Hybrid Economist (Johannesburg, ZA) bei Nedbank

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

141248 - Busi Radebe 

Job Post End Date: 11 August 2025

Job Family

Career Stream

Leadership Pipeline

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.

Job 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.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Minimum Experience Level

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies