Head: Structured Trading Solutions at Nedbank

Job Purpose


The purpose of this function is to define, drive, and execute the strategic direction of the Global Markets business by aligning client needs, market dynamics, regulatory developments, and organisational capabilities into coherent, profitable, and future-ready solutions.
The role plays a central part in strengthening the Markets franchise by originating and delivering sophisticated, client-led solutions, while collaborating closely with Investment Banking and other business areas to unlock cross-platform opportunities and enhance overall client outcomes.
The function carries a mandate to originate, structure, and execute solutions across trading and banking products, ensuring the organisation delivers diversified, sustainable revenues while remaining responsive to evolving regulatory and client requirements.
It reflects a commitment to building an integrated, client-centric capability that optimises capital, enhances risk transfer, and improves liquidity and regulatory efficiency across the full spectrum of client needs.


Job Responsibilities


Achieve set financial results by driving and executing on client-led solutions.
Design and deliver client-centric solutions across the business (e.g. NBFI solutions and unlisted credit initiatives).
Translate client requirements into well-structured, commercially robust solutions and oversee their end-to-end execution.
Maintain close alignment with client segments and trading teams to ensure solutions reflect real client needs and prevailing market conditions.
Collaborate with Investment Banking where appropriate to enhance solution breadth and client impact.
Strategic market insight, risk management, and future readiness (nexus between insurance, corporate balance sheet, and regulatory reform).
Apply a deep understanding of market conditions and trading book dynamics to inform product design and strategic decision-making.
Identify and develop new initiatives that position the business for evolving client, regulatory, and competitive landscapes.
Continuously adapt strategy in response to local and global market shifts.
Drive "originate-to-distribute" ambitions across the Nedbank ecosystem.
Strengthen structuring capabilities across jurisdictions to support franchise growth.
Provide guidance on complex execution challenges and cross-jurisdictional product development.
Build and maintain high-impact relationships with central banks, ministries of finance, and development finance institutions to unlock and execute strategic opportunities.
Facilitate product approvals and ensure alignment across regulatory, technical, and governance stakeholders.
Pan-African strategy execution and regulatory alignment and commercial sustainability.
Integrate evolving regulatory requirements into product design and overall business strategy.
Ensure solutions are compliant, commercially viable, and aligned with client expectations.
Collaborate with stakeholders across presence and non-presence jurisdictions to expand product offerings and drive regional strategy execution.
Stakeholder leadership and organisational alignment.


Essential Qualifications - NQF Level


Professional Qualifications/Honour's Degree


Preferred Qualification



Post graduate degree in Quantitative Mathematics or similar mathematical sciences



Essential Certification



Applicable market and regulatory qualifications



Type of Exposure


Global Markets marking making and trading risk on South African specific IR products, including Bonds, CCY swaps, credit products etc
Multicurrency, multi asset-class complex non-linear Fixed Income, currency and credit instruments and their relevant markets
Credit product structuring
Monetising multicurrency, multi asset-class complex non-linear Fixed Income, currency, and credit risk, particularly credit
Management of non-linear risk, especially within a multicurve environment
Managing across-asset classes


Minimum Experience Level



10 years trading structured rates products and managing risk



Technical / Professional Knowledge


Communication Strategies
Diversity management
Employee training/development
Financial Accounting Principles
Governance, Risk and Controls
Operations planning
Organisational systems
Principles of project management
Strategic planning
Business writing skills


Behavioural Competencies


Aligning Performance for Success
Applied Learning
Earning Trust
Building talent
Building partnerships
Driving for Results
Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
Delegation and Empowerment