.
  • Ability to work in a team and engage with senior stakeholders.
Behavioural Competencies
  • Building Partnerships
  • Coaching
  • Continuous Learning
  • Customer Focus
  • Facilitating Change
  • Influencing
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