Economist: Modelling

SUMMARY:
A well-established financial services institute is seeking to appoint a Economist: Modelling. The role of the Economist is to develop, maintain and refine quantitative models to analyse the South African economy.
Forecast key economic indicators, assess macroeconomic trends and simulate the potential impacts on the South African economy with a focus on gross fixed capital formation and infrastructure investment.

POSITION INFO:

Qualifications and Experience:

• A Master's degree in macroeconomics, econometrics, development economics, applied statistics or related discipline.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in economics in a major financial, public or international institution.
• Exceptional analytical skills, a deep understanding of economic theory, and proficiency in data modelling techniques.
• Demonstrated knowledge of broad analytical techniques, statistics, and econometrics as well as mathematical and operations research tools, such as EViews and R.
• Proven expertise in macroeconomic anal ysis and forecasting with a focus on empirical methods.
• Experience and knowledge in sourcing, compiling, interrogating, testing and analysing statistical information amongst a broad domain of databases/statistical data sources for use in quantitative analyses.
• Knowledge of the empirical application of different macroeconomic theories and the South African and African economic environment.
• Experience with working with Gross Fixed Capital Formation data, investment data and construction-related data.
• Understanding, knowledge and experience of the historical and current economic trends in the global and South African economy and factors influencing the economic environment.
• Proven understanding, knowledge and experience of macroeconomics with a proven track record of leading and preparing good quality reports, documents and presentations.

• Predictive analytics