Quantitative Risk Analyst

Jobtailor • johannesburg, city of johannesburg metropolitan municipality • Posted July 12, 2026

Position Overview

Responsibilities

  • Instrument modelling and risk
  • Model new and existing instruments in the risk system, ensuring correct pricing, cash-flow representation, attribution and sensitivity behaviour across the relevant valuation and capital bases.
  • Validate model outputs against independent benchmarks; investigate and resolve discrepancies between front-office, risk and finance views.
  • Maintain and extend the quantitative platform the team relies on — curve construction, sensitivities, scenarios and stress testing.
  • Monitor and oversee production of risk and attribution reporting from risk system.
  • Be a part of the team formulating and operationalising investment, hedging and balance-sheet strategies — taking a proposal from analytical concept through to executable trade lists and ongoing monitoring.
  • Quantify the impact of proposed strategies across the relevant economic, accounting and regulatory metrics, an...