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Johannesburg: Credit Risk Senior Consultant

Job Description

About the Role

You will work in a client‑facing consulting environment, supporting banks and financial services clients with the development, review, and validation of credit risk models used for both regulatory capital and provisioning purposes.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the development, review, and validation of credit risk models, including IFRS 9, scorecards, and regulatory capital models
  • Assist with model reviews and audits for provisioning and capital adequacy purposes
  • Contribute to the coding, automation, and enhancement of credit risk models
  • Support clients across a range of institutions, from smaller local credit providers to large, complex banking environments
  • Assist with the documentation and communication of model methodologies, assumptions, and results
  • Work collaboratively within project teams in a fast‑paced consulting setting

Requirements

  • Solid understanding of modern statistical techniques used in credit risk modelling
  • Ability to read, interpret, and write code, with experience in one or more of the following: SAS Python R
  • Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills
  • Comfortable working under pressure and managing multiple workstreams
  • Resilient, proactive, and able to work effectively in a team‑based consulting environment
  • Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders

Qualifications

  • Honours or Masters degree in a quantitative discipline such as: Quantitative Finance Mathematics Statistics Engineering Actuarial Science Or similar

Salary & Benefits

  • (No salary information provided in the original job description)

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