Job Description

The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africas only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the banks sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOBTo design, develop and document agricultural models used for the assessment of agricultural enterprises in the primary agriculture segment. The model outputs assist Banking and Risk Management teams to make informed decisions about the bank ability of each transaction.To provide capacity building to the team of Agricultural Specialist and relevant transaction teams for a better understanding of the use of the agri tools or output interpretation. Make the teams understand the complex interaction between environmental factors, natural capital, management practices, agricultural norms, financial performance and affordability to inform credit decision-making.To automate agricultural models within the credit value chain in order to create efficiencies and building database for analytics to improve agricultural adviosory and decision-making.

Land Bank