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Quantitative Product Specialist Job Vacancy at PPS

Full Time

Website PPS

The Professional Provident Society (PPS) is a South African financial services company that focuses exclusively on providing insurance, investment, and healthcare products to graduate professionals.

The Professional Provident Society (PPS) is a South African financial services company that focuses exclusively on providing insurance, investment, and healthcare products to graduate professionals. Founded in 1941, it operates as a mutual company, meaning it is owned by its members rather than external shareholders. The PPS Foundation is dedicated to improving access to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields for South African communities. 

Ideal experience:

  1. 1-2 years of work experience in the Investment industry.
  2. Good understanding of financial services with demonstrable insights into the investment needs of individuals from a holistic savings perspective.
  3. A good understanding of the Investment industry’s tax and regulatory framework and impact on differing savings outcomes.
  4. Experience in doing analysis using Python or R.

Ideal qualifications:

  1. A strong analytical degree (Mathematics/Statistics) with demonstrated academic excellence.
  2. A post graduate investments qualification or professional certification (e.g. CFA) will be an advantage.

Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Assist the Product Development team in developing new solutions or enhancing existing strategies, with a focus on holistic investment solutions.
  2. Contribute to maintaining and expanding existing quantitative tools (e.g., cash flow projections, product modeling).
  3. Help ensure product offerings remain aligned with regulatory requirements by assisting in the development or amendment of product features.
  4. Drive efficiency by identifying opportunities to automate current processes and workflows within the team.
  5. Work with structured and unstructure data from various sources, assisting in gathering, cleaning, and organising data for analysis.
  6. Assist in data analysis and visualisation to identify trends and behaviours, helping to generate insights that guide thinking around holistic solutions.
  7. Assist in drafting business case proposals and preparing materials for committee review and approval.
  8. Address broader business quantitative enquiries by assisting by assisting with data gathering, analysis and reporting to support decision-making across the organization.

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