Data Scientist
Position summary
Industry: Financial Services
Job category: IT and Telecommunications
Location: Sandton
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: Market Related
EE position:Â Yes
Introduction:
The incumbent will use their analytical, statistical, and programming skills to collect, analyse and interpret large data sets to provide insights and data-driven solutions to solve difficult and strategic business challenges.
Job description
- Manage aspects of current models
- Maintain and re-calibrate current scorecards and predictive models
- Develop new predictive models
- Utilises advanced data analytics and mining techniques to analyse data, assessing data validity and usability; reviews data results to ensure accuracy; an communicates results and insights to stakeholders
- Identifies trends, patterns, relationships, and discrepancies in data and determines additional data needed to support insight.
- Processes, cleanses, and verifies the integrity of data used for analysis
- Identifying, interpreting, and explaining the factors giving rise to specific business outcomes
- Predicting & forecasting probable future business outcomes.
- Identifying critical factors of business operations to transform/eliminate/introduce to improve business outcome
- Develop, maintain, and refine advanced mathematical and statistical models pertaining to various aspects of the business
- Present findings of results to a range of stakeholders (internally and externally)
Minimum requirements
- Bachelor Honours Degree: Financial Maths/Stats/Computer Science
- 3 years experience in developing Machine Learning models and algorithms
- 3 years experience in developing actuarial models for business and client use
- MS Office
- Python/Microsoft ML
- SQL
- Jupyter Notebooks
- AWS
- Big DataÂ
Email your detailed CV to: vacancieswithcollen@gmail.com (REF: Data Scientist)
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