Location: Sandton
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.
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
To provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist economic expertise.
Description
Research Planning and Direction: Conduct research into companies and financial market pricing by sourcing information from business / investments magazines, networks and the internet in order to understand the factors which influence prices.
Research Feedback: Co-ordinate multiple, concurrent research projects and produce reports for various stakeholders when required regarding varied projects.
Stakeholder engagement: Establish and manage relationships with both internal and external sources of information/industry role players and clients in order to source relevant information
Data: Forecasts, analyses and documents economic conditions affecting industry and/or business groups of an organization. Performs modelling including decision trees
and calculations, extracts data from literature and primary sources to prepare and present to management. Provides economic information based on research to all divisions of the organisation
Requirement:
● At least a Master’s Degree in Agricultural Economics (Mcom or Msc)
● Experience at least 5 – 8 years as Economist
Writing skills – mastery (would be advantage if it is in Afrikaans and English)
● Mastery in public speaking – radio, television, in front of big groups, smaller groups and one on one senior execs internal as well as external
● Would be advantage if he/she is competent in AI
● The ability to work with big data sets and to modernise data bases
● Ability to capture, process and interpret data and information to put in short-, medium- and long-term trends
● Ability to collaborate and build networks in the industry
Education
Masters Degrees (coursework and research): Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)
Closing Date: 31 August 2024