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Data Scientist Jobs in Johannesburg, South Africa at FirstRand
Job Description
To plan, build, optimise and implement
innovative
quantitative analytical methodologies, procedures, products and advanced mathematical models that provide analytical support and interpret insights, to address business opportunities and problems and implement business strategy, with minimal guidance.
Hello Future Data Scientist II
Welcome to FNB, the home of the #changeables. We design for the shapeshifters and deliver products and services that make us incredibly proud of people that make it happen.
As part of our talent team in FNB Retail Strategic, you will be surrounded by unique talents,diverseminds, and an adaptable environment that lives up to the promise of staying curious. Now’s the time to imagine your potential in a team where experts come together and ignite effective change.
Are you someone who can:
Maintain ownership of models through regular audits and updates to ensure relevance.
Plan and perform regular model updates that capture evolving business complexity in current models
Challenge current models to ensure relevance and accuracy of outputs.
Test outputs and accuracy of models to ensure relevance.
Use data and analytic insights to provide input into improving customer experience through a better understanding of the customers context to identify monetisation opportunities and monitoring implementation of business decisions to recommend enhancements utilising statistical modelling and data analysis.
Validate, interpret and create reports and presentations for data analytics management and relevant stakeholders.
Review and assist more junior Quantitative Analysts with processes and models.
Adhere to model building policies, standards, frameworks, and governance process.
Ensure own ethical usage of information that complies to restrictions applied for privacy and sensitivity classification.
Understand and ensure implementation and adherence to Privacy business requirements, legislation and policy.
Source and do some preparation (20-30%) of relevant data sources for analysis.
Translate business requirements into tangible models utilizing own understanding of the business value of projects, models and processes.
Develop and apply analytical algorithms and methods to build, test and implement robust mathematical models and analytical solutions that address business problem, opportunities and improve business outcomes i.e., reduced risk and costs, increased profitability, optimized efficiency and to facilitatestrategic decision-making.
Build models that analyze processes to recommend areas foroptimizationto achieve cost savings, revenue generation or efficiency improvements for the business.
Document and audit relevant processes.
Document and implement models to address specific business requirements.
Conduct appropriate manipulation and analysis of data to pro-actively identify and meet needs of the business for thepurposeof future work and to ensure high information-quality and reliability across the business.
Build relationships that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of knowledge anddiverseinsights; and the creation of buy-in.
Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support.
You will be an ideal candidate if you:
Have a degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science or similar
Have 3 to 5 years of experience in a similar environment as a Data Scientist
Havehands on experiencein both …
Title: Data Scientist
Company: FirstRand
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Category: IT/Tech, Business
