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Application Deadline: 30 June 2025.
Applications are now open for the 2026 NedBank Quants Graduate Programme. The Nedbank Quants Graduate Programme offers exceptional quantitative and capital risk management exposure through bank-wide rotation opportunities over a two-year graduate experience. The programme is an environment that enables your success through the support and access to coaching and mentorship.
Grad Programme Duration: Two years.
Each rotation is typically six months to ensure each graduate rotates through at least four business units for maximum exposure. However, this can vary according to the preference of the graduate.
Requirements
- To be eligible to apply you need to be enrolled for a postgraduate qualification in mathematics, statistics, applied mathematics or any other quantitative degree.
Essential Qualifications – NQF Level
- Undergraduate Degree NQF level 7
Preferred Qualification
- Business Related Degree Postgraduate degree, Honours or Masters degree (with majors in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, engineering, econometrics, financial engineering, quantitative risk management or similar)
Type of Exposure
- Conducting root cause analysis
- Analysing situations or data that requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors
- Developing ways to minimize risks
- Influencing stakeholders to obtain buy-in for concepts and ideas
- Working with a group to identify alternative solutions to a problem
- Interacting with diverse people
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Interacting with various levels of management
- Managing multiple project
- Working within a team
Minimum Experience Level
- No experience required
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Business Acumen
- Industry trends
- Microsoft Office
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Relevant software and systems knowledge
- Risk management process and frameworks
- Business writing skills
- Quantitative Skills
- Governance, Risk and Controls
Behavioural Competencies
- Adaptability
- Communication
- Collaborating
- Customer Focus
- Decision Making
- Managing Work
Benefits
- If you aspire to have an exciting career specialising in quantitative and capital risk management, joining this tailor-made graduate programme will help you achieve your dreams by opening up opportunities for you. You will have the chance to be rotated across several business areas for a period of up to two years, being extensively exposed to a broad range of quantitative risk management techniques, such as model development, model validation, scorecard calibration and stress testing.
- Even though you will join the various business units at an entry-level position, you will be treated as an indispensable member of the team. Your work will include the development and maintenance of models that form an integral part of our business processes, as the advanced risk measures produced by these models inform the bank’s decision making and strategy.
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the NedBank Quants Graduate Programme
