Credit Risk Analyst - Cape Town, South Africa - Recruitment Matters Africa

Thabo Mthembu

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Description
Our client is offering an amazing opportunity for a skilled analyst within the Risk and Analytics team.


Responsibilities:


  • Analyze and assess the financial statements and credit history of existing and potential clients.
  • Structure deals and perform risk assessments.
  • Ability to make informed decisions backed by sound assessment.
  • Consult and negotiate with clients regarding financial transactions, payment terms, and credit limits.
  • Understanding of business, economic, and industry risk.
  • Financial forecasting.
  • Keep abreast of financial news and trends.
  • Practice due diligence.

Key Skills:


  • Excellent analytical and numeric skills,
  • High attention to detail drives a need for 100% accuracy,
  • Able to manage effectively in a highvolume; fastpaced; errorfree environment,
  • Excellent verbal; written; and presentation communication skills required,
  • Ability to prepare wellstructured; clear; and concise deliverables; including presentations,
  • Strong collaborative interpersonal skills both with internal and external parties,
  • High level of integrity and confidentiality.

Qualifications:


  • Minimum requirement of a BCom / BBusSci / BSc Actuarial Science/
  • BCom Investments or similar qualification majoring in Statistics with a strong academic record
  • At least 3 years of experience in building, implementing, and using statistical models for strategy development
  • SAS Base / Enterprise Guide programming experience
  • SAS Enterprise Miner programming experience advantageous
  • Experienced Microsoft Office user
  • Experience in a retail or financial services industry with specific collections or recoveries experience is required
  • Experience with bureau data beneficial

Salary:
R500,000.00 per year


Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Cape Town,

Western Cape:
Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

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