Merchant West
Shannen Marais is a seasoned financial professional with extensive experience in corporate credit analysis. Since September 2019, Shannen has been employed at Merchant West, progressing from Junior Credit Analyst to Corporate Credit Analyst and currently serving as Team Leader: Retail - Corporate Credit Analyst. Prior to this role, Shannen was self-employed as a graduate student from January 2018 to September 2019. Shannen's educational background includes pursuing a Bcom in Financial Management at the University of South Africa since 2016, obtaining a BSc Honors in Neurophysiology at the University of Pretoria in 2018, and earning a BSc in Human Physiology from the same institution between 2012 and 2015.
Merchant West
The Merchant West Group is a diversified financial services portfolio of businesses with debt securities listed on the JSE. It is the largest privately-owned provider of specialised financial solutions in South Africa. Founded in 1998, Merchant West provides tailor-made lending, wealth management, asset management and transactional solutions to corporates, SMEs and high net worth individuals. With offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, George, Durban, Nelspruit, Port Elizabeth, Namibia and North Carolina USA, Merchant West lending products extend to bespoke asset finance (across an extensive range of asset classes), fleet finance, working capital funding and property finance solutions. www.merchantwest.co.za